The Lincoln Motor Company, which has been Ford’s luxury division for many years, was founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland. Leland named his company after Abraham Lincoln. Ford acquired his company in 1922.
In November 1967, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith married German-born Annemarie Hoffman. She was 27. He was 63 and early into Parkinson’s disease.Six months later, Annemarie was pregnant. This was a surprise to Robert, and he claimed that Annemarie was having an extramarital affair, since he had had a vasectomy six years earlier, and a doctor declared him “completely sterile.” Annemarie’s son, Timothy Lincoln Beckwith, is possibly and disputedly the last descendant of Lincoln. Annemarie claimed that Timothy was Robert’s son but refused paternity testing. Timothy is currently assistant state attorney in Palm Beach, Florida.
Hildene, Robert Todd Lincoln’s country home in Manchester Center, Vermont, has been meticulously restored and is now open to the public.
In the Premier League (the highest level of English association football, or soccer), there are six clubs which have regularly occupied the upper tier of the league over the past decade – those clubs are sometimes referred to as the “Big Six.”
Three of the clubs are based in London (Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, and Chelsea), two are based in Manchester (Manchester United and Manchester City), and the sixth is based in Liverpool (Liverpool).
The Premier League is a corporation of 20 clubs. Since its inception in 1992 the Premier League has had 47 English and 2 Welsh clubs. The league generates €2.2 billion a year in total television rights.
Carl Stotz, George Bebble and Bert Bebble, residents of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, founded Little League Baseball in 1939. They began experimenting with their idea in the summer of 1938 when they gathered Carl’s nephews, Jimmy and Major Gehron and their neighborhood friends. They tried different field dimensions over the course of the summer and played several informal games. The following summer they felt that they were ready to establish what later became Little League Baseball. The first league in Williamsport had just three teams, each sponsored by a different business. The first teams, Jumbo Pretzel, Lycoming Dairy, and Lundy Lumber, were managed by Carl Stotz, George and Bert Bebble. The men, joined by their wives and another couple, formed the first-ever Little League Board of Directors.
The first League game took place on June 6, 1939. Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy, 23-8. Lycoming Dairy came back to claim the league championship. They, the first-half-season champions, defeated Lundy Lumber, the second-half champs, in a best-of-three season-ending series. The following year a second league was formed in Williamsport, and from there Little League Baseball grew to become an international organization of nearly 200,000 teams in every U.S. state and over 80 countries around the world
The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown was Effa Louise Manley (1897–1981), co-owner of the Newark Eagles baseball franchise in the Negro leagues with her husband Abe Manley. In 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson broke the major-league color barrier, they won the Negro League World Series, defeating the famed Kansas City Monarchs.
She was inducted in 2006.
Cooperstown has a permanent exhibit dedicated to women in baseball, focusing on the AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
To date there are no woman players inducted to Cooperstown, from Hank Aaron to Robin Yount.
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To date, Effa Louise Manley is the only woman inductee.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, founded in 1990, is located in the 18th & Vine District in Kansas City, Missouri. The area was the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century. The museum shares a building with the American Jazz Museum.
(I enthusiastically recommend both of these museums!)
Harry S. Truman is the only president since William McKinleywho did not earn a college degree.[29] In addition to having briefly attended business college, from 1923 to 1925 he took night courses toward an LL.B. at the Kansas City Law School (now the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law), but dropped out after losing reelection as county judge. He was informed by attorneys in the Kansas City area that his education and experience were probably sufficient to receive a license to practice law. However, he did not pursue it, because he won election as presiding judge.[31]
While serving as president in 1947, Truman applied for a license to practice law. A friend who was an attorney began working out the arrangements, and informed Truman that his application had to be notarized. By the time Truman received this information he had changed his mind, so he never sought notarization. After rediscovery of Truman’s application, in 1996 the Missouri Supreme Court issued Truman a posthumous honorary law license.
Before breaking through as an animator in the early 1990s, Mike Judge (creator of Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Office Space, and Idiocracy) worked in several different fields, including physics, engineering, and computer hardware, then spent several years as a bass player in a blues band.
