The musical Jersey Boys is based on the career of the 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. It won four Tony Awards in 2006, including the award for Best Musical, and ran on Broadway for twelve years.
Broadway runs for 33 whole miles, of which 18 miles are not even within New York City limits! It begins from Lower Manhattan at Bowling Green and runs north to Bronx all the way to Albany ( out of NY). It is one of the oldest North South thoroughfare’s in New York City and has roots traced back to the Native American times. The first written reference of the term Broadway on Maps was seen in 1700s. During the Dutch settlement in America, the Broadway street was called Brede weg. The name Broadway is the literal English translation of the earlier known Dutch name.
Not in play: Nitpick: Broadway runs 33 miles north to the Bronx all the way to the Albany Post Road (out of NY)
Albany itself is 130 miles north of the end of Broadway.
And I don’t know how to explain why it’s the Bronx, it just is. 20+ years ago, I lived there 4 years and worked there another 5; my son has lived there for the past 3 years.
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The Bronx takes its name from Jonas Bronck, who established a settlement there as part of New Netherland in 1639. It is the only New York City borough that is wholly on the US mainland; Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island are all entirely on islands, while only a small section of Manhattan, Marble Hill, is on the mainland.
With a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census, if it were ranked as a separate city, the Bronx would be the 9th most populous city in the US, ahead of Dallas and Austin TX and San Jose CA. It also has beaches, including Orchard Beach on Long Island Sound.
Another open space in the Bronx is the Thain Family Forest at the New York Botanical Garden, which is thousands of years old; it is New York City’s largest remaining tract of the original forest that once covered the city.
Bronx, Wyoming was a small town that was settled in the early 1900s between Jackson Hole and Rock Springs. The last remnants of schools there closed in the mid-1960s.
The “Bucking Horse and Rider” logo is a registered trademark, owned by the state of Wyoming. The state initially trademarked the symbol for use on automobile license plates, but the symbol is now also used on state highway signs, on the uniforms of the Wyoming National Guard, and as the logo for the University of Wyoming.
American criminal the Sundance Kid was originally named Harry Longabaugh . At age 15, he headed west and received his nickname when was arrested for stealing a horse in Sundance, Wyoming.
Sundance was the Secret Service code name for Al Gore. And also for Ethel Kennedy.
According to Britannica, the Secret Service code names for some of the recent Presidents are as follows:
John Kennedy: Lancer
Richard Nixon: Searchlight
Gerald Ford: Passkey
Jimmy Carter: Deacon
Ronald Reagan: Rawhide
George H.W. Bush: Timberwolf
Bill Clinton: Eagle
Barak Obama: Renegade
Donald Trump: Mogul
Joe Biden: Celtic
Biden’s code name is the same as was used when he was vice-president.
There are three Holy Orders (ordination of ministers) in the Roman Catholic Church: deacon, priest and bishop.
The Roman Catholic Church recognizes seven “sacraments” – important rites in one’s faith. These are grouped into three types:
- Sacraments of initiation include Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist
- Sacraments of healing include Penance and Anointing of the Sick
- Sacraments of service include Holy Orders and Matrimony
The Roman Catholic Church executed William Tyndale in 1536 for translating the Bible into English. He was not just executed: he was tried for heresy, choked, impaled, and burned on the stake. Roughly 83% of the New Testament in the King James Bible is Tyndale’s translation. Additionally, roughly 76% of the Old Testament is his translation.
The King James Bible is the most-read version in the United States, but the New International Version has been the best-selling version in the country for at least the past ten years.
98 percent of the brown bears in the United States live in the state of Alaska.
Even so, this represents a population of no more than an estimated 32000 individuals state-wide. As such, the brown bear is generally classified as an endangered species.
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The brown bear and the grizzly bear are the same animal (Ursus arctos). The difference in names is generally determined by location, with the term ‘grizzly bear’ being given to bears found inland while bears on the coast are called ‘brown bears’.
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The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was a 1974 feature film, starring Dan Haggerty as the title character, a frontiersman who flees into the mountains after being accused of a murder that he did not commit. While in the mountains, Adams rescues and raises an orphaned grizzly bear cub, and becomes a friend to wildlife.
The film, which was loosely based on the life of a 19th Century mountain man from California, also spawned an NBC television series of the same name (and also starring Haggerty), which ran for two seasons.
Fed-up with a greed driven society, John C. “Grizzly” Adams abandoned civilization in late 1852 in exchange for the solitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite. Grizzly Adams adapted to the wilderness and collected and tamed many wild animals to include grizzly bears, elk, wolves, foxes, and deer. For three years Grizzly Adams led expeditions with his tamed bears as both travelling companions and pack mules, roaming mountain ranges stretching from the Canadian border, to the Great Salt Lake, and to the Mojave Desert.
Actor Dan Haggerty, who played Grizzly Adams, was 6’ 1” tall. He died in 2016 at the age of 74 of cancer which was in his spinal column. Like the TV character, Haggerty was friendly with wild animals in real life. As a Malibu CA-based stuntman and performer before the show started, he had a leopard, a cougar and a tiger on the ranch that he shared with his wife and daughters.
The term ‘big cat’ is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera: the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. The largest big cat is the Siberian tiger, which can weigh up to 660 pounds and can stretch more than 10 feet nose to tail. By contrast, the largest lion weighs around 420 pounds.
The De Tomaso Pantera was a mid-engine sports car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer De Tomaso from 1971 to 1992. Italian for “Panther”, the Pantera was the automaker’s most popular model, with over 7,000 manufactured over its twenty-year production run. It replaced the De Tomaso Mangusta (1967-1971) and was designed by an American, Tom Tjaarda. In the US the Pantera was distributed by the Ford Motor Company.
Google Images hasn’t led me to any such insignia, and I see none on the WNG website. Are you thinking of the WNG Association, maybe?: https://wynga.org/
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1971 was the second full year of the Nixon Administration. President Richard M. Nixon, Republican of California, resigned three years later, brought down by the Watergate Scandal.