The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both adopted - by the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, respectively - in the same large ground-floor meeting room of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Penna.
CUA is the three-letter IATA airport code for the airport at Ciudad Constitución, BCS, Mexico (Baja California Sur). Anyone driving from San Diego, California to Cabo San Lucas, BCS on Mexico Hwy 1 will drive through Ciudad Constitución which is between Loreto and La Paz.
About one-fifth of the entire U.S. population lives in California.
“Mule Days” is a celebration of the mule held annually in Bishop, California on Memorial Day Weekend. It’s a fun and educational celebration of the humble animal that helped settle the western United States, especially the mountainous regions. The US Marine Corps team from the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, CA usually makes an appearance st this event. Yes, the USMC has a unit that operates with mules even in this modern day of specialized technology.
Mule Days in Bishop, CA:
http://www.muledays.org
The villain in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Empire is nicknamed “the Mule”.
Conductor Isaac Stern boycotted Germany for most of his life until 1999 due to that country’s role in the Holocaust.
President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate was in January and February 1999, and resulted in his acquittal, with the votes on each charge falling well short of the two-thirds necessary to convict and remove him from office.
Nixon resigned before he likely would have been impeached.
Richard M. Nixon tendered his resignation as President in August 1974 to the U.S. Secretary of State, at that time Henry Kissinger.
The family of author Henry James and his brother philosopher William James originally came from Albany, NY; there is a James Street in Albany that was named for one of their ancestors.
Albany, New York was named after the Duke of York’s Scottish title, “Duke of Albany.”
“Duke” Ellington was actually born Edward Kennedy Ellington.
Edward James Olmos drove a red Porsche Turbo that he bought in Miami at a sale of articles confiscated in drug busts. “He got 30 years. I got the car!” he was reported as saying. But soon afterward, the Porsche was stolen.
Turbocharged production cars started being manufactured in 1962, by General Motors.
The blue and white logo of the Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) is often said to be an Art Deco era design inspired by a propeller, an homage to the company’s aviation manufacturing origins, but is more likely inspired by the Bavarian flag.
Ferdinand Porsche, jr., nicknamed “Ferry” and son of the Porsche car company founder, created the Porsche 356 in the late 1940s. The first 356s were built in Gmünd, Austria, and the 356 was first road certified in 1948.
The story of Ferdinand the flower-smelling bull was written by Munro Leaf in under an hour.
Mactan (or Maktan) Island is one of the over 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago. It is close to the island of Cebu, in the southern part of the country. On 27 April 1521, Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a battle on Mactan Island.
The US took over the Philippines after the Spanish American War. The filipinos did not like being a US colony and fought several wars – all unsuccessful – to drive the Americans out. Finally, the US agreed in 1935 to grand commonwealth status to the islands, with independence in ten years. World War II set that schedule back a bit to July 4, 1946.
The US government took over the Hawaiian Islands in 1893 and issued an apology for this illegal act in 1993.