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It seems like you’re often not seeing the most recent posts in these thread games; unless I’m completely missing something, the above seems to be a play off of a post from a couple of days ago, rather than a play off of the most recent post.
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“Still surviving” was the commonality leading to my post, since I was too late to use White Fleet"
facepalm My apologies, then!
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facepalm My apologies, then!
[/quote]No prob.
I have enough senior moments here that I deserve more facepalms than you do.
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Gulf Oil was one of the “Seven Sisters” petroleum companies, which dominated the global petroleum market from the late 1940s until the early 1970s. Gulf ceased to be an independent company in 1985, when it merged with Standard Oil of California to form Chevron (a brand name which Standard of California had used for several decades).
The largest gulf in the world, at some 600,000 sq mi, is the Gulf of Mexico.
The largest bay in the world, at some 1,000,000 sq mi, is the Bay of Bengal.
My local bay, San Francisco Bay, is about 1,600 sq mi when its sub-bays and estuaries are considered.
Jean Mill is considered the originator of the Bengal breed of cat, after cross breeding an Asian leopard cat with an American domestic black cat. Bengal cats are known for their rosette markings and for being very high energy and inquisitive.
The Battle of Mill Springs in 1862 was Gen. George H. Thomas’s first victory in the American Civil War. Thomas, born in Virginia, went on to become the highest-ranked Southern-born general of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
“The Miller’s Tale” is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The tale is the story of a carpenter named John and his beautiful wife Alisoun, who is much younger than her husband. The story centers on two young men who are eager to sleep with Alisoun.
Geoffrey Holder was a Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer, actor, and director. He played the villainous Baron Samedi in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die, and was the spokesman in ad campaigns for 7 Up (“the Uncola”), but he also was a principal dancer for the Metropolitian Ballet in the 1950s, and he won two Tony Awards, for directing and for costume design, for the Broadway musical The Wiz.
Lena Horne, who played Glinda the Good Witch in the 1978 film version of The Wiz, was in the entertainment field for over 70 years. She began working in the chorus line at the Cotton Club at age 23. The following year she had a featured role. Her first movie performance was in Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party in 1935.
This plays on a couple parts of the previous entry. “The Jitterbug” was a dance number that took 5 weeks to shoot and was ultimately deleted from The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Though the original footage has been lost to time, there is some amateur footage that shows the actors performing the number. There is a theory that this deleted scene influenced David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive”.
The primary reason “The Jitterbug” scene was cut from the Wizard of Oz was to shorten the runtime. A secondary reason is that when the song was originally written the term ‘jitterbug’ had no meaning; however, during filming the ‘jitterbug’ dance craze arose, and it was felt that once the fad had run its course the scene would detrimentally date the movie.
However, even though “The Jitterbug” scene was ultimately cut from the final version of the Wizard of Oz, there is still a mention of it in the script as it was finally released. When the Wicked Witch of the West sends her Flying Monkeys to capture Dorothy, she tells their leader, "They’ll give you no trouble, I promise you that. I’ve sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them." The insect to which she refers, of course, was the Jitterbug — which was supposed to sting the four, causing them to dance uncontrollably to the point of exhaustion.
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Patrick Walshe (1900–1991) was an American character actor and circus performer who specialized in the impersonation of animals. He is best known for playing Nikko, the head of the Winged Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
At the time of his death, he was the last surviving credited cast member of The Wizard of Oz.
About 14 (accounts differ) writers worked on the script of The Wizard of Oz at one time or another, the best-known of which was the American poet Ogden Nash.
There were up to 10 pairs of ruby slippers created for The Wizard of Oz in differing sizes and appearance to work for particular scenes. After the movie, many pairs disappeared. There are currently two known pairs of ruby slippers. One pair is in the Smithsonian. Another pair were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 2005. The FBI finally tracked them down and recovered them in 2018.
In the original book and the play, Dorothy’s magical shoes are silver, not ruby as they are famously depicted in the 1939 film. In some historians’ readings of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was seen as representing the average American, and that the magic silver shoes represented the late 1890s free silver movement. Others say that the entire book serves as a political allegory for gold and silver’s battle to become the primary American currency.
The main difference between gold and silver as a value metal is that gold remains metallic gold forever, and all the gold ever brought above ground is known and can be accounted for. Silver forms compounds which have industrial uses, from which the silver is not easily recoverable, so new silver has to be mined to meet constant demand.
The Perfect Master holds forth:
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Gold is yellow and silver is white in British heraldry. The coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are also the arms of the Queen Elizabeth II as sovereign, include a gold helmet and a gold crown, and a shield bearing the arms of England (twice), Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wales is not represented, as it is considered to have been entirely absorbed by England by law (many Welsh people, to put it mildly, do not agree).
The ‘Government of Ireland Act 1920’ was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act partitioned Ireland into Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland. Southern Ireland became the Irish Free State in 1922, while Northern Ireland remained part of the United Kingdom.
In 1910, the Union of South Africa was formed four disputing colonies – Cape of Good Hope, Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State. The lattter, to this day, retains the name Free State Province. It is predominately Afrikaans speaking, calling itself Vrystaat.