Back in 1998, I was 20 years old, just a few years younger than she was at the time. Superficially, I looked a little like her — the plus-sized body (though she was probably smaller than me), the round face, the modified “Friends” haircut. People literally would yell out “Hey, Monica!” to me on my way to class at NYU. She lived just a few blocks away from my dorm…
In 1780, Baron de Kalb, a major general in the American Revolutionary War, died from wounds he sustained while leading the Maryland Line in the Battle of Camden in South Carolina. A statue of him, shown above, now sits in front of the Maryland State House.
1848: The New York Herald reported the discovery of gold in California.
1929: The comedy program “Amos ’n’ Andy,” starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made its coast-to-coast radio debut on NBC.
1977: Comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles; he was 86.
1994: President Bill Clinton abruptly halted the nation’s three-decade-long open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
1311 – The war of the O’Briens of Thomond escalates as the Norman-Irish become involved on both sides: the de Burghs support Dermot O’Brien and Richard de Clare supports Donough O’Brien. There is a pitched battle at Bunratty on this date, with heavy losses on both sides; de Burgh and others are imprisoned. 1648 – Truce between the confederates and Inchiquin; its adherents are excommunicated by…
A Whole Summer’s Worth of Links Crammed into a Two-Weeks-Sized Bag
A Whole Summer’s Worth of Links Crammed into a Two-Weeks-Sized Bag
Some of my own stuff that’s gone up lately: Grad School Achebe #3: No Longer at Ease, my review of Lynell George’s A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler, “Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene” from American Literature 93.2, and my scorching hot take on Loki and Black Widow.(There’s a mini-scorching-hot-take on Loki and The Suicide Squad in this Twitter…
To celebrate the Queen turning 89 years old we have picked out a selection of images of HRH at Buckingham Palace that capture some landmark moments from years gone by.
The Queen is set to become the longest ever reigning monarch in British history. On September 9 2015, she will pass the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Buckingham Palace has calculated that Queen Victoria reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes, taking into account 63 years, 15 leap days, additional months and days and the precise timings of her accession and death. Queen Elizabeth II will enter the history books when she overtakes Victoria during September 9 2015. This takes into account 63 years plus 16 leap days, additional months and days and the timing of George VI’s death.
Christening Of Queen Elizabeth II. Royal family portrait on the occasion of the christening of Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, later Queen Elizabeth II, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29th May 1926. Left to right: Lady Elphinstone, Duke of Connaught, Queen Mary, King George V, Duchess of York and baby, Duke of York, Countess of Strathmore, Earl of Strathmore and Princess Mary the Viscountess Lascelles. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Silver Jubilee. The future Queen Elizabeth II waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, with her younger sister Margaret and her grandparents King George V and Queen Mary, on the occasion of their Silver Jubilee, 6th May 1935. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
George VI Coronation. King George VI (1895 - 1952) (right) and Queen Elizabeth with Queen Mary (centre), Princesses Elizabeth (left) and Margaret Rose (1930 - 2002) and members of the extended Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their Coronation ceremony.
Painting Princesses. 22nd June 1940: Princess Margaret Rose (1930 - 2002) and Princess Elizabeth (right) working on paintings in the school room of Buckingham Palace, London.
Royal Family. May 1942: King George VI with his family at Buckingham Palace. Left to right - Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002), Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and King George VI.
Princess Elizabeth of England (future queen Elizabeth II) young wearing girl scout uniform (she is a member of the Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides) in 1943
Royal Engagement. Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance, Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace, after their engagement was announced, 10th July 1947.
20th November 1947. Buckingham Palace, London. The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh showing the Princess looking radiant after the wedding at Westminster Abbey.
Wedding Mass. 20th November 1947: Crowds gathered around the Victoria Monument in front of Buckingham Palace, London, on Princess Elizabeth’s wedding day.
Spectators Use Periscopes. Two women using periscopes to see over the crowd outside Buckingham Palace on the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, London, 20th November 1947.
Royal Couple. 20th November 1947: Princess Elizabeth and The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh waving to a crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London shortly after their wedding at Westminster Abbey.
HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, 12th March 1953. The Queen is shown wearing the Diamond Diadem, the sash, badge and star of the Order of the Garter, and the Greville Chandelier earrings.
Coronation Balcony. Queen Elizabeth II on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after her Coronation ceremony with (left to right); Prince Charles, Princess Anne and The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Buckingham Palace, London , England, 15th June 1961, Prior to a banquet in honour of the President of the United States, HRH Queen Elizabeth II ( second right) with Prince Philip ( far left) together with American President John F, Kennedy ( far right) and his wife and First Lady Jacqueline.
