Impeachment is the process of bringing charges against a government official for wrongdoing.  A trial may be held, and the official may be removed from office.  The Constitution gives Congress the power to impeach federal officials.  An official can be impeached for treason, bribery, and “other high crimes and misdemeanors.”  The House has initiated impeachment proceedings more than 60 times.  But there have been only 21 impeachments.  This includes three presidents, one cabinet secretary, and one senator.  Of those who were impeached, only eight officials were found guilty by the Senate and removed from office.  All eight were federal judges.  https://www.usa.gov/impeachment   

Frankford is a section of Philadelphia.  The Yellow Jackets started playing in the National Football League in 1924.  The Frankford Yellow Jackets won the 1926 NFL championship.  Hard economic times were on the horizon, however.  The Great Depression hit.  Two fires damaged their stadium.  The team suspended operations in 1931.  Bert Bell purchased the Yellow Jackets out of bankruptcy and founded the Philadelphia Eagles in 1933.  Bert Bell founded the Philadelphia Eagles with money from his wife, Frances Upton.  She recognized the potential of pro football, and lent Bell the money to buy the Yellow Jackets out of bankruptcy.  Bert Bell’s wealthy father saw pro football as risky business, however, and refused to loan Bell money for a team.  Bert Bell’s son, Upton, spoke about the rugged business of early pro football in an episode of The Game Before the Money Podcast.  “Twenty-five teams or more went out of business between the founding and the league in Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe in that automobile room and the time my father got in 8 or 10 years later.”  Bell decided to name the team for the entire city of Philadelphia.  He literally looked towards the sky and saw the nickname Eagles.  Upton Bell told the story on the football history podcast:  “He was walking down the street and looked up at a billboard that had the National Recovery Act eagle up there . . . [He] decided on the spot:  ‘That’s the name of my team.'”  In short, Bert Bell named the Philadelphia Eagles after the symbol for the National Recovery Administration and the National Industrial Recovery Act, part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.  More information about the Act, as well as a picture of the symbol, can be found at the Library of Congress website.  https://www.thegamebeforethemoney.com/how-the-philadelphia-eagles-were-named/    

Andalusia is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.  Andalusia is located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe.  It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country.  It is officially recognised as a historical nationality and a national reality.  The territory is divided into eight provincesAlmería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga, and Seville.  Its capital city is Seville.  The seat of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia is located in the city of Granada.  Andalusia is immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar.  Gibraltar shares a 1.2 kilometres (³⁄₄ mi) land border with the Andalusian portion of the province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.  The name "Andalusia" is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus which in turn may be derived from the Vandals, the Goths or pre-Roman Iberian tribes.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusia    

Life is too short ever to be serious.  The Archbishop in Andalusia, a Blackie Ryan novel by Andrew M. Greeley   

Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.  He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation.  He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.  He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French.  From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.  Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation.  He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed.  The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e    

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