The American Bar Association is based in Chicago, Ill.
Although the song “Barbara Ann” is chiefly remembered for the drunken poolside cover version by The Beach Boys, it was originally released by The Regents.
How does that play off the preceding post?
Off: I don’t think it does. I’ll play off of your last.
On: The SOA, the Society of Actuaries, is located in Schaumberg, IL which is a suburb of Chicago.
Off: “Bar-Bar-Bar. Bar-Barbara Ann.”
To bring both together
On: Regent Products has its headquarters in River Grove, Illinois.
River Grove is also the home of Triton College, a community college whose alumni include baseball players Kirby Puckett, Lance Johnson, and Tom Gorzelanny.
Vice President Andrew Johnson was among the top U.S. Government officials whom John Wilkes Booth and his coconspirators planned to kill in April 1865, but the man assigned to the task, George Atzerodt, lost his nerve and got drunk instead.
Following the death of Yugoslav President for Life Josip Broz Tito, the title of the leader became President of the Presidency. Each of the republics, the autonomous regions of Serbia, and the Communist Party had a President, who collectively formed a council, among whom the Presidency rotated.
At the time Yugoslavia was formed, it was commonly called a “Versailles State,” because of its formation around the time of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in France.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George represented the United Kingdom at the Versailles Conference which concluded World War I, addressed colonial and territorial issues and imposed harsh sanctions against Germany for starting the war.
Canada and the other British Dominions signed the Treaty of Versailles, the first major international recognition that they had separate status from the United Kingdom.
The central gallery of the Palace of Versailles, the Hall of Mirrors, gave its name to a song by the German technopop band Kraftwerk on their album “Trans-Europe Express”.
German pop band 'Trio’s "Ich liebe dich nicht ", better known as Da Da Da was featured in a 1997 volkswagon commercial starring Michael J. Fox, before his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
The last Volkswagen Beetle was produced in 2003 in Puebla, Mexico.
The new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, took office on Dec. 1, 2012.
Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico.
In recent years, a different member of the Cabinet is kept away each time from the State of the Union Address, inaugurations and other major public functions as a “designated survivor,” so that if some disaster killed everyone else in the line of succession, there would still be someone available to lawfully be sworn in as President.
Jefferson, Monroe and Van Buren – and maybe Hillary Clinton – were all secretaries of State who later became president.
So far, the USA has had two Secretaries of State who were born in other countries and thus ineligible to succeed to the Presidency: Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright.