Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio is the cathedra (seat) of the Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, currently the Right Reverend Mark Hollingsworth.
Rider fans in the East side of Taylor Field can see the spires of Holy Rosary Cathedral. The 101st Grey Cup will begin at Taylor Field in 2 hours: 5.30 CST, with the Saskatchewan Roughriders playing the Hamilton Ti-Cats before a packed home crowd.
GO RIDERS!
Under her married name of Margaret Meserve, Margaret “Wicked Witch of the West” Hamilton served on the Beverly Hills Board of Education from 1948-51.
Princess Margaret was Queen Elizabeth II’s younger sister, and considered one of the first of the “Jet Set.” She was married for awhile to Lord Snowden, but they eventually divorced.
Traci Lords, born Nora Louise Kuzma, has said she adopted the surname Lords to honor her favorite actor, Jack Lord.
Tracy, CA was incorporated in 1910 and named after Central Pacific Railroad director Lathrop J. Tracy. Lathrop, CA was founded in 1887 by Leland Stanford and named after Stanford’s brother-in-law, Charles Lathrop.
The October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf, in which the United States Navy decisively defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the largest naval battle in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, and perhaps in all of recorded history.
October 1944 marked the debut of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show
Thomas Dewey, Republican of New York, lost his first of two Presidential elections in November 1944, to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat of New York. Dewey lost again four years later, much more surprisingly, to Harry S Truman, Democrat of Missouri.
The Hamilton Ti-Cats lost the 101st Grey Cup to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, 45 to 16, one of the most lopsided scores in Grey Cup history. It was essentially a Riders home game on steroids, with approximately 44,000 in Rider green and less than a thousand attendees in other team colours. Tom Hanks and Martin Short were at the game. Hanks lost considerable cred with Rider fans by chanting “Oski-wee-wee” with a small group of Ti-cat fans before the game, and by sporting a Ti-cats toque in the stands. Martin Short corrected what could have been an ugly situation by ripping the toque off of Hanks and handing Hanks a Riders toque, which he put on.
Alexander Hamilton served on George Washington’s military staff during the American Revolution, held a battlefield command during the Battle of Yorktown, and later joined President Washington’s Cabinet as the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington had to borrow money to attend his own inauguration.
Spokane, Washington was the smallest city in size to host a World’s Fair, in 1974.
Outgoing First Lady Pat Nixon whispered to her successor Betty Ford as they walked out to the helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 9, 1974, just after President Nixon’s resignation, “You’re going to see a lot of red carpets from now on, and you’re going to come to hate them.”
Cynthia “Miranda Hobbes” Nixon was the only supporting character on Sex and the City to win an Emmy.
The French theologian John Calvin (1509-1564) and the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1678) were the inspirations for the main characters’ names in Sam Waterston’s daily comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes.
Sam (with the red hat) is one of two characters in “Green Eggs and Ham.”
UCSD’s Geisel Library building is named in honor of Audrey and Theodor Seuss Geisel.
Former President Thomas Jefferson’s donated books formed the nucleus of the new Library of Congress after British troops burned the original collection during the War of 1812.
[Uh, actually, Jefferson sold it to them.]
Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin received the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in History for his The Americans: The Democratic Experience, the final book in his trilogy on America.