Harley Street in London is the traditional location for medical specialists to have their surgeries (or offices, North American parlance).
A state psychiatric hospital has beeen in Medical Lake, Washington, for 130 years, but the town with that name already existed. The town grew on the shores of eponymous lake, whose waters and mud were thought to have curative properties. A belief that still prevailed when the site for the hospital was selected.
The Washington Monument was destroyed by an alien ship in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, badly damaged in a North Korean commando assault in Olympus Has Fallen, and topped with an unexplained hightech ring in the recent HBO miniseries Watchmen.
A mnemonic phrase used by medical students for the 12 cranial nerves is “On Old Olympus’ Towering Top A Finn And German Vault And Hop”, or variants, such as “On Old Olympus’ Towering Tops, A Fine Victorian Gentleman Viewed A Hawk”.
Astronomers remember Classes of Stars using the mnemonic Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now. Smack!
A useful mnemonic for remembering the name of the planets in order out from the Sun (back in the good ol’ days when Pluto was still recognized as a planet) was “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.”
The mnemonic taught to us for resistors in electrical school was Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly; Get Some Now :rolleyes:
And for biological taxonomy below Kingdom
Please Come Over For Good Sex
phylum, class, order, genus, species.
The notes on the lines of the treble clef are E, G, B, D, F. The mnemonic used by some music students to remember it (like me) was Every Good Boy Does Fine. Another one was Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. The latter mnemonic was also the title of a 1971 album by the Moody Blues. This album featured the single “The Story in Your Eyes”.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is also a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn, first performed in 1977. Per Wiki, the play criticizes the former Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness.
Tom Stoppard once described himself as a “bounced Czech”. He was born Tomáš Straussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, a city dominated by the Bata manufacturing company. His parents, both Jewish, worked for Bata; his father, Eugen, was a company doctor. Jan Antonín Baťa, the company’s owner, transferred his Jewish employees to branches of his firm outside Europe. In March 1939, when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, the Straussler family, including 1 year old Tomáš, fled to Singapore, where Baťa had a factory. All four of Stoppard’s grandparents died in the Holocaust.
In November,-December 1989, the “Velvet Revolution” led to the end of one-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, and transition to a liberal democracy. This, in turn, led to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and the formation of the separate countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
Vaclav Havel, a playwright, poet, and political dissident, became the final president of Czechoslovakia in December 1989, and later became the Czech Republic’s first president in 1993.
What is now the Czech Republic was a part of Austria-Hungary until the 20th century, with several parts forming into Czechoslovakia after WWI. Two of them. Bohemia and Moravia, then later remained together as Czech. When Hitler overran the country, he restored the names Bohmen und Mahren as a unified entity.
The Austrian Parliament is composed of two houses: the National Council and the Federal Council. While the Federal Council is referred to as the upper house, it has far less power than the National Council. Although the Federal Council has to approve each law passed by the lower chamber, the latter can overrule most refusals by a simple majority vote.
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are trained to present their credentials with their non-favored hand, so as to keep their favored hand available to pull their sidearm if needed. (Hollywood often gets this wrong).
The Sig Sauer P226 is one of the most common guns of the FBI, in 9mm and . 40 Smith. Agents have carried their own as a supplemental pistol, and the bureau has issued this pistol to special units and as a general sidearm since the 1990s.
When the St. Louis Browns played their only World Series, 13-game winner Sig Jackucki won the pennant-clinching game over the Yankees. He had had a brief stint with the Browns 8 years earlier, but had quit baseball and worked as a paper hanger until a WWII shortage of players gave him another shot.
In 1904, St. Louis became the first USA city to host the Summer Olympics. At this 1904 Olympics, the sports of boxing and the decathlon made their debuts.
The unofficial title of “The World’s Greatest Athlete” is traditionally given to the winner of the men’s decathalon at the Olympic Games. This tradition began in 1912, when American Jim Thorpe won the event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, and King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe, “You, sir, are the world’s greatest athlete.”
Jim Thorpe allegedly replied to this fulsome royal compliment, “Thanks, King.”