Joe Arpaio. Joseph Michael Joe Arpaio (/ÉËrËpaÉª.oÊ/; born June 14, 1932) is a former American law enforcement officer and was the elected Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona for 24 years from 1993 through 2016. Arpaio styled himself as America's Toughest Sheriff.
This phrase alludes to Julius Caesar's crossing the Rubicon River (between Italy and Gaul) in 49 b.c., thereby starting a war against Pompey and the Roman Senate. Recounted in Plutarch's Lives: Julius Caesar (c. a.d. 110), the crossing gave rise to the figurative English usage by the early 1600s. See also: cross, the.
London Bridge is falling down. Most of us probably remember the nursery rhyme âLondon Bridge Is Falling Downâ from our childhoods. Many of us probably sang it or played the game. However, we probably did not know the origins of the rhyme. Many theories exist to explain the origin of this 18th century rhyme.* The first London Bridge spanned the River Thames in the middle of the first century. The Romans constructed it of wood and mud at Londinium, now known as London.