The scissor tailed flycatcher is the state bird of Oklahoma.
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The cardinal is the state bird of Ohio, the trilobite is the state fossil, and tomato juice is the state beverage.
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau was the first Canadian cardinal. His brother, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, was a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Kateri Tekakwitha was recently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, and became the first aboriginal Canadian to be declared a saint.
The name, “Canada” is derived from the Huron-Iroquois kanata meaning a village or settlement.
(Damn big village, that Canada. It’s the second largest country in the world, by land mass.)
Around the time of WrestleMania XX in 2004, several “face” Canadian wrestlers had their announced hometowns changed, allegedly to make them more marketable to American audiences. Winnipeg resident Chris Jericho was now “Born in Manhaset, New York”, and Edmonton’s Chris Benoit, who won the World Heavyweight Title in the main event, was “Now residing in Atlanta, Georgia”.
On June 22, 2007 Chris Benoit murdered his wife and 7-year old son, and on June 24 he hanged himself. The autopsy report showed severe damage to Chris Benoit’s brain, likely caused by his many years of wrestling.
Bassist Chris Squire is the only original member of Yes still with the band.
The original 1966 recording of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” uses two basses - string bass and electric bass.
One potential fate of a discarded boot is to be used in the construction of a musical instrument known as the “mendoza,”
consisting of a stout pole affixed to a heavy boot at the base with metal “jingles”, commonly beer-bottle tops, fastened at intervals along the shaft.
The Code of Hammurabi included rules for beer and beer parlors. Owners that overcharged for beer were to be drowned.
In their own beer? Inquiring minds want to know.
On with the game: Hammurabi ruled for 42 years.
Hammurabi is among those great lawmakers of the ages immortalized by a medallion in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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That… is actually kind of horrifying.
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The number of representatives each state has in the House of Representatives is determined by their population, but each state has the same number of elected Senators-- two. This was done as part of the “Great Compromise”, to ensure that the smaller states didn’t get completely overshadowed by the larger states.
Here are the others; they are by no means all saints: Relief Portrait Plaques of Lawgivers | Architect of the Capitol
Samuel F.B. Morse, better known for inventing Morse Code, painted the U.S. House of Representatives in session in 1822: National Security Studies Program: Image
Frances Bolton (R-OH) and Oliver Bolton (R-OH) are the only mother and son ever to serve concurrently in the US House of Representatives. Oliver was first elected in 1952; his mother was first elected in a special 1940 election to replace her deceased husband (and Oliver’s father).
Bolton, Connecticut was incorporated in October 1720. Many of the early settlers came from Bolton, Lancashire, England, from which the town received its name. Bolton was originally part of the hunting ground of the Podunk Indians. The Podunks lived in what is now East Hartford and South Windsor, along the Podunk River.
The closing credits for ***Hot Shots! Part Deux *** listed a phony, made-up song on the soundtrack: “I Got a Lot of Hair For a Bald Guy, And If I Wear It Like This, You’ll Never Notice” by Michael Bolton.
Since losing the Presidential election of 1988 and leaving office as Governor of Massachusetts, Michael S. Dukakis has been teaching at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
Boston Brand was a circus aerialist who was murdered in the middle of his circus act. Instead of dying, he became the superhero Deadman who went looking for his own killer. Deadman was invisible to the living, but could possess a person in order to do what he needed to do. The strip was associated with artist Neal Adams.