Prince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge, the younger son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, was born April 23, 2018. He is currently fifth in line of succession to the British throne. Since the law changed in 2015, he is the first British prince to be ranked behind an elder sister - in his case, Princess Charlotte - in the line of succession.
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The Saxons called Cambridge ‘Grantabrycge’ which means, bridge over the river Granta. The name of the town gradually changed to Cambridge.
Cambridge University’s rival, Oxford, is located along the banks of the Thames River, which there is called the Isis. That name is used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the Thame at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. It derives from the ancient name for the Thames, Tamesis, which in the Middle Ages was falsely assumed to be a combination of “Thame” and “Isis”. The name “Isis” is also used for the men’s second rowing crew of Oxford University Boat Club, who race against the men’s second crew of the Cambridge University Boat Club, “Goldie”, before the annual Boat Race on the Thames in London.
Like Cambridge, Oxford takes its name from being the location of a river crossing, an Oxnaford “Oxen’s ford”.
An oxbow is a U-shaped bend in a river or stream. An oxbow lake is formed when the bend is cut off from the main channel of the river. In Australia, an oxbow lake is called a billabong; in south Texas, oxbows left by the Rio Grande are called resacas.
The name Texas is derived from the word “teyshas” (meaning friends or allies), from the native American Caddo language.
In the 1540s Spanish explorers took “teyshas” to be a tribal name, recording it as Teyas or Tejas. Eventually this came to mean an area north of the Rio Grande and east of New Mexico.
The alliance concept is also incorporated into the state motto of Texas, which is simply “Friendship.”
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) was originally named Friendship International Airport, after a Methodist church and cemetery that used to occupy the site. Its first official landing was by President Harry Truman’s DC-6 “Independence” (not yet called Air Force One), for the dedication in 1950.
Under the Marshall Plan, the United States gave over $12 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total), followed by France (18%) and West Germany (11%).
George Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize for 1953 for the work he had done on the Marshall Plan while serving as U.S. Secretary of State. Other U.S. Secretaries of State who received the peace prize include Elihu Root, Frank Kellogg, Cordell Hull, and Henry Kissinger.
Leading Tom Lehrer to comment: “When Kissinger received the Noble Peace Prize, satire died.”
Sometimes, satire is unfortunately prophetic:
In January 2001, The Onion published an article entitled “Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over”. In the article, newly elected President George Bush vowed to “develop new and expensive weapons technologies” and to “engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years”. Furthermore, he also promised that he would “bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession”. This, of course, prophesied the Iraq War and to the Bush tax cuts.
Gerald Ford used the phrase “Our long national nightmare is over” in his remarks after his low-keyninaugeration ceremony. He followed with: “Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws, not of men.”
Gerald Ford was the only President to reach the level of Eagle Scout. John F. Kennedy was the first President to be a Boy Scout, reaching the level of Star Scout. Both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were Cub Scouts. Calvin Collidge was the first President to have enrolled his son in the Boy Scouts.
Theodore Roosevelt’s term was over before the founding of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, but he was later elected honorary vice president and was the only person ever named Chief Scout Citizen. The Theodore Roosevelt Boy Scout Council was established in 1917 and was originally named the Nassau County Council. Although Nassau County was Roosevelt’s primary residence from 1885 until his death, the Theodore Roosevelt name was taken by a council in Arizona. That council was merged into the Grand Canyon Council in 1993, freeing the name, and the Nassau County Council assumed the Theodore Roosevelt name in September 1997.
When Nixon resigned, he quoted from Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “Man in the Arena” speech:
After leaving the White House in 1909 to his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, Republican of Ohio, Theodore Roosevelt preferred to be called “Colonel Roosevelt,” his rank from his Spanish-American War service, and not “Mr. President.”
The “Man in the Arena” is a quote from the speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in 1910. TR delivered the 35 page (!) speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. The speech was entitled “Citizenship in a Republic”.
Richard Nixon also used this quote in his victory speech on November 6, 1968. President John Kennedy quoted the speech on December 5, 1961 in New York City, NY. And President Barak Obama cited the speech in his endorsement speech of Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
On June 3, 2011, a page employed by the Senate of Canada walked onto the floor of the Senate and held up a sign which read “Stop Harper”, while the Governor General was delivering the Speech from the Throne.
She was fired later that day.
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy, in a speech at the football stadium of Rice University in Houston, reaffirmed that the US would put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
On May 25, 1961, Kennedy had declared in a speech to Congress that the nation should commit to a manned moon landing.
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
When written and viewed upside-down, ‘1961’ still looks like ‘1961.’ 1961 was the first such upside-downable year since 1881. We’ll have to wait almost 4000 years for the next upside-downable year, 6009.