While waiting for our flights home in December 1985 at the end of our college semester in London, several friends and I paged each other at our various gates using the Heathrow Airport public address system, with real names but ever-more-fanciful titles including “Professor,” “Doctor,” “Congressman” and “Senator.” (We didn’t get in trouble, fortunately).
Heathrow Airport Holdings owns and operates London Heathrow Airport, Aberdeen Airport, Glasgow Airport and Southampton Airport. It also used to own airports in London Stansted, Edinburgh, Naples, London Gatwick and Glasgow Prestwick.
London, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Southampton, Edinburgh, and Cambridge are all potential cargo destinations in Euro Truck Simulator 2.
The title for oldest English settlement in New York state is claimed by both Southold and Southampton on Long Island, which were founded in 1640. (The Dutch settled New Amsterdam in 1609).
Southeast of London in England are the white cliffs of Dover, but more dramatic and beautiful white cliffs, especially those that can be seen from land instead of requiring the viewer to be on the water, are west of Dover and south-southeast of London, in East Sussex, and east of Brighton, in between Seaford and Eastbourne.
These cliffs are called the Seven Sisters (Wikipedia link).
Images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=seven+sisters+white+cliffs&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GYYmU4DzDMbK2AWDzIGgBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=648
IMHO, they are truly pretty.
Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base hosts the Department of Defense’s largest military mortuary, and is the traditional site for the return of the bodies of service personnel killed in combat to the US. For a time early in the Second Gulf War, the Bush administration forbade photographs of flag-draped coffins in the Dover AFB reception area.
The Seven Sisters white cliffs in Dover appear in a scene at the end of the World War II drama Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
The Seven Sisters white cliffs are often what is shown when a movie or TV show shows “the white cliffs of Dover”, even though Seaford is some 80 miles west of Dover and is much closer, some 13 miles, to Brighton.
Yeah, so it’s really “the white cliffs of Seaford” (or Eastbourne).
(Or Brighton)
Eric Johnson’s most popular single, “Cliffs of Dover”, won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental in 1992.
The “Dream Team”, the US Mens Olympics basketball team of 1992 in Barcelona, had a star-studded 12-man roster.
Managed by Chuck Daly were:
Larry Bird
Magic Johnson
Patrick Ewing
teammates John Stockton & Karl Malone
Charles Barkley
David Robinson
Chris Mullin
Scottie Pippen
Clyde Drexler
Christian Laettner was the only college player on the team.
The pièce de résistance on the team was, of course, Michael Jordan (Pippen’s teammate).
(USA flag displayed incorrectly in the team photo in this image)
While I was stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, I ran across a plane ticket lying on the ground made out for basketball coach Digger Phelps, who was currently in Germany running basketball clinics.
I turned it in to the base American Express office, which had issued the ticket.
As a NATO installation Ramstein is home to 22 NATO countries’ forces, with American, German, Canadian, British, French, Belgian, and Dutch forces making up the bulk of them.
The Royal 22nd Regiment of the Canadian Army are nicknamed the “Van Doos”, as an attempt by Anglos to pronounce the regimental number in French.
The Royal 22nd Regiment of the Canadian Army is an infantry regiment and the most famous francophone organization of the Canadian Forces. The regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary Reserve battalions, and a band, making it the largest regiment in the army. The ceremonial home of the regiment is La Citadelle in Quebec City, where the regimental museum is housed. The regiment is nicknamed the Van Doos, a corruption of vingt-deux, French for “twenty-two.” The regimental HQ is located in Quebec City, with all three of its regular battalions stationed at various bases in the province of Quebec. The regiment serves as the “local” infantry regiment for Quebec.
La Citadelle, located not far from the site of the old residence of the French governors of New France, is the official residence of the Governor General on Quebec.
La Citadelle is also the official residence of the Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II, when she is visiting Quebec.
Carnival Line’s first cruise ship, the Mardi Gras, was the former Canadian Pacific Lines’ transatlantic liner RMS Empress of Canada. After being sold in a fleet update, she became Olympic, Star of Texas, Lucky Star and finally Apollon.
The Lone Star Showdown is the fierce rivalry between Texas’ two largest universities, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin. The name applies to all men’s and women’s head-to-head competitions in any sport. The name was trademarked in 1996 but no longer applies because A&M moved to the SEC in the 2011-2012 academic year while UT remains in the Big 12.
The Big 12 Conference has 10 members (Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Christian, Texas Tech and West Virginia).
The Big 10 Conference has 12 members (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin). Two more schools, Maryland and Rutgers, will be joining the Conference later this year.
The Pac-12 conference was created after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, Pacific-10, and became the Pacific-12 in 2011.
There are 12 schools in the Pac-12 (someone please double-check my math here):
Arizona, Arizona State, Cal-Berkeley, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, and Washington State.
Yep, that’s 12. I guess they know how to count in the Pac-12!