The Public Papers of the Presidents contain most of the President's public messages, statements, speeches, and news conference remarks.  Documents such as Proclamations, Executive Orders, and similar documents that are published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, as required by law, are usually not included for the presidencies of Herbert Hoover through Gerald Ford (1929-1977), but are included beginning with the administration of Jimmy Carter (1977).  Search by year(s) and specify keyword(s) at:  http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/  Note:  The president is referred to as POTUS.   

The First Ladies  http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies  Note:  The first lady is referred to as FLOTUS. 

Q:  What makes up the United States of America?
A: The U.S. Board on Geographic Names says it is:
• One district: Columbia.
• Two commonwealths: Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas Islands.
• Three territories: American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam.
• Nine uninhabited islands: Wake, Midway, Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Johnston, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef, in the Pacific Ocean; Navassa in the Caribbean Sea.
• And 50 states.   http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2012/Sep/JU/ar_JU_091012.asp?d=091012,2012,Sep,10&c=c_13

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves only ethnic foods from nations with which the United States is in conflict (i.e. members of the "axis of evil" or rogue states).   The restaurant only serves food from one nation at a time, changing every six months; the changeover is celebrated with a small festival and music from the new nation.  Since the opening in 2010, the cuisine of Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Cuba have been featured.  On a good day, the restaurant serves between 30 to 50 customers.  Conflict Kitchen is a project by Carnegie Mellon University art professor Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski.  The kitchen is supported by profits from the sale of food, Waffle Shop: A Reality Show, the Benter Foundation, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the Studio for Creative Inquiry.  The early stage was supported with a $7,000 seed grant from the Pittsburgh-based Sprout Fund.   Each re-design is assisted by members of the local ethnic community in Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_Kitchen

Verbs named for people, a follow-up with more information than first mention

Eastwooding (2012)--gesturing to an empty chair
Tebowing (2011)--praying during a football game
Borking   Probably the first use of "Bork" as defeating a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy was by the National Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973 to describe the firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox by Solicitor General Robert Bork.  The meaning, with Bork as the Borker, was subsequently undermined by conservatives using the term as described in the following paragraphs, depicting Bork as an object of Borking.  William Safire of The New York Times attributes "possibly" the first use of 'Bork' as a verb to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 20th, 1987.  Safire defines "to bork" by reference "to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan's nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork, the year before."  This definition stems from the history of the fight over Bork's nomination.  Bork was widely lauded for his competence, but reviled for his political philosophy.  In March 2002, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary under "Bork"; its definition extends beyond judicial nominees, stating that people who Bork others "usually [do so] with the aim of preventing [a person's] appointment to public office."  Perhaps the best known use of the verb to bork occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City.  Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.  She said, "We're going to bork him.  We're going to kill him politically. . . . Thomas was subsequently confirmed after one of the most divisive confirmation fights in Supreme Court history.  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bork

Nestoring  John Oliver Nestor achieved fame in the Washington, D.C. area in 1984 after The Washington Post published his letter describing his favored driving method:  On highways Nestor would settle his vehicle in the far left lane and set the cruise control at the speed limit, at the time 55 mph.  He would not move to the right for drivers behind him.  "Why," he asked, "should I inconvenience myself for someone who wants to speed?"  Nestor's letter enraged many motorists and led Paul J. Leonard to coin the term 'Nestoring' to describe the practice in another letter to the editor.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nestor 

·         China was named by Europeans after the ancient Ch'in Dynasty of the 3rd century B.C.  This dynasty in turn was named after Emperor Qin (Chin) Shihuang, the man credited with unifying China.

·         Chung-kho, the Chinese name for China, means "Middle Kingdom.”  It is derived from the traditional Chinese belief that China lay in the middle of a flat earth, with deserts and oceans around the edges.  The Chinese people call themselves Hans in honor of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), which itself was adopted from the name of a river.

      ·         China is sometimes called Cathay.  The word Cathay comes form the Karakitay dynasty, an   11th century Buddhist empire in western China.  In the Silk Road era this was the first part of China that Europeans reached when the approached China from the west.
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=31

Exploring the Great Wall of China in the Panjiakou reservoir requires perseverance, good eyesight and a diving mask.  After a deadly earthquake in 1976, China built the reservoir by flooding battered villages and a half-mile section of the Great Wall.  These days, speed boats and rickety cruise ships ply the reservoir, which has become a haunt for Chinese who want to learn to dive and for foreign divers looking for a fresh adventure.  "It's a chance to dive one of the wonders of the world," said Steven Schwankert, a Beijing scuba instructor, who leads expeditions to Panjiakou, 150 miles northeast of Beijing.  "You can't dive under the Pyramids."  Great Wall explorer William Lindesay has walked the length of the structure, discovered that heaps of desert mud and straw were once part of the wall, and led numerous expeditions to remote wall locations.  Bob Davis  Read more and  link to video at:   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577623770630433752.html