Gordon Bombay, played by Emilio Estevez, is the protagonist of the Mighty Ducks series of films.
Estevez is the son of famed actor Martin Sheen. “Estevez” is their real last name; unlike his brother Charlie, Emilio Estevez chose to use his birth name, in part because his father wished he had as well.
The Anaheim Ducks, an NHL franchise, was founded by the Disney Company in 1993. The original name of the team was The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, based, of course, on the 1992 movie. The franchise was sold in 2005, and the new owners changed the name of the team to the Anaheim Ducks. The Ducks won the 2007 Stanley Cup.
When Disneyland opened in 1955, there was a store on Main Street that sold intimate apparel, bras and corsets. It also presented the history of intimate apparel, hosted by the Wizard of Bras.
The ABC TV network, the third of the three US TV networks of the time, invested money to build Disneyland despite a consensus of opinion it would be a flop (amusements parks were declining with the rise of suburbs and the automobile). In exchange, they were given the right to air various Disney productions under the title of Disneyland. It was an early hit for the Network until NBC lured it away and launched Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.
A car bra is a protective mask, typically black and vinyl, to cover a car’s front end and protect it from stones and rocks and bugs and other debris (web images, https://is.gd/3aiQwY). There’s actually a Wiki page for it, “ Front-end bra”, here Front-end bra - Wikipedia. Car bras date from the 1960s, and according to Wiki the very first design was for a Porsche 356.
Comment — Here are two pics of my Porsche 356 with its bra on. We were on a drive from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. Car bra, Porsche 356 - Album on Imgur
(ETA — ninja’d, but my play, about automobiles, still works.)
According to etymologists, the noun ‘brassiere’ derives from the Old French braciere, meaning, literally, ‘arm guard.’ The first product actually patented under the name brassiere was invented in 1913 by Mary Phelps Jacob, a New York socialite.
The undergarment was NOT invented by the French-born fashion designer Philippe de Brassiere.
It was also not invented by German engineer Otto von Titzlinger.
(I know, I know — this should be in the “Made-up, False, and Flat-out Wrong” thread, but I just couldn’t resist)
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Bill Colgan, of Burbank California, created the car bra business.
The Boston Manufacturing Company was a business that operated one of the first factories in America.
“Boston Baked Beans” are a type of candy: sugar-coated peanuts, dyed red to look more like baked beans. The primary manufacturer of the candy in the U.S. is the Ferrara Candy Company, of Chicago.
The production of Nutella uses one-quarter of the world’s annual hazelnut supply. Nutella is owned by Ferrero Group, headquartered in Alba, Piedmont, Italy. Ferrero Group also owns the Ferrara Candy Company, which makes Brach’s, Lemonhead, Chuckles, Now and Later, Bobs Candies, Trolli USA, Nerds, Black Forest, Sather, Red Hots, Atomic Fireball, Super Bubble, Rainblo, Jujyfruit, Jaw Busters, Fruit Stripe, Boston Baked Beans, Heide Candy Company, Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Crunch (chocolate bar), Laffy Taffy, Raisinets, and Oh Henry!
Oh Henry! candy bars were first created and marketed in 1920 by Williamson Candy Company of Chicago. The candy bar was supposedly named for an employee named Henry who was popular with the women of the firm. “Oh, Henry” was a often-heard phrase in the company, and that became the name of the new candy.
Henry I of England, the youngest son of WIlliam the Conqueror, was known as “the King who never smiled again”, after the death of his son and heir, William Adelin, in the disastrous sinking of the White Ship in 1120. William Adelin’s death led to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England.
The “Great White Fleet” was a nickname given to a group of 16 U.S. battleships, their hulls painted white, which were sent on a circumnavigation voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, from December 1907 to February 1909.
While the voyage was ostenstibly a series of friendly “courtesy calls” to various ports of call, it also served to demonstrate the U.S.'s naval power.
A young U.S. Navy officer, William Halsey, later to go on to fame and glory as a fighting admiral during World War II, served aboard the battleship USS Kansas during the around-the-world voyage of the Great White Fleet.
The seventeen battleships that made up “The Great White Fleet” (BB-9, the USS Wisconsin, which was already stationed in the Pacific, joined the fleet for that portion of the cruise) had all been constructed and commissioned since the end of the Spanish-American War (1898). However, less than twenty years after the completion of the cruise, all but two of the battleships which made up “The Great White Fleet” had been decommissioned and scrapped or sunk as targets under provisions of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty.
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USS Wisconsin (BB-9) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) are the two US Navy warships that ever carried that name. The first was an Illinois-class battleship and the second was an Iowa-class battleship. The first was stricken in 1921 and sold for scrap. The second, after three separate service stints, was decommissioned in 1948, 1958, then 1991, and now she is a museum ship in Norfolk VA.
Wisconsin’s geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is third to Ontario and Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.
Jean Nicolet was a French “coureur des bois” (trader/explorer), who was the first European to discover Lake Michigan. It is generally believed that, in 1634, Nicolet also became the first European to set foot in what is now Wisconsin, when he landed at Red Banks, on the shore of Green Bay, just northeast of the modern city of Green Bay. Nicolet was said to have been searching for a path to the Orient, and he traveled up the Fox River, then down the Wisconsin River, searching for a passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Just an FYI — I call the Driftless Region (located in SW Wisconsin) “home”.
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