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3 unusual facts about Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip


Dayton Duncan

His next film with Burns was Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, about the first transcontinental automobile trip, which he wrote and produced.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a 2003 documentary film directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan.

The documentary focuses primarily on Horatio Nelson Jackson and his Winton car, The Vermont; along with his companions Sewall K. Crocker, his pet pit bull Bud and frequent correspondence with Jackson's wife Bertha Richardson Wells (called "Swipes" by Jackson).


2 Horatio Street

In April 1929 the developer brothers Bing & Bing announced that they had acquired all the necessary land on Horatio, West Twelfth and Christopher Streets to build five high-end residential buildings in a concerted effort to "recreate" the Greenwich Village neighborhood.

2011 Svalbard polar bear attack

Seventeen-year-old Horatio Chapple, a pupil of Eton College, was with a party of twelve when the attack happened.

Action of 19 December 1796

The Action of 19 December of 1796 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought off the coast of Murcia between a small squadron of two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and a small squadron of two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart, who was descendent of the British royal house of Stuart.

Alexander Scott

Alexander John Scott (1768–1840), British chaplain and friend of Horatio Nelson

Ameche's Drive-in

Ameche's Drive-in was a fast-food restaurant chain based in Baltimore, Maryland, founded by Heisman Trophy winner and Baltimore Colts running back Alan Ameche.

Bruce Palmer, Jr.

He wrote two books in his retirement, The 25 Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam and Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965.

Bytown Mechanics' Institute

Thomas McKay, George W. Baker, Horatio Blasdell, John Scott, William P Lett, John Bower Lewis and all resident clergymen.

Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton

She had already born him three illegitimate sons: Charles, Percy, and Horatio Armand Powlett.

Cullin-La-Ringo massacre

The six surviving members were Tom Wills (Horatio's son, noted as an outstanding cricketer and co-founder of Australian rules football), Moore, William Albrey, Edward Kenny and Patrick Mahony.

Don't Make Waves

Dave Draper, who plays Malibu's boyfriend Harry, was the 1965 IFBB Mr. America and the 1966 IFBB Mr. Universe.

Douglas Century

The New York Times Book Review saw the book as the embodiment of "hip-hop's Horatio Alger" myth: “Ice-T, in short, is someone hip-hop might have invented if he hadn’t invented himself," reviewer Baz Dreisinger wrote. "A goes-down-easy mélange of memoir, self-help, and amateur criminology. Ultimately, Ice showcases an eminently reasonable, positively likeable guy, the gangsta rapper even a parent could love.”

Dude, Where's My Country?

Many of the views expressed are shared by political writers like Noam Chomsky in his book Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance and a subsequent BBC documentary called The Power of Nightmares—all of which sharply criticise the neo-conservative movement in the U.S.

Fred Kwasi Apaloo

They were Tawia Adamafio, information minister, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, foreign minister and Hugh Horatio Cofie Crabbe, secretary of the ruling Convention People's Party.

G.I. Joe: America's Elite

Scripted by Larry Hama, it centered on the exploits of Storm Shadow, traveling the world as a freelance operative, after leaving the G.I. Joe team in G.I. Joe: America's Elite #15.

General Flagg

His only appearance in comics continuity was in the World War III event, from the G.I. Joe: America's Elite comic book series.

H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer

Produced over a four-year period, the film highlights locations such as Holmes' childhood home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and the courtroom in Philadelphia where the "trial of the century" was held.

H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer is a 2004 biographical documentary film directed by John Borowski.

Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle

Born at Whitehall Court, he was the oldest son of Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and his wife Olive Muriel Thompson, daughter of the Australian banker George Horatio Thompson.

History of Montana

The documentary Butte, America depicts its history as a copper producer and the issues of labor unionism, economic rise and decline, and environmental degradation that resulted from the activity.

Horatio Churchill

Horatio Churchill (1759-1817), of Lower Grosvenor Street, Middlesex, was an English politician.

Horatio Gordon Robley

Robley was born at Funchal, Madeira on 28 June 1840, the son of Captain John Horatio Robley and Augusta June Penfold.

Horatio Investments

Horatio Investments were included in an article in late 2012, named "22 business angels you need to know about", in which they were listed along such investors as Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn.

Immaculate Conception Academy

Today, ICA has four campuses in Dasmariñas: ICA North in Salitran, ICA West on Amuntay Road, ICA South on Governor's Drive and ICA Science in Poblacion.

Joe Abbenda

in 1959, AAU Mr. America and the amateur Mr. Universe competition in 1962, and the professional winner a year later, in the 1963 NABBA Mr. Universe.

Kristie Phillips

Phillips lives in Troutman, North Carolina with her husband recording artist Horatio Bannister and three children: Sebastian, Isabella and Eberlie.

Lyceum Pirates

Lyceum of the Philippines University - Cavite Campus (Governor's Drive, General Trias, Cavite)

Mel's Drive-In

Universal Studios built a replica of "Mel's Drive-In" on its lot, pursuant to the restaurant being used in American Graffiti -- this amusement attraction also served as a gift shop for years.

Moncure Robinson

In 1839, with Benjamin Latrobe, John Jervis, J Edgar Thomson, Claudius Crozet, Horatio Allen, Henry Campbell, and others he helped organize the American Society of Civil Engineers in Philadelphia; although this organization languished he helped form a new AS of CE in New York in 1852.

Mr. America

Harmon Mister America, 1970s American single-seat light sports aircraft

Mr. and Mrs. America

Mr. and Mrs. America contains a series of pre-taped messages from leading figures in American life, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presidents of the AFL, CIO, US Chamber of Commerce, and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr..

New Variety

Upright Citizens Brigade (Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Ali Farahnakian, Adam McKay, Rick Roman, and Horatio Sanz)

Paul Fussell

Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.

Roberto Treviño

Roberto Treviño is an American chef known for his appearances on Iron Chef: America and The Next Iron Chef.

Rosario-class sloop

Royalist served both her commissions on the North America and West Indies Station, being commanded between 1865 and 1866 by Maurice Horatio Nelson, son of Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson and great nephew to Horatio Nelson.

Route 666: America's Scariest Home Haunts

The series is hosted by Danielle Harris, star of Halloween 4, Halloween 5 and Rob Zombie's remake of the original Halloween.

Sons of All Pussys

Formed in 2002 by Ken, his former L'Arc-en-Ciel band mate Sakura, and German born model Ein (who appeared in L'Arc-en-Ciel's PVs for "Heaven's Drive" and "Love Flies").

Sun-Sentinel

(The latter investigation was featured in the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports in an episode entitled "Crisis Mismanagement.") It also produced a significant contribution to information graphics in the form of News Illustrated, a weekly full-page graphic that has received more than 30 international awards.

The War Within

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam, a 1994 book by Tom Wells on America's internal battle over the war in Vietnam

Uglješa Kojadinović

His acting gained in popularity by playing at the theater: Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons, William Shakespeare's Hamnet as Horatio.

Vicki Spencer

Other bands Spencer toured and recorded with were the Rottin Kids (who appeared on The Tonight Show), the Fabulous Fakes, and Horatio.

William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes

He was an award-winning sports writer and sports editor of the Delaware State News in Dover, Delaware, before embarking on a career in Federal government human resources.

Yakir Aharonov

1973–2006: Joint professorship at the Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of South Carolina, America


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