Bob Dylan has won many awards throughout his long career, including the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, ten Grammy Awards, one Academy Award (for his song “Things Have Changed” in the film Wonder Boys) and one Golden Globe Award.
Mark Antony died at the age of 53 by suicide. He was a Roman politician and general who lived from 83 BC to 30 BC.
Mark Anthony are the first two birth names of an American actor born in 1961. His full birth name is Mark Anthony Dylan McDermott, and he goes by the name Dylan McDermott. He made his screen debut in the 1987 movie Hamburger Hill.
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In a 2021 interview director John Irvin said that Hamburger Hill could have been released before Platoon and Full Metal Jacket “if Paramount had been a bit braver”. Because Vietnam was not considered a popular subject, Paramount wanted to see how Platoon performed at the box office. According to Irvin, Hamburger Hill was again pushed back when Stanley Kubrick pushed for Full Metal Jacket to be released before Hamburger Hill.
Stanley Kubrick insisted on drinking only bottled water imported from America during the British filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but after a few weeks his personal assistant just refilled the bottles from the tap. Kubrick never noticed the difference.
Something I’ll bet few here, if any, know. When Bill Clinton made a presidential visit to Uganda in 1998, they demanded that pallets of bottled Evian be shipped in from France (at a huge expense), rather than drink locally bottled water. When they left, most of the pallets were still sitting there, so the embassy gave most of it away to the local workers. Your tax dollars at work, folks!
You’re right, I’ve never heard of this. My Google search requests return nothing related to this subject. Can you provide a cite?
- It was probably cheaper to order it and ship it direct from France than to bring it with them (using USAF transport planes, of course) from the USA – if, in fact, this was the case. Frankly, I suspect that Evian would have given Clinton all he wanted in exchange for publicizing the fact that they were the ‘water of choice’ of the POTUS, sort of like Brit establishments publicize their royal warrants to the Queen or other hoity-toitys.
- It was certainly cheaper to leave it for the locals there than it was to try to bring it all back to the USA.
- I agree with Elendil_s_Heir … how about a citation for this?
Quit trying to stir the shit pot.
-“BB”-
In 2001, the earliest year I could find, the US gave Uganda over 91 million bucks in foreign aid. That supposed ‘huge expense’ to ship several pallets of water from France to Kampala wouldn’t amount to jack shit compared to the overall amount of monies Washington sent there.
In play: During the eight years of his presidency, Bill Clinton made 54 trips to 72 different countries. The first of these trips took place less than 3 months after he took the oath of office, when he met Boris Yelstin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in April of 1993. The last of these trips took place in December of 2000, when he visited the United Kingdom, meeting with Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II.
In his final months in the White House, President Bill Clinton’s staff compiled a list of all the states he had visited during his two terms. They realized he had visited every state except Nebraska, so an event was soon scheduled there with US Sen. Ben Nelson.
It was actually Railer13 who asked for a cite, but I’d be interested to see one, too.
The Ogallala aquifer is the nation’s largest. Almost all of Nebraska lies on it. The Ogallala aquifer is larger in square miles than the state of California. It is larger than 48 states. Only Alaska and Texas are bigger.
My wife and I were both posted to the embassy in Uganda when his visit happened. I was in charge of part of the logistics for the visit, which were massive. I’m not stirring any shit pot and I resent the accusation.
I will retract my statement. It’s just that there’s so much factionalism on so many of the other boards and comment sections I visit that this seemed to me to be someone pointing fingers at someone merely of who he was and which party he was affiliated with. So far this board, at least here on the Thread Games section, has been relatively free from all that, so I wanted to call it out and hopefully nip it in the bud.
-“BB”-
All is forgiven. For what it’s worth, I voted for Bill twice and Hillary once. 
In the grand scheme of what goes on in the Foreign Service and the government in general, this was small potatoes, but a major headache for the embassy, who has to foot the bill. I thought it might be of interest to others to peek behind the curtain a bit.
Just mildly curious as to how much water was involved for such a nuisance. I am sure for any President these diva-like behaviours are common and add up to shocking amounts that are still relatively nothing compared to immense amounts. The President might not even be aware of them?
Back in play:
The international border between the state of Texas and the country of Mexico is over 1250 miles long, the entirety of which is defined by the Rio Grande River. The total length of the river is about 1900 miles, which makes it the 4th longest river in the country, measured from source to mouth.
George Washington would have preferred to retire to his estate at Mount Vernon rather than serve as the first President of the United States. He wrote to his friend and former Revolutionary War comrade, Maj. Gen. Henry Knox, “… in confidence I tell you, that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities & inclination which is necessary to manage the helm…”
Knox would serve in the first Cabinet as Secretary of War.
ETA: Ninja’d! Henry Knox was, uh, not from Mexico.
A cargo plane full of pallets, but I couldn’t say for sure what that comes to. For what it’s worth, the Pres doesn’t usually make these decisions; it’s his staff and security folks being overly protective.
Fort Knox, Kentucky lies partly in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in the north-central part of the state. The county was named after Thomas Bullitt, a Revolutionary War military Captain from Prince William County, Virginia and pioneer on its western frontier. In 1775, Captain Bullitt participated in the Battle of Great Bridge, Virginia. Bullitt’s Lick, Kentucky is also named after him.
Fort Knox is an Army base named in honor of Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery in the American Revolutionary War and the first US Secretary of War. Fort Knox is also a city. It is the fifteenth most populated city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, according to the US Army’s web page.
Fort Knox is the home of the General George Patton Museum which is open year round. The US Department of Treasury’s Kentucky Bullion Depository is located adjacent to Fort Knox; however, it is closed to visitors.
The Bullion Depository, commonly called “Fort Knox”, currently holds roughly 5,000 metric tons of gold bullion, which is over half of the Treasury’s stored gold. The US Mint Police protects the depository.
https://home.army.mil/knox
Cite: Visitor Information :: U.S. Army Fort Knox: Gold Standard Army Installation
Ninja’d! Fort Knox does not have an airport. No planes fly in or out of it.
There was some filming near the Fort Knox gold bullion depository and around town for the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger, but all interior scenes were filmed on a soundstage. One production designer, who had seen pictures of the real bullion vaults, said they were boring by comparison to what Hollywood audiences had come to expect.