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• WifeGeeding noticed Black Widow was wearing a silver arrow necklace from Tiffany’s, I bought her one last Christmas.
• If you have issues with losing loved ones and wishing you could have just one more conversation with them, this is the movie for you. Need to cry on your mom’s shoulder? Thor has you covered. Wish you could spend some time with your dad and show tell him you love him without actually saying you love him? Tony has you covered. How about wanting to dance or reconnect with the love of your life? Cap has you taken care of.
• I didn’t catch it the first time, but I absolutely loved it when Falcon said, “on your left” when everyone comes back for the final battle, just like Cap said to him at the beginning and end of Winter Soldier. It’s the little things, that small attention to detail, which totally makes it great. It would have been neat if he said it again when he approached Cap when he was sitting on the bench.
• I had a decent chuckle when Hope called Steve Rogers “Cap” after chiding Scott for doing so in Antman and The Wasp.
• I thought Cap, Bruce, and Tony should have visited Wakanda and take advantage of their advanced technology to work on their machine.
• I felt the movie used Carol Danvers just the right amount in just about the perfect way.
• In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter gave Tony a hug with Tony stating, “It’s not a hug, I’m just opening the door. We aren’t there yet”. After Peter comes back with the rest of The Vanished, Tony gives Peter a hug, which I guess means there are definitely there now.
• I expected a Coulson appearance and was surprised it didn’t happen.
• Drax actually wore a shirt for Tony’s funeral, but he was so still I almost didn’t notice him.
• I thought Pepper could have said something a bit more poignant other than, “We’ll be okay.”
• I bet Cap stealing the Pym particles inside Shield is probably why Hank accuses Howard Stark of stealing the particles in the Eighties at the start of the first Ant-Man movie.
• Seeing Cap returning the Soul Stone would have been interesting, talking to Red Skull and all.
• I swear they used my body for Thor.
• The Asgardians chasing Rocket called him a rabbit was a nice touch. I guess all rabbits look like raccoons on Asgard.
• Jarvis was the same actor as the one in ‘Agent Carter’.
• I like the evolution of Tony’s Iron Man suits Tony’s suits, he has learned from every failure. There was the icing problem in his first movie. In Iron Man 2, Whiplash electrocuted the suit and damaged it. Then in the first Avengers film, Thor hit him with lightning and it was running on 400% power. Now, then in this film, Tony built something into his suit specifically to take Thor’s lightning blast and use it without damaging anything. He incorporated nanotechnology so Ant-Man could get inside, melee weapons and shields for hand to hand combat with Cap in Civil War, and a parachute for Peter Parker’s new suit because of what happened to Rhodes when his suit failed.
• Yes, Howard the Duck was in the final battle, here he is bottom rightish.

• Here’s the one part of the article I chose to try to encourage you to take the time to read this story, “My memory, hand and tongue don’t work like I wish,” Ms. Park (age 75) said. “But I am going to learn to write before I die.”

A man named Lukas Bates ran today’s London Marathon in a Big Ben costume. He somehow finished in 3 hours & 54 minutes (faster than a nine minute per mile average for 26.2 miles) pic.twitter.com/H8vDvg9Npq

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 28, 2019

• In 1976, as part of commemorations for the US Bicentennial, General George Washington was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Although the law did not actually specify the number of stars, some U.S. newspapers and Members of Congress described this as a six-star rank.
• Here’s a bit more info on Washington and his Army rank, which surprised me. I notably left out Pershing stuff for brevity.
  • When Washington actually served in the army, he was a merely a major general—two stars. After his presidency, John Adams promoted him to lieutenant general—three stars. It stayed that way for centuries, with every four- and five-star general who came afterward outranking him.

• The duel took place in New Jersey but Hamilton actually died in Manhatten. While dueling was illegal in both states, the laws were a bit less strict in Jersey.
• I remember being in NYC for a college class and we visited some place associated with the duel. Our guide was a pretty young woman, perhaps fresh out of college, and asked if we had any questions. I simply asked, “What was the duel about?” She turned red and bashfully remarked she didn’t know. Interestingly enough, no other adult or student knew either, but all U.S. history scholars know it was over Miller Light and whether it’s less filling or tastes great.
• The duel took place during the last full year of Burr’s single term as vice president. That’s such a crazy U.S. fact, an acting Vice President shot and killed someone. Burr was charged with multiple crimes, including murder, in New York and New Jersey, but was never tried in either jurisdiction. He fled to South Carolina, where his daughter lived with her family, but soon returned to Philadelphia and then to Washington to complete his term as vice president in 1805. Unrelated to the duel, he was arrested on charges of treason in 1807. The subsequent trial resulted in acquittal,
• Coincidentally, the duel took place relatively close to the location of the duel that had ended the life of Hamilton’s eldest son, Philip, three years earlier.
• Burr’s Wikipedia page states Episcopal Bishop Benjamin Moore baptized Hamilton the day before he died, but I’ve read other accounts it was communion.
• In 2004, for the duel’s bicentennial anniversary, kin of Burr and Hamilton held a re-enactment of the duel, near the Hudson River. In the re-enactment, Douglas Hamilton, fifth-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, faced Antonio Burr, a descendant of Aaron Burr’s cousin. More than 1,000 people attended the re-enactment, including an estimated 60 descendants of Hamilton and 40 members of the Aaron Burr Association.
• I totally forgot about this fantastic “Got Milk?” commercial, and I loved how it was recreated years later with the actor who portrayed Burr in Hamilton.
  

• James Madison High School will turn away parents if they show up at the school wearing bonnets, pajamas, hair rollers or leggings, among other clothing items, according to a memo signed by the school’s new principal, Carlotta Outley Brown.

• Carl Mayer, nephew of the company’s namesake, created the first Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in 1936. In the years since, more than a dozen Wienermobiles have promoted the brand at stores, parades and festivals. Spokesman George Molchan, playing the character “Little Oscar,” traveled with the Wienermobile from 1951 to 1987. Today the vehicles are accompanied by college interns known as “hotdoggers.”
• The 1952 Wienermobile resides at the Henry Ford Museum.

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