First pets have included Johnson’s pet beagles Him, Her, and Little Beagle Johnson (LBJ), the current First Dog- a Portugese water spaniel named Bo, and while Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido never lived in the White House there were many dogs across the nation named after him.
Portugese is one of the world’s major languages, ranked seventh according to number of native speakers — between 205 million and 230 million.
Portugal and Brazil are the two biggest nations of Portuguese speakers today.
Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals. Portugal is entering a joint bid, together with their Spanish neighbors, to host the 2018 or 2022 Finals.
Brasilia is one of the newest of the world’s major cities, having been built pretty much from the ground up beginning in 1956 specifically to serve as the capital of Brazil.
The popular Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes released his album Brasil '88 in 1978.
The martial art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was largely popularized by the Gracie family, who were taught by Kodokan Judo black belt Mitsuyo Maeda; much of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu’s emphasis and curriculum comes from Judo’s newaza, ground techniques.
Sam Mendes won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director in his feature directorial debut, American Beauty.
Sam Mendes is married to Kate Winslet, who starred in Titanic and Revolutionary Road with Leonardo DiCaprio.
George Washington’s headquarters flag during the Revolutionary War featured thirteen six-pointed stars on a blue field. One is in the collection of the museum at Valley Forge.
George McClellan, Civil War General, once wrote a dispatch to Abraham Lincoln and names his location as “Headquarters in the Saddles,” leading Lincoln to quip, “That’s the problem with McClellan. His headquarters is where his hindquarters should be.”
“The Washingtonians” is an episode of Masters of Horror, based on the short story of the same name by Bentley Little, that depicts a man being stalked by a group of psychotic “patriots” after discovering that George Washington was a secret cannibal.
ETA: DAMN! Too slow…
George Strait topped the country charts with “All My Exes Live in Texas.”
That was Joseph Hooker, not McClellan.
Texas and Vermont are the only two states after the original thirteen that were independent republics before joining the Union.
Hawaii is the only state that has a royal palace or where polyandry was ever legally practiced in recorded history (albeit only by certain members of the high nobility who were married to the king as well as to their consort).
Uh oh. To restore thread integrity, we need to combine X and Hooker. How about:
“while ex-madam Kristin Davis, corroborates that Gov. X [Spitzer] was a client, his spokesman flatly denies that the married politician has ever hired hookers.”
uh oh … Sampiro posted a few seconds before I. Nevermind…
Hawaii includes an ex-royal palace and, due to the naval base and tourism and drug traffic, lots of hookers.
Japanese naval forces attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Hawaii was a U.S. territory at the time, and became a state in 1959, the last to join the Union.
In between directing Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Speilberg managed to squeeze out the turd, 1941.
1941 featured Kurosawa star Toshiro Mifune, once courted to play Obi Wan Kenobi and who played Lord Torenaga (based on Ieyasu Tokugawa) in SHOGUN (inspired by the true story of Will Adams).