What was Ronald Reagan’s first broadcasting job?
In Ronald Reagan’s first job after college, the future president (served 198189) broadcasted play-by-play accounts of major league baseball games from Station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.
The doomed whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) was named for the Pequot tribe of Connecticut, massacred by English colonists in 1637. Melville said the “celebrated tribe” was “now extinct as the ancient Medes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “There are no second acts in American lives”.
The latitude of the boundary between North and South Korea that the U.S. was defending in the Korean War (1950-53) was the 38th parallel.
The headquarters for the Democratic party organization Tammany Hall was once a social club named for a seventeenth-century Delaware Indian chief. After the Revolution, Aaron Burr transformed it into a political machine, using it to strengthen the 1800 presidential campaign of Thomas Jefferson. Its power grew throughout the nineteenth century and Tammany Hall became the…
The Chevrolet Corvair, made by General Motors, was exposed by Ralph Nader in Unsafe at Any Speed. Nader’s crusading book, published in 1965, led to passage of the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966.
A chinook was a dance to summon the warm wind to melt the snow. It also refers to the wind itself and to the Chinook people of the Columbia River valley. “Chinook jargon” is a pidgin language based on Indian languages, French, and English, formerly spoken in the Pacific Northwest.