An earlier Japanese team began the LLWS practice of rushing out to the bust of Howard J. Lamade, beyond the RF wall at the stadium he built, upon winning the title. One player asked his coach who that was, and received the joking reply that it was a shrine to the God of Baseball. When the team won, they followed Shinto tradition and went out to give thanks. The team that won the next year invited the runners-up to join them in the same act, and that in short is how traditions begin. No doubt Mr. Lamade would have loved it.
Howard Dean, MD, former Governor of Vermont and Chair of the Democratic National Committee, once had his State Police driver/bodyguard stop the car so that he could help some people who had been injured in a car accident.
Vermont was the 14th state to enter the union.
The name origin for “Vermont” is generally cited as being from the French words for “green mountain”: “Vert” and “mont.” Only problem is that in French, the phrase would have been “montaign vert.”
*Green Mountains *was a book written by the Australian bushman Bernard O’Reilly. He became famous across Australia in 1937 when he correctly deduced the crash site of a missing aeroplane and led the rescue effort through difficult terrain to find the survivors.
Ethan Allen, a leader of the Vermont militia known as the Green Mountain Boys, was an atheist. On his deathbed, someone told him the angels were waiting for him. He said, “Well, let 'em wait.” His daughter became a nun.
The state mineral of Vermont is talc.
The Vermont Historical Society will soon be conducting a reenactment of a public appearance by Bull Moose candidate Theodore Roosevelt in Barre a century ago.
http://vtdigger.org/event/one-huge-mass-of-people-photo-reenactment-of-t-roosevelt-visit-to-barre/
The Progressive Party became known as the Bull Moose Party after former president Teddy Roosevelt boasted “I’m fit as a bull moose” after being shot in an assassination attempt prior to his 1912 campaign speech in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee has never hosted a National Convention for the Democrats or Republicans, while these other nearby Midwestern cities have: Chicago,Minneapolis and St. Paul (both),Detroit,St. Louis,Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Kansas City.
Forrest Ackerman, known later as editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland, was the first person to wear a costume at the World Science Fiction Convention, at the first worldcon in New York in 1939.
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Forrest Ackerman was dressed as a “rugged-looking star pilot.”
The USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk’s ship on Star Trek, was described as “starship-class” at the time, but in background materials, some publications and later on Star Trek: The Next Generation was designated a Constitution-class heavy cruiser.
Captain Picard’s first command, the Stargazer, was originally conceived as a *Constitution-*class starship identical to the original (refit) USS Enterprise, and during “The Battle”, Geordi and Data’s lines referring to the class were originally said that way.
Later, they decided to make it an entirely new class of starship, and because “Constellation” is relatively similar, they went with that. They dubbed Geordi and Data’s voices in the TNG episode “The Battle” in which the Stargazer appeared.
The Stargazer model was later used again for Geordi’s old ship, the USS Victory, in “Elementary, Dear Data”.
The world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat is “Old Ironsides”, the USS Constitution. The Constitution was named by George Washington and had a complement of 450, including 55 US Marines.
George Brown was a Canadian politician. He was a Father of Confederation, and served as Premier of the Province of Canada for four days in August 1858, replacing a ministry headed by John A. Macdonald, who had lost the confidence of the Assembly over the Queen’s choice of Ottawa as the capital of the Province. Brown was out-manouevered by John A. Macdonald, who returned to power in August 1858 following the “Double Shuffle”.
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, gave an interview to Walter Cronkite in summer 1963 discussing the U.S. military effort in South Vietnam. JFK emphasized that, although the U.S. would help the South Vietnamese government as much as possible, the war was, in the final analysis, theirs to win or lose.
Cliff Robertson played Lt. John F. Kennedy in PT 109, about Kennedy’s wartime experiences in the Pacific.
Flowers for Algernon was originally a short story by Daniel Keyes, who expanded it into the popular novel. A 1968 film based on the novel was called Charly. It starred Cliff Robertson, who won the best Actor Academy Award.
The novel was also turned into a 1978 West End stage musical, starring a pre-Phantom Michael Crawford and a live white mouse.