July 14, 2025

Meanwhile. . .

Hear the Beatles first concert in the US  

Independent, UK Speaking to DAZN reporter Emily Austin on Sunday (13 July) following his appearance on the pitch after Chelsea’s Club World Cup win at the MetLife stadium, the US president discussed the difference between the British and American terms for the popular game.

“They call it football, we call it soccer. I’m not sure if that change can be made very easily,” he said. After Ms Austin asked Mr Trump if he could issue an executive order so only the word football is used, the US president chuckled as he replied: “I think we could do that.”

Kristina Janciova, Quora During his senior year at L.C. Humes High School in 1953, Elvis [Presley's] history teacher was Mildred Scrivener. She was also his homeroom teacher. One day, Elvis was caught eating an apple in her class. This was against the school rules, which said no eating outside the cafeteria. But Mrs. Scrivener didn’t scold Elvis for eating in class, nor did she stop him from finishing the apple. She knew that Elvis came from a very poor family and probably didn’t have enough money to buy lunch. She couldn’t bring herself to stop him, even though he was breaking the rules.  The next day, Mrs. Scrivener found a bright red apple on her desk. She immediately understood that it was Elvis’ way of saying thank you.

NY Times - Paul Bugas, who directed operations at a secret doomsday bunker, hidden beneath an opulent resort in West Virginia and intended to shelter members of Congress in the event of a Cold War-era nuclear attack, died on July 1 in Richmond, Va. He was 96...The shelter, roughly the size of an average Walmart store, was constructed between the late 1950s and 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis, the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

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