Thanks. I’ve read a lot of presidential history and have never heard of him using that phrase.
Ohio Representative John Scott Harrison is the only man to be both the son and the father of US presidents.
Byron Scott of the Indiana Pacers was selected by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 1995 NBA Expansion Draft.
Although the Memphis team in the short-lived World Football League was originally formally known as the Southmen, the logo depicted a bear, and many fans thus referred to the club as the Grizzlies from the start. The ursine nickname was officially adopted for the team’s second – and, as it turned out, final – season.
Memphis is the only five-time winner of the US’s Cleanest City award.
Memphis is the home of the first Greyhound and Continental Trailways bus lines.
Memphis, whose ruins are near Cairo, was the original capital of Lower Egypt. It was believed to be under the protection of the god Ptah, the patron of craftsmen.
The USS Cairo, a City-class gunboat, was the first warship ever sunk by a mine (then called a torpedo) when she sank in the Yazoo River near Vicksburg, Miss. on Dec. 12, 1862. There were no casualties.
Huck Finn and his runaway slave friend Jim were originally heading to Cairo, Illinois on their raft, but took a wrong turn and ended up in Arkansas.
“Herr Meets Hare” was the first of several Warner Brothers films in which Bugs Bunny observes “I KNEW I shoulda made that left toin in Albakoikie.” In this one, he finds himself in the Black Forest encountering Hermann Goering.
Black Forest cake is typically made with several layers of chocolate cake, whipped cream, and cherries.
Aztec nobility in Mexico before the Spanish Conquest drank hot chocolate, but it was a much more bitter drink than we now enjoy.
Quarterback Michael Vick was sued by a former girlfriend, who claimed that he had given her genital herpes. In court, her lawyer alleged that Vick had gone to medical clinics for treatment of the condition using the alias “Ron Mexico.”
For months afterward, large numbers of Atlanta fans went to nfl.com and ordered customized Falcons jerseys with the #7 (Vick’s uniform umber) and the name “Mexico” stitched on the back. The NFL eventually banned sales of such shirts.
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick went to the University of Nevada at Reno and now plays for the San Francisco 49ers, where yesterday, Head Coach Jim Harbaugh named him the starter in this weekend’s game against the Rams. This will be CK7’s 3rd straight NFL start.
CK7 is playing quite well, too, I will add.
Jim Harbaugh, a former NFL quarterback himself, is the brother of John Harbaugh, head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. They are the first brothers to reach that position. Their father, Jack Harbaugh, was a longtime college head coach, including at Stanford, where Jim was the head coach before being hired by the Niners.
Former star Stanford QBs who went on to successful NFL careers include Jim Plunkett and John Elway. Possibly Andrew Luck, too,but it’s still too early to tell.
John Elway’s father, Jack Elway, is credited with inventing the spread offense when he was the head coach at Granada Hills (CA) High School, as a way to use his son’s passing abilities to their utmost.
Nutmeg is shown on the flag of Grenada, which is the world’s second-largest producer of the spice after Indonesia.
“Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” was a hit single for Allan Sherman. Subtitled “A Letter from Camp,” it was about a letter by a boy at Camp Grenada, where things are pretty dismal. The tune was taken from Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours.”
Roger Sherman of Connecticut was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S.: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.