Farrah Fawcett’s screen debut was as a medical assistant in the 1976 dystopic sf thriller Logan’s Run, starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter.
Farah Fawcett, born in 1947, died early in the morning of June 25, 2009. Her death was overshadowed by another celebrity death 12 hours later, Michael Jackson.
Fawcett starred in the 1986 drama/thriller, ‘Extremities’. The film in 1987 was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for the movie’s star Farrah Fawcett but lost out to Marlee Matlin for ‘Children of a Lesser God’ (1986). However in the same year, Fawcett was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for ‘Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story’ (1986) and won in a tie with Loretta Young for ‘Christmas Eve’ (1986).
Loretta Young won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Actress in The Farmer’s Daughter.
The Cleveland Indians (now the Guardians) last won the World Series in 1948, which was also the year Harry Truman had his remarkable upset win in the US presidential election. Truman won over the Republican candidate, Thomas Dewey, despite the Democratic Party being split three ways - the mainstream party led by Truman, the progressive wing led by Henry A. Wallace and the Dixiecrats backing Strom Thurmond.
At the Battle of Chancellorsville, CSA Gen. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia beat the USA Army of the Potomac under Gen. Hooker. The Army of the Potomac was twice the size of the Army of Northern Virginia yet Lee was able to defeat it in part but doing the unthinkable … he split his army into three parts.
Gen. Robert E. Lee’s principal subordinate, Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, was mortally wounded in a friendly-fire incident at the Battle of Chancellorsville, shot by Confederate troops while personally scouting along the front lines at night.
The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are widely considered the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
In 1670, King Charles II of England granted a charter to his cousin, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, to create “The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson’s Bay”. The Charter gave the Company lordship of all the territory in North America in the watershed of Hudson’s Bay, a huge grant of land:
Eight years earlier, in 1662, King Charles II granted Connecticut title to lands well to the west of the Atlantic seaboard colony, in what became known as the Western Reserve. Connecticut relinquished its claim after the American Revolution, and the land became the northeastern portion of what is now Ohio. Ohio, the Buckeye State, joined the Union as the 17th state in 1803.
Bing Crosby starred in the 1949 comedy, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. It was based on the 1889 novel of the same name by Mark Twain.
The State of Massachusetts takes a notch out of the State of Connecticut called “The Southwick Jog”. It came about as a compromise between the states after numerous different surveys and conflicting jurisdictional claims over border cities. The Jog officially became part of Massachusetts in 1804.
Six of the seven smallest states: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island, were all among the 13 original colonies.
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Not Vermont. It was # 14.
In play: Delaware is named after the 3rd Earl De La Warr, the first colonial governor of Virginia. The earldom is still in existence, currently held by the 11th Earl.
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WARR is the radio station at 1520 AM. It is based out of Warrenton, NC so you can guess how it got its call letters.
Warrenton is in Warren County, named for Joseph Warren of Massachusetts. He was a physician and general in the American Revolutionary War who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill is in Charlestown, in Boston MA. King Charles I named the Charles River for himself, and Charlestown was named after him. Charlestown was the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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There have been eight kings of England who died violent deaths (since the Conquest).* Charles I was the last to die a violent death.
- nine monarchs if you count Jane Grey as queen.
No one is quite sure why Earl Grey Tea is named after Earl Grey, a British nobleman. Per Wiki, the first known published references to a tea by that name are advertisements by Charlton & Co. of Jermyn Street in London in the 1880s.
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Charlton was a low-rent competitor to DC and Marvel in the 60s and even got better distribution than Marvel (my drugstore stocked Charlton, but not Marvel). Many of Charlton’s writers and authors moved on to DC or Marvel, including Dick Giordano and Steve Ditko.