George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, but rose to fame during the Civil War leading Michigan troops. He died in 1876, during the U.S. Centennial, at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Tiny Little is the name of the pygmy pony Frank Zappa dreams of riding through the moonlighty night of Montana, tending his dental-floss crop with his pair of heavy-duty zircon-encrusted tweezers, in his 1973 song “Montana”. The pygmy pony’s name is mentioned only in the middle section of the song, which was sung by Tina Turner and the Ikettes (who happened to be in the studio that day), but who went uncredited due to Ike Turner’s disgust.
Following the Battle of Little Big Horn, Chief Sitting Bull and his tribe moved north to Canada in 1877 to Wood Mountain, North-West Territories, now part of Saskatchewan. He and his people stayed for four years, surviving starvation conditions thanks in part to the assistance of a local Canadian, Jean-Louis Légaré, who eventually played a role in Sitting Bull agreeing to return to the United States.
Smokey Joe Wood won 34 games in 1912 and was a top AL pitcher. After an injury, he couldn’t pitch and switched to outfield, where he played several more years.
Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller were 19 years old when they wrote Kansas City in 1952. They had never been there. They later wrote Hound Dog, Don’t, Jailhouse Rock and others for Elvis Presley and a host of songs for the Coasters nee Robins including Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Searchin,’ Charlie Brown and Yakkety Yak.
In 1991, Elvis Stojko landed the first quad jump in combination, the first quadruple toe loop-double toe loop combination, at the World Championships.
Stojko Dodolovski was the only survivor of the 1912 Titanic sinking from Macedonia.
Jaime Brocket’s “The Legend of the U.S.S Titanic” is a weird, drug-infused version of Ledbelly’s “The Titanic” that gained much airplay on underground radio stations in the early 70s.
Although Huddie Ledbetter is often referred to in print as “Leadbelly”, he preferred the two-word version – “Lead Belly”.
Calvin Coolidge legendarily gave a two-word reply to the woman seated next to him at a dinner party who said she had made a bet that she would get him to say at least three words during the course of the evening: “You lose.”
And Winston Churchill legendarily replied to Nancy Astor, who told him that if she were married to him she would poison his tea, “Nancy if I were married to you I would drink it.”
The Waldorf-Astoria was the first hotel to offer room service.
The Waldorf=Astoria (they insist on an equals sign now) was actually two separate hotels, constructed during a feud between two members of the Astor family; the Waldorf was built to spite Astor’s aunt. She moved, and the Astoria was built next door. The two hotels were soon connected to be the largest hotel in the world at that time.
Caroline Astor (The Mrs. Aster), who built the Astoria, built a house at 350 5th Avenue with her husband, William Blackhouse Aster in 1862 which is now the site of the Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building regained the title of New York City’s tallest building on September 11, 2001, but never advertised it as such.
The World Building (1890) was the first commercial building in New York to exceed the Trinity Church spire in height. It was knocked down to make way for a new entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge in 1955.
By Federal law, no building in Washington, DC, can be taller than the Capitol dome.
Doesn’t seem so: http://waldorfastoria3.hilton.com/en/index.html?WT.srch=1
While a U.S. senator, Jefferson Davis played a key role in authorizing and supervising expansion of the Capitol. President Abraham Lincoln insisted that construction continue during the Civil War as a symbol of the ongoing viability and strength of the Federal government.
I don’t see how that disproves the statement. The Capitol you say is 289 feet and by law no building can be taller than the 160 feet of the widest avenue plus 20 feet, 180 is less than 289, therefore no building can be higher than the Capitol.