Tom Anderson, from Judge’s Beavis and Butthead, is an almost exact clone of Hank Hill. It’s thought by many that they are closely related, probably cousins.
Also, Judge had no involvement with the Beavis and Butthead spinoff, Daria, which was probably a good thing. Many fans think his animation style would not have worked on the show.
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. Although Bunker Hill was the objective of the battle, most of the fighting occurred on nearby Breed’s Hill. The British were victorious over the colonial forces, but it was a Pyrrhic victory: the British suffered over a thousand casualties, while the colonial losses were less than 500. The casualty count was the highest suffered by the British in any single encounter during the entire war.
A part of Lower Manhattan is built on fill shipped from Bristol, England during WWII. Bristol was heavily damaged during the Blitz, resulting in tons of rubble.
As German forces fought furiously to break British resistance and conquer Europe, U.S. and Canadian merchant marine vessels steamed across the Atlantic to keep the British defenders supplied against Nazi Germany’s assault. These ships were loaded to the brim with weapons when they set out on their journey, risking U-boat and air attack with a cargo that was apt to explode. When they arrived, the supply ships delivered so much cargo, with nothing to bring back, that they needed ballast to stabilize them for the return journey.
The men and women of Bristol, many of whose homes had been utterly destroyed by the Luftwaffe’s air assault, loaded these ships with the rubble of their city. Acting as ballast, these literal chunks of England returned to the U.S., where merchant marine vessels offloaded them into the East River and picked up fresh cargo to return to Europe.
The resulting landfill created the area known as Bristol Basin, quite literally built from part of England.
Cool trivia, thanks for sharing.
In play: The ‘Battle of Bristol’ refers to a college football game played on Sept. 10, 2016. In that game, Tennessee defeated Virginia Tech 45-24 at Bristol Motor Speedway. The announced attendance was 156,990, which shattered the old NCAA attendance record by over 40,000.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) of the New Deal eventually built and created about 50 new dams for hydroelectric power. With a generating capacity of approximately 35 gigawatts (GW), TVA has the sixth highest generation capacity of any utility company.
But I’m visiting the Columbia River Gorge area for the holiday weekend. Yesterday we toured the Bonneville Dam, another New Deal project. The Bonneville Dam, and the Bonneville Power Administration eventually created by its power, transmits its power to as far away as Los angeles and Phoenix. Bonneville is one of four regional Federal power marketing agencies within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Be sure to stop in Hood River. It’s nice little town with some decent restaurants. Take the tour of the Full Sail Brewery and have a burger in their restaurant.
Among the dams built by the Tennessee Valley Authority are dams on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers in northwestern Tennessee. These dams created Kentucky Lake (on the Tennessee River) and Lake Barkley (on the Cumberland River) in northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky; both lakes lie primarily within Kentucky.
The two rivers run parallel to each other in that area, and the dry land in between the lakes is now the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. The state of Kentucky has also built several “state resort parks” along the shores of the lakes.
The Lake District National Park, in Cumbria (formerly known as Cumberland) is the most visited national park in the United Kingdom with 16.4 million visitors per year. It is the largest national park in England.
Thank you, and we did! We had a nice dinner and drinks at the Sixth Street Bistro in Hood River. And also a nice lunch along the river at the Best Western, right next to the bridge. Great river views there. We’re staying across the river at White Salmon WA, so Hood River is very close. It is a nice town and the Rosauer supermarket is a good spot too. We leave within the hour, so we’ll have to come back for the Full Sail tour and burger. This is a beautiful area.
In play: Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia (HRV), or Plitvička Jezera in Croatian, is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the oldest and largest national parks in the country. The park’s name comes from the Croatian for shallow basins (Croatian pličina or plitvak; plitko means shallow). The National Park was designated as such in 1949, and in 1979 it was recognized and designated by (as) UNESCO.
A major snowstorm hit Los Angeles in January of 1949, with a foot of snow accumulating in the San Fernando Valley over a 3-day period.
The city of Reno, Nevada, sent a snow shovel to Los Angeles.