Actor Hayden Roarke was a prolific performer, whose career stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s. Roarke’s career was primarily in television; his signature role was that of Dr. Alfred Bellows, the NASA psychiatrist who served as the foil for astronauts Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman) and Roger Healey (Bill Daily), on I Dream of Jeannie
Larry Hagman (1931-2012) was the son of actress Mary Martin and Benjamin Hagman, who served as a District Attorney. Martin and Hagman divorced when Larry was five years old, and he lived with his maternal grandmother for a time while his mother began her acting career. Hagman, best known for his roles on I Dream of Jeannie and Dallas, died of complications from cancer at age 81.
Thomas Dewey served as District Attorney of New York County, making a name for himself as a crimefighter, before being elected Governor of New York. He was defeated by both Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 and Harry S Truman in 1948 when he ran for President.
Did he wear a cape? please tell me he wore a cape!
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George Orwell’s 1984 was written in 1948. He simply switched the last two digits of the year for the title.
Bitch, please. Thomas Dewey could never have made a cape work.
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Eric Arthur Blair, before beginning his writing career and choosing the pen name George Orwell, served as a police officer in Burma, then a province of British-ruled India, from 1922-28.
No capes!
Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers, nice man, good with kids? November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved, when… his cape snagged on a missile fin!
Stratogale! April 23rd, '57 – cape caught in a jet turbine! Meta-Man – express elevator! Dynaguy – snagged on takeoff! Splashdown – sucked into a vortex!
N̲O̲ C̲A̲P̲E̲S̲!!
-“BB”-
Paul “Motormouth” Blair was a Gold Glove-winning outfielder for the Oriole dynasty of the late '60s-early '70s. He was noted for playing a shallow centerfield and running down drives over his head. Debuting in 1964 with a September callup, Blair broke into the Oriole lineup in 1965. The Orioles won four pennants and two World Series with Blair.
He was traded to the New York Yankees in 1977, and won two more World Series in the Bronx Zoo of 1977 and 1978.
In the first words of his Inaugural Address on Jan. 20, 1977, President Jimmy Carter said, “For myself and for our nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.” He and Gerald Ford, despite their bitterly-contested 1976 election campaign, later became close friends.
Gerald Ford was a star player for the University of Michigan’s football team in the 1930s. Ford, who played center on offense and linebacker on defense, was named Michigan’s Most Valuable Player during his senior season (1934); in that same season, he played in the East-West Shrine Game, and was a member of the Collegiate All-Star team which played in the Chicago College All-Star Game.
After graduating from Michigan, Ford had offers to play in the NFL from the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, but turned them down, in order to attend law school.
The Orioles also won two more AL East division titles in the Blair era but lost in the AL championship series. Plus, they finished second to Detroit in the 1968 season.
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Michigan Stadium, nicknamed “The Big House,” is the football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the largest stadium in the United States and the third largest stadium in the world. It has a capacity of over 107,000.
The biggest stadium in the world is North Korea’s Rungrado 1st of May Stadium.
Also known as May Day Stadium, the Pyongyang venue, which houses a number of different sports, including football, has a maximum capacity of 114,000.
“Mayday” is the international radio distress call, developed in the UK by Frederick Stanley Mockford. Since they got many flights from France, the used the word because it sounds like the French “m’aider” meaning “help me.” However, in French, in a cry for help in a dangerous situation is “au secours.”
The opposite of “au secours” is “sauve qui peut!” (“Everyone for himself!”; literally, “everyone who can, save yourself!”)
Save Yourself is a 2015 horror movie starring Tristan Risk and Jessica Cameron inspired by a road trip that director Ryan M. Andrews took with writing partner Chris Cull from Toronto to Oklahoma.
From 2011 through 2016, there were two players in the NFL who had oddly similar names: Cameron Jordan (a defensive end for the New Orleans Saints) and Jordan Cameron (a tight end for the Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins).
Jordan Cameron retired after the 2016 season; Cameron Jordan continues to play for the Saints.
The film Almost Famous (2000) tells the story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s, his touring with the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The movie is semi-autobiographical , as writer-director Cameron Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone who toured with bands like Poco, the Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
While the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum is in Waterloo IA, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum is in Stillwater OK.
Daniel Lanois is a celebrated Canadian record producer who also sings and plays the guitar. He is perhaps best known for his work with U2 on The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, the first of which won a Grammy. Lanois also produced Grammy winning albums by Emmylou Harris and Bob Dylan (in 1997). He has worked with Peter Gabriel, extensively with Brian Eno and with many other luminaries.
His excellent own 1989 album, Acadie, featured mellow French-Canadian folk songs like Still Water, The Maker and Amazing Grace. Other albums include For The Beauty of Wynona.
Canadian singer/songwriter Kathryn Dawn (k. d.) Lang made an album paying tribute to fellow Canadian songwriters called Hymns of the 49th Parallel.
49th Parallel is a 1941 British war film, which was released in the United States as The Invaders. The plot concerns a German submarine which sinks a Canadian freighter and attempts to escape by sailing into Hudson Bay. The sub is sunk by Canadian Air Force bombers, whereupon the six survivors attempt to escape by fleeing to the neutral United States. Along the way they encounter Intuits, Hutterites, Mounties while travelling by floatplane, train, and automobile.
The film was intended to sway opinion in the US, but by the time it was released in March of 1942, the US was already involved in the war.