Canada has a history of putting odd and creative things on its money. This includes immortalizing The Hockey Sweater on its five dollar notes issued in 2006. Five dollar bills have also featured the Canadarm2, a robotic contribution to space exploration much lauded here and little known abroad. Other things highlighted in the past on Canadian money include the petrochemical industry and a 1954 picture of Queen Elizabeth whose hairdo reportedly contains a small gremlin with a horns and hooked nose.
The Canadian five-dollar note features a portrait of Canadian statesman Wilfrid Laurier on its obverse. Due to Laurier’s resemblance to actor Leonard Nimoy, some Canadians have taken to “Spocking” their five-dollar notes, using a pen to change Laurier’s picture to resemble the Star Trek character Spock.
The Bank of Canada has requested that people not deface their currency in this way, and the current series of notes features a portrait of Laurier which does not resemble Nimoy quite as strongly.
While it is a violation under Title 13, Section 333 of the US Code to mutilate, cut, disfigure, perforate, or unite or cement together US currency (violators are subject to fine and/or imprisonment), it must be done "with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued."
It is NOT illegal to decorate, stamp, or otherwise mark US currency so long as there is no intent to render the banknotes or currency unfit to be reissued. So those “Where’s George?” and “I Grew Hemp” stamps are A-OK.
-“BB”-
Started in 1970, the Title X Family Planning Program is a federal grant program for low-income patients to receive family planning and reproductive health services. It funds services including contraception, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and breast and cervical cancer screenings.
The practice in the English and then British Parliaments was to have detailed titles for each act. The titles gradually got longer and longer. For example, the full title of the Attainder of Earl of Kellie and others Act 1746 was over 65 lines and more than 400 words long. In the mid-19th century, Parliament started giving short titles to each Act as well, which is what is commonly used to cite the Act. Other Commonwealth countries follow the same practice.
In 1746, a group of publishers hired Samuel Johnson to develop a definitive dictionary of the English language. Johnson signed a contract worth 1500 guineas, and he stated that he could finish the project in three years (though it actually took eight years to complete). Johnson’s work became the most commonly-used English dictionary for the next 150 years, until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928.
One lady complimented Dr Johnson on avoiding “low” and “salacious” words in his Dictionary.
He thanked her, and then commented “But I see you’ve been looking for them, Madam.”
The lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson was, the story goes, once interrupted by his wife, who burst in on him while he was enjoying an intimate moment with their lovely young housemaid.
“I am surprised, Mr. Johnson!” Mrs. Johnson sputtered.
“No, madam,” he supposedly replied. “You are amazed; I am surprised.”
The same story has also been attributed to Noah Webster and Chauncey Depew.
In the 1979 movie Being There, Peter Sellers stars as Chance, a simple-minded man who works as a gardener for a rich benefactor. When the elderly man dies, Chance is forced to leave the estate, but, through a series of extraordinary happenings, somehow is christened ‘Chauncey Gardener’, who manages to rise to the top of the Washington political elite.
Sellers received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role.
The Goon Show was a radio comedy series, which aired on the BBC from 1951 to 1960; it starred Spike Milligan (who was also the primary creator and writer), Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe (as well as Michael Bentine early in its run).
The show, which featured absurdist and subversive comedy, was an important influence on several later comedy groups, including Monty Python and the Firesign Theater; the Beatles also cited the show as having a big influence on their comedic tastes.
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” was made on location in Scotland in the spring of 1974. The budget of £229,575 was raised by getting rock bands including Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Elton John to invest £20,000 apiece.
The Gospel of John is the only non-synoptic Gospel. It does not have a birth story, unlike Matthew and Luke, and does not share the same general arrangement and accounts that are found in the three synoptic gospels. The author of John is believed to have been influenced by Greek philosophy, as shown by the opening line of the gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
The very first ‘Greek’ letter organization, now commonly known as fraternities and sororities, was the Phi Beta Kappa Society, an elite academic honor society founded on December 5, 1776 at the College of William and Mary.
The Queen’s representative at the federal level in Canada is the Governor General, referred to to “His/Her Excellency”. The Queen’s reps at the provincial level, the Lieutenant Governors, have to be content with “His/Her Honour”.
Measured by land area, Canada is the second-largest country in the world, trailing only Russia. However, Canada ranks just 39th in the world in size of population, and ranks 185th in terms of population density.
Canada has one of the oldest constitutions in the world, uninterrupted by constitutional replacements, foreign occupations, revolutions or coups. The countries with older constitutions include the UK, the US, Sweden and Switzerland.
Not the “Lieutenants Governor”? 
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Canada’s current national flag was adopted in 1965. The current national flag of the United States was adopted just five years earlier, with the admission of Hawaii to the Union, although earlier versions of it with fewer stars and other variations date back to 1777.
The first spacewalk occurred on March 18, 1965, when cosmonaut Alexi Leonov left the Voshkod 2 spacecraft and “walked” outside of the craft for 12 minutes.
Ed White performed the first NASA spacewalk, on the Gemini IV mission, on June 3, 1965. Astronauts on the support crew for that mission included Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee.
Should clarify that his capsule-mate was James McDivitt, and that both Grissom and Chaffee were back on the ground at Mission Control.
-“BB”-