More specifically, they denied him his seat and SCOTUS said that the House could not prevent anyone duly elected and meets the constitutional requirements to be seated .
Per Wiki, the reason the House had its nose out of joint against Congressman Adam Clayton Powell were “allegations that he had refused to pay a judgment ordered by a New York court, misappropriated congressional travel funds, and paid his wife a congressional staff salary for work she had not done.”
Powell was known for his flamboyant style and his catchphrase, “Keep the faith, baby.”
Clayton State College in Morrow, GA list their school colors as Laker Blue and Georgia Clay.
The Los Angeles Lakers team colors are Lakers purple, gold, and black.
The backup singers/dancers to The Lady of the Lake in the Broadway musical Spamalot are called The Laker Girls.
The title of the stage musical Spamalot comes from a line in the song “Knights of the Round Table” in the original hit movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot.”
“Spam” is one of Monty Python’s best-known sketches, originally airing during the second series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1970. The sketch features a husband and wife, attempting to order breakfast at a diner, only to discover that nearly every dish on the menu features the canned meat product Spam.
The term “spam,” referring to unsolicited electronic communications, takes its name in reference to the “Spam” sketch.
According to the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, the name SPAM comes from its ingredients, Shoulder of Pork and hAM.
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Austin, Minnesota was named for Austin R. Nichols, the area’s first European settler. George A. Hormel, the founder of Hormel Foods, hails from Austin. So, too, do football player Larry Kramer, and John Madden, former Oakland Raiders head coach and NFL Hall of Farmer.
Madden agreed to lend his name to Madden NFL following a meeting with EA executives in 1984. He considered the game an educational tool, and a way for people to learn the game and participate in the game at a pretty sophisticated level.
When John Madden was a child, his family moved to Daly City, California. One of his childhood friends there was John Robinson, who would later gain fame as head football coach at USC and the Los Angeles Rams.
It is commonly thought that John Madden got his fear of flying from the 1960 Cal Poly plane crash that occurred two years after he graduated and killed many of his friends. The truth is that his fear of flying comes from his claustrophobia and predated the crash.
That 1960 Cal Poly plane crash was a Curtiss C-46 that crashed in late October shortly after takeoff near Toledo, Ohio. Of the 48 on board, 22 were killed, including both pilots, 16 players, a student manager, and a Cal Poly football booster. 26 other passengers survived — 19 players, all four coaches, the team physician and the flight attendant.
The crash grabbed national headlines as it was the first crash of a chartered plane carrying an entire athletic team and, at the time, it was the worst sports air disaster in history.
On campus at Alex G. Spanos Stadium there is a Cal Poly Football Team memorial.
The plane had seen action during World War II.
On March 31, 1931, a Fokker F-10 belonging to Transcontinental and Western Air crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after taking off from Kansas City Municipal Airport, Kansas City, Missouri. All eight people on board were killed, including Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
Namche Bazaar in Nepal is a town located between Everest Base Camp and the Lukla airport. For trekkers to EBC, Namche Bazaar provides the first view of Mount Everest. Namche Bazaar is about a 6-hr hike from the Lukla airport. The elevation of Namche Bazaar is 11,250’.
In the Bazaar of the Bizarre, Fafhrd has to rescue the Grey Mouser and defeat an otherworldly group called the Devourers who have opened a strange bazaar in Lankhmar.
Aided by the Blindfold of True Seeing and a Cloak of Invisibility given to him by Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face, Fafhrd achieves his quest.
He then tries to use the Blindfold of True Seeing against Sheelba and Ninguable, but they have anticipated his move and snatch the Blindfold away. He catches only a glimpse of the two Wizards.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were characters in a fantasy series written by Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd was a giant barbarian similar to Conan, while his friend, the much smaller Gray Mouser, was a talented thief. Leiber wrote about them between 1939 and 1991.
Conan O’Brien’s most famous writing credit for The Simpsons is probably the episode “Marge vs. the Monorail,” where the City of Springfield is tricked by a dashing con-man into purchasing an expensive and dangerous monorail. O’Brien first conceived of the concept of the episode when he saw a billboard in L.A. with the word “Monorail” on it with no other details or explanation. O’Brien has stated that the episode is his favorite of all episodes he wrote for the show. The episode frequently ranks among the top episodes the iconic show has ever made.
The plot of “Marge vs. the Monorail” has some points in common with the hit Broadway musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Robert Preston and Shirley Jones costarred in the 1962 movie based on the original stage version.
Marge v the Monorail gave Homer one of his most iconic lines: “Doughnuts - Is there anything they can’t do?”