As is now all-too-well known, the executive branch of the US government has put its resources behind the proposition that the numbers "8647" lined out with seashells, must to any reasonable person be seen as a threat to kill the 47th President. Hmmm. So far as I could tell from the infamous photo, we're supposed to take them to be 8 6 47. Month, day, year. Did anything of importance worth memorializing on a North Carolina beach happen on an 8/6/47? Nothing much from August 6, 1947, I'm afraid. Except that a great cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals, Ken Riley, was born on that date. He was posthumously admitted to the Football Hall of Fame in 2023. We get to something more promising if we step back a century. During the Mexican War, on August 6, 1847 the US marines began a march on Mexico City under the command of Lt. Colonel Samuel Watson. This historic tidbit does have some visibility or, rather, audibility, because it is the reason the Marine Cor...