During the Revolutionary War, Florida was a British colony and strongly loyalist, used as a staging area for attacks on the southern colonies. Spain attacked the colony after the Revolution, and the British left after losing.
This is one of those things where I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone already knew it but me… those intricately embroidered, rhinestone spangled outfits that old country & western musicians used to wear (maybe still do?) They actually have a name – they are called Nudie suits, named after Nudie Cohn, their creator.
I actually knew this, and his most famous customer was of course Elvis. And his probably most famous creation he did for Gram Parsons, indicating Gram’s, well, preferences…
Today I learned that Donald Duck’s mother is named Hortense.
I’m sure I’ve seen a photo of the entire band in matching Nudie suits, but can I find it? Ehhh…
Anyway. I’ve noted before that one of the most important collections of paintings by JMW Turner is to be found in Petworth House, in the Sussex countryside south of London. Turner is famed for his landscapes, but unusually the collection at Petworth (we were there yesterday) includes a portrait - here it is.
The volunteer attendant in the gallery told us that it’s the only portrait that Turner ever painted. Yeah, I thought. (Rabbit hole beckons.)
So far I have found a total of four portraits by Turner. Thing is, the other three of them are self-portraits, so in a sense the claim stands. But three self-portraits to one portrait? You have to wonder what the record for most self-portraits is. (Don’t you?)
The figure I have - and I suppose this applies to “significant” artists - is “almost 100” by Rembrandt. I had no idea - my money was on Freda Kahlo, and she rocks up with an impressive 55, with Vincent van Gogh trailing her with “about 36”.
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Yeah, most probably on the cover of “The Gilded Palace Of Sin”.
Ahhhh (slaps forehead).
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I remember reading about a (later) president with a close-guard security officer doing the hand-shaking underneath and through the president’s overcoat, after the first couple of thousand.
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The raccoon chose its resting place well, in case it had to throw up…
There has never been a 36-23 final score in NFL history. This “Scorigami” chart gives a charted history. There are other missing scores, but the lack of a 36-23 score line is particularly confounding.
Particularly when there have been scores of 36-25 and 36-26. 23 is a much more common final score than those two figures.
Are the numbers independent or is there some reason why the rules of play would make it difficult for that combination of scores to occur?
Well, the most common types of scoring are field goals (3 points) and touchdowns (6 points). However, after the latter a team can get an extra 1 or 2 points, depending on if you kick or score (or 0 if unsuccessful on either). Safeties (2 points) are less common, and more recently, the other team can return a failed extra point for a single point.
if you couldn’t read The Atlantic article, it says that there have been 36-23 scores in preseason and in college football, just not in a regular or postseason NFL game.
It is impossible to get a score of 19 in the card game cribbage.
(I stumbled across this fact a very long time ago, but the football score
discussion reminded me of it.)
It’s impossible to get a HAND that scores 19. You can peg 19, easy.
Yes, sorry.
Well, mostly independent. The one way that I’d expect two teams’ scores to be related is that safeties are usually a sign of the other team having a weak offense (or you having a really great defense), while the other team having a lot of touchdowns would be evidence against that.
Oh, and there’s also a practical limit to the total score, in that eventually, there just isn’t time for all of those scores. Whenever team A has possession and is advancing the ball, team B isn’t doing so. But while 36-23 would be on the above-average side as total score goes, it’s not extraordinarily so.
Johnny Weissmuller’s ‘Tarzan yell’ was a combination of his own voice, with some editing and manipulation, and for the really high notes. . . A clarinet.