“Catoctin Mountain Park, 10, Hauvers, MD 21788” is the Google Maps address of Camp David. Camp David, in north-central Maryland, is about 8 miles south of the Pennsylvania state line.
gMap: https://goo.gl/U9dh9X
The first parts of the Camp David complex were built by the Works Progress Administration in 1935, and Franklin D. Roosevelt made it the presidential retreat. FDR originally named the property “Shangri-La.” That remained its name until the Eisenhower administration; President Eisenhower named it Camp David after his only grandson.
On December 22, 1968, David Eisenhower married Julie Nixon, the daughter of the soon-to-be 37th President of the United States.
FDR chose the camp that would eventually be named Camp David, but its original name was Camp Hi-Catoctin.
David II was the second and last King of Scotland of the House of Bruce. He succeeded his father, Robert I (“Robert the Bruce”) in 1329, aged 5, and reigned for 41 years. When he died without issue, he was succeeded by his nephew, Robert Stewart, the first of the Stewart kings.
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Professional golfer Payne Stewart was one of the PGA Tour’s more successful and well-known players in the 1980s and 1990s. Stewart was particularly known among fans for his throwback attire (he usually wore a flat cap and knickers during tournaments), and he won three major tournaments (one PGA Championship, two U.S. Opens).
On October 25, 1999, Stewart was among six people killed when a Learjet in which he was riding suffered cabin depressurization while in flight. The plane, which had departed from Orlando, Florida, flew for several hours on autopilot, the crew and passengers apparently already incapacitated, before it finally ran out of fuel and crashed in South Dakota.
In his career, Jack Nicklaus, who played from 1961 to 2005, earned over $5.7M on the PGA tour (Jack Nicklaus Stats and Tournament Results). Arnold Palmer, who played from 1954 to 2006, earned $3.6M (How Arnold Palmer Earned $875 Million During Legendary Career In Golf).
In his career so far, Tiger Woods, who turned pro in 1996, has earned over $110M on the PGA tour (Tiger Woods' Career Earnings (Hint: It's a Lot)).
From the standard agreement between caddie and golfer, caddies earn 10% of a golfer’s earnings. In 2017 alone, J.P Fitzgerald (the caddy for Rory McIlroy), earned $1.65M (https://goo.gl/acsyYaJ.
In 1958, Arnold Palmer won the first of his four Masters Tournament championships. His prize for first place was $11,250. This was the first time that the winners share hit five figures.
In 2018, Patrick Reed won the Masters Tournament. His prize for first place was $1,980,000.
In 1968, the winners of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament won £2,000 and £750 for the men’s and women’s singles championships, respectively. Starting in 2007, they won the same amount, which then was £700,000 each. In 2018 they each won £2.25M.
An Arnold Palmer is a non-alcoholic beverage, a mixture of iced tea and lemonade. The concoction was popularized by the golfer himself, who became its namesake. Arizona Beverage Company makes a version of the drink, licensing Palmer’s likeness and signature on their packaging.
Various versions of the drink made with alcohol exist, as well; at least one such version is sometimes called a John Daly, after another golfer who has struggled with alcohol issues.
Edit: neither John Daly nor Arnold Palmer has ever competed at Wimbledon.
President John F. Kennedy returned to Washington, D.C. from Chicago during a midterm campaign swing through the Midwest in October 1962 to consult with advisors over the still-secret Cuban Missile Crisis. The press was told that the President had a bad cold.
The Cuban Missile Crisis‘s U-2 aerial photographs were analyzed inside a secret office above a used car dealership, in a building above the Steuart Ford car dealership in a rundown section of Washington DC.
The U-2 is one of a handful of aircraft types to have served the USAF for over 50 years, like the Boeing B-52. It had it’s first test flight in 1955, and although it had been due to be retired in 2012, it was used in early August 2018 by NASA to map the Mendocino Complex Fire using infrared sensors.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is another airplane to have more than fifty years of service life. It first flew in 1954 and remains in service today. It is primarily used by the US Air Force, the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the US Marine Corps, and the Royal Air Force. As of 2015, over 2,500 have been built.
For fans of the Herc: C-130 Hercules cargo plane turns 60 - Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS) - Straight Dope Message Board
Sir Elton John’s middle name is Hercules. He was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947.
Elton John took his stage name (which later became his legal name) from the names of two members of a band he helped form in the early 1960s, called Bluesology: saxophonist Elton Dean, and vocalist Long John Baldry.
Baldry helped to save Elton John from a 1968 suicide attempt, and talked John out of getting married to Linda Woodrow. The incident formed the basis of Elton John’s 1975 hit “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” – Baldry is the “someone” in the title, and the “Sugar Bear” in the lyrics.
Once again, I’ve learned something on this forum. Thanks for sharing, kenobi!
In play: Woodrow Wilson, who was the the 28th President of the United States, was the first sitting president to attend a World Series game. Wilson attended Game 2 of the 1915 Series in Philadelphia and threw the ceremonial first pitch. The Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in that game, the first of 3 consecutive Red Sox victories by that score.
William “Willie” Wilson and William “Mookie” Wilson were both baseball players in the early 80s, outfielders known for their speed . They finished their careers with similar statistics: Willie had an OPS of .702 and Mookie’s was .700. In many ways, they were doubles.
Coincidentally, Edgar Allan Poe wrote the story “William Wilson” about a man meeting his double…
William Wilson (1844 – 1912) was a late 19th-century British journalist, swimming instructor and coach. In 1877, Wilson drew up a set of rules for a team water ball game, which he called “aquatic football”. In 1885, the Swimming Association of Great Britain recognized the game, now called water polo, and formulated a set of rules expanding on Wilson’s rulebook.
Same here, me too. That is a powerful story. There’s more about it at Wiki: Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Wikipedia
Thank you kenobi!
Actor William Windom (1923-2012) portrayed STAR TREK (TOS) Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed USS Constellation in the episode “The Doomsday Machine”. That Doomsday Machine was a bad-ass, unstoppable machine that killed entire planets as if eating them in one big gulp.
Several of the major poets of the 1900s had prosaic full time “day jobs”.
William Carlos Williams was a physician and chief of pediatrics at Passaic General Hospital in New Jersey from 1924 until his death in 1963.
Wallace Stevens was a lawyer and insurance executive; during the Great Depression he was earning $20,000 a year, equivalent to about $350,000 today as a vice-president of The Hartford. When he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955, he was offered a faculty position at Harvard but declined since it would have required him to give up his vice-presidency of The Hartford.
T.S. Eliot worked at Lloyds Bank for 8 years, and then as a publisher at Faber and Faber from 1925 to 1965.