The mutiny in the Royal Navy at Spithead was primarily over pay and working conditions. It last a month, from April to May, 1797. Occurring at the beginning of the Napoleonic wars, the mutiny was of great concern to the British Navy. It was eventually settled with clemency and recognition of some of the sailors’ grievances.
The Spithead mutiny is the setting for the early chapters in Ramage and the Freebooters. Captain Ramage is assigned command of the brig Triton at Spithead, with orders to somehow get it out of port and deliver dispatches to various admirals on station, alerting them to the mutiny.
The Bounty, on which the notorious April 1789 mutiny led by Fletcher Christian took place, was never actually commissioned into the Royal Navy, so references to it as “HMS” (His Majesty’s Ship) are technically incorrect. Contemporary references were usually to “HMAV” (His Majesty’s Armed Vessel) Bounty.
In the 1970s, character actress Nancy Walker was frequently seen on American television. She was a supporting actress on both NBC’s McMillan & Wife (playing their housekeeper, Mildred) and CBS’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show, then the spinoff Rhoda (playing Rhoda’s mother, Ida Morgenstern). At that same time, Walker also appeared in a long-running series of ads for Bounty paper towels, playing a diner waitress named Rosie.
Queen Elizabeth II is a distant relation of George Washington.
One of the Queen’s great-great-grandmothers, Mildred Smith (née Hodgson) was a many great-granddaughter of Augustine Warner of Virginia, who was the great-grandfather of George Washington.
Not sure I see the connection between kenobi65 and Northern Piper, so to play it safe…
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John Smith Walker was Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1874-76, and ad interim Attorney General of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1880, under King Kalākaua.
Two nights before Lubbock, Texas’s native Buddy Holly’s death, on January 31, 1959, 17-year-old Bob Dylan attended his concert in Duluth. MN. Dylan referred to this in his acceptance speech when he received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Time Out of Mind in 1998: " … when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him … and he looked at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was … with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way".
Ole Haugsrud, owner of the NFL’s Duluth Eskimos (later the Ernie Nevers Eskimos, after their star player, when the team went on the road almost full-time), sold the franchise back to the league after the 1927 season in return for Minnesota territorial rights. That allowed him to buy 10 percent of the expansion Vikings in 1960. Franchise historians can create a tenuously continuous link from the Eskimos to today’s Washington Redskins.
Minnesota is known as “The land of 10,000 lakes”. They actually counted them and there are 11,842 lakes in Minnesota, with over 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than Hawaii, Florida, and California combined.
The logo of Land O’ Lakes Butter, based in Minnesota, features a kneeling Indian maiden holding a box of Land O’ Lakes butter, with a logo of, well, you know. Red Lake Ojibwe artist Patrick DesJarlait updated Mia’s image in the 1950s. The package image is an example of the infinite-loop motif or Droste effect, in which the image is repeated, in theory infinitely, within itself.
Of the 12 largest lakes that are completely within the borders of the United States, 3 are saline (salt) lakes. The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the second largest; Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana is the sixth largest; and the Salton Sea in California is the twelfth largest.
CONGRATS TO THE PATS, who have built an incredible dynasty. And congrats to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick the foundation of that dynasty. Not since Otto Graham with 7 championships* with the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 50s have we seen such dominance.
— Graham’s championships include NFL, and AAFC before the 1949 AAFC-NFL merger that brought the Browns, 49ers, and Colts to the NFL.
Yes it was a low-scoring game, a Stupor Bowl some might say, but really both head coaches put together great defensive game plans to throttle these two high-scoring offenses.
Congrats to all the Patriots fans out there.
The 1949 AAFC-NFL merger brought the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and (the original) Baltimore Colts from the AAFC into the NFL. Other AAFC teams, including Buffalo Bills and Miami Seahawks, dissolved.
The AAFC teams were:
◆ Brooklyn Dodgers, 1946–48 (merged with New York Yankees for 1949 season)
◆ Buffalo Bisons, 1946; renamed Buffalo Bills**, 1947–49
◆ Chicago Rockets, 1946–48; renamed Chicago Hornets, 1949
◆ Cleveland Browns*, 1946–49
◆ Los Angeles Dons, 1946–49
◆ Miami Seahawks, 1946, Baltimore Colts**, 1947–49
◆ New York Yankees, 1946–48; merged with Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming Brooklyn/New York Yankees, 1949
◆ San Francisco 49ers*, 1946–49 (in California)
(*): Team now in NFL. (**): Team in NFL with that name, but unrelated to the AAFC team.
Not sure I see the link between the two most recent posts, and **Bullitt **has posted that pro-Patriots celebration in at least one other Dope thread that I know of.
Playing off both posts, just in case:
Lake Erie has historically supplied much of Cleveland, Ohio’s drinking water. The sole water-inlet structure, several hundred yards away from shore, can be seen from downtown Cleveland.
The Erie Canal, which effectively opened access from the US East Coast ports to the vast lands west of the Appalachians, was thereby responsible for making New York City, not Philadelphia, the largest city in the country. Because its construction was championed by New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, it was nicknamed “DeWitt’s Ditch” among other sobriquets. To mark its completion, Clinton and other dignitaries rode the boat Seneca Chief from Buffalo to NYC, where he emptied a cask of water from Lake Erie, and one with a mixture of waters from the Mississippi, Columbia, Thames, La Plata, Seine, Rhine, Orinoco, Amazon, Nile, Gambia, Indus, and Ganges rivers into New York Harbor in the “Wedding of the Waters” ceremony.
The Chief Justice of the United States, once nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, is automatically the seniormost justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, regardless of age or previous judicial service. The current Chief Justice is John G. Roberts Jr., appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005.
Elendil’s Heir, think it was California as the connector.
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Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt) is the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force, just above Senior Master Sergeant, and is a senior non-commissioned officer rank. The official term is “Chief Master Sergeant” or “Chief”. By federal law, roughly one percent of the Air Force enlisted force may hold the rank of chief master sergeant
The highest enlisted rank in the US Navy is Master Chief (E-9), although there is also a rank of Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON). While this person is still at the paygrade of E-9, there is a third star on his sleeve insignia.