The island of Molokai is known as the “Most Hawaiian Island.”
Three out of four of Canada’s extreme points are on islands:
• easternmost point: Cape Spear, Newfoundland, on the North Arlantic;
• southernmost point: Middle Island, Ontario, in Lake Erie;
• northernmost point: Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, on the Arctic Ocean.
Only the westernmost point is on the mainland: Boundary Mountain, Yukon.
The easternmost point on the US mainland is West Quoddy Head, Maine.
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James G. Blaine of Maine, a frequent Republican contender for the Presidency after the Civil War, served as Secretary of State under President James A. Garfield, and was with him when the President was shot in a Washington train station.
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was the Republican candidate for vice-president in the 1860 election. He did not meet the presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln, until after they had been elected.
In chronological order of dates of their being shot, the four US Presidents were:
1865-04-14: Abraham Lincoln (died 1865-04-15)
1881-07-02: James A. Garfield (died 1881-09-19)
1901-09-05: William McKinley (died 1901-09-14)
1963-11-22: John F. Kennedy
Kennedy, of course, died the day he was shot.
Regarding their service in the military, Garfield and McKinley served in the US Army, Kennedy in the US Navy, and Lincoln in the Illinois Militia. Garfield, having served from 1861-1863, achieved the highest rank of them all: Major General.
The first US univerity for the education of African Americans was founded in Pennsylvania in 1854 by Rev. John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker. It was originally called Ashmun Institute after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer, and later renamed Lincoln University.
Abraham Lincoln was married in an Episcopal service but belonged to no particular church. He once told a friend that he liked a preacher “to look as if he’s fighting bees.”
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and the second ship to have been named after Lincoln. She was commissioned on 11 Nov 1989 after launching from Newport News VA.
There are ten carriers in the Nimitz class, and by subclass and commission date, and some nicknames, they are:
1975-05-05: CVN-68 USS Nimitz (standard military, uses only his surname)
1977-10-18: CVN-69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)
1982-03-13: CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson (call sign Gold Eagle)
Subclass, Theodore Roosevelt:
1986-10-25: CVN-71 USS Theodore Roosevelt (the Big Stick, TR)
1989-11-11: CVN-72 USS Abraham Lincoln (Abe)
1992-07-04: CVN-73 USS George Washington (GW, G-Dub, Cell Block 73)
1995-12-09: CVN-74 USS John C. Stennis (Johnny Reb)
1998-07-25: CVN-75 USS Harry S. Truman (HST, Lone Warrior, Hairy Ass)
Subclass, Ronald Reagan:
2003-07-12: CVN-76 USS Ronald Reagan (The Gipper)
2009-01-10: CVN-77 USS George H. W. Bush (Avenger)
While all ten are Nimitz-class carriers, design differences within the class result in the subclasses Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
The U.S. Navy warship attacked by Capt. Nemo in Jules Verne’s 1870 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The Paris restaurant, Le Jules Verne, at the Eiffel Tower, is known for its nice views of the city and is is currently ranked #475 out of 9,205 Paris restaurants on TripAdvisor.
(ETA: and currently with 1,534 reviews)
Eiffel was hired by the French Panama Canal Company to design the locks for a proposed Panama Canal. When the company failed, Eiffel was caught up in the scandal and was found guilty of misappropriating funds, but got off on appeal. He had little to do with the financial management of the company – he was just a hired contractor – but his name made him a target for prosecution.
Among Wikipedia’s list of Eiffel’s works are:
- the church at Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- San Sebastian Church, Manila, Philippines
- Budapest Nyugati Pályaudvar (Western railway station), Budapest, Hungary
- Ajfel Bridge On Skenderija Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ali Promted his fight with Smoking Joe Fraizer with the ryhme “It will be a Killa and a Thrilla and a Chilla when I get The Gorilla in Manila”
Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, and FDR are three of the presidents whose lives were probably shortened from smoking.
Lesley Ann Warren was the youngest actor ever to have attended New York’s Actors Studio, when she was 17.
Warren Buffett attended college at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and got his Master’s Degree from Columbia.
Edith Wharton wrote her novel Ethan Frome originally in French, although she was a native English speaker.
Edith Wharton wrote in The Age of Innocence (and I love to quote her), “Americans like nothing about culture so much as their speedy departure from it.”
Think of that the next time you leave a concert.
Legendary costume designer Edith Head is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight.