Sand Island is on Oahu, in Honolulu, and east of Pearl Harbor and also east of the airport. It is west of Diamond Head. It lies at the entrance of Honolulu Harbor. In the Hawaiian language, Honolulu means “sheltered harbor”, or “calm port”.
The first shot of the Pearl Harbor battle was fired by the American ship, the USS Ward. The ship encountered a Japanese midget sub about an hour before the Japanese attack began and sunk it.
The Argentine light cruiser ARA General Belgrano, sunk by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror during the 1982 Falklands War, had survived unscathed the 1941 Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor when she was the USS Phoenix. She was sold to Argentina by the US Navy in 1951.
Phoenix, released in 1979, was Dan Fogelberg’s 6th album. With songs like Longer, Heart Hotel, and Along the Road, the album charted well. Fogelberg’s albums include:
1972 — Home Free
1974 — Souvenirs
1975 — Captured Angel
1977 — Nether Lands
1978 — Twin Sons of Different Mothers
1979 — Phoenix
1981 — The Innocent Age
1982 — Greatest Hits
1984 — Windows and Walls
1985 — High Country Snows
1987 — Exiles
1990 — The Wild Places
1991 — Dan Fogelberg Live: Greetings from the West
1993 — River of Souls
1995 — No Resemblance Whatsoever
2001 — The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg
2009 — Love in Time (released posthumously)
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg died in 2007 of prostate cancer. He was 56.
Twin Sons of Different Mothers was a collaboration album by Dan Fogelberg and jazz flutist Tim Weisberg. Released in 1978, the album went platinum, peaking at #8 on the charts. The album featured The Power of Gold, a single that peaked at #24 on the singles charts.
The duo collaborated again in 1995 for the album No Resemblance Whatsoever.
1978 saw the release of many seminal rock albums, including debuts by Van Halen, Dire Straits, The Blues Brothers, The Police, and The Cars. Also released were:
- Blondie’s Parallel Lines
- Billy Joel’s 52nd Street
- Bob Seger’s Stranger In Town
- Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model
- Little Feat’s Waiting For Columbus
- Foreigner’s Double Vision
- The Who’s Who Are You
- Rod Stewart’s Blondes Have More Fun
- Styx’s Pieces of Eight
- Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Queen’s Jazz
- and The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls
Fogelberg’s and Weisberg’s Twin Sons of Different Mothers in 1978 led many years later to their 1995 No Resemblance Whatsoever. However, in 1997 Tim Weisberg sued Dan Fogelberg for breach of contract and fraud from its album sales and the subsequent tour.
The United States had a Southern Democrat in the White House in each of those years: 1978 (Carter), 1995 and 1997 (Clinton).
There are currently five former US Presidents still alive: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. This ties a record for the most living ex-Presidents, which has happened four other times in US history: 1861-1862, 1993-1994, 2001-2004, and 2017-2018.
From January 22, 1973 through August 9, 1974, there were no living former Presidents.
From August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977, the US was led by a president (and vice-president, after December 19, 1974) who were not elected by the people. Both Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller were appointed to their positions.
Nelson Rockefeller, Republican of New York, underwent a grueling series of Congressional hearings in 1974 on his nomination, pursuant to the 25th Amendment, to become Vice President. The process included, to the irritation of many of his relatives, the disclosure of extensive family financial information.
Nelson Rockefeller is the brother of David Rockefeller, founder of The Trilateral Commission, a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. The commission lists its members, among them Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, and Jeffrey Epstein.
In geometry, trilateration is a method for determining the intersections of three sphere surfaces given the positions of the centers, and the radii of the three spheres. Trilateration can also determine absolute or relative locations of points by measurement of distances, using the geometry of circles, spheres or triangles. Trilateration is different from triangulation, which uses triangles from known points to determine the location of another point.
In American gridiron football, a “lateral pass” is a pass which is either thrown parallel to the line of scrimmage, or backwards from the line of scrimmage. A lateral pass does not have to follow the rules for a “forward pass” – as a result, a single play can feature multiple lateral passes, and a lateral pass which is not caught is treated as a fumble (and, thus, a live ball), rather than an incomplete pass (which is a dead ball).
The use of triangles to estimate distances is a centuries-old technique. In the 6th century BC, the Greek philosopher Thales used ‘similar triangles’ to estimate the height of the pyramids of ancient Egypt. He measured the length of a pyramid’s shadow and that of his own at the same moment, and compared the ratios to his height.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art currently has an exhibit on “Egyptomania,” exploring the ongoing appeal of the art, fashion and jewelry of Ancient Egypt: Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession | Cleveland Museum of Art
Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was caricatured by Steve Martin in his song, “King Tut.” In 2017, students in a humanities class at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, protested the inclusion of the Saturday Night Live performance in their coursework, calling it an example of cultural appropriation while demanding its removal. One complained that the gold face of the saxophone player was a racist exhibition of blackface.
Steve Martin has won five Grammy Awards:
- Two during the 1970s, for his comedy albums, including the 1979 album A Wild and Crazy Guy, which featured his song “King Tut.”
- Three in the 21st century, for country and bluegrass music (Martin is also an accomplished banjoist)
Beacon Joe, the banjo player on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, is actually not playing or even holding a banjo.