Dog bites requiring treatment are a fairly common emergency room presentation. Cat bites are also common, as are human bite injuries often caused by punching someone in the mouth after a drinking misadventure.
The main thing with bites is to clean them thoroughly. One does not generally want to stitch them tightly closed because of the risk of creating an abscess or closed-off subdermal infection. Cat saliva, for example, can contain Pasteurella bacteria which often causes infection, so antibiotics are often given for bites. One tries to minimize the amount of stitching. Human bites to the hand require an X-ray to look for tooth fragments and Boxer’s fractures, a common injury of the bone proximal to the baby finger. The question of possible rabies may also arise, especially with bat, raccoon and rat bites.
In 2012, an11-year-old cheetah named Sarah from the Cincinnati Zoo broke her previous record, covering 100 meters at a peak speed of 61 mph (98 kph) in 5.95 seconds. Olympian Usain Bolt, who holds the (human) world record, is much slower by comparison: 100 meters in 9.58 seconds.
The first person to break the 10-second mark in a 100-meter race was Bob Hayes, who accomplished the feat in 1963. However, because the race had a following wind of 11 mph, the time was not officially recognized. 3 more men broke the mark in 1968; all 3 were timed using ‘hand-timers’.
The first person to ‘officially’ break the 10-second mark at low altitude using electronic timing was Carl Lewis, who did so in 1983.
Bob Hayes, who was a world-class sprinter as well as an excellent football player (he was a wide receiver), is the only athlete to have won an Olympic gold medal as well as an NFL Super Bowl ring, and be an inductee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Over the course of a long career, British actor Bob Hoskins has played, among other things, a gangster (The Long Good Friday), a pirate (Hook), a Communist Party leader (Enemy at the Gates) and a hardboiled detective (Who Framed Roger Rabbit).
Percy Kellick Hoskins was the chief crime reporter for the British newspaper the Daily Express in the 1950s. Hoskins earned a mixture of notoriety and admiration within his profession due to the stance he took regarding suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Hoskins was the only reporter with a national paper to support Adams when arrested in 1956, while the rest of the press unanimously assumed Adams’s guilt. Hoskins’s stance was seen by his peers as career suicide, but, in the end, Adams was acquitted. During the trial, Hoskins befriended Adams, and when Adams died in 1983, he bequeathed Hoskins £1,000. Hoskins gave the money to charity.
A “bodkin” is normally a type of pin or blunt needle, but in Hamlet, Shakespeare uses “bare bodkin” in the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy to mean an unsheathed dagger, suitable for committing suicide.
Strange Brew is a 1983 comedy film, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as Bob and Doug McKenzie, the stereotypical Canadian characters which they had originated on the sketch comedy series SCTV. Strange Brew’s story is loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet – the movie takes place in and around Elsinore Brewery, where the brewery owner was killed by his brother, and now appears as a ghost. Bob and Doug, themselves, are analogous to the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern characters.
There has been considerable speculation about the possible sources for Hamlet. Shakespeare may have been influenced by Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy, a revenge tragedy which was popular in the 1580s. Kyd may also have written a play called Hamlet, which was mentioned by Thomas Nashe in his list of playwrights in 1589. Shakespeare may have relied upon this now lost play as a source (the so-called Ur-Hamlet).
On the other hand, there are three different published versions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: the First Quarto (1602), the Second Quarto (1604) and the First Folio (1623). The First Quarto is much shorter than the Folio version. It may have been Shakespeare’s first version of Hamlet, originally written in the 1580s, and thus is itself the Ur-Hamlet. Alternatively, given the timing of its publication, more than a decade after Nash’s list of plays, it may be Shakespeare’s first draft, but influenced by the Ur-Hamlet.
Like the play itself, the issue influences and Ur-ness leads to considerable speculation and interpretation.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was an American poet well known for his light, humorous verses and unconventional rhyming schemes. One of his longer poems was a tribute to baseball greats, written in alphabetical order. Entitled “Line-Up for Yesterday,” the verse was published in Sport magazine in 1949.
Some lines from the poem include:
A is for Alex
The great Alexander;
More Goose eggs he pitched
Than a popular gander.
C is for Cobb
Who grew spikes and not corn.
And made all the basemen
Wish they weren’t born.
R is for Ruth.
To tell you the truth,
There’s just no more to be said,
Just R is for Ruth.
Newfoundland joined Confederation as Canada’s tenth province in 1949.
Newfoundland had been an autonomous Dominion, with the same status as Canada, Australia and the other Dominions, but went bankrupt during the Great Depression and surrendered responsible government for British financial aid.
The American actor Robert De Niro, playing Al Capone in the 1987 Brian De Palma crime drama The Untouchables, is said to have worn silk underwear, as Capone did, to really get into the part.
Scottish actor Sean Connery only received one Academy Award nominiation over the course of his career – a Best Supporting Actor nomination for portraying Irish cop Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables in 1987; Connery did win the award that year.
Sean Connery has two small tattoos on his right arm . One says “Scotland forever” , the other “ Mum and Dad.” He got them when he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 16 on 1946. He was supposed to be serving a 7-year team, but was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family.
Sean Connery, who passed away on October 31, 2020, was recognized as “The Greatest Living Scot” in a 2004 poll. He was also named as “Scotland’s Greatest Living National Treasure” in a 2011 survey.
Thus far, my extensive research has yielded no successors to either honor.
The royal coat of arms of Scotland, a red lion on a yellow field, is incorporated into the coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The logo for the English rock band Queen was created by the band’s singer, Freddie Mercury, who had a degree in art and design. The logo, which is loosely based on the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, features references to the zodiac signs of the band’s members: the lions represent John Deacon and Roger Taylor (both Leos), the crab represents Brian May (Cancer), and the fairies represent Mercury (Virgo).
is among the first coat of arms ever used. It dates from the 12th century during the Third Crusade, 1189-1192 (also known as the Kings’ Crusade). This coat of three lions has not been altered since it was formed by Richard the Lionheart during his reign in the High Medieval Period.
The earliest surviving representation of a shield displaying three lions is on Richard the Lionheart’s Great Seal. The three lions represent his three principal positions as King of the English, Duke of Normandy, and Duke of Aquitaine.
This design forms the basis of several emblems of English national sports teams, such as the England national football team. It endures as one of the most recognisable national symbols of England.
Richard the Lionheart was born in 1157. He reigned from 1189 until his death in 1199.
