Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, a Mississippi politician who was a member of the secession convention and later a Confederate army colonel, had his civil rights restored after the war and went on to be the first Democrat to serve his state in Congress since the start of Reconstruction. John F. Kennedy discussed him in Profiles in Courage for his eulogy for Sen. Charles Sumner, and for opposing free silver. His uncle was Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas.
Going back over 100 years, since 1876, the governors of Mississippi have all been Democrats until since 1992, when three of the last four have been Republicans. This includes the last one, Haley Barbour, and the current governor, Phil Bryant.
Almost half of all the Senate filibusters in U.S. history have been threatened or mounted by Republicans since January 20, 2009.
Sen. John Calhoun created the concept of filibustering in 1841. In 1957, Strom Thurmond filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, subsisting on throat lozenges, malted milk tablets, and a steak sandwich.
There are sea-dwelling weasels who are larger?
On topic: In heraldry, the lozenge is a diamond-shaped image upon which a woman’s arms are emblazoned.
Seemingly so. That was from Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
Still in play:
On topic: In heraldry, the lozenge is a diamond-shaped image upon which a woman’s arms are emblazoned.
Okay, I’ll play off of Rick Kitchen’s:
In geometry, a lozenge (◊), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from the French losange) for rhombus. Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus—a rhombus with acute angles of 45°.
In Minecraft, diamonds are only found at level 18 and below. (Sea level is at Lv63.)
Mean sea level (MSL) is a datum representing the average height of the ocean’s surface (such as the halfway point between the mean high tide and the mean low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation. Precise determination of a “mean sea level” is a difficult problem because of the many factors that affect sea level. Sea level varies quite a lot on several scales of time and distance. This is because the sea is in constant motion, affected by the tides, wind, atmospheric pressure, local gravitational differences, temperature, salinity and so forth. The best one can do is to pick a spot and calculate the mean sea level at that point and use it as a datum.
Proctor and Gamble’s Tide Detergent was the first successful synthetic laundry powder. Prior to that, most detergents had been based in organic soaps and those had major negative reactions with some clothing, especially in hard water and water that wasn’t very clean to begin with. Tide was introduced in 1946.
William Procter, emigrating from England, and James Gamble, from Ireland, were travelling west and passing through Cincinnati, the “Queen City of the West”. They did not know each other, and they never intended to settle in Cincinnati. Their westward travels stopped there due to medical reasons, Procter to care for his wife ailing with cholera, and Gamble to seek medical attention for himself. Procter’s wife eventually died. Procter and Gamble might never have met had they not married sisters, Olivia and Elizabeth Norris, whose father convinced his new sons-in-law to become business partners. In 1837, as a result of Alexander Norris’ suggestion, Procter & Gamble was born.
Twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter were the founders of The Guinness Book of World Records when the Guinness brewery hired them to produce a book of odd facts that could be use in pubs to settle arguments. The book was originally supposed to be a marketing giveaway, but gained popularity quickly and soon was available for sale.
In 2005, actor Chuck Norris was the object of an ironic internet meme known as “Chuck Norris Facts”, which document fictional, often absurdly heroic feats and characteristics about Norris. Norris has claimed that his personal favorite is that they wanted to add his face to Mount Rushmore, but the granite is not hard enough for his beard.
An omitted scene from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier showed that several hundred years in the future a black woman’s face, presumably that of another great President of the United States, had been added to Mount Rushmore.
Eugene Wesley “Gene” Roddenberry, best known for creating Star Trek (do I really have to include that? anyway, I did), had a friend during WWII named Kim Noonien Singh. After the war Kim disappeared, and Gene used his name for some characters in hopes that Kim might recognize his name and contact him.
The names Roddenberry used were Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek the original series and from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”; and Noonien Soong from “Star Trek: The Next Generation”).
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, many of the actors playing Khan’s henchmen were Chippendale dancers at the time of filming.
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a photon torpedo was used during a memorial service to launch the body of a fallen Starfleet officer. In the sci-fi series, photon torpedoes are secondary missile weapons used by the starships of the United Federation of Planets. They do damage via the release of gamma rays from a matter-antimatter reaction.
Early makeup tests of a green-skinned Orion slave girl for the Star Trek pilot “The Menagerie” kept coming back from the studio film processing lab with normal flesh tone. “Paint her greener” became the director’s refrain, until someone realized that the lab technicians, not knowing that she was supposed to be green, kept “correcting” the film.
(oh the poor girl)
That actress was Susan Oliver, who played “Vina” in that episode of Star Trek TOS, “The Cage”. She passed away at a young 58 years old, in 1990, of cancer.
(and I hope it wasn’t skin cancer)
Famous celebrities who were born under the Cancer zodiac sign include Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Anjelica Huston, Kevin Bacon, Tom Cruise, Pamela Anderson, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Robin Williams, Giorgio Armani, Princess Diana, George W. Bush and the Dalai Lama.