Yes — Whitney, of course! McKinley is Denali. Denali is McKinley. Or was. Thank you.
In play: President Jimmy Carter renamed Mount McKinley National Park on December 2, 1980, to Denali National Park. This was one month after he lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan.
The oldest living U.S. president is Jimmy Carter, born October 1, 1924 (age 95 years, 2 days). On March 22, 2019, he also became the nation’s longest-lived president, surpassing the lifespan of George H. W. Bush, who died at the age of 94 years, 171 days.
March 22, 1622, the Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
The Algonquin Round Table, as well as the number of other literary and theatrical greats who lodged there, helped earn New York City’s Algonquin hotel its status as a New York City Historic Landmark in 1987. In 1996 the hotel was designated a National Literary Landmark by the Friends of Libraries USA. The organization’s bronze plaque is attached to the front of the hotel.
In 1959, Bill Larson opened the very first Round Table Pizza location in Menlo Park CA.
(Not far from San Francisco; I’ll have to find that location. :D)
ETA:
Google Maps — gMap, I think I found it! There’s only one Round Table Pizza in Menlo Park CA.
Google Maps — gMap, only 30 miles south of my old address…
Menlo Park, CA was not, as one might expect, named for Menlo Park, NJ, home of Thomas Edison’s laboratory where invented the phonograph and the light bulb, but the reverse. The founders of the California town named it for their former home of Menlo in County Galway, Ireland, and is an Anglicized version of the original Irish name of the place, Mionloch, meaning “middle lake.”
Menlo Park Academy is a public charter school on the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is the state’s only tuition-free K-8 school designed solely to serve the needs of gifted children. (I helped coach its National History Day students last year).
The Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion occurred on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944. The resulting gas leak, explosion and fires killed 130 people and destroyed a one-square-mile area of the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. The disaster plays a major role in Don Robertson’s 1965 novel “The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread” and in Sebastian Barry’s 2011 novel On Canaan’s Side.
Lake Erie is bounded by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, and the US states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York to the west, south, and east. The lake was named by the Erie people, a Native American people who lived along its southern shore. The tribal name “erie” is a shortened form of the Iroquoian word erielhonan, meaning “long tail”.
Erie, Pennsylvania, is known as the “Flagship City” because of its status as the home port of Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship Niagara.
Christian Shank, a German immigrant, built a cabin on Stony Creek, Pennsylcania in 1798, later building a grist mill and two saw mills in the vicinity. Emmanuel Shaffer opened a store at the site in 1828, and the following year Shank laid out the town of Shanksville. The Shanksville post office was opened in 1874. Shanksville was incorporated as a borough on January 25, 1913, and is best known as the place the fourth airplane crashed after the passages got control from the 9/11 hijackers.
Walking is sometimes called “riding Shank’s pony” or “riding Shank’s mare”, since a leg is also called a shank.
Interesting. I have walked outside every day for decades, and I’ve never heard those expressions, but now I’m going to use them. Thanks!
In play: In 1952, Mildred Lisette Norman, also known as The Peace Pilgrim, became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season. Starting on January 1, 1953, in Pasadena, California, she adopted the name “Peace Pilgrim” and walked across the United States for 28 years, speaking about peace. She was on her seventh cross-country journey when she died.
On July 7, 1981, while being driven to a speaking engagement near Knox, Indiana, Peace Pilgrim was killed in an automobile accident.
Former NBA player Ron Artest, known for his temper on the court, legally changed his name to Metta World Peace in 2011 while with the Los Angeles Lakers, although the incidents continued. World Peace is his family name. His publicist, Courtney Barnes, said that World Peace chose Metta as his first name because it is a traditional Buddhist word that means loving kindness and friendliness towards all.
In 1981, NBA player Lloyd Free legally changed his name to “World B. Free.” Free noted that, when he was in high school in Brooklyn, he had been nicknamed “All-World” (later shortened to “World”), due to his jumping ability.
Like Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960, and as permitted by Texas law, Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) ran simultaneously for Vice President and for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 1988. LBJ won both posts; Bentsen, Mike Dukakis’s running mate, won only the latter, and returned to serve in the Senate before being appointed Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury in 1993.
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley). His parents had married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved to be bigamous, as Blythe was still married to his third wife. Although Clinton immediately assumed use of his stepfather’s surname, it was not until Clinton turned 15 that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.
Arkansas is a relatively flat state, ranging from a low of 54’ above sea level (ASL) to 2,753 ASL on Mount Magazine, the state’s highest point. Officially called Magazine Mountain, it is also the highest point of all the US Interior Highlands, a region spanning parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
Mount Saint Elias, on the Alaska-Yukon Territory border, is the second-highest peak in both the United States and Canada. Denali and Mount Logan hold the top spots respectively. Its name in Tlingit is Yasʼéitʼaa Shaa, meaning “mountain behind Icy Bay”, and is occasionally called Shaa Tlein “Big Mountain” by the Yakutat Tlingit.