The War of 1812 was unpopular in Burlington, in Vermont, and in New England which had numerous trading ties with Canada. Neither Vermont nor other New England states provided militia units or financial support.
The Virginia-class nuclear fast attack submarine USS Vermont now being built will be the third vessel bearing the state’s name to serve in the United States Navy. She was christened (with a bottle of sparkling Vermont apple wine) in 2018 and is expected to join the fleet in 2023.
In the Beatles’ song Yellow Submarine, a variety of tools and items were used to create the cacophony of nautical sounds during the song’s instrumental break, including bells, chains, whistles, a wind machine, and a cash register.
Six years later, the same cash register was used to provide sound effects for the recording of Pink Floyd’s Money.
Axl Rose is an anagram for oral sex. His real name is William Bailey.
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The Bailey family was the centerpiece for the movie It’s A Wonderful Life. George Bailey, the central character, was the son of Peter Bailey and “Ma” Bailey. His brother was Harry Bailey and his uncle, with whom he worked, was Billy Bailey. The movie was initially considered a disappointment after the work that Frank Capra had done prior to that, but over the years was recognized as one of the greatest films ever made.
“Ma” is a syllable used in Mandarin as a verbal question mark. In either spoken or written Mandarin, a statement can be changed to a question simply by appending “ma” to the end. “Ma” has a flat tone, so questions do not have a rising ending.
“Ma”, which literally means “horse”, ranks as the 14th most common surnames in Mainland China (as of 2006). Famous people with this name are cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Jack Ma, one of the richest entrepreneurs in China.
Similar to European races, the Belmont Stakes of horse racing’s Triple Crown in New York was originally run clockwise, unlike American races. It wasn’t until 1821 that the race finally adopted the standards of its home country and was run counter-clockwise.
Early sundials were used almost exclusively by people north of the equator, to whom the shadow moved “sunwise” – the term that was used before clocks were invented. Naturally, clocks were designed with hands that moved like a sundial shadow… English is one of very few languages using a clock analogy to reference such rotation. Is the southern hemisphere, the sun appears to move right to left across the sky.
Sundials are comprised of a few basic parts.
All sundials have two parts:
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The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow.
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The dial is the face onto which the shadow is cast. The dial is usually a flat plane but it may also be the inner or outer surface of a sphere, cylinder, cone, helix, or other shape.
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A style, which is the time-telling edge of the gnomon. This is the case, for example, for sundials with triangular shaped gnomons. The style needs to be parallel to the axis of the Earth’s rotation for the sundial to be accurate throughout the year. The style’s angle from horizontal would thus equal the sundial’s geographical latitude. Depending on its design, the style of the gnomon is not straight in order to apply a correction for the equation of time. Such is the case for the “ Sunquest Sundial” (image example).
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A nodus, or a single point, may be used as the gnomon. Some sundials use both a style and a nodus to determine the time and date.
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An analemma, added to the style, corrects apparent solar time to mean solar time. These usually have hour lines shaped like “figure eights” (analemmas) according to the equation of time (image example).
The first use of a dial phone was in 1892 in La Porte, Indiana. It was based on a 1891 patent by Almon Brown Strowger. Strowger set up an exchange with a capacity of 99 phones; it started with 75 subscribers.
In 1919 the American Bell Telephone Company began national service for user controlled rotary dial phones. Rotary dial phones remained viable until the 1970s, when touch-tone dialing was introduced. By the 1980’s most rotary phones were phased out.
La Porte IN is east of Gary and west of South Bend. South Bend is on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. was first presented as a 15-minute “pop cantata” at Colet Court School in London in 1968, and was published by Novello and recorded in an expanded form by Decca Records in 1969. After the success of the next Lloyd Webber and Rice piece, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph received amateur stage productions in the US beginning in 1970, and the first American release of the album was in 1971. The musical had its professional premiere, as a 35-minute musical, at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1972. While still undergoing various modifications and expansions, the musical was produced in the West End in 1973. In 1974, its full modern format was performed at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester and was also recorded that year.
The St. Joseph River, known locally as the St. Joe, is 200 miles long and flows south central Michigan, westwardly through Michigan and Indiana, and drains into Lake Michigan. It flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. There are 17 dams on the river.
When Pernell Roberts left the role of Adam Cartwright on Bonanza, Barry Coe, was written onto Bonanza with the episode “The First Born.” Coe played Clay Stafford, a newcomer who joins the Ponderosa as a worker. Not long after, he’s in hot water, having killed a man in self defense. A bunch of angry miners want to run Stafford out of town, which is about when he reveals to Little Joe that they are half-brothers, both born of Marie. Little Joe, having taken to his new friend and supposed half-brother, sticks up for him. Hoss and Adam remain skeptical.
That was how Clay’s life on the Ponderosa was set to begin. However, behind the scenes, “Little Joe” was not so warm to Clay. Turns out, Barry Coe’s good looks might have hurt his career. Michael Landon, the rising star behind Little Joe, was reportedly worried that this fresh hire would eat into his screen time.
The tension built during production of “The First Born.” Filming for the episode was eventually halted for three hours, as the core cast members and producers gathered behind a closed door to discuss a plan of action. After the meeting, Coe was out, and the ending of the episode was rewritten, wherein Clay Stafford decides that a life on the Ponderosa is just not meant for him. It’s the last we see of “the fifth Cartwright.”
Cool trivia, Annie!
In play: Victor Sen Yung was an American actor who was born in 1915, the son of Chinese immigrants. His first significant acting role came in 1938, when he was cast as the ‘number two son’ of Charlie Chan in the movie Charlie Chan in Honolulu.
He is probably best remembered for playing the role of Hop Sing on Bonanza; he appeared in 102 episodes of the television show.
Sen Yung died in 1980 at his home in North Hollywood. The cause of death was natural gas poisoning from a gas leak.
Charlie Taylor was a highly-regarded American mechanic who helped the Wright Brothers refine their flying machine in Dayton, Ohio, and later accompanied Cal Rodgers by train during Rodgers’s celebrated first solo flight across the United States (“crash by crash,” according to one historian), repairing his aircraft repeatedly along the way.
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is located east of Dayton, Ohio. It is named after brothers and aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright (who lived in Dayton), and for Frank Patterson, an Army Air Corp test pilot who died in a crash at Wright Field in 1918.
Wright-Patterson AFB was home to Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, the Air Force’s investigations of UFOs in the 1940s through 1960s. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is located adjacent to the base.