Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans was originally called Moisant Field, to honor John Moisant, an early aviator who died in a plane crash where the airport would eventually be located.
Brig. Gen. John Buford was the Union cavalry commander who kept Confederate forces at bay outside of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, long enough for reinforcements from the Army of the Potomac to move up and hold the line, and setting the stage for the eventual Union victory.
Aided by the fact he was typically a leadoff batter, Don Buford grounded into only 34 double plays during his ten seasons in Major League Baseball. In contrast, Jim Rice of the Red Sox grounded into 36 DP’s in one year (1984).
Rice is the second most prolifically grown grain in the world, after corn/maize.
Rice University in Dallas, Texas is one of the most academically rigorous schools which plays D-I sports.
It was at Rice University that JFK gave his speech honoring the Apollo program: “We choose to go to the Moon and to do the other things - not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
Rocky Balboa became heavyweight champion after defeating Apollo Creed in their rematch. A movie was made of the event.
The fans would yell “Just strike out, Jim! Keep the inning alive!”
Apollo Creed was played by Carl Weathers, who was the only main cast member of Predator not to be elected Governor.
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The Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, gave a eulogy at the memorial service of Cleveland Indians baseball legend Bob Feller. The service was earlier this year at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
There are sixteen recognized saints named Paul.
Paul McCartney produced and played banjo on the Bonzo Dog Band’s hit single “I’m the Urban Spaceman” using the pseudonym “Apollo C. Vermouth.”
According to some theories, Paul Revere rode accross the countryside warning the British that they’re not going to take our guns away.
Paul Revere’s father was a French Canadian Huguenot named Apollos Rivoire. By some accounts Paul’s name at birth was Apollos Rivoire, fils (or Jr.), though he and his father both went by Paul Revere by the time he was a child.
The 60’s/70’s rock group Paul Revere and the Raiders,who, unlike their namesake, did not ring bells to warn the British, but did wear Colonial costumes on stage, was formed by organist Paul Revere Dick and singer Mark Lindsay in Boise, Idaho. Their top hit was the 1971 No. 1 single “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)”, but their most enduring one was their cover of “Louie, Louie”.
Children’s author Robert Lawson wrote and illustrated Paul Revere’s Horse, telling the tale of the ride from the perspective of… well, you know.
Anne Revere won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in National Velvet in 1944. She was later blacklisted for taking the Fifth Amendment while testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee and did not work in films of TV for 20 years.
Anne Morrow Lindberg was one of the first female pilots and a well known writer. She published several books, including “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead,” about the kudos for her husband Charles when he crossed the Atlantic Ocean solo ansd the tragic kidnap and murder of their first born child, Charles Jr. Her work “Gifts From the Sea” is now considered a classic. It is a group of essays about the victories of women and whatt is now called the empty nest syndrome.
The superintendent of the New Jersey State Police who headed the investigation into the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby was Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr., father of the Gulf War general, who apparently got some of his comfort with the media from his father’s work narrating the radio show “Gang Busters”. Later in his career, he helped to train the Iranian secret police that eventually became the Shah’s SAVAK.
Radio waves were predicted by the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell,
and discovered to be real by experimentalist Heinrich Hertz.