“Tip and Ty,” or Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, was the 1840 US presidential campaign cry of the Whig party’s Log Cabin campaign, for William Henry Harrison, the Hero of Tippecanoe, and John Tyler. In Lafayette, IN is a shopping mall called Tippecanoe.
The statement “The public be damned” is often attributed to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, but was actually said by his son and heir William Henry Vanderbilt, who doubled his father’s incomprehensibly mammoth fortune* in the 8 years between his father’s death and his own.
- The roughly $100,000,000 fortune of Commodore Vanderbilt does not seem so enormous today when even actors can earn that in a career, but in terms of per capita income/ wealth and GDP of the US in 1877 Vanderbilt was at least as wealthy for his time as Warren Buffett is today.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally created as part of a promotion by Montgomery Ward Department Store in 1939. The song was actually written 10 years later.
Gene Autry’s recording of Rudolph was by far his biggest hit, selling over 12.5 million copies (far more by some counts), though it has the distinction of being the first song ever to drop completely off the charts a week after occupying the number 1 position (due to its seasonal nature and the end of Christmas season).
Gene Autry was born in Tioga, TX, and the town of Gene Autry, OK was named in his honor. Gene Autry, OK is 100 miles east of Lawton, OK and Fort Sill.
“The Honour of the Crown” is an important principle of Canadian constitutional law in relation to government dealings with aboriginal peoples. It is a legal presumption that the Crown intends to act fairly with aboriginal peoples. Treaties, laws, and government conduct will be interpreted to favour the Honour of the Crown, unless a contrary intention is manifest.
At 37, Honor Blackman was the second-oldest Bond girl [as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964)].
The Bond villain Goldfinger’s first name was Auric, after Au, the periodic table’s designation for gold.
A legendary bumper sticker from the 1964 presidential election was “BaAuH2O”, pronounced Barium Gold Water.
I remember the “AuH20” stuff, but not with a “Ba-” prefix. Cite?:
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President Lyndon Johnson, Democrat of Texas, selected Hubert Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, as his running mate in 1964. Humphrey had run for the Democratic nomination for President in 1960, but lost to John F. Kennedy.
On Johnny Carson’s final Tonight Show, he had a montage of people who had appeared on the show. The final image – usually a position of honor – was that of Hubert Humphrey.
Jimmy Carson was one of the players which the Los Angeles Kings traded for Wayne Gretzky in 1988. At the time, Carson said that one day, he would be a trivia question: “Who was traded for Wayne Gretzky?”
When Mike Dukakis selected U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen as his Democratic Party running mate in 1988, campaign staff at the announcement ceremony chanted “Boston… Austin!”
Lloyd Bentsen was an Eagle Scout.
John F. Kennedy, to whom Dan Quayle several times foolishly compared himself and was finally called on it by Bentsen during the sole 1988 Vice Presidential debate, rose to the rank of Star Scout, but did not earn his Eagle.
How about a kitty with glasses and a bow tie?
The US Coast Guard training ship Eagle, based at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, was built for Germany as the Horst Wessel, and was taken by the US as war reparations. Reputedly the original nameplate is still in place under the Eagle one on the helm.
In 1705, copper was discovered in Simsbury, Connecticut. Later, the copper mine became the infamous New-Gate Prison of the Revolutionary War. Doctor Samuel Higley of Simsbury started the first copper coinage in America in 1737.
Nice, but not a “legendary bumper sticker” and not from 1964.
In play:
George Washington led the Continental Army for eight years during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783.
The US Army was in charge of exploring and mapping America. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an all-Army affair. Army officers were the first Americans to see such landmarks as Pike’s Peak and the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Teton mountain range is named from two French words meaning “big tits.”