There’s nothing American about apple pie.  In fact, neither apples or pie originated in North America:  the ancient Egyptians get the credit for creating pie, and modern apples originated in the mountains of Kazakhstan, then spread along the Silk Roads from Central Asia to Europe.  https://cookingenie.com/content/blog/american-as-apple-pie-not-so-fast/ 

In one respect, we’re all pretty much always under the weather by default of living beneath the atmosphere.  But that might not be the most welcome response when someone tells you they’re under the weather—meaning they don’t feel well.  While people generally agree that the idiom has nautical origins, it’s not entirely clear what those origins are.  One popular theory posits that ailing sailors recuperated belowdecks, putting them literally under the weather decks (those exposed to the elements).  An offshoot of that explanation claims that crewmen and passengers would go belowdecks during bad weather in order to forestall seasickness.  First of all, although a ship’s infirmary (or “sick-bay”) would’ve been belowdecks—and passengers no doubt would’ve sheltered below during a storm—sources touting the aforementioned theories lack examples of the phrase under the weather in those contexts.  Moreover, many 19th-century instances of being under the weather have nothing to do with poor physical health. It was variously used in reference to personal financial troubles, a political party’s impotence, or an entire city’s failure to prosper.  It’s also worth pointing out that weather in nautical circles doesn’t always refer to what’s happening in the sky. The weather side of a ship or island is the one that faces the wind: the windward side.  Throughout the 19th century, the words under the weather were frequently followed by a term related to the weather side—including under the weather bow, under the weather quarter, and under the weather shore—as opposed to the weather in the sky.  https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/under-the-weather-meaning     

hubbub  whobub (obsolete)

Mid 16th c. Perhaps from Irish; compare Irish ababú!, abú! (battle-cry), Scottish Gaelic ub! ub! (expressing contempt, etc.), ubh ubh! (expressing disgust). 

noun  hubbub (plural hubbubs)

A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket. synonym ▲quotations ▼

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion

verb  hubbub (third-person singular simple present hubbubs, present participle hubbubing or hubbubbing, simple past and past participle hubbubed or hubbubbed)

(intransitive) To cause a tumult or racket. quotations ▼

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hubbub 

 

The War of Jenkins' Ear (Spanish: Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain.  The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea, with major operations largely ended by 1742.  It was related to the 1740 to 1748 War of the Austrian Succession.  The name was coined in 1858 by British historian Thomas Carlyle, and refers to Robert Jenkins, captain of the British brig Rebecca, whose ear was allegedly severed by Spanish coast guards as they searched his ship for contraband in April 1731.  Response to the incident was tepid until opposition politicians in the British Parliament, backed by the South Sea Company, used it seven years later to incite support for a war against Spain, hoping to improve British trading opportunities in the Caribbean.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear   

Vincent Price graduated from Yale University with a degree in Art History.  He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, youngest of the four children in 1911.  His father was president of the National Candy Company.  His grandfather formulated ‘Dr. Price’s Baking Powder’, the first cream of tartar baking powder.  After starting his career as a character actor, Price ventured into horror films in 1939 alongside Boris Karloff in the film Tower of London.  In 1940, he would star in the lead role of the classic film The Invisible Man Returns.  He starred in a number of horror movies throughout the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s.  When horror movies where less popular in the 1970’s, Price went on to use his voice in a number of voice overs and characterizations.  Price hosted and starred in the BBC Radio’s horror and mystery series The Price of Fear in the early 1970’s.  He would often recite dramatic readings of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone.  In 1975, his voice work after an advertisement of Milton Bradley’s Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture was used on Alice Cooper’s first solo album “Welcome to my Nightmare.”  In 1977, Price recorded a cover single of Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s, “The Monster Mash“, putting his voice rendition and remake of the song.  This set the backdrop to his most famous ‘Rap” in Thriller.  https://theblogidentity.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thriller-alert-how-i-miss-vincent-price-on-halloween/ 

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