http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie
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Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the discovery of America, "as American as apple pie" is a common saying in the United States, meaning "typically American".[4] The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for mom and apple pie" - supposedly the stock answer of soldiers in WWII, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war[citation needed].
Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the TV jingle "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet".
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070602-N-9909C-001 SAN DIEGO (June 2, 2007) - Retired Chief Signalman William Schwarz shows USS Russell (DDG 59) commanding officer, Cmdr. Brad Cooper a photo from his days on active duty. Schwarz, Battle of Midway Veteran, served aboard USS Russell (DD 414). The meeting between the two USS Russell Sailors took place before the start of the Battle of Midway 65th anniversary commemoration ceremony on, aboard the ex-USS Midway (CV 41). U.S. Navy photo by CDR Jane Cammpbell (RELEASED)
I found it curious a while back that Oxford University became part of the Russell Group in 1994 and then USS Russell DDG-59 was commissioned the next year. I imagine this was part of our planning and I further assume that I graduated from Lincoln College of University of Oxford after I graduated Princeton University. I might have graduated from Oxford with a law degree but I don't actually remember any of that and I am not sure if Lincoln College even has a law course. I might be actually recovering real memories or these are just random thoughts and speculations. I remember Ken Fagan Cavallon saying something me one day at Microsoft about getting a law degree so maybe that was an echo. He also said something to me about going to the Moon. I know why they were doing that. It was all part of their effort to strip away my cover identity and to thwart my team of federal investigators.
The precise mid-point of 3/3/1959 and the commissioning of the USS Russell DDG-59 is 4/10/1977. I recognize the date 4/14/1977 as when I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system. From what I have read so far, those Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are always commissioned on Saturdays, which creates a constraint on the symbolism, because to create a precise mid-point date, the commissioning date would not have been on a Saturday. I believe this ship's commissioning date was a scheduled, with my permission, to point to 4/14/1977.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Russell_%28DDG_59%29
Commissioned: 20 May 1995
USS Russell (DDG-59) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the second ship of the USN to carry the name Russell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Group
Formation 1994
Type Association of UK universities
Location United Kingdom
The Russell Group is a collaboration of twenty British universities that receive two-thirds of UK universities' research grant and contract funding[1]. It was established in 1994 to represent their interests to the Government, Parliament and other similar bodies. It is sometimes referred to as the British equivalent of the Ivy League of the United States,[2] and contains most of the United Kingdom's leading universities with 18 of its 20 members in the top 20 in terms of research funding[citation needed]. Nineteen smaller research universities formed the 1994 Group in response.
In 2004/5, Russell Group Universities accounted for 65% (over £1.8billion) of UK Universities' research grant and contract income, 56% of all doctorates awarded in the United Kingdom, and over 30% of all students studying in the United Kingdom from outside the EU.[3] In the 2001 national Research Assessment Exercise, 78% of the staff in Grade 5* departments and 57% of the staff in Grade 5 departments were located in Russell Group Universities,[4] and in 2004/5 Russell Group Universities were allocated approximately 64% of the total quality-related research funding (QR) allocated by the Funding Councils.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford
The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. for post-nominals), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.[3]
The university traces its roots back to at least the end of the 12th century, although the exact date of foundation remains unclear. This dating would make its duration now equal to 900 years, comparable to Plato's Academy (ca. 400 BC - ca. 500 AD). After a dispute between students and townsfolk broke out in 1209, some of the academics at Oxford fled north-east to the town of Cambridge, where the University of Cambridge was founded. The two universities have since had a long history of competition with each other. (See Oxbridge rivalry.)
The University of Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities), the League of European Research Universities, and is also a core member of the Europaeum. Oxford is often ranked among the world's top-five universities. The Sunday Times has placed Oxford 2nd in its league table of British universities for 9 years running up to 2006.
I'm guessing I attended Lincoln College because of that apartment I lived at in my artificial and symbolic memory named Lincoln On The Green. I moved from that Memphis, Tennessee, apartment to Central, South Carolina, near the Clemson Tigers, and then Country Club Estates in Greer, South Carolina. There is a character named "Admiral Greer" with the CIA in Tom Clancy novels. The Central, South Carolina, apartment was Hunter's Glen at Issaqueena Trail. From what I can tell from searching on the internet, the house I remember owning at Country Club Estates is at a very different street address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_College%2C_Oxford
Lincoln College (in full: The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is situated in the centre of Oxford, lying on Turl Street next to Exeter and backing onto Brasenose.
