Rudy Boesch, the former US Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran who came in third in the first season of Survivor, was the Navy’s “Bullfrog”, its longest-serving active-duty SEAL, when he retired as a Command Master Chief Petty Officer.
Michał Radziwiłł Rudy (1870 – 1955) was a nobleman and diplomat who worked in the Embassy of the Russian Empire in Paris. He also served as a lieutenant colonel in the German and as a major in the British armies. He was involved in several major scandals which led to his relatives referring to him as “the Renegade” or “the Degenerate”
The late Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’ sister is former Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiłł, after whom her niece Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is named. The title came from her second husband (of three), Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł of Poland, making her Her Serene Highness Princess Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł.
There have been five men with the last name of Kennedy who have served as a United States Senator. The first was Anthony Kennedy from Maryland, who was a member of the American Party (originally known as the ‘Know Nothing’ party.) The next three Senators Kennedy were brothers John, Robert, and Ted, Democrats from Massachusetts, although Robert served as a Senator from New York. The fifth Senator Kennedy is the current junior Senator from Louisiana, Republican John Kennedy.
Early in the run of “Hogan’s Heroes”, John Banner as Sergeant Schultz would use the catchphrase “I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!” when encountering the Allied POW’s up to more of their madcap antics. As the series went on this became simply “I know nothing. Nothing!!”
A hogan is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people. A hogan can be round, cone-shaped, multi-sided, or square; with or without internal posts; timber or stone walls and packed with earth in varying amounts or a bark roof for a summer house, with the door facing east to welcome the rising sun for wealth and good fortune.
Like many groups of the 60s, the Jefferson Airplane were given their own vanity record label, Grunt Records. Their first release, Bark, was critically reviled at the time. Marty Balin and Spencer Dryden had left the group and Paul Kanter and Jorma Kaukonen were establishing themselves with other acts, so it came across as a bunch of solo songs instead of a group. It did have a minor hit with “Pretty As You Feel,”
Jefferson is a proposed new state of the USA that would replace largely rural parts of northern California and southwestern Oregon. First initiated in October and November of 1941 as a much smaller state with Yreka, CA as the provisional capital, the movement ended quickly when two events occurred: Gilbert Gable, Mayor of Port Orford, OR and major proponent of the movement, died suddenly on December 2nd, and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th.
The current movement incorporates a much larger area as shown in this gImage / map: https://goo.gl/xvFfFE.
Oregon and Washington are the only U.S. states which conduct their elections solely via mail-in ballots.
The word ballot comes from Italian ballotta, meaning a “small ball used in voting” or a “secret vote taken by ballots” in Venice, Italy. In ancient Greece, citizens used pieces of broken pottery to scratch in the name of the candidate in the Athenian democratic procedures of ostracism. The first use of paper ballots to conduct an election appears to have been in Rome in 139 BC, following the introduction of the lex Gabinia tabellaria.
When Aristides, known as “the Just” was nominated for ostracism, he was in the agora and an illiterate Athenian asked him to mark his ostracon with the name “Aristides.”
Aristides asked him why he wanted to ostracize this fellow Aristides. The Athenian replied that he didn’t really know anything about him and couldn’t even recognize Aristides, but he was tired of hearing everyone call him “the Just.”
Aristides marked his own name on the ostracon. The result of the vote was that he was ostracized
At the request of Chief Justice Fred Vinson, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent military aircraft to bring back to Washington some of the scattered members of the U.S. Supreme Court in June 1953, interrupting their summer vacations to vote as to whether or not to permit the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to go forward. The court vacated a stay earlier issued by Associate Justice William O. Douglas, and the Rosenbergs were both executed for espionage.
First production of the Chevrolet Corvette was on June 30, 1953, after a successful debut at the New York Auto Show. Now into it’s eighth generation, the car is still being produced.
The 1943 film Corvette K-225 starred Randolph Scott, more famous for his cowboy roles, as the commander of a Canadian warship bent on destroying the U-boat which had killed many of the survivors of the sinking of a convoy under the escort of his previous command. Much of the American film was shot in Halifax, where many convoys collected.
The Halifax Explosion occurred on December 6, 1917 when the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship carrying munitions, collided with the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo in “The Narrows” between upper Halifax Harbor and Bedford Basin. The resulting explosion devastated the Richmond District of Halifax, killing approximately 2,000 people and injuring nearly 9,000 others. The blast was the largest artificial explosion before the development of nuclear weapons. Significant aid came from Boston, strengthening the bond between the two coastal cities.
Many cities and localities in Canada are named for towns in the north of England, including Halifax, York, Pickering, Scarborough, Bradford and Hull, all in Yorkshire.
Hockey players Bobby “The Golden Jet” Hull, and his son Brett, are the only father-son pair in NHL history to have both scored more than 50 goals in a single season, and more than 600 career goals.
Hull, Quebec, across the river from Ottawa, Ontario, has been re-named Gatineau. Both are in the National Capital Region, but remain part of their respective provinces.
With a population of 21.7 million, Beijing, China, is the world’s most populous capital city. Next on this list is New Delhi, followed by Tokyo, Manila, and Moscow.
Washington, D.C. is the capitol of the United States of America.