Palmolive is a brand of dishwashing soaps, currently produced by the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Palmolive was first introduced by the B.J. Johnson Soap Company of Milwaukee in 1898 as a bar soap, and got its name from two of its primary ingredients: palm oil and olive oil.
Isabel Sarli (1929-2019) was an Argentine actress. She began her career as a model and beauty queen, becoming Miss Argentina and reaching the semi-finals of Miss Universe 1955. She was discovered by Armando Bó in 1956 and made her acting debut the following year with Thunder Among the Leaves (1958), in which a controversial nude scene featuring Sarli made it the first film to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema.
Isabel Sarli starred in an Argentine commercial for Palmolive hair oil in 1955.
The first feature-length cartoon was made by Quirino Cristiani in 1917. The 70-minute film El Apóstol told the story of high levels of corruption and immorality in Argentina at the time.
Cristiani said he was inspired to make the movie after a meeting with Walt Disney himself during his tour of Latin America.
The movie was made using cutout animation and it was generally well-received. However, its time in the world was short-lived because it was lost in an apartment fire in 1928.
Taylor and Pierce were U.S. Army officers at the time, not diplomats, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was negotiated, signed and ratified in 1848.
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J.R.R. Tolkien hated Disney movies for their cloying sentimentality, and told friends that he never wished Disney to adapt any of his works for the screen.
The original plan for Walt Disney’s Epcot Center was as a planned community. Walt wanted to select around 20,000 people to live in the city, which would have had shopping areas, residential properties, theaters, restaurants, and more. The community was also intended to be built in a climate-controlled setting. After Walt died, the project was seen as unrealistic, and Epcot instead became what it is today.
Walt Disney passed away on December 15, 1966, five years before Disney World in Orlando opened. He died 10 days after his 65th birthday. He had been admitted to the hospital the previous month and underwent surgery to remove part of his left lung. A hospital spokesperson said that Disney died of “acute circulatory collapse.”
Walt Disney has the record for the most Oscars (both wins and nominations). He won 22 Academy Awards and was nominated for 59 in his lifetime. He won the Short Subject Oscar eight years in a row and won 4 honorary Oscars for technical achievements. Only one of his films, 1964’s Mary Poppins, was nominated for Best Picture, but it lost to My Fair Lady.
Steve Martin worked at Disneyland in his youth, but is not thought to have met Walt Disney at the time.
Steve Martin was a writer for the Smothers Brothers TV show. During that time he was also on an episode of The Dating Game. He competed against two other men, and he won the date.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded the song “Give Peace a Chance” during their “Bed-In” honeymoon, in room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, on June 1st, 1969. They recorded the song in front of several dozen journalists and celebrities who were in attendance; among the celebrities who were given official credit in the recording were Tommy Smothers (acoustic guitar) and Timothy Leary and Petula Clark (backing vocals).
Petula Clark has sold over 68 million records. In the US she was called “the First Lady of the British Invasion”.
British singing star Petula Clark was once spoofed by her countrymen of the comedy troupe Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
While assembling the cast of the movie Gone With the Wind, producer David Selznick wanted Gary Cooper to play the role of leading man Rhett Butler. Cooper turned down the part, because he believed that the movie would be a flop. Instead, the part was given to Clark Gable, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. Gable’s last line of “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” is one of the most famous lines in movie history.
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The WWII Battle of Monte Cassino in early 1944 was supposed to be a quick offensive through the “soft underbelly” of the Axis forces, but it quickly bogged down into brutal and bloody combat as Allied soldiers bashed themselves against the Gustav Line. The British 8th Army was composed of several Commonwealth nations such as New Zealand, India, as well as Polish troops and invaded alongside the US 5th Army. Overall Allied casualties are estimated to be around 55,000 men to the 20,000 German.
A sewer pipe “belly” is a flaw in a sewer line, in which a low spot develops in a section of the pipe. Water and sewage material then accumulate in the low spot, which can lead to a restricted flow, and ultimately a clog in the pipe.
((Not in play: I am, at this very moment, watching a plumbing crew finish up the repair of a belly in my house’s sewer pipe. Trust me, you don’t want to go through this. 
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Scientific illiteracy and poor risk-assessment skills are illuminated by public responses to warnings of the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide - that is, water.
“Weird” Al Yankovic’s parents died of carbon monoxide poisoning apparently from a fire in the fireplace with the flue closed.
Frankie Yankovic (1915-1998) was an accordion player who was known as “America’s Polka King”. Although they are not related, Frank and “Weird Al” have collaborated on some songs.
Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons thought that his birth name, Francesco Stephen Castellucio, was too long so he decided to change it. He chose the surname Valley after singer Texas Jean Valley. To make his name more Italian, he then changed the spelling to Valli.
Between September of 1962 and March of 1963, The Four Seasons had three straight singles reach #1 on the Billboard charts: “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Walk Like a Man.” The group hit #1 again in July of 1964 with “Rag Doll.”