I always heard that Will Rogers was the comic in question.
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Alfred Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, but moved with his family at the age of four to Aberystwyth, Wales, where he was born and raised.
Wales is one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, along with England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The population of Wales is 3.1 million, and its capital is Cardiff.
The custom of granting the title of Prince of Wales to the heir apparent to the English throne began with Edward I, in 1301.
D’oh! Not born a second time, obviously.
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His Royal Highness Prince William is the current Prince of Wales, succeeding his father, now King Charles III. The King held the title for the longest period of any man in British history, 64 years (from 1958 through 2022, although he did not have a formal investiture until 1969).
In 1925, the then-Prince of Wales (who later became King Edward VIII, and, later still, the Duke of Windsor) donated a trophy to the National Hockey League, which became known as the Prince of Wales Trophy.
Initially, the Prince of Wales Trophy served as the league’s championship trophy – at the time, the Stanley Cup was awarded to the winner of a post-season tournament between the champions of the NHL and the Western Hockey League. After the Stanley Cup became the NHL championship trophy in 1926-27 season, the Prince of Wales Trophy served various other roles: at various times, it has been awarded to the winner of the American Division, to the league’s regular-season champion, to the East Division winner, to the Prince of Wales Conference winner, and (currently) to the Eastern Conference champion.
The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America. The trophy was commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup and is named after Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor General of Canada, who donated it as an award to Canada’s top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.
Being born twice? Neat trick if you can pull it off…
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Didn’t notice Elendil_s_Heir had caught his own mistake (see above). I tried to edit over it but ran out of time,
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The team that wins the Stanley Cup gets its name and roster engraved on one of the bands that make up the barrel-like pedestal of the Cup. There are a total of nine bands, each capable of displaying thirteen winning teams, and when the ninth band is filled, the oldest band is removed and replaced with a fresh one, creating space for the next thirteen winners to be added. The bands that are removed are placed on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
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Toronto, Canada is the destination of a ragtag group of zombie apocalypse survivors in Isaac Marion’s novel The Burning World, a sequel to Warm Bodies, which was made into a well-reviewed 2013 zomromcom (zombie romantic comedy).
I was born again, but that was a chapter of my life I’d rather have not happened.
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Toronto, Canada is the destination of a ragtag group of zombie apocalypse survivors in Isaac Marion’s novel The Burning World, a sequel to Warm Bodies, which was made into a well-reviewed 2013 zomromcom (zombie romantic comedy).
Born again, one presumes.
Toronto is home to 250 private streets, who pay for things like garbage and snow removal on their own dime. Canada has few “gated communities” so this is sort of the equivalent.
For 32 years, from 1975 to 2007, the CN Tower (1,815’) was the tallest freestanding structure in the world. Today it is still the tallest in the western hemisphere, but only 10th in the world.
Toronto is home to the largest Portuguese community in Canada, with 171,000 out of the 480,000 people of Portuguese origin in the country. “Little Portugal” is within sight of the CN Tower, and several other neighborhoods in the metropolitan area have significant populations.
(I ate in a great Portuguese restaurant in the York/Eglington area of Toronto last week)
The RMS Lusitania, launched in 1906, was torpedoed and sunk less than 10 years later by a German U-boat. The ship was named after the region in Western Europe corresponding to modern-day Portugal.
When launched, Lusitania was the world’s largest ship. When sunk, of 1,962 passengers and crew aboard her, 1,199 lost their lives.
Lusitania had made 201 successful crossings of the Atlantic Ocean.
Lusitania in Western Europe, 27 BC to approx 410 AD —
The Iberian Peninsula consists of Portugal and continental Spain in Europe. It is not to be confused with the Kingdom of Iberia, located in present-day Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It has been argued that the name Iberian was given by Ancient Greeks to two different peoples located at the extremities of their world (in the Iberian Peninsula and the Caucasus) due to the mythical wealth associated with them (Tartessos, along the southern part of Spain, and the Golden Fleece of Colchis).
“Portugal. The Man” is a rock group, originally from Wasilla, Alaska. The members of the band chose the name based on the idea of David Bowie’s “bigger than life” fame – they wanted a name which had a bigger-than-life feel, but did not want to name it after any of the band members.
Portugal. The Man won a Grammy Award in 2018, for their song “Feel It Still.” The song uses the melody from the Marvelettes’ 1961 hit “Please Mr. Postman,” and Motown songwriter Brian Holland received a co-writing credit on the song.
“Please Mr. Postman” was the first number one single from a Motown act.
Kevin Costner turned down the lead in Air Force One to star in The Postman; the role of the heroic President went instead to Harrison Ford.
Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. On several occasions, he has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming; once while rescuing a hiker, she was overcome by dehydration and vomited into one of Ford’s caps, unaware of who the pilot was. “I can’t believe I barfed in Harrison Ford’s helicopter!” she said later.
Bruce Dickinson, vocalist of the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, holds a commercial pilot license. He flew 757s for the now-defunct English charter airline Astraeus, as well as piloting Iron Maiden’s chartered 747 and 757 aircraft.