Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian folk song
There’s an old restaurant in eastern North Carolina that used to serve their steaks on iron skillets; it was very common for people to order a filet cooked Pittsburgh style, so that when the meal was served they could immediately butterfly the filet to finish cooking on the hot skillet.
Whoa!
Aka a Black and Blue steak… It is my favorite way of ordering a steak but nearly impossible to find a server that knows what it is and a restaurant that can do it because they need a separate griddle they can get nearly molten hot.
oh dear lord that looks good …grandpa would order a steak like that … he just say 3 minutes or so on each side
Yeah, that was basically my reaction. My first thought was that @hajario was playing a prank on us. Hard to believe.
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Me also. Mind blown!
Orville Wright and Mahatma Gandhi died on the same day, January 30, 1948.
As did Charles I although technically 299 years earlier.
And famously, John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died on November 22 1963: Between Heaven and Hell (novel) - Wikipedia
The last few posts sent me on a search, and I found these people who died on the same date:
Orson Welles & Yul Brynner, October 18, 1985
River Phoenix & Federico Fellini, October 31, 1993
Jim Henson & Sammy Davis, Jr, May 16, 1990
Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett, June 25, 2009
Freddie Mercury & Eric Carr (drummer for Kiss), November 24, 1991
Orville Wright & Mahatma Gandhi, January 30, 1948
Margaret Thatcher & Annette Funicello, April 8, 2013
John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1826 (50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence)
Makes you wonder whose dirt you wanted to tramp down on that day…
Sorry about that. I can’t imagine how I got it wrong. The 36th triangular number is a beastly number. But the 36th tetrahedral number (as the sum of all the triangular numbers up to 36 ought to be named) is indeed 8436.
Ah, I got it. 486 = 18 * 27; I just keyed it in wrong. Serves me right for using a calculator.
I remember when Fawcett and Jackson passed. They made a lot of points for people in the Death Pool. And some players even made a trifecta with Patrick Swaze, although he wasn’t on the same day.
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on Feb. 12, 1809. A banner day for the world.
Not quite the same day, but Roger Bowen and Maclean Stevenson died one day apart.
Why is that interesting? They both played Major Henry Blake on MASH (movie and TV, respectively).
How about Frank Sinatra and the Seinfeld sitcom?
(He died the night of the series finale. It’s reported that the ambulance made record time because so many people were home watching the show)
Well, i had to check this out myself by listening to a few versions
in case someone was having a joke, but it’s true ! Amazing.
You ol’ crazy jazz cat, Ludwig.
I believe I already mentioned this, but on the theme of died on the same day I can offer that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on 23rd of April 1616 (probably, perhaps one day earlier, perhaps one day or two later, but that is the generally agreed date).
But they did not day the same day, as they lived in countries with different calendars.
Spain celebrates the “Day of the Book” every April 23, it is customary to give a book as a present on that day. And in Catalonia, for some reason, the flower shops have joined the party too: there it is customary to gift a book and a rose. This not in memory of Cervantes or Shakespeare, but of St. George, Catalonia’s patron saint.
This is why fire pistons work as well.