In the Episcopal Church and others, red is the color of Pentecost, symbolizing the flames which appeared above the Apostles as symbols of the Holy Spirit.
James A. Pike, controversial Episcopalian Bishop of California (who was also mentioned in #8803 of this thread) wrote a book about poltergeists that he sensed after his son’s suicide.
Otis G. Pike was a Democratic congressman from the eastern end of Long Island (solid Republican territory) for 18 years. He was best known for leading an investigation into the dealings of U.S. intelligence service. Pike died this year.
In his juvenile novel Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein wrote of Pike’s Peak being used as a launch ramp for spacecraft.
The Ohio Turnpike was completed in 1955, one year before the introduction of the Interstate Highway System.
The lead ship of the current class of U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines is the USS Ohio. All but one of the class were named after states in the Union; the exception was the USS Henry M. Jackson, named after a noted pro-defense U.S. senator.
The first USS Ohio was a merchant ship that was bought by the US government in 1813 and recommissioned as a Lake Erie cargo vessel. She was captured by British forces in 1814.
An Ohio-class Trident missile sub, the USS Montana, appeared in the James Cameron 1989 undersea thriller The Abyss. There has, in fact, never been a submarine of that name.
The University of Montana’s athletic teams, the Grizzlies, wear uniform colors of Gold, Silver and Copper.
“Silver” is one of a handful of words in the English language that has no commonly known rhyming words. (There is the obscure “chilver,” meaning a female lamb).
Agnus, as in Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, was the answer to a Jeopardy! question last night.
Alex Trebek has hosted Jeopardy! continually since 1984, except for April 1, 1997 when Pat Sajak hosted the show once as part of an April Fools joke.
Art Fleming was the first host of Jeopardy.
The Jeopardy! Clue Crew began in 2001 and has included Kelly Miyahara and Sarah Whitcomb.
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the most powerful people at the court of Queen Anne, because of her strong personal friendship with the Queen.
The Marlboro Man is a figure used in tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. In the United States, where the campaign originated, it was used from 1954 to 1999.
It costs tobacco companies approximately 5 cents to produce a pack of cigarettes.
A pack of smokes costs about $5.00.
The Marlboro Man died of lung cancer
Many people think that Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo died of lung cancer. While he had a tumor in his lung, the primary site of his cancer was the testes.