Smiling Queen. 10th June 1966: Queen Elizabeth II smiling at a Colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards during a presentaion of colours ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London.
Silver Wedding. 20th November 1972: Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh with their children (left to right); Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Prince Andrew, Princess Anne celebrating their silver wedding anniversary at Buckingham Palace.
Queen And President. Queen Elizabeth II with US President Jimmy Carter in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, London, 10th May 1977. Carter and other NATO heads of state are attending a dinner at the palace during the 1977 London summit.
Silver Jubilee. 28th June 1977: Queen Elizabeth II with Princess Anne, Earl Mountbatten (1900 - 1979) and the Duke of Edinburgh on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during her Silver Jubilee.
Queen, Charles And Diana. The Queen On The Balcony Of Buckingham Palace With The Prince And Princess Of Wales On Their Wedding Day With Their Pageboys Lord Nicholas Windsor And Edward Van Cutsem, And One Of Their Bridesmaids Clementine Hambro.
Queen Pope Buckingham Palace. Historic Meeting Pope John Paul II, Head Of The Catholic Church, Visiting The Queen, Head Of The Church Of England, At Buckingham Palace.
Queen Rain Trooping Grimace. The Queen Suffers A Downpour Of Rain During The Final Salute At Buckingham Palace, After The Trooping Of The Colour Ceremony. She Rides Sidesaddle On Her Horse 'burmese’ Which Was A Gift To Her From The Canadian Mounted Police.
Queen Elizabeth II presents US President Ronald Reagan with an honoury Knighthood on June 14, 1989 at Buckingham Palace in London. Left to Right are Ronald Reagan, Queeen Elizabeth II, and the President’s wife Nancy Reagan.
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe visit to the UK. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is greeted by Queen Elizabeth ll and Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace, London during his State Visit to England in May of 1994.
The Prince of Wales raises his glass in response to a toast from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, during a reception in his honour on the eve of his 50th birthday at Buckingham Palace on November 13th, 1998 in London, England.
President Obama And The First Lady Meet The Queen. US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama pose for photographs with Queen Elizabeth II during an audience at Buckingham Palace on April 1, 2009 in London, England.
The Wedding of Prince William with Catherine Middleton. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, HRH Queen Elizabeth II (2nd from R) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ® greet crowd of admirers from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh look at the crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Royal Wedding of Their Royal Highnesses Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is pictured after recording her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth, in the State Dining Room at Buckingham Palace in central London, on December 10, 2014.
Although the McDonalds officially started on April 15th 1955, the McDonalds story started a long time before that in Hollywood, when brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald worked as handymen at motion-picture studios. In 1937 their father opened “The Airdrome”, a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) in Monrovia, California. Hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink orange juice was five cents. In 1940, Maurice and Richard (“Mac” and “Dick”) moved the entire building 40 miles east, to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed “McDonald’s Bar-B-Q”. Here they established a streamlined system with a small menu of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie.
In 1952 they grew to bigger premises and shortened the name to ‘McDonalds’.The staple of the menu was the 15 cents hamburger.
In 1954 Multimixer salesman Ray Kroc visited McDonalds in San Bernadino intending to sell the brothers more mulitmixers. 52 years old Kroc was fascinated by the operation. Talking to the McDonalds brothers he learnt that they were looking for a nationwide franchising agent. Kroc had an epiphany and decided there and then that his future lay in hamburgers.
Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15th with the attention grabbing golden arches, designed by architect Stanley Meston in 1953, making their debut. First day takings were $366.12.
1956 A McDonald’s drive-in fast food restaurant, which advertises 15-cent hamburgers.
In 1958 McDonalds sold its 100th Millionth hamburger. By now there were 34 restaurants. In 1959 Kroc opened 68 new restaurants, bringing the total to 102. The 100th restaurant to open was in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.
In 1961 McDonalds opened the 'Hamburger University’ in the basement of the Elk Grove Village restaurant in Illinois. Graduates received Bachelor of Hamburgerology degrees.
To read more visit http://www.businessinsider.com/tour-of-mcdonalds-hamburger-university-2012-4?op=1&IR=T McDonald’s really began to take off in the early 1960s. In 1961 Kroc bought out the McDonald brothers for $2.7 million, with the aim of making McDonald’s the number one fast-food chain in the country. In 1965, McDonald’s celebrated its 10th anniversary by going public. Common shares were offered at $22.50 per share. By the end of the first day’s trading, the price had risen to $30. A block of 100 shares purchased for $2,250 in 1965 was worth over $5.7 million as of year-end market close on December 31, 2010. In 1980, the McDonald’s Corporation became one of the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Throughout the 60s it continued to grow and expanded overseas into Canada and Puerto Rico. In 1968 the Big Mac was created and added to the menu nationwide.
