While it is often reported that Ronald Reagan was in the running to play Rick from Casablanca, he was never seriously considered for the role. The rumor may have started as a publicity handout designed to get his name in the papers.
Ronald Reagan’s first starring role was in the film “Love is in the Air”. One of his costars was actor William Hopper, who is best known for his role as investigator Paul Drake in the “Perry Mason” TV series.
Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, was a lightning rod for conservationist and animal-protection critics.
James Watt did not invent the steam engine; he vastly improved a previous steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen.
In 2007, TIME Magazine named James G. Watt the 6th worst Cabinet member of all time. Their worst of all time was US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, noted for his “Palmer raids” in which mass detentions of leftist Americans were perpetrated.
Scottish engineer James Watt developed the concept of horsepower, and the SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him.
ETA: The most common conversion factor, especially for electrical power, is 1 hp = 746 watts.
USS Enterprise Capt. James T. Kirk’s early sweethearts included Ruth, whose last name is not disclosed on Star Trek; Dr. Carol Marcus, and Dr. Janice Lester.
Shirley Bonne, who played Ruth as mentioned above, starred as Eileen in the TV Sitcom My Sister Eileen (1960-1961).
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, seldom agree in their decisions, but are close personal friends and are both opera buffs.
Since 1789 there have been 17 Chief Justices of the US Supreme Court, from John Jay (1789-1795) to John Roberts (since 2005). William Howard Taft was Chief Justice from 1921 to 1930.
Unlike the US Supreme Court, where the Chief Justice is almost invariably appointed straight to position of Chief Justice, the practice in Canada is normally to appoint one of the more senior puisne justices of the Supreme Court to the position of Chief Justice, alternating between anglophone and francophone justices.
In their song “Short Skirt, Long Jacket”, Cake yearns for “a girl with uninterrupted prosperity / Who uses a machete to cut through red tape / With fingernails that shine like justice / And a voice that is dark like tinted glass”
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis has many stained glass windows and is known for its large mosaic installation, which is the largest in the world, its burial crypts, and the addition of an outdoor sculpture to promote racial harmony.
Since Salmon P. Chase, the correct title has been “Chief Justice of the United States.” For more: Who’s America’s top judge? - The Straight Dope
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The seat of the Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, currently the Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth Jr., is Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trinitites are rare minerals created by fusion of surface sands, by the test of the first plutonium bomb at the Trinity site at Alamagordo, New Mexico on 7/16/45.
Since the Cold War began, between 11 and 50 nuclear weapons have gone missing and cannot be accounted for.
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Tom Clancy dedicated one of his books to President Ronald Reagan, who, Clancy wrote, “won the Cold War.”
The term “cold war” was coined by George Orwell in 1945 in his essay “You and the Atomic Bomb”.
During World War II, Wendover Air Force Base was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.
There’s tons of cites, some less tin-foil-hat than others, few that actually agree with each other. Here’s one which gave actual numbers:
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509 is the area code for Spokane, Washington.