M&M’s were introduced in 1941; Forrest Mars Sr. (the son of Mars Company founder Frank Mars) copied the idea from a similar English candy, Smarties.
M&M’s were originally produced by a company which was jointly operated by the Mars Company and the Hershey Company – Hershey provided the chocolate for the candy’s production during World War II.
In 1967, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a decision of the Registrar of Trade Marks who had refused to register “Smoothies” for a candy, because it would be confusing with “Smarties”, produced by a different company.
The Supreme Court of the United States does not permit televised broadcasts of oral arguments before it, although audio recordings are made. It is a perennial issue and will probably come up once more in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s nominee to the court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Supreme Court of Canada has televised its hearings for over 20 years. They are also now live-streamed on the internet the day of the hearing, and then are archived permanently on the SCC website.
The Supremes were a female vocal group in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of Motown Records’ premier acts.
The group was a quartet when they signed with Motown in 1961, consisting of Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, and Barbara Martin; Martin left the group the following year, and the others continued as a trio.
In 1967, Motown president Berry Gordy replaced Ballard with Cindy Birdsong, and renamed the group “Diana Ross & the Supremes.” Upon Ross’s departure for a solo career in 1970, the group’s name reverted to The Supremes, under various lineups, until disbanding in 1977.
In a Friends episode in which Monica’s hairdo has become extremely large and frizzy in the humidity of a Caribbean island she’s visiting, she tells her friend Phoebe that she has something important to discuss. Phoebe asks, deadpan, “Have you decided to leave the Supremes?”
In Menotti’s short opera *The Medium, * Madame Flora, a fake psychic, with the help of her daughter Monica and Toby, a mute servant, cheats her clients through faked seances. She is touched herself by a hand during one of them, an occurrence she cannot explain and which drives her to insanity and murder. Notable arias sung by Monica are “Monica’s Waltz,” and “The Black Swan.”
Actress Natalie Portman has been nominated for three Academy Awards, and has won one:
The film Black Swan references Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake and its demanding dual leading role: the innocent heroine Odette, in white, and the villainous temptress Odile, in black. Because the character of Odile is actually an evil sorcerer’s daughter magically disguised as Odette, the two roles are most often portrayed by the same dancer.
The ballet was initially a failure, but is now one of the most popular ballets of all time.
Other dual roles are Captain Hook & Mr. Darling in the original Peter Pan play and Sam Parrish & Van Pelt in the original Jumanji. In both cases the dual roles are the father and the antagonist of the main character.
William Shatner appeared in dual roles in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Operation – Annihilate!,” playing both Capt. James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise and his recently-killed brother, Sam Kirk.
Operation Nimrod was the name of the 1980 British Army SAS effort to save hostages from the Iranian Embassy in London. 26 people were taken hostage by Iranian Arab gunmen campaigning for sovereignty of the Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. Of the 26 hostages, almost all were eventually liberated by the operation or release by the captors. However two were killed, including one who had been a temp employee at the embassy.
For years after the commercial success of their album “Dookie”, Green Day’s fans accused them of selling out and forgetting their punk roots. After trying to appease the fans, they eventually released the album “Nimrod” which included the hit song Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). It was such a departure for the band with a barebones acoustic guitar and Travis-picked melody, no drums and a gentle string arrangement. Most people took the title quite literally and assumed Green Day was telling their original fans to go f*ck themselves.
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Commercial enzyme cleaners such as BacOut and OxiClean Laundry Detergent attack stains and smells effectively by using proteolytic enzymes and bacteria that digest organic matter. They’re ideal for removing stains and odors caused by blood, grass, sweat, urine, and other biological materials.
You can use a variety or mixture of citrus peels to make homemade enzyme cleaner, including lemon, lime, grapefruit, and orange. It’s important to use fresh citrus peels. Dried peels won’t contain enough citrus oil for cleaning, and rotten ones will cause the mixture to mold. The peels are mixed with yeast, sugar and water. The cleaner will need a couple of weeks to ferment before it’s ready to use.
The rue family of plants, Ruta graveolens, is native to the Balkan Peninsula comprised of all or parts of the former Yugoslavia, and the current Albania, Romania, Greece, Slovenia, and Italy. And within the rue family is the Citrus genus of flowering trees and shrubs that are native to South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Australia.
The national anthem of Australia is “Advance Australia Fair,” which twice replaced “God Save the Queen” in that role, in 1974 and again ten years later, after referenda votes. The latter song is now known as the Royal Anthem and typically is only used on Australian state occasions when the Queen or a member of the Royal Family is present.
Canada also has a National Anthem, “O Canada”, as well as the Royal Anthem, @God Save the King”.
There’s also a nifty little instrumental piece which played when the Queen, the GovGen, or a LtGov enters a public area. It starts out with the opening bars of God Save the Queen , then has a bridge, and finishes with the closing bars of “O Canada”.
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe, usually known just as the Wilhelmus, is the national anthem of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It dates back to at least 1572, making it the oldest known national anthem in the world.
The Netherlands is known for its tulips, however the flowers are not native to the Netherlands, but instead Turkey. Tulips only became synonymous with the country after World War II when the Dutch used the bulbs as a food source. Today, the flowers have become a large part of Dutch culture, and tourists travel to the country every year to visit the Keukenhof tulip gardens, the largest flower garden in the world.