Marines Collect Toys for Tots; From left are Stephen McKee, 4, his brother Terry, 5, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Richard McKee of Golden; Carl Reed, vice president of McDonald’s and Marine Capt. John J. Lowery. In background from left are Sgt. D. E. Weybright, S.Sgt. G. E. West, S.Sgt. F. M. Kennedy, and Sgt. R. D. Wilson. The 'Toys for Tots’ drive opened Wednesday. Youngsters in the Denver area were urged to bring usable toys to any one of the 20 McDonald’s restaurants that are serving as pickup stations. There will be no way to repair broken ones. Each contributing child will receive a certificate for free hamburger and French fries. Marines will take toys to the approximately 20,000 youngsters in 30 hospitals, orphanages and other institutions in north Colorado.
In 1968, McDonald’s opened its 1,000th restaurant and shortly after, in 1972, surpassed $1 billion in annual sales.
This picture taken in August 1970 shows the 'Speedee’ McDonald’s in Downey, California. It was the third restaurant built by the McDonald brothers Dick and Maurice and has been designated a national landmark. It celebrated its 50-year anniversary on August 18, 2003
By 1976, McDonald’s had served 20 billion hamburgers, and sales exceeded $3 billion.
Hugh Carter gets Big Mac cooking lesson from McDonald’s manager Paul Tuma. In 1974 the first Ronald McDonald house was opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1973 Fred Hill, a football player with the Philadelphia Eagles, had the need for such a facility when his child was being treated for leukemia in The Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia. Hill’s dilemma led to the first Ronald McDonald House.
After experiencing a dip in the early and mid nineties McDonalds made efforts to reinvigorate their menu and increase their healthy options. It wasn’t long before things started looking upwards again
US President Bill Clinton stops for a crispy chicken sandwich, fries and a large diet coke at McDonald’s after he and Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore joined together to address the people of Monroe, Michigan 15 August 2000. Clinton is returning to Washington after addressing the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, 14 August 2000, in a speech during which he praised Gore and bid farewell to the Democratic Party.
In 2005 McDonalds celebrated its 50th birthday. In 2011 it opened up restaurants in Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago.
Old McDonald’s restaurant in Downey USA. The oldest operating McDonald’s restaurant in the world is now the drive-up hamburger stand in Downey, California, USA. It was the third McDonald’s restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953.
Happy Birthday to the 42nd President of the United States: Bill Clinton (Born William Jefferson Blythe III) Git yo’ daily gangsta horoscope from Tha Horoscope Gangsta y'all! www.horoscopegangsta.com
“I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that [Newt Gingrich’s sex scandal involving his second wife]…to make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.” -Newt Gingrich at the CNN Republican primary debate in South Carolina, January 19, 2012. (Video.)
“The GOP’S multimillion dollar ad campaign invoking President Clinton’s relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky was devised by House Speaker Newt Gingrich…reviving the presidential sex scandal just one week before Election Day.”-The Washington Post, October 30, 1998.
Bill Clinton’s portrait artist just revealed that he hid a secret reference to Monica Lewinsky in this painting. Do you see it? (If not, here’s the reveal.)
Today we remember Janet Reno, seen here in on the far right of the first row with President Bill Clinton and the rest of his Cabinet and senior advisors.
Reno was the first women to serve as Attorney General of the United States. As the second longest-serving Attorney General in American history, she oversaw many landmark and controversial cases, including the Waco siege, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Elián González custody dispute, and the capture and conviction of the Unabomber.
President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary watch the Space Shuttle Discovery carrying Senator John Glenn lift off October 29, 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-95 crew were making final preparations for launch, targeted for liftoff at 2 p.m. on Oct. 29, 1998. John Glenn rocketed back into orbit on a mission of science and sentiment, returning as the world’s oldest astronaut to the high frontier he pioneered for America 36 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 3: US First Lady Hillary Clinton points to her Chicago Cubs baseball cap on the South Lawn of the White House with husband, US President Bill Clinton and their pet dog Buddy 03 October 1998 in Washinghton, DC. The Clintons are spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat.
WASHINGTON, : US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton arrive at the Foundry United Methodist Church for services 20 September in Washington, DC. President Clinton will address the UN 21 September, 1998
WASHINGTON, : US President Bill Clinton (L) and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wave to the audience after the final Millennium Evening Lecture Series in the East Room of the White House 18 September. The Clintons hosted jazz music in the last of a series which highlighted scientists, lecturers and other newsmakers.
Pres. Bill & Hillary Rodham Clinton exchanging smiles in moment of intimacy while hosting millennium lecture series at White House. September 18th, 1998
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