The original Battlestar Galactica featured a number of well-known actors as guest stars, including Lloyd Bridges (Commander Cain), Fred Astaire (Chameleon), Patrick Macnee (Count Iblis), Lew Ayres (President Adar), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Anton), and Ray Milland (Sire Uri).
Macnee also provided the voice for the Cylon Imperious Leader, as well as narrating the show’s opening.
Wikipedia lists places named Uri in Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, India, Azerbaijan, Sudan and Vanuatu.
Uri Geller, born in Tel Aviv in 1946, is a magician, illusionist, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. In 1973, as his popularity was beginning to climb, he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He was not allowed to bring his own props; as a result, he was humiliated in his attempt to prove his psychokinetic and paranormal powers. Instead of ruining his career, however, that appearance actually increased his popularity.
1946 marked the first full year of the Presidency of Harry S Truman, Democrat of Missouri. He served only a few months as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Vice President in 1945 before Roosevelt’s death changed Truman’s life forever.
The USS Harry S. Truman, CVN-75, was commissioned in 1998. Its anchors weigh 30 tons apiece. They came from the USS Forrestal, CVN-59, that was commissioned in 1955 and decommissioned in 1993. The HST’s nuclear reactors mean that she can sail for 3 million miles before refueling.
The first thing that Julia Child ever prepared in a kitchen was a shark deterrent. With no cooking experience while growing up, she found herself in the OSS attached to the navy, who had a problem with curious sharks detonating underwater explosives. Julia started experimenting with groceries until she found a mix that sharks avoided.
Julia Child met her future husband, Paul Cushing Child, while both of them worked with the OSS in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) during World War II. After the war, Paul joined the United States Foreign Service; while he was assigned to work in Paris, Julia studied at the Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, as well as with several master chefs.
Per National Geographic, “The United States averages just 19 shark attacks each year and one shark-attack fatality every two years. Meanwhile, in the coastal U.S. states alone, lightning strikes and kills more than 37 people each year.”
And then, hippos kill over 2,000 people in Africa annually. Deer kill about 130 people annually, usually due to car collisions, and cows kill about 22 people a year.
The CDC estimates that of the 22 people killed by cows each year, 75% of the deaths were known to be deliberate attacks. In a number of these cases, multiple cows were involved in group attacks. Like many other herd activities, the group attacks were led by one or two lead cows.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, based in Atlanta, Ga., are featured in Stephen King’s 1978 dark fantasy novel The Stand. The Centers, and their annex in the (fictional) town of Stovington, Vt., are overwhelmed by and unable to stop the spread of an extremely virulent and lethal flu accidentally released from a U.S. military biowarfare lab.
Stephen King began to release novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1977. King used the pseudonym, while still publishing novels under his own name, in part because the conventional wisdom in the publishing field was that an author should publish no more than one book a year (in order to not saturate the market); in addition, King indicated that he used the pseudonym to test if his success was due to talent or luck.
King released five novels under the Bachman name, before an astute bookstore clerk deduced that the two “authors” had similar writing styles, which led to the “outing” of the Bachman name in 1985. King later released two additional novels using the pen name.
King had initially intended to use the pseudonym ‘Gus Pillsbury’, his maternal grandfather’s name, but changed it to 'Richard Bachman’ at the last moment once he had learned that the originally-chosen alias had been ‘outed’.
The first name of the new pseudonym, ‘Richard’, is a tribute to crime author Donald E. Westlake’s long-running nom de plume of “Richard Stark”. The last name of ‘Bachman’ was inspired by “Bachman–Turner Overdrive”, a rock and roll band King was listening to at the time his publisher asked him to choose a pseudonym on the spot.
-“BB”-
The real name of the Pillsbury Doughboy is Poppin’ Fresh. The character was created in 1965.
Later, a Doughboy family was created and sold as dolls. Characters included Poppie Fresh, Granpopper and Granmommer, Popper and Bun-Bun, Uncle Rollie, and, of course, Flapjack the dog and Biscuit the cat.
Hubert Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, was sworn in as Vice President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1965, having previously served in the Senate. He served a single term and was narrowly defeated in his run for the Presidency in 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson surprised everyone and decided not to run. Humphrey’s protege from Minnesota, Walter “Fritz” Mondale, also served in the Senate, served a single term as Vice President and was defeated in his own campaign for President. Both men also lost to a Republican from California: Humphrey, to Nixon; Mondale, to Reagan.
At approximately 5 a.m. on December 12th, 2010, the domed roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed under the weight of a 17-inch snowfall.
The Metrodome had a fabric roof, which was supported by air pressure; stadium crews which would have normally cleared the snow off of the roof were forced to leave the removal unfinished, due to high winds.
The Minnesota Vikings NFL team had been scheduled to play in the Metrodome on the afternoon of the 12th, against the New York Giants. The prior night, a Fox Sports production team, noting that water (melted snow) was dripping through the roof, left cameras running all night, to monitor the stadium’s interior, and captured the collapse, and tearing, of the fabric dome, resulting in a large quantity of ice and snow falling to the stadium floor.
There were no injuries as a result of the dome collapse. The Metrodome’s roof was replaced in 2011, though the stadium was retired at the end of the 2013 NFL season, and demolished in 2014.
The video of the roof collapse:
On January 18, 1978, the roof of the Hartford Civic Center collapsed just six hours after a college basketball game where the University of Connecticut defeated the University of Massachusetts, 56-49. It collapsed into the arena below with a prolonged rumble at 4:19 AM. Accumulated snow and ice after a 10-day storm caused the collapse.
Nobody was injured.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrat of Delaware, carried every New England state on Nov. 3, 2020 (other than a single Congressional district in Maine), including Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The New England states include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The last presidential election that all six of these states voted* for the Republican candidate was 1984.
*In the electoral college
In that 1984 election, Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale, 525 electoral votes to 13. Every state voted for Reagan except one, Minnesota.
Gary Burghoff, who played company clerk Walter “Radar” O’Reilly in both the film and television versions of MASH, was born with Poland syndrome, a birth defect which resulted in him having three fingers on his left hand that are significantly shorter than normal. This condition was typically concealed during the series by having Radar hold something (such as a clipboard or his teddy bear) in his left hand, or have his left hand thrust into his pocket or under his other arm.