In play — The Cyrillic Double O ⟨Ꚙ ꚙ⟩, is a letter of the Cyrillic script found in some early Old Church Slavonic manuscripts. It resembles the Infinity symbol (∞), the lemniscate. But there are many lemniscate, figure-eight shaped curves. The word lemniscate is derived from the Latin and Greek words for ribbon, or decorated with ribbon.
In addition, Glyn Baker appeared as 002 and Frederick Warter as 004 in The Living Daylights. Lashana Lynch was the new agent assigned Bond’s old 007 number in No Time to Die.
The odds are 37-1 of hitting (landing on) 00 in Roulette.
In the National Football League, all one- and two-digit uniform numbers from 0 through 99 are currently permitted, with the exception of 00 (double zero). 00 was removed from the list of valid uniform numbers by the league in 1973 (as part of the implementation of a broader set of rules relating to uniform numbers), and has yet to be reinstated.
At the time of the 1973 changes to uniform numbers, players who were already wearing numbers which were no longer permitted – or had become restricted to players at certain positions – were “grandfathered” in, and allowed to continue to wear those numbers until their retirement from the league. In the case of 00, there were two active players in 1973 who were allowed to continue to wear the number: center Jim Otto of the Oakland Raiders, and wide receiver Ken Burrough of the Houston Oilers. Otto retired after the 1974 season, while Burrough continued to play until 1981, making him the last active NFL player to wear 00.
The 2023 movie A Man Called Otto is based on the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. It starred Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks made his film debut in the 1980 slasher movie He Knows You’re Alone.
The final scenes of He Knows You’re Alone were filmed at the Seaview Hospital, a former tuberculosis sanitarium on Staten Island in New York. The facility was closed in the late 1930s and sat empty before becoming the Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center & Home.
In the entry lobby of Kykuit, the Rockefeller family home near Mount Pleasant, New York, are displayed the U.S. and Vice Presidential flags, reminding visitors of former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s service as Vice President from 1974-77.
On August 20, 1974, Gerald Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller to be the next vice president of the United States. In considering potential nominees, Rockefeller was one of three primary candidates. The other two were Donald Rumsfeld, the then-United States Ambassador to NATO whom Ford eventually chose as his chief of staff and later secretary of defense, and then-Republican National Committee chairman George H. W. Bush, who would eventually become vice president in his own right for two terms and president for one term.
Donald Rumsfeld, like Michelle Obama, was a graduate of Princeton University.
Princeton University mathematician June Huh, born in 1983, was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 for “bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture”. He was the first person of Korean ancestry to have the Fields Medal bestowed on him.
While she was in high school in the 1970s, a young woman named Debbi Sivyer (the future Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies) was one of the first “ball girls” for the Oakland A’s baseball team.
Before establishing his Famous Amos cookie empire, Wallace Amos, Jr, worked as a talent scout for the William Morris Agency. He signed Simon & Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations and headed the agency’s rock ‘n’ roll department.
Martin Luther King quoted from the book of Amos in his “I have a dream” speech:
Maya Lin used the quotation as the inspiration for the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, which uses flowing water.
King’s name is on the Memorial.
The book of Amos is in the Old Testament, at the end, in a group of 12 books of prophets that could be nicknamed the ‘minor prophets’. Minor, in the sense that these books are nowhere near as long as some of the ‘major prophets’ books, like Isaiah and Jeremiah.
Those 12 minor prophets are:
Hosea, Joel, Amos,
Obadiah, Jonah, Micah,
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
(And that was from memory.)
The next books begin the New Testament, with the 4 Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The Man Who Never Forgot was a short story by Robert Silverberg about a man whose memory was perfect. Rather than a blessing, it was a curse for him as he could never have normal relationships with anyone.
The Man Who Knew Too Little is an action/comedy starring Bill Murray as someone who thinks he’s doing a revolutionary kind of improv comedy, but is actually caught up in secret-agent spy antics.
The Man Who Wasn’t There is a neo-noir crime fiction movie by Ethan and Joel Coen, starring Billy Bob Thornton as a barber who is caught up in a web of intrigue and murder. Shot in color, then transferred to black and white, it was poorly received at the box office. The movie marks the only collaboration between the Coens with Thornton, although Thornton would later appear in Season One of Fargo, a TV series created by Noah Hawley and based on the film of the same name by the Coens.
Fargo is the largest city in North Dakota. Founded in 1871, it was originally called Centralia, but the name was later renamed after William Fargo, founder of the Wells Fargo company.
On the 1970s PBS educational television series The Electric Company, “Fargo North, Decoder” was a recurring character, played by Skip Hinnant. The character was a private investigator, who would decode scrambled messages for his clients. The character’s name was, of course, a play on the city of Fargo, North Dakota.