Tonight, the Winnipeg Jets take on the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena. The Capitals are coming off of a 3-2 overtime win last night against the Ottawa Senators and are now 18-13-4 on the season and 8-2 in their last ten games. The Jets also played last night, a 3-2 loss against the Boston Bruins, and are 21-11-1 this season and 6-4 in their last ten games. Can the Jets get revenge for a loss to Ovie and the Caps earlier this month, or will the team have jetlag and come out flat tonight? Maybe Santa Claus will grant us an early Christmas present...
And now on to the latest installment of...
Earlier this month, @The Blue Baron posted his own fun facts about Washington, DC, so I thought I would add a few more to the mix...
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Originally, in 1791, George Washington chose 100 square miles of land in Maryland and Virginia to be the site of the nation’s capital. However 31 of those miles were returned to Virginia in 1847, which is why D.C. today is about one-third smaller. The district was named Columbia—which had been a nickname for America during the Revolutionary War, in honor of Christopher Columbus—and the new federal city added to the territory was called Washington, for, yes, George. Georgetown and Alexandria were also cities included in the district...
Turns out the first president never resided in the White House. Washington died before it was finished, though he did lay its cornerstone on October 13, 1792. John Adams was the first president to live there. Until 1901, when President Theodore Roosevelt made it official after it appeared in a newspaper article, the White House was called the President’s Palace or the President’s House. Here's a fun fact, Jimmy Carter loved movies, and nobody will beat his record of watching 480 films in the White House movie theater...
Cats and dogs haven’t been the only presidential pets to roam the White House grounds. Theodore Roosevelt allowed his six children to bring their pets to the White House in 1901. As well as many dogs they had a small bear, a lizard, guinea pigs, a pig, a badger, a blue macaw, a garter snake, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, a barn owl, a rabbit, a pony and Baron Spreckle the hen.
Calvin Coolidge also brought a zoo-worthy lot of animals. Not only did he have many dog breeds including terriers, a sheepdog, collies and chows, he also had cats, raccoons, a donkey, a bobcat, birds, a bear, an antelope, a wallaby, a pygmy hippo and some lion cubs.
Not all animals at the White House have been pets. During World War I Woodrow Wilson bought a flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn. Not only did it save the manpower needed for mowing the lawn, they sold the wool to raise money for the Red Cross. That wasn't a baaaad idea...
Before 1961, residents of Washington, D.C. couldn’t vote in presidential elections because of the Electoral College. The number of electoral votes each state gets depends on how many senators and members of the House of Representatives it has. As D.C. isn’t a state, it has no voting representatives in Congress, so for years D.C. residents couldn’t take part in elections. It was the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1961) that gave D.C. the electoral votes that it would have if it were a state, limited to the number of electors the least-populated state has. Currently that state is Wyoming, with three electors. So D.C. gets a max of three electoral votes...
Unfortunately, there is a typo on the Lincoln Memorial, in the inscription of Lincoln’s second inaugural address etched into the wall. Instead of the word “FUTURE,” the engraver carved “EUTURE” by mistake. If you know where to look, you can see the E that had its bottom line filled in to make it an F...
There’s a bathtub in the basement of the U.S. Capitol! Four marble tubs were installed in 1859 when most senators lived in boarding houses on Capitol Hill that had no running water so they washed at work. One of these baths can still be seen today...
Let's “wash” the stink off after the last game against the Capitals and beat them “cleanly”... Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: Fun Facts About Washington DC, 21 Facts You Never Knew About Washington, D.C., Washington, DC Fun Facts for Kids | Washington DC and 105 Fascinating & Fun Facts about Washington, D.C. - Fun World Facts
And now on to the latest installment of...
Earlier this month, @The Blue Baron posted his own fun facts about Washington, DC, so I thought I would add a few more to the mix...
Originally, in 1791, George Washington chose 100 square miles of land in Maryland and Virginia to be the site of the nation’s capital. However 31 of those miles were returned to Virginia in 1847, which is why D.C. today is about one-third smaller. The district was named Columbia—which had been a nickname for America during the Revolutionary War, in honor of Christopher Columbus—and the new federal city added to the territory was called Washington, for, yes, George. Georgetown and Alexandria were also cities included in the district...
Turns out the first president never resided in the White House. Washington died before it was finished, though he did lay its cornerstone on October 13, 1792. John Adams was the first president to live there. Until 1901, when President Theodore Roosevelt made it official after it appeared in a newspaper article, the White House was called the President’s Palace or the President’s House. Here's a fun fact, Jimmy Carter loved movies, and nobody will beat his record of watching 480 films in the White House movie theater...
Cats and dogs haven’t been the only presidential pets to roam the White House grounds. Theodore Roosevelt allowed his six children to bring their pets to the White House in 1901. As well as many dogs they had a small bear, a lizard, guinea pigs, a pig, a badger, a blue macaw, a garter snake, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, a barn owl, a rabbit, a pony and Baron Spreckle the hen.
Calvin Coolidge also brought a zoo-worthy lot of animals. Not only did he have many dog breeds including terriers, a sheepdog, collies and chows, he also had cats, raccoons, a donkey, a bobcat, birds, a bear, an antelope, a wallaby, a pygmy hippo and some lion cubs.
Not all animals at the White House have been pets. During World War I Woodrow Wilson bought a flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn. Not only did it save the manpower needed for mowing the lawn, they sold the wool to raise money for the Red Cross. That wasn't a baaaad idea...
Before 1961, residents of Washington, D.C. couldn’t vote in presidential elections because of the Electoral College. The number of electoral votes each state gets depends on how many senators and members of the House of Representatives it has. As D.C. isn’t a state, it has no voting representatives in Congress, so for years D.C. residents couldn’t take part in elections. It was the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1961) that gave D.C. the electoral votes that it would have if it were a state, limited to the number of electors the least-populated state has. Currently that state is Wyoming, with three electors. So D.C. gets a max of three electoral votes...
Unfortunately, there is a typo on the Lincoln Memorial, in the inscription of Lincoln’s second inaugural address etched into the wall. Instead of the word “FUTURE,” the engraver carved “EUTURE” by mistake. If you know where to look, you can see the E that had its bottom line filled in to make it an F...
There’s a bathtub in the basement of the U.S. Capitol! Four marble tubs were installed in 1859 when most senators lived in boarding houses on Capitol Hill that had no running water so they washed at work. One of these baths can still be seen today...
Let's “wash” the stink off after the last game against the Capitals and beat them “cleanly”... Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: Fun Facts About Washington DC, 21 Facts You Never Knew About Washington, D.C., Washington, DC Fun Facts for Kids | Washington DC and 105 Fascinating & Fun Facts about Washington, D.C. - Fun World Facts
Not expecting a win tonight but just play hard for 60 minutes tonight Jets and hopefully tonight's reffing doesn't make me look like this tonight like last night.
