Spencer Tracy married Louise Treadwell (a fellow actor) in 1923; by 1933, the two of them had separated, but they never divorced.
Tracy had a number of affairs after separating from Louise, and although he was romantically involved with Katharine Hepburn from 1941 until his death in 1967, he apparently never seriously considered getting a divorce so he could marry Hepburn. He was once quoted as saying, “I can get a divorce whenever I want to, but my wife and Kate like things just as they are.”
Harold )MacMillan was British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. His mother was Artie Tarleton Belles , an artist and socialite from the little town of Spencer, in southern Indiana.
Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British soldier and politician. Tarleton was eventually ranked as a general years after his service in the colonies during the American Revolutionary War, where he served as a Lieutenant and was eventually promoted to Colonel. In the 2000 film The Patriot, the fictitious Colonel William Tavington was based on Tarleton.
A lithograph of Col. Banastre Tarleton - an enemy of the United States if ever there was one - was inexplicably displayed in the bomb-shelter meeting chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, built during the Cold War under the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
The Greenbrier resort has long been a premier resort catering to the rich and famous. Located in a valley known for its ‘healing springs’, the resort opened in 1778. By the 1860s, five sitting American presidents had visited the self-proclaimed ‘village in the wilderness.’
President Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law in 1964, and since then, almost 600 parcels have come under its protection. The smallest is 6-acre Pelican Island in Florida.
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is the national bird of three Caribbean countries: St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, and Sint Maartin. It is also the state bird of the U.S. state of Louisiana, which has the official nickname of “The Pelican State.”
Medieval legend was that pelicans fed their young by stabbing their own breasts with their beak and letting the young feed on their blood. In heraldry, the pelican was the symbol of self-sacrifice and parental love.
The Brown Pelican, Louisiana’s state bird, was listed as endangered in the late 1900s, when toxic chemicals in their diet caused unviable shell on their eggs. The chemical was banned, the birds quickly recovered, and they are now as common as ever on the Gulf Coast. Their much larger cousins, the White Prlican, is now the largest flying bird in North America.
The California Condor is the largest flying bird in North America. Its wingspan is about 10 feet.
The white pelican has the second largest average wingspan of any North American bird, after the California condor.
You are correct in what you say, as the technical extinction of the condor is disputed. All living wild birds are descended from captive condors. The definition of “extinct” remains to be clarified in view of modern developments and human manipulation…
Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 film starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Redford plays a CIA analyst who unwittingly uncovers an internal plot to seize Mideast oil fields, and thus becomes a target of a group of armed assassins, led by von Sydow.
The film was evidently a condensed version of a novel entitled Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.
The 1983 comedy film Strange Brew features Bob and Doug McKenzie, the stereotypical Canadian characters from the television sketch comedy series SCTV, played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. The film, which also features Max von Sydow as the villainous Brewmeister Smith, is set at the fictional Elsinore Brewery, and is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.
Max von Sydow, who died in March of this year, received two Academy Award nominations for his performances in Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), but did not win either time. Although born in Sweden, he became a French citizen in 2002.
The only person to win four best actor/actress awards is Katherine Hepburn. Hepburn won her first Oscar in 1933 for her role in the move Morning Glory. 34 years later in 1967, she won her second for her work in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. Subsequent Oscars were for her roles in The Lion in Winter in 1968, and On Golden Pond in 1981.
Henry VIII married six times. Three of his wives were named Katherine/Catherine: Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr. Only Katherine Parr survived him.
There are 20,000 Black Nova Scotians, most living in agricultural settlements in the interior of the Canadian province. Most are descendants of black loyalist who fled from the US in the 1780s. Nova Scotia governor John Parr has been criticised for discouraging them, but he feared their immigration would bankrupt the economy.
English pop singer-songwriter John Parr found a niche for himself in the 1980s, in writing and performing on theme songs for films. Parr was the writer and/or singer on songs for the films St. Elmo’s Fire, Quicksilver, Three Men and a Baby, The Running Man, and American Anthem. During that time, Parr also co-wrote the jingle, “The Best a Man Can Get,” for Gillette razors and personal care products.
At only eight bars long, Uganda’s national anthem, “Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty” is thought to be the world’s shortest. It was adopted in 1962. Composer/lyricist George Wilberforce Kakoma later sued the government for royalties but the case was dismissed after he died.
Civil asset forfeiture is alive and well in the UK
Eight gold bars were confiscated in Manchester Airport in November 2018 because it was suspected they were the proceeds of a crime although the owner was never charged with a crime and was allowed to leave the country. Later the owner attempted to get the bars back but the judge denied this. Strangely, I cannot find anything online stating what crime the owner was thought to be committing.