On a purely pedantic note, “urban myth” is not the term of art, but a popularization of “urban legend,” a term that was in vogue for about 20 years. Generally, I’d just call that a “folk belief” (if I was referring to its existence in the community) or a “false belief” (if I was commenting on its truth or falsehood). Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus’s post is a short narrative about the past, so it’s a legend, specifically a “historical legend.” The tag “urban,” now replaced with “contemporary,” is specifically for those legends that are circulating as happing in the current world, so wouldn’t apply unless that narrative was also circulating in the ancient world. Because this is a story about the past circulated informally as a true, it meets all the criteria for historical legend.
It could also be 100% true, of course; that’s a separate issue.
Short version: Richard Tatro and April Tatro, who did bit parts in ST:TS are not related (or if they are, it’s very remote), despite the uncommonness of the name.
Richard Tatro had a bit role in “I, Mudd” (1967). He was, uh, 28 at the time.. This was the high watermark, and last, of his nine known acting roles. In 1968 he was dating (almost 20 years older) Shelley Winters, but apparently that didn’t work out.
April Tatro was the mystery human form of Isis the Cat in “Assignment Earth.” She remained unidentified for almost half a century. Her specialty was being a contortionist, and it’s easy to see that someone with some good contortion skills might be useful doing cat-like movements. This was her first known acting role. According to IMDB, she was on Carson’s “Tonight Show” three months later. We can only wonder if she mentioned the ST episode?
Side note: “Tatro” appears to be French-Canadian in origin, and apparently via some changes in spelling has its origins in an older word meaning ‘weaver.’
This interpretation of the Golden Fleece goes back to antiquity. Strabo (63 BCE-24CE) wrote about it:
It is said that in their country gold is carried down by the mountain torrents, and that the barbarians obtain it by means of perforated troughs and fleecy skins, and that this is the origin of the myth of the golden fleece—unless they call them Iberians, by the same name as the western Iberians, from the gold mines in both countries.
I’ve heard or read it cited unquestioningly plenty of times (by James Burke in Connections, for instance)
Susan Calvin was a robopsychologist. In the original stories she did not invent, create, build, or do anything mechanical with the robots. She examined and explained their behaviors after they were put to work and then apparently malfunctioned. I’d say Calvin is the premiere example of inventing being man’s work and feelings being woman’s work.
Every US President from Andrew Johnson until Donald Trump was alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover. Kamala Harris was born on the same day that Hoover died which would have continued the streak.
President Hayes was alive at the same time as even more Presidents from John Adams to Eisenhower.
A good take, I always thought Susan Calvin also worked on the robot’s design and “programming” but now that you mention I’m not sure there’s textual evidence of that.
So she did work on robot creation, not just post-problem analysis and solutions? It has been too long since I read the books.
(I refuse to believe I read something 40 years ago, I cannot be that old)
She’s never directly stated to have worked directly on robot creation. But I think that it’s safe to say that, without her work, there’d be a lot less, and less advanced, robot creation.
You mean ten World Cups ago? That would have been México, where someone scored a famous goal or two for Argentina. You are right, it does not feel soooo long ago.
I don’t know what this “World Cup” thing you are speaking of is, doesn’t ring a bell
(I think I read I Robot one or two years after God made Himself visible on Earth, so it was 38/39 years ago not 40, I read Foundation in 1986 for sure, since I remember drawing Terminus and Anacreonte stellar maps in 3rd grade in my school notebook)
MIT awards a playful “Pirate Certificate” to students who finish four specific physical education classes. To get the certificate, students must take archery, sailing, fencing, and pistol or rifle shooting. The school issues these certificates on faux parchment as a fun way to complete fitness requirements.
Not so, according to the less-than-reliable sources of CoPilot and ChatGPT. They both say that Carter was the first to be born in a hospital, and JFK was born in a bedroom in his family home in Massachusetts.
