For many years, the British Home Secretary was required to be present, or at least in an adjoining room or corridor, at any Royal birth, to ensure that there were no swapping of babies or other neonatal skulduggery.
In the United States, behind the President and Vice President, the next two in the Chain of Command are the Secretary of State and then the Secretary of Defense.
St. Peter ad Vincula (“St. Peter in chains”) is the chapel of the Tower of London. It contains the remains of three queens (Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, and Jane Grey) at least two saints (More and Fisher), and numerous other notables, linked by their execution at the Tower.
London’s St Paul’s Cathedral has been the site of several executions. Following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, four conspirators were dispatched in the churchyard by hanging and disembowelment.
The final film role for Jane Darwell, a veteran character actress best known as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, was as the old lady feeding the pigeons outside St. Paul’s in Mary Poppins. The accompanying song “Feed the Birds” was reputedly Walt Disney’s favorite song.
Concord grapes were developed by Ephriam Wale Bull, of Concord, MA. Previously, grapes were tiny; when Bull sent them to the the Boston Horticultural Society exhibit they were mistakenly displayed with melons.
In the early Seventies, before adopting the name Boston, the rock band led by Tom Scholz and Brad Delp called itself Mother’s Milk.
Mother’s Milk was the fourth album produced by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released in 1989.
Not so. The chain of command goes from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The Vice President is not part of the chain of command unless something happens to the President, and the Secretary of State is not part of the chain of command unless something happens to the President, VP, Speaker of the House and the President pro tem of the Senate, in which case the SecState becomes President.
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George H.W. Bush was inaugurated President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1989. He was the first and thus far only person to be elected President while serving as Vice President since Martin Van Buren.
The “H.W.” in his name stands for Herbert Walker.
When reporting a tribute to President Herbert Hoover on the occasion of his, CBS radio announcer Harry Von Zell pronounced his name “Hoobert Heever”. The incident did not prevent him from a long comedic film and TV career, including as the announcer on “The Burns and Allen Show”.
Jack Burns, who was was hated by almost everyone for playing Warren on the Andy Griffith Show, teamed with Lorenzo Music( Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda, and Garfield the Cat’s voice) to provide the voices for a pair of crash test dummies respectively named Vince and Larry in a series of United States Department of Transportation public service announcements that promoted the use of seat belts
Jack Burns was head writer for the first season of The Muppet Show, and arranged for his comedy partner Avery Schreiber to appear in an episode. He also was co-writer of The Muppet Movie.
Legendary Looney Tunes director Tex Avery was a descendant of Judge Roy Bean and Daniel Boone, but all his grandmother reportedly ever told him about it was: “Don’t ever mention you are kin to Roy Bean. He’s a no good skunk!!”
The name “Daniel” is derived from “God is my Judge.”
In The Merchant of Venice, Shylock refers to Portia as “a Daniel come to judgment” when she initially appears to concede that he has the right to take his pound of flesh from Antonio, but the tables turn when she points out that he must take one pound only, no more or less, and is not entitled to a drop of blood. Gratiano then crows that she is indeed a Daniel.
It depends on what organization you’re with. I was quoting from an ROTC page:
http://www.riverheadnjrotc.com/id19.html
In Silk Stockings, the character of Nina Yashenko claims to have played Portia in “Gorky’s” Merchant of Venice.
Venice Beach is the 2nd-largest tourist attraction in southern California after Disneyland.
Muscle Beach Venice replaced the original WPA-era Muscle Beach next to Santa Monica Pier. The name refers also to a high concentration of weightlifting and fitness businesses in the Venice Beach area. Dave Draper, Larry Scott, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Trejo, and Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams used to be regulars, among many famous bodybuilders and actors who have trained there. Chet Yorton trained at Muscle Beach Venice in the early to mid-1960s to prepare for his victory over Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1966 NABBA Mr. Universe contest.
Monica Lewinsky was born on the same day that Richard Nixon became the first president in US history to be subpoenaed, July 23, 1973. (Do you realize she’s 40 now? :eek:)