The City of Baltimore is named after the second Lord Baltimore, who was a proprietary ruler of Maryland, a position whereby a person was basically given control over a colony as if they owned it. Lord Baltimore was also for a time the proprietary governor of the Colony of Newfoundland (called Avalon then) but he wasn’t its first so I guess he didn’t get a chance to name anything there after himself. He lived there for a time, in fact, but hated it.
Cuper’s Cove on the Avalon Peninsula was the second permanent English settlement in the New World, after Jamestown, Virginia. Although most settlers left it in the 1620’s, there has been continuous habitation since it was first established in 1610.
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The feeling was mutual. After he left office, a friend asked Jackson if he had any regrets about his time as President. Jackson replied that he should have shot Henry Clay and hanged John C. Calhoun.
The Maryland flag - loved by some, hated by others, but undeniably eye-catching - is, per Wiki, a 17th century English heraldic banner based on the coat of arms of the Calvert-Crossland families of Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore (1579–1632). First flown in 1888, the flag was officially adopted by the General Assembly of Maryland (the state legislature) in 1904.
Two of Canada’s provinces have flags which are modelled on heraldic banners: the oak trees on an island for PEI, and the galley (technically a lymphad, apparently) of New Brunswick:
The name of Brunswik (for the town in Saxony now known as Braunschweig in German and Brunswick in English) is a combination of the name Bruno and Low German wik (related to the Latin vicus), a place where merchants rested and stored their goods.
Jesus and his disciples spoke Aramaic, and the Gospels were written in Greek. Christians in Rome adopted Latin and it became the Church’s language in the fourth century. Saint Jerome’s Bible translation into Latin is called the Vulgate because it used common (or “vulgar”) Latin.
Saint Jerome was living in Bethlehem when he heard of the Sack of Rome in 401 by the Visigoths. It is said that he was so shocked by the fall of the Eternal City that he remained silent for three days. He later wrote: “The city to which the whole world fell has fallen. If Rome can perish, what can be safe?”
The passage sums up the existential crisis which the Sack of Rome represented to the classical world. It had been eight centuries since Rome had previously been captured, by Gauls.
Ridley Scott patterned the scenes where Emperor Commodus returns to Rome in the 2000 movie Gladiator, showing a vast city, huge crowds, colorful banners and sweeping vistas, after Nazi propaganda films such as The Triumph of the Will.
Brothers Ridley and Tony Scott both attended the Royal College of Art in London. They began their careers in television advertising, before moving into films, where both became highly successful directors. Both Ridley and Tony have received BAFTA Awards for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment.
Initially, Henry and Richard Bloch jointly ran their United Business Company, which focused on accounting, bookkeeping and payroll, but also did some income tax work for clients. The brothers took out an ad for its $5 tax services in The Kansas City Star newspaper in 1955. The ad was a success and H&R Block was born.The Bloch brothers chose to spell the name “Block” with a K to ensure the name is not mispronounced “blotch”.
Herbert Block, who signed his Washington Post cartoons “Herblock”, won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors.
The Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning was first awarded in 1922, for “a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect.”
Eighteen people have won the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer twice, and five of those (including the aforementioned Herblock) have won it three times. However, there has only been one repeat winner: Nelson Harding, who won the prize in both 1927 and 1928.
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning, was criticized for a September 2001 strip referencing the Internet hoax that claimed George W. Bush had the lowest IQ of any president in the last 50 years, half that of Bill Clinton. When caught repeating the hoax, Trudeau apologized “with a trademark barb – he said he deeply apologized for unsettling anyone who thought the president quite intelligent.”
The name “Trudeau” is a slightly archaic spelling of “trou d’eau”, meaning a “waterhole”.
This led some Canadians to refer to our former PM as “Rock Waterhole.”
During the sovereignty debates, his primary Quebec opponent was “The Born-again Bishop.”
Due to its remote location in a still-rural part of Manhattan, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a project of Archbishop John Hughes, was dubbed “Hughes’ Folly” by the press in the 1850s. It is now visited by an estimated 5 million people every year.
The Marvel comics character Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) is, in his own words in the film The Avengers, a “genius billionaire playboy philanthropist.” The character was originally created by Marvel in the early 1960s, and his personality and looks were based on that of playboy businessman and aviator Howard Hughes.
Major League Baseball player Billy Williams had a career that spanned 18 seasons from the late-1950s into the mid-1970s with the Chicago Cubs and the Oakland Athletics. He was the 1961 NL Rookie of the Year, he won the batting title in 1972, was a 6x All Star, his number 26 was retired by the Cubs, and in 1987 he was inducted into Cooperstown.
In 1970, Williams set the National League record for consecutive games played with 1,117 games beginning in 1963. Williams earned his nickname, Iron Man. He currently is 6th on the all-time list:
2,632 — Cal Ripken, jr
2,130 — Lou Gehrig
1,307 — Everett Scott
1,207 — Steve Garvey
1,152 — Miguel Tejada
1,117 — Billy Williams
As of today, no player currently has a streak over 700 games. Most Consecutive Games Played - BR Bullpen
Lou Gehrig first gained national attention for his baseball ability, when he was playing as a 17-year-old with his high school team against a team from Chicago. The game was played at Cubs Field, which is now known as Wrigley Field. Gehrig hit a grand slam home run, and the ball was hit completely out of the ball park. Gehrig played both football and baseball for Columbia University for two years, and made his major-league debut in 1923 as a 19-year-old pinch hitter for the Yankees. He played until 1939, when illness forced him to retire. He died in 1941 at the age of 37.
Cub Cadet is the brand name for a line of outdoor power equipment (lawn tractors, snowblowers, lawn tools, etc.) targeting the consumer market.
The Cub Cadet brand was launched by International Harvester in 1961 (and originally styled as “IH Cub Cadet”), as IH was looking to capitalize on the growing market for small lawn tractors, among rural and suburban consumers. The Cub Cadet line is now produced by MTD Products, which bought the brand in 1981.
The House of Windsor can be considered a cadet line of the House of Hanover.
Of course, although junior, the Windsors continue to reign.
Sucks to be you, Hanoverians!