The Toyota Avalon (Japanese, “Abaron”) is a full-size car produced by Toyota in the United States and Canada and is Toyota’s largest front-wheel-drive sedan in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the Middle East. The Avalon is a replacement for the Cressida, a model discontinued for the American market in 1992. The Avalon / Abaron has been produced since 1994.
Bill Clinton was, in 1992, then and now the only person from Arkansas ever elected President of the United States.
There are 29 states that have not had a native-born person elected President. 14 states have had one President born in that state.
In terms of the highest nuimber of Presidents, these three states lead the way:
New York: 7 (Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Donald Trump
Ohio : 6 William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding
Virginia: 5 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Tyler
President Richard Nixon went to Mar-a-Lago a month before he resigned the Presidency, July 1974.
Mackenzie King resigned as Prime Minister of Canada on three different occasions, for three different reasons:
1926: because he was facing a loss on a confidence measure in the Commons and the GovGen refused a dissolution;
1930: on losing the general election of that year;
1947: on his retirement, after three terms and over 21 years in office.
The Mackenzie River, named after Scottish-Canadian explorer Alexander Mackenzie, is the world’s 13th-longest river at 2,635 miles. It is the largest river in Canada. Its source is Great Slave Lake, and its mouth is the Arctic Ocean, off Inuvik (map pic — Mackenzie River facts trivia - Google Search). Its watershed is the second largest in North America behind that of the Mississippi (pic — Mackenzie River - Wikipedia).
The term “slave” comes from the name of the Slavs of Eastern Europe, because in the Medieval wars of Otto the Great and his successors, many Slavs were captured and enslaved.
The Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North America, and the tenth-largest lake in the world.
When Mackenzie explored the river flowing from Great Slave Lake, he hoped it would lead to the Pacific. Instead, it took him to the Arctic Ocean. He wanted to call it the River of Disappointment.
Great Slave Lake’s name has little to do with slaves or slavery, but was instead came from the Slavey (Dene) Indians, one of the Athapaskan tribes living on its southern shores at that time. French fur traders, who dealt primarily with the Cree tribe, named the lake Grand lac des Esclaves because of descriptions of the tribe by the Cree, who were historical enemies of the Dene. The lake was originally named Lake Athapuscow by British explorer Samuel Hearne.
The current population of the Cree in Canada now numbers over 200,000. Most of the population live north and west of Lake Superior. In the United States, the Cree share a reservation in Montana with the Chippewa.
When launched on June 7, 1958, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes, and remains the largest ship to have sunk on there, having sunk in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with a loss of the entire crew of 29 people.
The largest freshwater lake island in the world is Manitoulin in Lake Huron. It is 1068 square miles and has a population of around 12,600.
The Straits of Mackinac are a series of narrow waterways between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas. The main strait, which is 3.5 miles wide and has a maximum depth of 295 feet, connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Hydrologically, the two connected lakes can be considered one, which is called Lake Michigan–Huron. It is technically a single lake because the flow of water through the straits keeps their water levels in near-equilibrium.
The Mackinac Bridge across the Straits of Mackinac opened in 1957 and is just under 5 miles long. It is known as “Big Mac” and is the world’s 20th-longest main span, and it is the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere.
The Grand Hotel, a historic hotel and coastal resort on Mackinac Island, advertises itself as having the world’s largest porch. In the 1800s, it was well known for its notable visitors, including inventor Thomas Edison, and author Mark Twain; in the 1900s it hosted five U.S. Presidents: Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. It was the location for the 1980 film Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and the hotel hosts an annual convention for fans of the film.
Jane Seymour was Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, a son who became King Edward VI. She was the only one of Henry’s wives to receive a queen’s funeral, and his only consort to be buried beside him in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Two of Henry VIII’s wives, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, are buried in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula (“St Peter in Chains”), the Chapel of the Tower of London. Both were executed by beheading.
The chapel contains the remains of many others who were executed as traitors on Tower Hill. Many were buried with considerable informality.
The Henry Repeating Rifle, designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry (1821-1898), was a lever action repeating rifle famed for its use in the June 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana (gMap, Google Maps). The Henry rifle also was the basis for Winchester lever action rifles such as the Winchester 1873 rifle known as “The gun that won the west.”