Worth syndrome is a rare bone disorder characterized by increased bone density and benign bony structures in the mouth, on the palate. By some estimates, fewer than 1,000 people in the US have this disease.
President John F. Kennedy spoke to a friendly but rain-soaked crowd outside his hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, on the morning of his death in Dallas, November 22, 1963.
The New York Rangers were named in honor of their first owner, Tex Rickard: the team was dubbed “Tex’s Rangers” as a reference to the Texas Rangers police force in the Lone Star State.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, formerly Six Flags Theme Park, Inc., is an American amusement park corporation, headquartered in Arlington, Texas. It gets its name from the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.
Over 400,000 men and women are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. An average of 25 funerals a day are held there. Each year more than 3 million tourists visit it. The Marine Corps War Memorial, just outside of it, was dedicated “In honor and in memory of the men of the United States Marine Corps who have given their lives to their country since November 10, 1775.”
The famous Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignia of the U.S. Marine Corps was not in use during the Civil War; the Corps’s insignia then was a hunting horn with the letter “M.”
Playing off of M, for Messier…
The EHT, Event Horizon Telescope, combines data from several VLBIs (very-long-baseline interferometry stations) around the Earth. The EHT project’s observational targets include the two black holes with the largest angular diameter as observed from Earth: the black hole at the center of the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87*, pronounced “M87-Star”), and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced “Sagittarius A-Star”) at the center of the Milky Way.
On 10 April 2019 the first image of a black hole, at the center of galaxy Messier 87, was published by the EHT Collaboration.
M87* supermassive black hole in polarised light
The concept of a black hole was announced in 1783 by John Michell, an English country parson. Michell was educated in Cambridge, where he taught Hebrew, Greek, mathematics, and geology. He later became rector at a small town near Leeds, where he did most of his important work. His list of visitors included Ben Franklin, Joseph Priestly, and Henry Cavendish. Priestly discovered oxygen, and Cavendish discovered hydrogen.
Ben Franklin, asked why enjoyed wooing and bedding older women, supposedly replied, “Because they are so grateful.”
He got it where he could get it, I guess.
Old Ben was a randy fellow. In 1745 he wrote a letter called “Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress”, in which Franklin counsels a young man about channeling sexual urges. Due to its licentious nature the letter was not published in collections of Franklin’s papers in the United States during the 19th century.
According to Franklin’s letter on choosing a mistress, there are a total of eight reasons why one should choose an older woman. Some of the other reasons were it was less of an offense to seduce an older woman than debauching a virgin; the older woman was more apt to keep the affair in confidence; and there was less chance of childbirth.
Or to put it another way — They won’t yell; they won’t tell; they won’t swell; and they’re grateful as hell.
-“BB”-
Mark Hamill played David Bradford on the pilot of Eight is Enough. He got out of his contract so he could star in Star Wars.
Oh, interesting. There aren’t many images but I found one.
In play:
Kurt Russell, Christopher Walken, Sylvester Stallone, John Travolta, Chevy Chase and James Wood all auditioned for the Star Wars (1977) role of Han Solo.
While he was attending Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in the 1960s, comic actor Chevy Chase played drums in a jazz band, The Leather Canary, along with two of his college friends, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Fagan and Becker later went on to form the band Steely Dan.
Of those, I can only maybe picture Russell in that role. Chevy Chase? How the hell did he even get in the door?
Chevy Chase, Maryland is a town near Washington, DC. The name Chevy Chase is derived from Cheivy Chace , the name of the land patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, on July 10, 1725.
Not in play: the casting of the three main roles in Star Wars is still famous for casting an incredibly wide net, with seemingly every actor and actress in Hollywood auditioning.
The Chevy Chase Race is an annual 20-mile run through the Northumberland region of England. The route is unmarked and you may choose your own path as long as the manned checkpoints are visited in the correct order. Walkers and runners are welcomed but the course must be completed in 6hrs.
Really! I can’t even imagine it. I keep envisioning Clark Griswold in Vacation.
