President Obama met with the members of SEAL Team Six, including their dog Cairo, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, after the successful May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.
Under the pharaohs, the city now known as Cairo was named Ineb-hedj.
The holy city of Memphis was originally known as “Ineb hedj” which is generally translated as “White Walls”, and white garments and sandals were worn to holy ceremonies. The word “hedj” represents both white and silver. Silver was very highly prized in Egypt, and fairly scarce. It was very popular in pharonic jewellery, when it was available, and was known as “white gold” (nub hedj). Silver and gold together represented the moon and sun respectively. White paint was made from chalk or gypsum which were plentiful in Egypt.
Cairo, MO and Cairo, IL, are both roughly equidistant from St.Louis, MO. They’re about 155 miles away, by car. The three locations are roughly collinear on the map, too.
Roughly.
Peter Lorre played underground character Joel Cairo, who hires Sam Spade to find The Maltese Falcon.
The first warship ever sunk by an underwater mine (then called a “torpedo”) was the U.S. Navy ironclad USS Cairo, sunk in the Yazoo River near Vicksburg, Miss. during the Civil War.
The Yazoo land frauds led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Fletcher v. Peck, which held that the state law nullifying the transactions was unconstitutional, because it impaired the operation of contracts, contrary to Article I, s. 10 of the US Constitution.
Fletch (aka Irwin Maurice Fletcher) is the protagonist of a series of novels by Gregory MacDonald. The original novel was loosely adapted into a comedy film starring Chevy Chase (1985), with considerable changes along the way. Another film, Fletch Lives (1989), used an original story instead of adapting one of McDonald’s novels. A third movie, Fletch Won, is still in pre-production as of 2012.
President Barack Obama got fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008, and lost two states (North Carolina and Indiana) that he had won four years earlier, but was still reelected over his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
On the 1980’s TV show Hill Street Blues the police chief was named Fletcher Daniels.
On the sitcom Get Smart, the Chief never revealed his last name, but his first name was Thaddeus.
Tommy Lee Jones played Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (R-Penna.), an ardent foe of slavery, in the recent historical epic Lincoln.
There have only been two instances where two players with the same first and last names played for one MLB team in the same season: Robert L. Miller and Robert G. Miller for the 1962 Mets and Robert J. Jones and Robert M. Jones for the 2000 Mets.
In 2004 the Rebecca Gilman play The Sweetest Swing in Baseball premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The lead character—Dana, as portrayed by Gillian Anderson—adopts the personality and speech of Met outfielder Darryl Strawberry in an attempt to pass herself off as schizophrenic. The title is a reference to Strawberry’s playing skills.
Gilman is the name of two Wisconsin communities – a town in Pierce County, near the state’s western boundary, as well as a village in Taylor County, which is in the north-central portion of the state.
Wisconsin became the 30th state in the Union in 1848.
Wisconsin Badger basketball began in December, 1898 with the formation of its first team coached by Dr. James C. Elsom. The Badgers played their first game on January 21, 1899, losing to the Milwaukee Normal Alumni 25–15 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Om Jan 21, 1899, Opel manufactured its first automobile.
Adam Opel created his car company in Germany in 1862. The first of the four European Car of the Year winners was the 1985 Opel Kadett. The Opel Omega won in 1987, the Insignia in 2009, and the Ampera in 2012.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom uses the Omega on its crest, to symbolize that its judgments are the last word.