According to Dante’s Inferno, most of Hell is cold, not hot. Judas Iscariot and Brutus, legendary traitors, are frozen in ice at the lowest level.
Brutus Buckeye is the mascot of the Ohio State University athletic teams.
Nitpick: Boyington flew for the Marines, not the Army Air Corps.
Artist Wayne Barlowe, who did not go to OSU and is perhaps best known for his Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials, has both written and illustrated books further exploring the underworld as set forth in Dante’s Inferno.
The 9th ring of Hell in Dante’s Inferno is reserved for traitors; there Judas Iscariot, Cassius, and Brutus are being devoured for eternity by a three headed beast.
The Trammps recorded the 1976 song Disco Inferno.
On May 28, 1977, a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, killed 165 people. It is the third deadliest nightclub fire in US history.
The battleships USS Kentucky and Kearsarge were sister ships, and looked so much alike, Navy legend has it that sailors sometimes boarded the wrong one when they were moored near each other.
Mount Kearsarge, in New Hampshire, is home to both a trail and state park that are named for Captain John Winslow, former commander of the USS Kearsarge.
The Kentucky Colonels were one of the most successful franchises in the American Basketball Association, but were not invited to merge with the NBA in 1976. Neither were the Spirits of St. Louis.
These seem to contradict each other.
This is disturbing- it COULD mean my last two factoids were incorrect.
Sigh.
“Kentucky colonel” is an honorary title which can be bestowed upon someone with the approval of the governor of the state of Kentucky. Kentucky colonels include Muhammad Ali, Bill Clinton, Johnny Depp, Whoopi Goldberg, Betty White, and (of course) Harlan Sanders, of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.
Muhammad Ali claims to have thrown his 1960 Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River, in protest against American racism. Members of his family have said he made that story up, and really just lost the medal.
Muhammad Ali’s daughter Laila boxed her father’s old opponent Joe Frazier’s daughter Jacqui Frazier-Lyde in 2000. Laila Ali won by a judge’s decision and still occasionally boxes; Jacqui Frazier-Lyde is now a municipal court judge in Philadelphia.
Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were discussed and adopted in the same large first-floor room of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, just 11 years apart, in 1776 and 1787. Ben Franklin was there both times.
1776 saw the publication of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” and the first volume of Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”.
Euell Gibbons became a celebrity in the 1960s/70s from books, articles, and talk show appearances in which he advocated healthy plant based diets and for the commercials he made for Grape Nuts cereal in which he began by asking “Did you ever eat a pine tree?”
PINE is a character-based mail client developed for Unix at the University of Washington in 1989.
The football teams of the University of Washington and Washington State University annually meet in the Apple Cup game.
George Washington’s coat of arms, three red stars on a white field over two red stripes, inspired the current flag of the District of Columbia.
P.S. I’m a Kentucky Colonel myself.