The mountain remained unsurveyed during early settlement of the Adirondack Mountain region because it was considered valueless to early farmers and loggers. It was considered too high and steep for farming and horse drawn logging. It remained a "gore" and the name stuck as Gore Mountain. (Wikipedia)

Sir St. George Gore was a wealthy Irish nobleman, baronet of Gore Manor in County Donegal. He loved hunting and fishing, and in the 1850s he decided to visit the American West. His expedition lasted nearly three years, from 1854 to 1857, taking him to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas, and cost some $500,000. The exact number of animals killed by Gore for sport is unknown. He himself claimed to have killed 2,000 buffalo, 1,600 deer and elk, and 105 bears. (encyclopedia.com)

The territory covered by Gore’s party also violated a recently signed treaty with the Sioux. Indian Agent Alfred Vaughn wrote, “The Indians, have been loud in their complaints. What can I do against so large a number of men coming into a country like this so very remote from civilization… Nothing.” Public outrage was intense, and the United States Government finally did come to the rescue to stop the bloody wildlife massacre, putting pressure on Lord Gore and more or less forcing him to leave the United States of America and return back to his castle in Sligo County, Ireland. (Gary Every)

Another observer, M. C. Meiggs, wrote to the secretary of the interior to complain. Observing that Gore had killed thousands of buffalo, he commented, “We punish an Indian for killing a settler’s cow for food…. How can such destruction of their game be permitted by their friends in the Government of the United States?” The government, however, took no action against Gore, who returned to Ireland in 1857. (Clark C. Spence, A Celtic Nimrod in the Old West)

Albert Gore, Sr., has written that his search of the family history revealed not a single slave-owning Gore, a claim that could be made by many. (Bob Zelnick)

Despite its abysmal environmental record and its anachronistic state-subsidized monopoly power, Al Gore, Jr., the champion of environmentalism and of "reinventing government," has been as staunch and unquestioning in his support of the TVA as was his father. (Bob Zelnick)

For much of the campaign year, environmentalist groups have dogged the Gore campaign over the fate of the U’wa, an 5,00-strong indigenous Colombian tribe who’ve threatened to commit mass suicide if Occidental goes ahead with a plan to drill oil on land they hold sacred. Just last week pro-U’wa hecklers disrupted a University of Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. (time.com)

Gore Sr. had finally lost an election in 1970, ending an impressive career as a moderate southern Democrat with close ties to such as Kennedy and Johnson, but with a clear voting record against the Civil Rights Act. Not really crushed by his election defeat, Al Sr. quickly found his place in private industry, as vice president of Occidental Oil Company. (Tim Findley)

By then, however, Hammer had all but forgotten the crabmeat controversy amid plans to export to the Soviet Union the machinery and know-how to begin production of massive amounts of phosphate fertilizer. (Bob Zelnick)

The Carthage Courier reported that cattle purchasers included Senator Robert Kerr, Gordon Dean, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, some of whose Wall Street dealings now fell under Gore's legislative jurisdiction; and, most peculiarly, legendary baseball great Joe DiMaggio. In 1958 the "Yankee Clipper" showed up in Carthage and purchased ten calves from Gore on behalf of clients whose identities he declined to disclose. (Bob Zelnick)

So maybe Al Gore Jr.’s semi-sophisticated association with radical environmentalism doesn’t make him any more a radical shade of “green” than his father’s association with Armand Hammer made Al Gore Sr. a “red.” It just tells you a little more, doesn’t it, about all those complications we simple folk in the rural West still don’t seem to understand. (Tim Findley)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." (United Nations)

When, in his 1988 quest for the presidency, Al Gore, Jr., sought to pile up primary states in the South, many saw him as a computer-age preppie programmed as a virtual Tennessean. They joked that in prep school and at Harvard he had taken "Southern" as a foreign language. (Bob Zelnick)

Burke's Peerage, whose roots are in a genealogical directory published in 1826 by Irishman John Burke, is in the business of locating and researching titles for clients. It publishes volumes dealing with the landed gentry. The firm has also documented the lineage of all 42 U.S. presidents and has concluded that 35 of them have some sort of royal connection and that U.S. presidents are eight times as likely to have a drop of British royal blood as the people casting the ballots. (deseret.com, the geneaology experts)

George W. Bush may be a good ol' boy from backwater Texas who habitually drops his g's, but he is, in fact, a 13th cousin of the Queen. (deseret.com, the geneaology experts)

The Bush Mountains were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-SCAN) on the recommendation of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, after James I. Bush, United States financier and patron of the Byrd AE, 1928–30. (Wikipedia)

Janus looks both ways: In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus was the god of beginnings, duality and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, thus symbolizing the transition from one vision to another. (sciencedirect.com)

America is a paradoxical society. That is one of its strengths. One of its weaknesses is its periodic inability to understand its own paradoxical nature. It is a Janus nation, one in which (in principle) incompatible things exist in a simultaneous state. When this paradoxical fusion works, it has great benefits. When it fails to work, American society loses its inner equilibrium. (Peter Murphy, James Cook University)

Pauline Gore, whose abundant virtues do not include a sense of humor, would halt her son Al's music lessons with the admonition, "Future world leaders do not play the violin." (Bob Zelnick)

He changed his name in 1967 after Subud's founder Bapak told him it would better "vibrate with the universe." Bapak sent Jim the letter "R" and asked him to send back ten names starting with that letter. Owing to a fascination with airplanes, gadgets and science fiction, he sent names like "Rocket", "Retro", "Ramjet", and "Roger", the latter a term used in signalling protocol over two-way radios, military and civil aviation. Roger was the only "real" name in the bunch and Bapak chose it.  (Gerald Feltch)

The latter is officially recognized by the U.S.G.S., whereas the former is a locally-known alias for a peak that is three miles north-northwest of McGinn Hill. (Wikipedia)

There are many different versions of this ballad. Some were wild exaggerations made up by vaudeville performers, in which Merrick's wife-to-be died as a result of trying to suck the poison out with a broken tooth. (McGuinn)