Correct about both.
5 time champ is correct about the Ohio flag. It is a pennant, or more technically, a burgee, based on cavalry flags of the Civil War and Spanish-American War.
Since I wasn’t answering the question, or formulating a new one, I checked Wikipedia, which says that the presidential candidate’s birth name is actually Johnny, not John or Jonathan.
Ookay…
But he did run in 2000 under the name Jonathan, didn’t he? Or am I stuck in another alternate universe? Again.
(And if I am stuck transiting between alternate universes, why can’t I ever fall into one of the neat ones with continuing dirigible service, huh?)
I don’t ever remember Edwards going by anything other than John. But that’s just me.
According to my Transatlantic Dirigible Service timetable, the Montgolfier will be leaving Rochester for Paris at 4:02pm today. Looks like there are still a few seats available. Watch out, though - it’s pricey!
I thought he went by Jonathan. I always assumed it was a decision chosen to distance his name from that of the TV “psychic” John Edwards. I remember talking to a similarly history-minded friend who also grew up in Massachusetts, and we both admitted to having some uncomfortable associations with his name, which had nothing to do with the candidate himself. (Yes, I’m so far removed from popular culture that an association with a 200 year-dead religious leader means more to me than an association with a then-popular TV psychic.)
Now, I’m going to have to go see if the candidate’s campaign might actually answer the question…
I didn’t read all 18 pages, so hopefully this hasn’t been asked/answered.
Who was King Philip, and why did we have a war with him?
Where did Meriwether Lewis die, and how many heirs did he leave?
There is a considerable track record of a separation of church and state in NE history, starting not so much with Jonathan Edwards but with Roger Williams (and so basically with the first settlement of Boston). The Great Awakening is very interesting in its differences to the then-conventional Puritan spirtuality – while certainly a bit fanatic by most of today’s standards, it’s positively benign compared with some of the original Puritan thinkers’ ideas.
As for the John / Jonathan, Edwards/Edwards problem, I was mainly wondering…if it turns out the Senator is Jonathan as well, that’s dandy.
That’s undoubtedly true, though I wouldn’t put it past the Navy to claim that as a reason in order to avoid Rickover, regardless of the factual truth of it. I know that Moreell was not a line officer – I’m positive, as far as I memory of it is concerned. I haven’t looked it up and could only do Wikipedia at the moment, being away from my books.
That was just fine, it’s indeed the Great Awakening. 
These should be 590 and 591, no?
Yeah, I realized that the second part of the question was open to interpretation, but was too lazy to go back and delete it. I would venture a guess that 99% of Americans have never heard of King Philip’s War; the alliances formed during the conflict had a huge impact on the settlement of new lands, and had the various tribes decided to band together, they would probably have wiped out the fledgling colonies, and I would not be posting here today.
I couldn’t remember Metacom’s name, but having grown up in one of the towns that exist today where original settlements were wiped out (interestingly enough, the same settlement where the Kettles of “Ma and Pa Kettle” fame lived during that time) I couldn’t escape some knowledge of the conflict.
For that matter, there was a curve on one of the main roads in town known colloquially as either “Dead Man’s Curve*” or “Treaty Elm Corner,” where an elm tree had been planted at the time of the treaty ending King Philip’s War. The apellation “Treaty Elm Corner” was dying out, though - the tree had died in the 60s AIUI, with the first onslaught of Dutch Elm Disease in New England.
*Yes, I know. Every town in America now has it’s own “Dead Man’s Curve.” But, blast it, I got tired of trying to explain what I meant when I talked about “Treaty Elm Corner.” 
Answers to these questions:
John Purroy Mitchel, elected at 34.
Malcolm Nichols, elected in 1925.
Jane Byrne, who was a North Sider.
“Sunny Jim” Rolph.
Theodore McKeldin, elected Mayor for the second time in 1963 after serving as Governor of Maryland from 1951 to 1959.
Erastus Corning II, first elected Mayor in 1941, served until his death in 1983.
Not American history, but that makes me think of Nepal’s flag, which is two pennants. The only national flag not a rectangle, I believe.
Well, Nepal’s flag is a single piece of cloth, but it kinda looks like two pennants, one atop the other, that’s true. And I think that both Switzerland’s and Vatican City’s flags are squares, not rectangles.
Otaku, did you ever catch your flight to Paris?
Codewords, ciphers and espionage.
Midway.
594. The June 6, 1944 Normandy landings were codenamed Operation _______.
Overlord.
Angleton.
More codewords, cyphers & espionage
597. The broken Japanese Naval Codes mentioned in 593 were known by what color?
During the Revolutionary War plot to poison George Washington, what food [one of his favorites] was supposed to be poisoned?
What was the target of Operation Torch in World War II?
Where did Whitaker Chambers hide some of the evidence to be used against Alger Hiss?
It was not a secret code name but, what was the development code name of Microsoft’s wildly popular Vista OS?
A pumpkin.
Yes, a single cloth but looks like two pennants. Switzerland’s is square? I should have known that, as I’ve spent a little time in Switzerland, but for some reason that did not strike me. Anyway, Nepal’s flag is definitely unique-looking.
I stand corrected, That factoid of Japanese Navy Purple Code goes back to a World War II book that I would have read in the 1960s.
Correct
In a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch in Gaithersburg MD IIRC.
Fire away Enterprise if you have any questions.
All correct. James Jesus Angleton, to be precise; finally canned on President Ford’s orders for his paranoia, IIRC.
Enterprise, correct on 592.
Tomatoes was not the answer I was looking for.