The main difference between crawfish and shrimp is the anatomical features and the habitat. Crawfish, AKA crayfish or spiny lobster is a freshwater decapod with large, front claws while shrimps are saltwater decapod with a long abdomen. According to taste tests, crawfish are usually less tough and more subtle compared to shrimp, and the taste can more accurately be described as a combination of crab and shrimp. Crawfish supposedly has a sweet taste with a little bit of salt and mineral flavor.
A decapod is a railroad term to describe a 2-10-0 steam locomotive. That means 5 pairs of synchronized drive wheel, a pair of pilot wheels ahead, and no trailing wheels. Russia ordered 1,200 of them before WWI, but only 2/3 of them were delivered before the revolution.
The Union Pacific “Big Boys” (pictured here) were a series of 25 steam locomotives, built for the Union Pacific Railroad by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944.
The Big Boys had a wheel arrangement of 4-8-8-4 (four lead wheels, two sets of 8 drive wheels, and four trailing wheels), and were the only locomotives to use this particular wheel arrangement. The locomotives were originally built to haul freight over the steep grades of the Wasatch Range in Utah and Wyoming.
Each Big Boy was over 85 feet long, and weighed 772,250 pounds, making them likely the longest and heaviest steam locomotives ever built.
When Dick Cheney was chosen as George W. Bush’s running mate in 2000, he quickly reestablished residency in Wyoming, which he had represented in the U.S. House of Representatives, so that he and Bush would not both be considered Texas residents and thus run afoul of the first sentence of the Twelfth Amendment: “The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves…” A Federal lawsuit challenging Cheney’s hurried change of residency was dismissed.
Wyoming has one seat in the US House of Representatives, a position to which Dick Cheney was elected six times beginning in 1978. Cheney left that post in March of 1989 to become Secretary of Defense.
Cheney’s daughter, Liz, was elected to that House seat in 2016 and was re-elected in 2018.
Liz Cheney’s criticism of same-sex marriage in order to win election to the House was depicted as the cause of a breach with her sister Mary, who is gay and married, in the movie Vice, about Dick Cheney’s political career and personal life.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (often referred to in the press as “Liz and Dick”) embarked on an extramarital affair while co-starring in the 1963 epic film Cleopatra; at that time, Taylor was married to singer Eddie Fisher, and Burton was married to actress Sybil Williams.
Their affair was a major scandal, and led to calls by the U.S. Congress to bar them from re-entering the country, and they were condemned by the Vatican for engaging in “erotic vagrancy.” Both Taylor and Burton soon divorced their spouses, and married each other in 1964. Their relationship was often tempestuous, and they divorced in 1974, reconciled and re-married in 1975, then divorced for good in 1975.
Elizabeth Taylor was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress five times, winning twice: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1959, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1967.
Richard Burton was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but never won an Oscar.
Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole co-starred in Becket (1964) and were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, but lost to Rex Harrison playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. O’Toole was nominated for Best Actor 8 times in 4 different decades but never won a competitive Oscar. He was awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2002 for his career achievements.
Richard Burton, interviewed by an American TV journalist at the time of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, was asked, “How does this make you feel as an Englishman?” and replied, “I’m Welsh.”
A noted actor flew into a boondock town for location shooing, which made local news. A reporter met him at the airport and asked “How was your flight?”
He replied “Have you ever flown before?”
“Yes.”
“Well. it was just like that.”
The American expression “boondocks,” meaning a rural or backwater area, comes from the Tagalog word “bundók,” meaning “mountain.”
It was introduced in the U.S. by military personnel who had served in the Philippine-American War at the beginning of the 20th Century; in the Philippines, “bundók” was used colloquially to refer to a rural or difficult-to-access area.
I did not know this. My wife and her nine siblings grew up barefoot in the bundoks on Mindanao, but not speaking Tagalog. When a Phlipino uses the English word “mountain”, it means jungle regardless of the relief. Urban culture always started in coastal settlements, so it was always uphill to the bundoks.
“Down in the Boondocks”, a song written by Joe South, was a hit single for Billy Joe Royal in 1965. The single reached #9 on the Billboard Top 100 chart. The song was also featured on an album by the same name.
Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pa. but rose to political prominence in Delaware. While serving as Vice President of the United States, he was spoofed by the Onion as a slightly-creepy, sports-car-loving older guy who tried to act younger and cooler than he really was.
One example: Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway
The satirical news web site The Onion began as a free weekly print edition in 1988. The paper was founded by four students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was initially only distributed in Madison. Distribution of the print edition was soon expanded to other college towns, and a web version of the paper was introduced in 1996.
LAPD Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger were killed by Greg Powell in an onion field on the night of March 9, 1963 after being kidnapped in Los Angeles.
Powell became known as the “Onion Field Killer”, and the story was related in a 1973 book by Joseph Wambaugh called The Onion Field. In 1979 it was made into a movie with the same name.
According to Onion Field murder of Ian Campbell locations from Google Earth - YouTube, which appears to be a good forensic analysis of the information in Wambaugh’s book, the police officers were located at the intersection at or near this location, Lat/Long 34.102885, -118.322457 (mapped) where they were kidnapped by Powell and his accomplice. They were driven far to the north, towards Bakersfield CA, where at Lat/Long 35.039854, -118.993716 (mapped), Officer Ian Campbell (then 31) was shot and murdered. Officer Karl Hettinger (then 28) ran off and ran in zig-zags as he was being shot at. At approximately Lat/Long 35.039800, -118.993875 (mapped), Hettinger hid as Powell and his partner looked for him. Hettinger was able to escape detection and run off on foot, about 4 miles to one of the houses near Lat/Long 35.055151, -119.038179 (mapped), where a farmer answered the door (it was late at night). The farmer got his shotgun for defense, he helped Hettinger, and he called the local sheriff.
In the 1979 movie, Ted Danson, in his acting debut, played Officer Ian Campbell.
John Savage played Karl Hettinger.
James Woods played killer Greg Powell.
The movie aligned well with the book, and the book aligned well with the facts of the case.
Ted Danson starred as Sam Malone, one of the leading characters in the television comedy Cheers. Cheers ran for eleven seasons and aired 275 episodes.
The show ranked 74th out of 77 in its premier season. Eventually Cheers would earn a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons, including one season at number one.
Collimation is the alignment of the two barrrels of a pair of binoculars. If thr two are not perfectly aligned, eye fatigue can occur in a short time of use, as the eye-brain try to superimpose the two images. Cheap binoculars often show poor colllimation, or careless use can knock the barrels out oo collimation.
On a linac (“linn-ack”), or linear accelerator, which is a medical device used to treat cancer, a collimator is a beam limiting device that helps to shape the beam of radiation emerging from the machine.