Yes, the 1954 ForsX-Atmos was a concept car that deburted at the 1954 Chicago Auto Shoe and it was suggested that this Ford would be Nuclear Powered. Yes, a Nuclear powered 1954 Ford.
That is very interesting. However, I’m confused because you first replied to a post about outfielders in a White Sox game. Did I mention something about cars that I’ve forgotten?
Gerald Ford was the only president never elected. That is to say, as president, or vice president (as it sometimes goes).
After Spiro Agnew resigned due to the Watergate scandal, then President Richard Nixon appointed him to the vice president, after getting the approval of the Senate, of course.
Then when Nixon left office, Ford automatically became president. He tried to get reëlected. But failed.
Que¿ Is that like a heavy metal re-election?
I remember their 1985 hit album, Elektoral Kollage, with fondness.
The diaeresis helps make sure you parse the first two syllables as re-e- rather than as a monosyllabic ree-.
I had a truly terrible attack of that once.
As opposed to a wonderful attack. Rule 34 y’know.
I remember that during Ford’s Presidential campaign there was a joke going around about the “Committee to Re-Appoint the President”.
Emergency exits often have a bar or pole in the middle, not just because the exit may have two open doors, but also because people will continue moving around that pole, and not congregate right in the doorway. (Ants do the same thing.)
Interesting. Presumably, sheep would exhibit this behavior too.
Huntsville has now overtaken Birmingham as the largest city in Alabama.
Fifty years of knowing it was Birmingham, down the drain.
Name that magician…his
…television specials have been nominated for 38 Emmy Awards, winning 21. Best known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, his career of over 40 years has earned him 11 Guinness World Records,[3] a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,[4] and a knighthood by the French government.[5] He has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress.[6]
As of 2006, he has sold 33 million tickets and grossed over US$4 billion, more than any other solo entertainer in history by a large margin.[2][3][7][8] In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $63 million for the previous 12 months and ranked him the 20th highest-earning celebrity in the world.[9]
David Copperfield
The Wimbledon Cup. Aaah. Tennis, strawberries and cream.
Nah The Wimbledon Cup is a silver tankard wrought by British silversmiths of the Victorian period. The National Rifle Association of the United Kingdom inaugurated the prize in 1866. The Illustrated London News reported on July 26, 1866, that the Wimbledon Cup was a new prize for the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting of that year.
Redd Foxx, as a young man, worked at a Harlem restaurant named Jimmy’s Chicken Shack. One of his coworkers was Malcolm Little, who would later be known as Malcolm X.
The White Ship disaster of 1120 had major ramifications for UK history. This ship was transporting a groups of English nobles, including the Crown Prince William from France to England, when it hit a rock and sunk, killing all but one aboard. William escaped on the ship’s only boat, but insisted on returning to rescue his sister; the boat was swamped by people desperately trying to get into it. The helmsman, like most everyone on board, was drunk.
This led to a succession crisis, since William was Henry I’s only legitimate son. Eventually Stephen of Blois took over the throne.
Stephen was planning to sail on the White Ship, but left before it sailed due to a case of diarrhea
This is the event that starts Ken Follett’s novel Pillars of the Earth, precisely because it upsets the expected order so much.
–from the Wikipedia page on Pillars of the Earth.
Same thing happened to Waylon Jennings…kinda. Which is why Waylon Jennings opened for Metalica in 1996 instead of the Big Bopper. Talk about upsetting the expected order…
If you have any interest at all in the history of magic, you should look at Mr. Spoiler’s conveniently titled History of Magic.
Each chapter is a short biography of a famous magician, profusely, as they like to say, illustrated with items from Mr. Spoiler’s worlds-largest collection. It’s a bit too expensive to buy just for curiosity so I got it out of the library. Still, highly recommended.
Of course it’s mostly or completely ghostwritten.
Malcolm X also once worked in the kitchen of the Parker House hotel in Boston. As did Emeril Lagasse. And Ho Chi Minh. Not at the same time, though.