Route 66, the “Mother Road” connecting Chicago to Santa Monica (near “Smell-A” :D), passes through 8 states: in order from east to west it is IL MO KS OK TX NM AZ CA. In Kansas it’s only 12½ miles long, the shortest stretch in any state, and it is longest in New Mexico where it is 487 miles long.
ETA: map image link
Taos Pueblo, in Taos, New Mexico, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump is one of the coolest names for a World Heritage Site.
The Hopewell earthworks at Fort Ancient, Lebanon, Ohio, are now pending on a UNESCO list for designation as a World Heritage Site. UNESCO approval is, according to the Ohio Historical Society, expected later this year.
Lebanon bologna is named for the Lebanon Valley of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, where it is most commonly produced.
The state of Wyoming is named for the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.
The Wyoming Valley is also known as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, after its principal cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. The Susquehanna River occupies the southern part of the valley. The name Wyoming derives from the Munsee language name xwé:wamənk, meaning “at the big river flat.” The Munsee language is also known as Munsee Delaware, Delaware, or Ontario Delaware, and is an endangered language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian Native American language family.
nm - was the right post, but in the wrong thread
ETA: here’s where I wanted to put my post:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17155281#post17155281
Still in play:
The Justice Center, which houses both the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and the Cleveland Municipal Court, is at the corner of Lakeside and Ontario in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
Well, I’ve got a hammer
and I’ve got a bell
and I’ve got a song to sing
all over this land
It’s the hammer of justice
It’s the bell of freedom
It’s a song about love between my
brothers and my sisters
all over this land
It’s the hammer of justice
It’s the bell of freedom
It’s a song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
Brother-sister marriage was common amongst the Egyptian pharaohs.
The Egyptian pharaoh in the story of Exodus, though believed by some scholars to be Ramesses II, is never explicitly named.
The first mention of any pharaoh in the bible is in the book of Genesis, and he is unnamed. Genesis 12:10-20 narrates how Abraham moves to Egypt to escape a period of famine in Canaan. The unnamed pharaoh hears of the beauty of Abraham’s wife Sarah and - being told she was Abraham’s sister - summons her to become his own wife, for which Abraham is paid with cattle and slaves. After discovering Sarah’s true relationship to Abraham the pharaoh releases her and her husband and orders them to leave Egypt. Abraham does not return the payment he had received.
The Gospel of Matthew records that Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus took refuge in Egypt after the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod. The flight into Egypt is seen as a parallel of the early Hebrews’ period of living in Egypt under Joseph, son of Jacob.
Matthew Crawley, a British solicitor, World War I veteran and heir to Downton Abbey, was killed in a car accident on the very day of the birth of his son.
Canada had two prime ministers who were WWI veterans: John Diefenbaker (1957-1963) and Lester “Mike” Pearson (1963-1968). Diefenbaker served with the Western Universities Battalion of the CEF, while Pearson began as a medical orderly and ended as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, the predecessor to the RAF.
The infantry battalion is a mid-level size of military unit, consisting of from 300-1,300 personnel. Immediately below the battalion is, in order, the company (80-225 personnel), platoon (25-55), section/patrol (8-13) squad (8-13), and fire team.
Above the battalion is the regiment (1,500-3,000), then brigade (3,000-5,000), division (10,000-30,000), corps (40,000-80-000), and the army (100,000-200,000). The US Marine Corps currently consists of four divisions.
The South Saskatchewan Regiment took part in the Dieppe Raid in 1942. One of its more unusual assignments during the Raid was to provide a bodyguard of a dozen men to a mysterious English boffin, with instructions to kill him rather than let him fall into German hands.
And who was that boffin?
The 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment, raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area and heavily Irish, is honored by monuments on the battlefields of both Antietam (fought on Sept. 17, 1862) and Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863).
“The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll” is an unranked listing from Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of 660 songs (initially 500) that they believe have been most influential in shaping the course of rock and roll. It was organized by Hall of Fame museum curator James Henke who, according to the hall, “compiled the list with input from the museum’s curatorial staff and numerous rock critics and music experts.” The list is part of a permanent exhibit at the museum, and was envisioned as part of the museum from its opening in 1995. The list is found here.