“Yacht Rock” is a term, first coined in 2005, which has been applied to smooth, adult-oriented, high-production-value West Coast rock music from the late 1970s and early 1980s – ostensibly, the sort of music that stereotypical Yuppies would have enjoyed while relaxing on their yachts.
Artists whose songs are typically classified as Yacht Rock include Christopher Cross, Toto, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates, and Michael McDonald (as well as Doobie Brothers songs featuring McDonald).
In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, the dog Toto was played by a female brindle Cairn Terrier named Terry. She was paid a $125 salary each week, which was more than some of the human actors were paid. The Singer Midgets, who played the Munchkins, reportedly received $50 to $100 a week.
In order to portray the character of twelve-year-old Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, seventeen-year-old Judy Garland was required to have her breasts taped down; she was also made to wear a tightly-fitting corset in order to appear less developed and more girlish.
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Gale Storm was an American singer and TV actress, appearing in My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show (known as Oh! Susannah! in syndication).
Actor Chris Evans has portrayed two different Marvel Comics superheroes in films:
Rogers Hornsby (1896–1963), was an American baseball player, manager and coach, and he is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1927 he played for the New York Giants.
Multiple Grammy-winning pianist Bruce Hornsby attended the University of Miami with fellow musicians Patti Scialfa, Jaco Pastorius, and Pat Metheny. He also played on the college’s basketball team.
Rick Barry played basketball for the Miami Hurricanes. His jersey number 24 is retired.
Rick Barry may best be remembered for his unorthodox underhand free-throw shooting technique. When he retired from the NBA in 1980, he was the career leader in free-throw shooting percentage. (That record has since been eclipsed by six other players).
Barry is (and will always be) the only person the lead the NCAA, ABA, and NBA in scoring for a season.
Steph Curry has the highest career free throw percentage. Rick Barry is 7th and is tied with Damian Lillard.
|Rank|Player|FT%|
|1.|Stephen Curry|.9075|
|2.|Steve Nash*|.9043|
|3.|Mark Price|.9039|
|4.|Peja Stojaković|.8948|
|5.|Chauncey Billups|.8940|
|6.|Ray Allen*|.8939|
|7.|Rick Barry*|.8931|
| |Damian Lillard|.8931|
In the 1979 film Being There, Peter Sellers plays a simple-minded gardener named Chance, who is forced to leave his home when his employer dies. Through a series of happenstance events, Chance the gardener becomes ‘Chauncey Gardener’ and rises to become the top advisor to the President.
Sellers earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role, while co-star Melvyn Douglas won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Melvyn Douglas also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Hud and was nominated for Best Actor for I Never Sang for My Father.
Legendary actor Kirk Douglas lived to the age of 103 and had two bar mitzvah’s, one at the usual age of 13 and again at age 83 when he reaffirmed his Jewish faith.
The Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, or Mikra, has the same 39 books as the Protestant Bible’s Old Testament does, but in different order.
The sections of the Tanakh are the Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Ketuvim.
The Old Testament’s 39 books are in this order:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Joshua, Judges, Ruth
1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel
Hosea, Joel, Amos
Obadiah, Jonah, Micah
Nahum, Habbakuk, Zephaniah
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
The books of the Tanakh are the same, but they are in a different order. Also, there are only 24 books because the Tanakh counts some separate books as a single book. These are:
These 20 books which are counted separately in the Protestant Old Testament become 5 books in the Tanakh.
There are 27 books in the New Testament. They are:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus
Philemon, Hebrews
James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John
Jude, Revelation
The Tanakh does not contain any of these.
Very observant Jewish couples do not have sex for half the month — the days a woman is having her period and seven days after that.
In British English, the term “full stop” is often used in place of “period” as a punctuation mark.
Stop-motion animation is a technique of animated film-making, in which physical objects (typically puppets, plasticine/clay figures, or paper cut-outs) are moved in small increments, and then filmed for a small number of frames after each movement – when the film is played back, the objects appear to be independently moving.
A mammoth 130 sets were built for the film Coraline, spanning over 52 different animation stages. This covered an area of around 183,000 square feet.
The last known population of woolly mammoths is believed to have existed on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, disappearing about 4,000 years ago. This, of course, was well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt. There are two main theories as to the cause of the disappearance of this population: climate change or human hunting.
The Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, is the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the largest pyramid as well as the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world, with a total volume estimated at over 140 million cubic feet, even larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which is about 85 million cubic feet.