You’d want to contact your state senator or state rep, not your member of Congress, as the designation of state critters is a state issue.
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According to Rolling Stone, Chuck Berry’s concert performance contract requires that he be met at the airport by a chauffered black Lincoln Town Car - not a limo, sportscar or other vehicle of any kind.
Shel Silverstein’s song “The Cover of the Rolling Stone” was recorded by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, and in a country version as “The Cover of the Music City News” by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos.
As a result of that song, the band was on the March 29, 1973 cover of Rolling Stone; however, they did so in caricature, rather than in a photograph, and with the caption, “What’s-Their-Names Make the Cover.”
The Rolling Stones are now the subject of a major 50th-anniversary exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
http://rockhall.com/exhibits/rolling-stones-50-years-of-satisfaction/
The historic origins of wedding anniversaries date back to the Holy Roman Empire, when husbands crowned their wives with a silver wreath on their twenty-fifth anniversary, or vicennalia, and a gold wreath on the fiftieth.
As Voltaire once said, the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
The French philosopher Voltaire carried on a long correspondence with Empress Catherine the Great of Russia; she was, to many of his contemporaries, the epitome of the Enlightened Despot.
I thought we might let the Master have a go:
It is, of course, not true.
“The boring truth is this: Catherine the Great died of a stroke while sitting on the commode in the palace at St. Petersburg.”
Other famous people who died on a toilet or commode include Elvis Presley, Lenny Bruce, and (Edward the Confessor’s brother and predecessor as king) Edmund Ironsides (who according to tradition anyway was stabbed by a Viking who hid in the outhouse).
In 1803 Paul Revere supplied the copper sheeting to replace those for the hull of the USS Constitution whose nickname,of course, is Old Ironsides.
The Canadian Parliament buildings and the Supreme Court of Canada both have copper sheeting roofs, which turn green over time.
The Great Copper Mountain was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated from the 10th century to 1992. It produced two thirds of Europe’s copper demand in the 17th century and helped fund many of Sweden’s wars during that time. It was referred to as the nation’s treasury: Sweden had a copper backed currency.
In the Italian Hall disaster of 1913, striking copper miners from the Calumet, Michigan area in the Upper Peninsula, who were having a Christmas party along with their families, were caught in a crush when a management operative yelled “Fire!”. Seventy-three in all died, including 59 children. In his song “1913 Massacre”, Woody Guthrie claimed the doors were held closed by management thugs.
In the final months of the Civil War a New York Herald reporter wrote that Grant’s plan was to circle and strangle Lee’s forces “like an anaconda”. An Irish Union soldier named Michael Hickey liked the sound of that word so much that when he became a prospector in Montana after the war he dubbed his copper strike “The Anaconda Mine”. He sold his 1/3 interest in the mine to an investment consortium for $10,000, easily worth six figures in today’s USD but pitiful compared to the billions (in modern USD) the claim would prove to be worth.
Theodore “Hickey” Hickman, a wife-murdering, pipe dream-shattering hardware salesman, is a Christ-figure in Eugene O’Neill’s play The Iceman Cometh.
nm - ninja’d.
George “Iceman” Gervin had more blocks than any guard in NBA league history when he retired. (I think maybe Dwyane Wade is a leader these days).
George “Iceman” Gervin played in the ABA for the Virgina Squires, a team which used to be the Oakland Oaks (of Oakland, CA and a charter member of the ABA). In Gervin’s 1972-1973 season with the Squires, he played briefly with teammate Julius “Dr. J” Erving towards the end of that season.
ETA: in the summer of 1973, Dr. J was sold to the ABA’s New York Nets.
Glenn “Doc” Rivers, now the coach of the Los Angeles Clippers and previously of the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic, was given his nickname as a Chicagoland high schooler by then-Marquette assistant coach Rick Majerus. Rivers attended a summer basketball camp wearing a “Dr. J” T-shirt. Majerus immediately called him “Doc” and the name stuck. Rivers was most successful as a player as the Atlanta Hawks’ point guard on their Dominique Wilkins teams.
Doc Holliday’s last words, reportedly, were “Damn, this is funny.”