In a speech delivered on the steps of the Michigan Union (the University of Michigan Student Union building) on October 14, 1960 at 2:00 a.m., presidential candidate John F. Kennedy announced his Peace Corps proposal. A plaque at the steps now commemorates the event.
Kennedy’s height was 6’1", and records of his weight while President vary, from 160 lbs to 182 lbs.
I’ve been on that very spot!
John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, is the only President to have won a Pulitzer Prize; Woodrow Wilson, Democrat of New Jersey, is the only one to have earned a Ph.D.; Theodore Roosevelt, Republican of New York, is the only one to have earned the Medal of Honor (although posthumously).
John F. Kennedy was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service during World War II.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy had the same initials as two later presidential candidates, Jack French Kemp, Republican of New York, and John Forbes Kerry, a Democrat of Massachusetts like Kennedy.
William Jefferson Clinton meets John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The very brief meeting took place on July 24, 1963 in the White House’s Rose Garden.
When Donald Trump was inaugurated in January of 2017, it marked the fourth time in history that there were five living ex-presidents. This list included Obama, Bush, Bush, Clinton, and Carter.
This first occurred in 1861 following Lincoln’s first inauguration, when the list included Buchanan, Pierce, Fillmore, Tyler, and Van Buren. It happened again in 1993 and once more in 2001.
Bush Brothers and Company is a family-owned food manufacturing company, founded in Tennessee in 1908. The company is primarily known for its “Bush’s Best” line of canned baked beans, and it produces roughly 80% of the canned baked beans eaten in the U.S.
The company is also known for a long-running series of television ads, which originally starred family member Jay Bush. In the ads, Jay Bush talked about the secret family recipe for Bush’s Baked Beans, a secret which was known to his Golden Retriever dog, Duke (who continually tried to sell or reveal the secret).
Florida governor Jeb Bush was involved in the Terri Schiavo case, involving a woman with massive brain damage, who was on a feeding tube for over 15 years, and whose husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, wished to remove the tube. This move was opposed by Terri Schiavo’s parents in the courts. Bush signed “Terri’s Law”, legislation passed by the Florida legislature that authorized him, as governor, to keep Schiavo on life support.[ The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court on September 23, 2004. That decision was appealed to the federal courts. On January 24, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thus allowing the Florida court’s ruling to stand.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s brother, George W. Bush, who at the time held a Federal post of some note, also signed legislation directly pertaining to the Terri Schiavo case. It made no difference to the outcome of the case.
From 1824 to 2016, Mexico City was officially known as Distrito Federal, the Federal District; the city was often called “D.F.” In 2016 the name was officially changed to Ciudad de México (or CDMX), which literally translates to City of Mexico in English.
Not in play:
Elendil’s Heir, so have I. A friend pointed it out to me during a summer that I spent at U of M.
Carry on.
Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico, which is also known as the Valley of the Damned. Although the altitude is 7,340 feet above sea level, the city enjoys a temperate climate, with mild winters and hot summers. The population of the city is estimated at 21.3 million, which makes it the 7th largest city in the world.
The largest cities in the world is listed in many sources. It depends on where you look, and on what their data is based on.
Wikipedia has (at least) two lists of largest cities in the world, Cities proper by population (List of largest cities - Wikipedia), and Largest cities (List of largest cities - Wikipedia).
Respectively, those two lists are…
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- 30.17 million – Chongqing CHN
- 24.18 million – Shanghai CHN
- 21.71 million – Beijing CHN
- 15.03 million – Istanbul TUR
- 14.91 million – Karachi PAK
- 14.40 million – Dhaka BGD
- 13.52 million – Tokyo JPN
- 13.20 million – Moscow RUS
- 13.08 million – Guangzhou CHN
- 15.28 million – Shenzen CHN
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38.14 million – Tokyo JPN
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30.54 million – Jakarta IDN
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30.48 million – Chongqing CHN
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24.90 million – Beijing CHN
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21.70 million – São Paulo BRA
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21.66 million – Mexico City MEX
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21.00 million – Lagos NGA
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20.74 million – Mumbai IND
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20.15 million – New York USA
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20.00 million – Dhaka BGD
US News & World Report has their list based on 2015 data, the most recent released by the U.N’s population division (https://www.usnews.com/news/world/slideshows/the-10-largest-cities-in-the-world). -
37.26 million – Tokyo JPN
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25.87 million – Delhi IND
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23.48 million – Shanghai CHN
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21.34 million – Mexico City MEX
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20.88 million – São Paulo BRA
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19.32 million – Mumbai IND
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19.30 million – Kinki major metropolitan area (Osaka and Kyoto) JPN
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18.82 million – Cairo EGY
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18.65 million – New York-Newark USA
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18.42 million – Beijing CHN
These lists use the ISO 3166-1 country abbreviations.
