Arthur Treacher is perhaps best known to a certain generation of Americans for his role as the gruff but kindly Constable Jones of the London Metropolitan Police in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins.
During its heyday in the mid-1970s, there were something like 826 Arthur Treacher’s restaurants. As of February 2023, however, there are only two stand-alone stores remaining – both located in Ohio, although neither one is in the (former) headquarters city of Columbus.
ninja’d, after a fashion … but since Elendil_s_Heir’s post also still referred to Treacher, this is still good.
-“BB”-
Now there are three. The formerly closed Arthur Treacher’s in Garfield Heights OH opened back up two days ago.
Arthur Treacher’s, 12585 Rockside Rd, Garfield Heights OH
The other two locations are in Cleveland and Cuyahoga Falls OH.
The Arthur Murray Party was an American television variety show which ran from July 1950 until September 1960. The show was hosted by Arthur Murray and his wife, Kathryn, and featured various acts and celebrity guests and acted as advertisement for their chain of Arthur Murray Dance Studios.
Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, is generally thought to have won the 1960 presidential debates over incumbent Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Republican of California. It was the first televised debate between the two major-party candidates.
On 05 February 1960, the first CERN particle accelerator became operational in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (or in French, Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. It is the site for the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC’s underground diameter is over 1⅓ miles. The Higgs boson, named after physicist Peter Higgs, was discovered at the LHC in 2012. The Higgs boson is sometimes called the “God particle” after the 1993 book The God Particle by Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.
Lederman explained why he gave the Higgs boson the nickname “The God Particle”, because “This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, (and) yet so elusive… (for) two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one…”
Lederman refers, of course, to the Bible.
The Geneva Conventions are four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.
In international law and diplomacy the term convention refers to an international agreement, or treaty.
- The First Geneva Convention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field” (first adopted in 1864, revised in 1906, 1929, and finally 1949);
- The Second Geneva Convention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea” (first adopted in 1949, successor of the Hague Convention (X) 1907);
- The Third Geneva Convention “relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War” (first adopted in 1929, last revision in 1949);
- The Fourth Geneva Convention “relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War” (first adopted in 1949, based on parts of the Hague Convention (III) of 1899 and Hague Convention (IV).
In May of 1945, just before the surrender of Germany, there were 425,871 prisoners of war held in the United States. This total included 371,683 Germans, 50,273 Italians, and 3,915 Japanese. POW camps were located in 45 of the 48 states; California had the most number at 106 camps, while Texas came in second with 80.
About one-third of the Germanic (mainly Hessian) troops formerly serving with the British Army and held as prisoners at the 1783 conclusion of the American Revolution either remained here, or returned to settle here.
Hessian soldiers came from a region in what is now Germany (back then in was part of the Holy Roman Empire) known as “Hesse”, or “Hesse-Kassel”, which was ruled by the Landgrave Frederick II from 1760 to 1785. Frederick funded the depleted treasury of the poor government by loaning 19,000 soldiers in complete military formations to Great Britain to fight in the American Revolutionary War, 1776–1783. The British used the Hessians in several conflicts, including in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. For further revenue, the soldiers were loaned to other places as well. Most were conscripted, with their pay going to the Landgrave.
German author Hermann Hesse wrote “Siddhartha: An Indian novel” in 1922. It was published in the US in 1951 and became popular in the 1960s.
The word Siddhartha is made up of two Sanskrit words, siddha for achieved, and artha for what was searched for. Together the name means “he who has found meaning of existence” or “he who has attained his goals”.
The West German and East German flags were identical, except for the Communist insignia on the latter. After reunification of the countries in 1991, the West German flag became that of the entire country.
In 2015 one of the best sellers in Britain was The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
In 1964 four movies starring Peter Sellers debuted: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The World of Henry Orient, Carol for Another Christmas (TV movie), and A Shot in the Dark, a sequel to The Pink Panther (1963) and arguably the best of all the Inspector Clouseau films.
The look and persona of President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove were partly based on Adlai Stevenson, Democrat of Illinois, the unsuccessful presidential of his party nominee in both 1952 and 1956.
Illinois is known as the “Land of Lincoln” as Abraham Lincoln spent most of his life there. But, Abe was born in Kentucky.
Inventors John Deere and Cyrus McCormick made their fortunes in Illinois by improving farm machinery.
The bitter Civil War political and military rivals Abraham Lincoln, Republican of Illinois, and Jefferson Davis, Democrat of Mississippi, were born within a hundred miles of each other in Kentucky. It is unclear whether they ever actually met.
During the Civil War, 35,000 Kentuckians served as Confederate soldiers; an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers. Approximately 24,000 Black Kentuckians, free and enslaved, served as Union soldiers.
The Kentucky Bourbon Trail has 42 distilleries offering tours and tastings. These distilleries include, alphabetically by location:
Bardstown Bourbon Company, in Bardstown
Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience, in Bardstown
James Beam, in Clermont
Buffalo Trace, in Frankfort
Castle & Key, in Frankfort
Four Roses, in Lawrenceburg
Wild Turkey, in Lawrenceburg
Limestone Branch, in Lebanon
James Pepper, in Lexington
Maker’s Mark, in Loretto
Angel’s Envy, in Louisville
Kentucky Peerless, in Louisville Old Forester, in Louisville
Green River, in Owensboro
Bulleit Distilling Co., in Shelbyville — gotta love their name!
Woodford Reserve, in Versailles — I was there in June; a very nice experience
The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Welcome Center is located in Louisville.
@Bullitt that’s an impressive list of distilleries. One wonders if it’s feasible to visit all in a single day.
Old Rip Van Winkle 25 Year Old Kentucky Bourbon is currently the most expensive bourbon in the world. Launched in 2017, its list price is $53,712. per bottle.
