Edna Mode tells Bob Parr in The Incredibles that she is sick of the vapid, poofy-lipped supermodels in “Milan, dahling.”
Edna Mode, the costume lady, is based on Edith Head, who worked as a studio costume designer on hundreds of movies over more than fifty years.
Sir Francis Bond Head was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the Rebellion of 1837. His refusal to accept the popular Reformers into government likely contributed to the outbreak of the Rebellion by frustrated radicals.
The lieutenant governor of Ohio is typically named the head of an executive department by his or her running mate, the governor, as there is so little else for the LG to do.
The state flag of Ohio has five stripes because Ohio was one of the five states of the Northwest Territory. The other states are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It has 17 stars because Ohio was the 17th state admitted to the Union.
The flag of Canada is tierced in pale, but unlike most divisions by tierce, the three portions are not the same width. The centre pale is double the width of the two outside pales. This division had led to a new heraldic term: a Canadian pale.
The US Congress never passed a resolution admitting Ohio into the Union. This has led to a number of anti-federal government conspiracists to claim that such matters as the 16th Amendment, creating the IRS, are not legal, as they were approved by the Ohio legislature, which they claim is illegitimate.
Springfield, Ohio was named after Springfield, Massachusetts, which was the first Springfield in America.
Rolls-Royce operated a factory in Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1920’s to help meet demand for the Silver Ghost model. The location was chosen to take advantage of the depth of precision-machining talent in the area (still the case today), originally as a result of the technology-incubator function of the Springfield Armory, pioneer of interchangeable-parts manufacturing.
The Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company, headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts, was the worl’ds largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the 1910’s. It went bankrupt in 1953.
The Indian Constitution is the longest national constitution in the world, with 448 articles, 12 schedules, and 5 appendices.
At 28,177 feet, the elevation span (elevation difference between its highest and lowest points) of India is the fourth largest in the world, by country, after China, Nepal, and Pakistan. The Maldives has smallest elevation span, at just 8 feet.
India was the first republic to be a member of the Commonwealth.
A resolution, no; a bill signed into law by President Jefferson, yes. And the 16th Amendment didn’t create the IRS; it just allowed Congress to impose an income tax. The office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue existed long before.
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Ben Franklin, when asked by a Philadelphian what the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had given the American people, is said to have replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Long Island’s Republic Aviation, best known as the manufacturer of the P-47. F-84, and F-105 fighters and the A-10 attack plane, was founded by Russian immigrant Alexander Seversky, a friend of Igor Sikorsky, who had a parallel career. When he was forced out of Seversky Aircraft by an unhappy board, a new name was chosen that had the same number of letters, just to minimize the cost of changing the signs at Farmingdale Airport.
Leo McGarry, the White House chief of staff and eventual Democratic Vice Presidential candidate played by John Spencer on The West Wing, is said to have flown F-105 Thunderchiefs during the Vietnam War.
Nearly half of the entire production run of the F-105 was shot down in Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing campaign in North Vietnam. Wiki: "The four objectives of the operation (which evolved over time) were to boost the sagging morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam, to persuade North Vietnam to cease its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without actually taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam, to destroy North Vietnam’s transportation system, industrial base, and air defenses, and to cease the flow of men and materiel into South Vietnam. "
Rolling Thunder is a motorcycle group recognizing prisoners of war (POWs) and missing in action (MIA) service members of all U.S. wars. Their main annual event occurs on the Sunday before Memorial Day, in which its members make a slow ride on a dedicated, closed off, pre-set route, called Run for the Wall in Washington D.C., referring to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, also called the Ride for Freedom, which leaves the Pentagon parking lot at noon, crosses the Memorial Bridge, and ends at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Rolling Thunder was started by former USMC Corporal Ray Manzo when he learned that American servicemen had been abandoned in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, which ran counter to Marine Corps training that we leave no man behind. Rolling Thunder’s first RFTW, Run For The Wall, was in 1988.
Ron Kovic, who was paralyzed while fighting in Vietnam, wrote “Born on the Fourth of July” about his change to peace activist and joining Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Tom Paxton, who had written several songs about Vietnam (mostly notably Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues) said he never thought he’d write another one, but after reading Kovic’s book he penned “Born of the Fourth of July.”
Now I wheel myself down to the crossroads of town,
To see the young girls and their lovers.
And my mind is afire, it’s alive with desire,
Christ, I’d barely begun, now it’s over.
In my wheelchair for life, my mechanical wife,
I’m supposed to be cheerful and stoic.
I’m your old tried-and-true, Yankee Doodle to you,
Clean-cut, paralyzed and heroic.
I was born on the fourth of July
No one more loyal than I
When my country said so, I was ready to go,
And I wish I’d been left there to die.