There has only ever been a single warship named the USS New York City to serve in the United States Navy, a Los Angeles-class nuclear fast attack submarine commissioned in 1979 and decommissioned in 1997. She thus entered service while one Southern Democrat was Commander in Chief (Jimmy Carter of Georgia, himself a former submariner) and left service while another was (Bill Clinton of Arkansas).
The USS New York (LPD-21), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, was launched in 2007 and christened in 2008. She was named at the request of George Pataki, Governor of New York, to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Two of New York’s sister ships were later named Arlington and Somerset to commemorate the places where two of the other planes used in the 9/11 attacks came down: Arlington County VA and Somerset County PA.
Remarkably, on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, just 48 hours after the attacks, all 23 Broadway theatres were up and running. It was—by any historical standards—an extraordinary public and private achievement and a crucial cog in the wheel of the city’s recovery. Mayor Rudy Giuliani quickly expressed his thanks, announcing at a press conference that if anybody wanted to help New York, a really good way to do so would be to go and see a Broadway show.
On that night all those shows featured a moment of silence prior to the performance. And, as is traditional in times of loss, all of the Broadway marquees dimmed their lights in tribute to the dead, a number that included 14 missing firefighters from the Midtown firehouse on Eighth Avenue and 48th Street, a firehouse so synonymous with Broadway that its denizens boasted of never missing a performance.
Rudy Giuliani’s second wife, Donna Hanover, found out in May 2000 that their marriage was over when Rudy held a press conference announcing that he and Hanover were separating — without informing her first. Giuliani was dating staffer Judith Nathan on the side. Donna Hanover successfully obtained a temporary restraining order barring Nathan from visiting Gracie Mansion, NYC’s official Mayor’s residence.
Giuliani and Hanover’s divorce was finalized in 2002, and he and Judith Nathan married in 2003. That marriage ended recently, also messily unravelling in public; “I feel betrayed by a man that I supported in every way for more than 20 years,” Judith Giuliani told the New York Times this October. In legal proceedings, the separated couple has battled over many items, such as her kitchen renovations and his splurges — $7,131 on fountain pens and $12,012 on cigars.
(I know that Giuliani was popular as “America’s Mayor” after 9/11 and it’s true that he did well then, but that’s just one side of him)
Manhattan’s Broadway of New York runs for 33 miles. Its termini (or terminuses) are at Battery Place in Manhattan at the south end (approx Lat-Long 40.704604, -74.014210), and US-9 and NY-117 in Sleepy Hollow NY (approx Lat-Long 41.110256, -73.858419; just north of Tarrytown; gMap > Google Maps).
Originally, Broadway was the Wickquasgeck trail for the Wappinger peoples who were an Eastern Algonquian-speaking tribe from New York and Connecticut. They lived on the east bank of the Hudson River eastward to the Connecticut River valley.
The Hudson Brothers were a musical trio, consisting of brothers Bill Hudson, Brett Hudson, and Mark Hudson.
In the early 1970s, they gained popularity thanks to several appearances on American TV shows, including What’s My Line? and The Sonny & Cher Show, and Bernie Taupin became their producer. The CBS television network gave the brothers two different variety shows, one in prime time (The Hudson Brothers Show), and a kids’ show on Saturday mornings (The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show). They released several albums, and had two top-40 songs.
One of the brothers, Bill, was married to actress Goldie Hawn for several years. The couple had two children, who both became actors: Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson.
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. The show was cancelled in 1974 due to the couple’s divorce. They reunited in 1976 to form The Sonny & Cher Show, which ran for two seasons.
Steve Martin served as both a writer and regular cast member of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Another notable who appeared on the show was Murray Langston, who later found brief fame as “The Unknown Comic” on The Gong Show.