In 1997, Bill Clinton offered a formal apology to the few remaining survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments
A young Bill Clinton met President John F. Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden while visiting as part of the Boys Nation delegation from Arkansas.
John Kennedy was the only president to be survived by his grandmother (Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, mother of his mother Rose [who the White House Rose Garden was not named for]).
Roses need 7 Gallons of water a week. It is better to water them deeply, 3 times a week, instead of once a day.
A gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds. A gallon of ice, however, weighs only 7.65 pounds.
According to the Stetson company, a ten-gallon hat holds about three quarts of water.
Max Cleland, the Democrat triple amputee Vietnam veteran who served as senator from Georgia from 1997-2003, was a graduate of Stetson University in Florida (founded with endowments from the hat manufacturer and from the Deland baking soda fortune).
Among the graduates of Stetson University is Brian Bocock, who played pro baseball for the San Francisco Giants.
The liberal, author-wannabe, nemesis-of-Stewie dog in the Fox TV cartoon series The Family Guy is named Brian Griffin.
Nemesis was worshiped as a spirit of vengeance- especially for hubris or betrayal- throughout the Greek and Roman world and in some places was considered a goddess in her own right and more ancient than Zeus and the Olympians.
Star Trek Nemesis was the fourth, and final, movie to feature Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the rest of the cast from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Bergamot, which is used to flavor Earl Grey tea, flowers in the winter.
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard often orders “Tea, Earl Grey, hot” from the replicator in his Ready Room aboard the USS Enterprise.
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is the sole member of the Enterprise class. She will be mothballed when the USS Gerald Ford, lead ship of the Gerald Ford class, is commissioned.
The USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier that recovered the Apollo 11 astronauts, is now a floating museum docked at Alameda Point on San Francisco Bay.
The Green Hornet’s alter ego is millionaire Britt Reid, whose great uncle was John Reid, the Lone Ranger.
There was a 1970’s American Motors Corporation car called the Hornet whose name echoed that of the 1950’s Hudson Hornet. Hudson and Nash merged to form AMC in 1954.
AMC introduced the Pacer in 1975, was featured in Mike Myers Wayne’s World
Ford Motor Company has two plants in Wayne, Michigan. They assemble the Ford Explorer/Lincoln Navigator in one, and the Ford Focus in the other.
Mike Myers played “The Calgary Kid” on a CBC children’s show when he was a child.