The towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania combined and changed their name to Jim Thorpe when Thorpe’s widow, upset with the state of Oklahoma over how they were planning to treat her husbands remains, offered to have his remains buried in the newly-named town.
Phillip H. Sheridan, George A. Custer and William T. Sherman were the founders of the USA’s main artillery fort at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
In the original Mr. Peabody and Sherman cartoon series, the time traveling super genius dog Mr. Peabody is specifically said to be the boy Sherman’s owner. That has been changed to him being Sherman’s adoptive father in the remake due to sensibilities over slave imagery (perhaps so as not to offend super genius time traveling dogs).
Mae West’s Diamond Lil made her into a Broadway star and she was signed by Paramount to portray it on screen. It took two years to get it past the censors, but it finally released as She Done Him Wrong, directed by Lowell Sherman.
Mae West’s first name at birth was Mary Jane. She was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn and grew up in the New York City area. She is of Bavarian heritage on her mother’s side. In her early 20s, she was arrested for performing in risqué plays and was incarcerated on Welfare Island in NYC. Welfare Island is now known as Roosevelt Island which is the island that the Queensborough Bridge (also known as the 59th Street Bridge) passes over while connecting Manhattan to Queens.
The Mae West was a common nickname for the first inflatable life preserver, which was invented in 1928 by Peter Markus (1885–1974) (US Patent 1694714), with his subsequent improvements in 1930 and 1931. The nickname originated because someone wearing the inflated life preserver often appeared to be as physically endowed as the actress Mae West, and as rhyming slang for breast. It was popular during the Second World War with U.S. Army Air Forces and Royal Air Force servicemen, who were issued inflatable Mae Wests as part of their flight gear. Air crew members whose lives were saved by use of the Mae West (and other personal flotation devices) were eligible for membership in the Goldfish Club.
*“Goldfish Club” is an interesting link, but I haven’t figured out how to do links, yet. BtWM
(Highlight the text you want to hyperlink, then click on the globe symbol, second from the right, just above the box).
The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people whose lives have been saved by parachutes, which were made of silk in the pre-nylon days. The manufacturer of the parachute sends a commemorative pin to the new member upon verification. Members include Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and John Glenn.
Charles Lindbergh invented an “artificial heart” between 1931 and 1935. He developed it for Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist whose research included experiments in keeping organs alive outside the body.
Diversion: ElvisL1ves–Thanks for the info. Goldfish Club. It looks like if you jumped out of an airplane over the water, wearing a life vest, you could join the Goldfish and Caterpillar clubs simultaneously.
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Charles Lindbergh is buried in Maui, at a small church near Hana.
The church isn’t hard to find, and I’ve been to his grave site.
Following Pearl Harbor, Charles Lindbergh tried to rejoin the military, but Franklin D Roosevelt would not allow it, because of Lindbergh’s pro-German activities before the war.
Charles Dickens’ son, Francis, served in the North-West Mounted Police in western Canada for 14 years, including during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. His reputation is mixed amongst historians of the period.
I see what you mean, NP: Francis Dickens - Wikipedia
No, there isn’t, but there is a George, Washington: George, Washington - Wikipedia
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British actor Ralph Fiennes, perhaps better known for his roles as M in the latest James Bond movie, Lord Voldemort, and the monstrous SS officer in Schindler’s List, plays Charles Dickens in the 2013 movie The Invisible Woman.
Morristown, NJ-based Schindler Elevator Corp., part of the Swiss-based Schindler Group, was founded as the elevator/escalator division of Westinghouse Electric.
George Westinghouse, Jr was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison’s main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. Westinghouse’s system ultimately prevailed over Edison’s insistence on direct current.
When the Eiffel Tower was built, it was specified that all work be done by French companies. An exception was made for US-based Otis Elevator, since no French firm could come up with something that met the specifications for the lowest level. The elevator had to be at an angle and French designs – which used a piston to raise and lower the cab – were not up to it. Otis presented a design using a cable. The builders were skeptical, afraid that the cable would break. Otis was able to show them that the elevator brake would stop the cab, and they were given approval for the implementation of the design.
When German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler visited Paris after the fall of France during World War II, he was unable to take the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower, as maintenance staff reportedly concealed necessary parts. The elevators were not restored to full working order until soon after the Allies recaptured the city in 1944.
In June, 1940, Captain Lucien Sarniguet, of the Paris fire department, was forced by the occupying German troops to take down the Tricolour which was flying over the Eiffel Tower. Four years later, during the liberation of Paris, Sarniguet organised a group of six firefighters to race up the Tower with a home-made Tricolour and hoist it once more over Paris.
Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager once advised Ens. Harry Kim, “When it comes to understanding temporal paradoxes, my advice is, don’t even try.”
The temporomandibular joint is the joint of the jaw. The name of the joint is derived from the two bones which form the joint: the upper temporal bone which is part of the skull, and the lower jawbone or mandible.