The Purple Martin is a true swallow, but the only swallow in North Amrica that is given the common name Martin. The eastern and western population are conspecific and winter together in South America, but only the eastern birds prefer to nest in man-made boxes. Western birds choose natural cavities.
A young Martin Luther King Jr. sang with his church choir at the segregated 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
When inflation is taken into account, the five movies with the highest U.S. domestic box office sales are:
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Star Wars (1977)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Titanic (1997)
The Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in January 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto.
That garage is located at 367 Addison Ave, Palo Alto CA 94301
Map: Google Maps
In “The Blues Brothers” Elwood (Dan Aykroyd)" has a fake Illinois drivers license showing his address as 1060 W’ Addison Ave, which is the aaddress of Wrigley Field.
Wrigley Field is in the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago. Both are named for chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, jr (1861-1932) of Philadelphia PA. Wrigley was 30 years old when he moved from Philadelphia to Chicago. He was 51 when he bought a minority controlling interest in the Cubs in 1916, and the very next year Chicago won the World Series. But it was the White Sox, not the Cubs. As owner he never saw the Cubs win the World Series. They won it in 1907 and 1908, before he bought the team, and then again in 2016, long after he passed away at age 70 in 1932, in Phoenix AZ.
He saw the Cubs lose the World Series in 1918 (to the Boston Red Sox!), and also in 1929. The long-suffering Cubs also lost in 1932, 1935, 1938, and in 1945.
Wrigley Field, built in 1914, was first named Weeghman Park for Charles Henry Weeghman (1874-1938). Weeghman owned the Chicago Whales of the Federal League, which folded after the 1915 season. In 1920 Weeghman Park was renamed to Cubs Park. In 1927 it was renamed to Wrigley Field.
William Wrigley, jr became principal owner of the Cubs in 1918, and majority owner in 1921.
In Los Angeles CA there was a Wrigley Field ballpark that opened in 1925 for the original Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. It was nicknamed “Wrigley’s Million Dollar Palace”. It was eventually demolished in 1969. It was located at 425 E. 42nd Pl, Los Angeles CA. Today at that address, the Gilbert Lindsay Rec Center is located. Map > Google Maps.
William Wrigley, Jr. was the founder of Wrigley Chewing Gum in 1891. The Wrigley Company now owns a huge number of candy and gum lines, with operations in over 50 countries, and production facilities in 14 countries. Their products are sold in more than 180 countries.
Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, died in 1891. He was succeeded by four different prime ministers over the next five years, as his party searched for a competent successor. One retired because of brain cancer, one died of a massive heart attack at Windsor Castle, one was forced out by a Cabinet revolt, and the fourth had the briefest term of all Canadian Prime Minister, before losing the 1896 general election to Wilfrid Laurier.
Unlike the short tenures of the four men who preceded him as Prime Minister of Canada, Wilfrid Laurier held the post for fifteen years (1896 to 1911), the longest unbroken term as Prime Minister in Canadian history. Laurier also holds the records for longest term in the Canadian House of Commons (45 years), and the longest term as leader of a major Canadian political party (31 years as leader of the Liberal Party).
There is a long ttradition of Spocking Sir Wilfrid on Canadian five dollar bills.
On the Star Trek, series, Commander Spock is the son of Vulcan diplomat Sarek and Human teacher Amanda Grayson. ‘Spock’ is apparently his first name, as his full name is generally considered unpronounceable to humans.
Non-canon Star Trek writings suggest that Amanda Grayson hailed from Boston, Mass., as did American actor Leonard Nimoy, who played her son, Spock.
Adam Nimoy is a movie director and entertainment law attorney, and son of actor Leonard Nimoy. On March 26th, 2018 (which would have been Leonard’s 87th birthday), Adam married actress Terry Farrell, who had played the Trill science officer Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
As a struggling actor in LA, Leonard Nimoy moonlighted as a cab-driver. He once drove John F. Kennedy as a fare.
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Leonard Nimoy authored seven books of poetry. Also, he originally chose the Vulcan hand salute, which is based on a hand gesture used by Hebrew high priests when blessing the congregation.
Leonard Nimoy and his wife Sandi once sent a telegram to President John F. Kennedy (who, while a U.S. senator, as noted above, Nimoy had once driven in his cab) urging the passage of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. In 1963, the treaty was ratified by the Senate and signed by President Kennedy, who had strongly supported its passage, despite strong conservative opposition.
During his administration, Kennedy oversaw the last federal execution prior to Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 case that led to a moratorium on federal executions. Victor Feguer was sentenced to death by an Iowa federal court and was executed on March 15, 1963. His was the last execution to take place in Iowa to date.
The last execution in Canada occurred on Dec. 11, 1962, when Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin were hanged in the Don jail in Toronto.
Before the hanging, someone commented to them that they would likely be the last people executed in Canada.
“Some consolation,” Turpin responded.
Randy Turpin was the most successful of a family of British boxers. Randy, whose parents were from British Guyana, defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951 ti win the World Middleweight Championahip.
The The British Sundial Society came to fruition in 1989 and currently has about 400 members. The British Sundial Society is affiliated to the Royal Astronomical Society. It has a registry of nearly 7,000 sundials in the British Isles, at The Fixed Dial Register • The British Sundial Society.
The North American Sundial Society, located in Glastonbury CT, started in 1994 and publishes the The Compendium , a quarterly journal about sundials, their features, histories and their mathematics. It has a registry of sundials in North America at https://sundials.org/sundial-registry/view-all-sundials.html.
Its map of North American sundials is at https://sundials.org/sundial-registry/map-of-sundials.html.