Anthropophagy, I believe. When I was in college I used to tell people that I was double-majoring in Fine Arts and Anthropophagy.
Hedy Lamarr, when not being a gorgeous starlett, was inventing the frequency-hopped spread spectrum. Which while it was not used, as she had hoped, it WW2, is still used today, in your internet system for example.
Ants can get infected by a fugus that will cause them them to hang upsidedown while it eats their brains.
I hate when that happens.
Would losing part of a finger while in the armed forces get him a medical?
That sounds a bit closer to being likely, but even so, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are small birds that can hover momentarily while, say, looking for insects on tree branches too small to support them.
I’d be interested to get Colibri’s input on this.
What he actually said was, of course, “Play it again, Sam!” 
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- Anatomy. the part of the arm between the elbow and the wrist.
Polycarp , James Longstreet was actually a Lieutenant General, promoted October 9, 1862.
He also played the part of Rembrandt in The Warriors .
Although this is a popular legend, I have serious doubts about it. I have met several folks (ok, three people) who were at the Stonewall riots and heard them seperately recount the story and all three deny that Garland’s death was a factor at all in instigating the riots. One of them says he didn’t even know Garland had died. All three agree that the Stonewall riots were an inevitable response to frequent & routine police brutality against the gay community. Add to that it was 1969 and revolutionary, anti-establishment feelings were prevalant throughout the country, and that the riots occurred at the tail-end of a major heat-wave (most urban riots do tend to occur during heat-waves, when living conditions in big cities seem unbearable, and people are stressed to the breaking point) and Garland’s death seems a minor factor.
Frankly, this story rankles me. It not-so-subtly reinforces the notion that gays are nothing but prissy drama queens. It makes it look as if the Stonewall riots had nothing to do with civil rights or standing up against institutionalized violence, and that it was just a bunch of hissy, bitchy cha-cha queens who were all verklempt that their favorite diva kicked the bucket.
The Nader and Bush dislike has been going on longer than just Ralph and the Georges.
According to Wikipedia (and Nader’s last appearance on the Daily Show):
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It’s demonstrable fact that Judy Garland’s funeral on Friday, 27 June 69 was a mob scene- between 20,000 and 30,000 people and many of them gay. The scenario is probably this: that many of the gay men who attended Judy’s funeral decided to have drinks to her at Stonewall (where they may or may not have been going anyway) and many others went to Stonewall because it was a weekend night.
As to the drama queens, on me it has the opposite effect. When straight-acting gays (however open and out they are) complain about the “nellies” and the drag queens giving everyone a false image, I always remind them it was nellies and drag queens who started the Stonewall Riots and marched in parades and talked about being gay on TV when the vast majority who could hide it hid it. Plus, the fact a guy’s flamingly effeminate or transgendered or even a drama queen in no way necessarily means he’s a coward- “you gotta have big balls to wear a dress”.
No doubt about the fact that many were far from likeable people (druggies and promiscuous and the like- the first casualties of the AIDS movement in fact had a lot of overlap with the early activists) but their contributions can’t be denied them. By and large it was the gays and lesbians who couldn’t hide it who didn’t try and who started the out-of-the-closet movement. (Though in an era when Liberace and Paul Lynde were whispered about but not obvious, who couldn’t hide it becomes a bit narrow of a topic.)
Some trivia I just learned while researching something for another thread: I knew that Mayberry NC was a Hollywood backlot of course (and that the same sets were used in the City at the Edge of Forever episode of STAR TREK- Joan Collins & Wm. Shatner pass right by Floyd’s Barber Shop, sign and all). What I didn’t realize is that most of downtown Mayberry is leftover from downtown Atlanta in GWTW. I’ll have to check this out next time I catch a rerun. (It’s the old RKO backlot that was by the 1960s the Desilu backlot.) Cite.
More trivia: the Tara mansion was directly behind the Alanta train depot set. The men in the GWTW hospital scene were actually in Tara’s front yard. This is Selznick standing in one and looking at the other.
Just to see, I measured my forearm and my foot. I used a metal measuring tape and measured from the inside of my elbow to the base of my hand: 9.5 inches. Then I measure my foot from the back of my heel to the tip of my big toe: 8 inches.
Apparently, I’m an anomaly.
Don’t misunderstand me, I am not being critical of the nellie queens who, as you correctly state, were the first to stand up to the police. What bothers me is the idea that those nellie queens couldn’t possibly get upset about their social injustices against them, but were only in “aflutter” over Judy’s death. It trivializes what those limp-wristed queens accomplished. Anyway, I have to stand by what the eyewitness accounts I’ve heard - they say Judy’s death was not a factor in triggering the riots and that although the Stonewall did cater to drag queens & trannies, most of them were African-American & hispanic, and had no great love for Judy.
Anyway, to get back on track with the OP, I’ll add some related trivia -
The term “fruit” was originally applied to gay men in NYC during the early 20th century. The boats docks carrying fruit from South America docked & unloaded their cargo in the Manhattan’s west side harbors in close proximity to the Greenwich Village area which was already becoming a magnet for gays. It was not unusual for cops to find & haul out gay men going at it in the fruit trucks parked near the docks. When they did bust these guys, cops made jokes about the ‘queer fruit’ being shipped in.
Life Imitates Art Dept:
Although as Sampiro notes, antebellum Atlanta, Mayberry, and the City at the Edge of Forever were all on the same Hollywood backlot, Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mount Airy, NC, which served as his model in creating Mayberry, has goodnaturedly taken the identity to heart:
George “Goober” Lindsey gets a haircut in the real-life Floyd’s City Barber Shop
The Old City Jail which was Mount Airy’s former Municipal Building
The Snappy Lunch
I don’t know how accurate this is, but I’ve read that the reason San Fran and Pensacola have such huge gay populations is because navy men caught having gay sex would be dropped off there when discharged from the forces and then were too ashamed to go home. I can’t imagine this was ever but a minor percentage of the gay population, but may have been the genesis of it. (Of course gays have always gravitated to large cities.)
Some of my favorite U.S. history trivia:
John Adams’s last words on July 4, 1826, were “Thomas Jefferson still lives.” He had no way of knowing that Jefferson had died shortly before with the last words “John Adams is a punk ass cocksucker. Yeah I hope he’s dead. I hope he burns in hey-ull! Sally, help me get this bottle cap out of my mouth before I choke on it… Sally… Sally come back!”
Researchers and scientists at the University of Ramsbottom, Lancs, England have, together with their twinned University of Llanfairfechan, N.Wales, determined that the tapeworm makes an ideal pet.
As Prof.Marjorie McMolestabber puts it “The humble tapeworm needs no exercise as it goes where you go,it eats what you eat and will incur no hefty veterinarian bills”
As an added bonus she went on to say “Possession of a tapeworm will keep your weight down without resorting to faddy diets”
Mr Eric Cholmondely-Smythe-Fortescue, “scrawny” to his friends, from Scunthorpe, England, exclaimed excitedly “I knew it, I just knew it. I’ve had “Curly” for 15 years now, he is about 12 feet in length and I’ve never put an ounce in weight on all the time I’ve had him”
It is expected that tapeworms will become mans best friend.
A spokeman for The Kennel Club refused to comment as did a lady from Crufts
The third-largest pyramid in the world is the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.
There is one genus of poisonous birds in the world, the Pitohui of New Guinea. The poison is in the feathers.