The first commandant of the US Marine Corps was Major Samuel Nicholas. He held the position from 1775 to 1783.
The CMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) when I enlisted was Robert H. Barrow, and the CMC when I retired was CE Mundy.
Frodo, Sam, Peregrine and Merry were captured by a barrow-wight but saved by Tom Bombadil.
Tom Bombadil does not appear in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy; however, the extended edition of The Two Towers does contain a scene where Merry & Pippin are captured by Old Man Willow. Whereas it’s Treebeard (not Tom) who saves them, Treebeard does admonish the ancient, evil tree using Tom’s dialogue taken directly from the book.
The landmark Twin Towers, the World Trade Center in New York City, opened on 04 Apr 1973.
In Twelfth Night, Viola and Sebastian are twin brother and sister.
The viola is the middle voice of the violin family and is tuned a perfect fifth below the violin, and an octave above the cello.
The mandocello has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in fifths like a mandolin, but is larger, and can be described to be to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.
The balalaika is a Russian folk stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular body and typically strung with three strings. The body of the balalaika has tops of either spruce, evergreen, or fir; and backs made of three to nine wooden sections (usually maple).
Howard Hughes’s famed gargantuan wooden airplane, “The Spruce Goose,” was actually made of birch.
Reece “Goose” Tatum, once a Negro Leagues baseball teammate of Satchel Paige, went on to be the first “Clown Prince of Basketball” as one of the original members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Some sources credit him with inventing the hook shot.
She (the airplane), should have been named the Birch Bitch, then. 
Despite being popular on FM radio, the Rolling Stones’ “Bitch” was never released as a single.
Meredith Brooks’ song Bitch, from 1997, however, was released as a single and made it up to #2 on the U.S. Billboard charts.
The urban dictionary’s definition for that B word includes this: Person who rides specifically in the middle of a front-seating only car meant for 2 passengers or less.
The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1910, and its current president is Marc Morial.
Marc Morial was mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002. Two accomplishments of Morial’s administration dealt with professional sports: NBA basketball returned to the city after Morial orchestrated negotiations for the league’s Charlotte Hornets to relocate there. Secondly, following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Morial persuaded the organizers of a large automotive exposition to change its date so that Super Bowl XXXVI (held at the Louisiana Superdome) could be played one week later than originally scheduled, enabling the NFL to keep its post-season tournament fully intact.
The NBA was originally known as the Basketball Association of America. The first championship team was the Philadelphia Warriors, who defeated the Chicago Stags in 1947.
Jerry West, who played in the NBA from 1960-1974, has several nicknames including “Mr. Clutch”, for his ability to make a big play in a clutch situation, such as his famous buzzer-beating 60-foot shot that tied Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals against the New York Knicks; “The Logo”, in reference to his silhouette being incorporated into the NBA logo; and “Zeke from Cabin Creek”, after the creek near his birthplace of Chelyan, West Virginia.
Bob “Gilligan” Denver spent the last two decades of his life on a mountaintop near the tiny town of Princeton, West Virginia, with his wife Dreama and their autistic son, Colin. His wife remains there where she administers are a charity she founded for autistic children.