David Frost was an English television host, comedian, and writer. Born in 1939, he first achieved fame by hosting the satirical program That Was The Week That Was in 1962. Later, he became known for interviewing important political figures, especially his interviews with former President Richard Nixon in 1977.
Frost died of a heart attack in 2013 while aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean.
Tønsberg, Norway — looks quite scenic. But Tønsberg is in the southeast, near Oslo, and not near the Atlanterhavsveien (map, https://is.gd/nTCq9g).
David Frost was aboard the MS Queen Elizabeth when he died.
According to cruiseCritic.com, when a cruise passenger dies at sea, the cruise ship company’s protocol includes the requirement to carry body bags and maintain a morgue. Employees are trained to provide emotional and logistical support to grieving loved ones. Employees are trained to help deal with the details of repatriating a body and contacting a funeral home. The first order of business is removing the body from the boat. The receiving port (and country) issues the death certificate, which is the first step in repatriating the body.
When a Passenger Dies at Sea: What You Need to Know << cruiseCritic.com article
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Several of the cast of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had worked for David Frost, and in the sketch “Timmy Williams Coffee Time” they parodied his towering ego, relentless narcissism and deep-down phoniness: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qglgt
David Frost was the only person to have interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2016 (Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron) and all seven U.S. presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush).
Six United States Presidents have lived into their 90s: John Adams, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter. Carter, whose age is currently 96 years, 8 months, and 13 days, is the longest-lived of all 45 presidents.
John Kennedy was the shortest-lived of all the presidents. He was just 46 years old when he was assassinated in 1963.
Only three presidents—John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama—have had poets read at their inaugurations. For Kennedy’s inauguration, Robert Frost had written a special poem, but, blinded by the glare of sun shining on snow, he was unable to read it and instead recited “The Gift Outright” from memory.
Frost was often regarded as a New England Yankee poet, but he was actually born in San Francisco. One of his best-known poems, “The Road Not Taken”, was written in England, inspired by walks in Gloucestershire with writer Edward Thomas.
Robert Frost was nominated 31 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Cross-reference from nobelPrize.org: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=3248
Robert Frost
Lastname/org: Frost
Firstname: Robert
Gender: M
Year, Birth: 1874
Year, Death: 1963
Nominee in 31 nominations:
Literature 1950 by American academy of arts and letters
Literature 1952 by Edwin Harrison Cady
Literature 1953 by Hjalmar Gullberg
Literature 1954 by Selander
Literature 1955 by Cecil Day Lewis
Literature 1957 by The PEN-Club
Literature 1958 by Leon Edel
Literature 1958 by John Nash Douglas Bush
Literature 1958 by Alfred Harbage
Literature 1958 by Howard Mumford Jones
Literature 1958 by W Cabell Greet
Literature 1960 by Hans Galinsky
Literature 1960 by Nils Erik Enkvist
Literature 1960 by Walter Havighurst
Literature 1961 by Pearl Buck (Walsh)
Literature 1961 by Andrew Chiappe
Literature 1961 by Frederick Wilcox Dupee
Literature 1961 by Donald France
Literature 1961 by Moses Hadas
Literature 1961 by Carlos Baker
Literature 1961 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Literature 1961 by Several professors
Literature 1962 by C Lewis
Literature 1963 by Wallace Stegner
Literature 1963 by Lewis Leary
Literature 1963 by Carl Woodring
Literature 1963 by Frederick Albert Pottle
Literature 1963 by George Healey
Literature 1963 by Moses Hadas
Literature 1963 by Donald Frame
Literature 1963 by M Abrams
American critic, novelist, and literary and social historian Walter Havighurst wrote over 30 books, including biographies of Gen. George Rogers Clark, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. He died in Richmond, Indiana in 1994.
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, although now irreversibly entwined with the American west through his buffalo-hunting exploits and his famed “Wild West Show”, was actually born in Iowa Territory in what is now the little Mississippi River town of Le Claire (IA), and lived for a short time in his father’s hometown of Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada before returning as a youth with his family to America, who settled in what was then the Kansas Territory.
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Cody, Wyoming is named for Buffalo Bill Cody. Buffalo Bill helped to found the settlement in 1896. Cody is in northwestern Wyoming, about 400 miles NW of the capital, Cheyenne, in the southeast corner of the state. Map >> Google Maps.
Cody is the 11th-largest Wyoming city, by population, and Cheyenne is the 1st.
Rank City Population
1 Cheyenne 63,243
2 Casper 58,756
3 Gillette 33,056
4 Laramie 32,178
5 Rock Springs 23,633
6 Sheridan 17,825
7 Green River 12,278
8 Evanston 11,953
9 Riverton 11,069
10 Jackson 10,483
11 Cody 9,761
12 Rawlins 8,975
13 Lander 7,621
14 Torrington 6,717
15 Douglas 6,402
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show included such western figures as Annie Oakley, Wild Bill Hickok, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and Geronimo. His show did world tours and played to the King of England, among others.
Buffalo Bill was a situation comedy which ran on NBC from 1983-1984, starring Dabney Coleman as “Buffalo” Bill Bittinger, an egotistical talk-show host on a TV station in Buffalo, New York. Coleman’s co-stars on the series included Joanna Cassidy, Geena Davis, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Charlie Robinson, and Meshach Taylor.
The show was critically acclaimed, and received 11 Emmy nominations during its brief run, but was cancelled during its second season. Brandon Tartikoff, who was head of NBC at the time, called the cancellation of the show his biggest professional regret.
The Coleman company was founded by William Coffin Coleman, who began selling gasoline pressure lamps in 1900 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In 1905, Coleman gas lamps were provided as a demonstration to provide light for the first night football game west of the Mississippi River, a game between Cooper and Fairmount (now called Sterling College and Wichita State University).
Cooper (IA) is a small town (approx population 50) in Greene County, Iowa. They achieved national notoriety in 1981 when, for their centennial, they announced that they would accept applications from people who wished to be ‘adopted’ as Cooper’s 51st citizen, and a committee of three town members appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in June 1981 to ‘interview’ him with regard to his qualifications — such as ‘had he ever worn overalls’, ‘had he ever milked a cow’, and ‘did he know the difference between an apple pie and a cowpie’.
(eta…Carson was the eventual honoree, although he was a no-show at the centennial celebration itself)
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Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, only about 80 miles from Cooper. A century ago, Cooper was bigger than Corning, but the town was then nearly destroyed by fire.
The first woman ever to host The Tonight Show was Arlene Francis, in 1962. She was a guest host filling in for Johnny Carson.
According to Wikipedia, Jay Leno has hosted more episodes of The Tonight Show than any other person, including Johnny Carson. And only once during Leno’s tenure as host did another person (Katie Couric) serve as guest host for an episode.
American broadcaster Katie Couric, born Jan. 7, 1957, is exactly one year younger than actor David Caruso, born that day in 1956, and four years older than U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-N.D.), born that day in 1961.
In the year 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the four largest moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These were the first objects found to orbit a planet other than the Earth. They are now called the Galilean Moons.
By some calendars, Galileo discovered these moons on the 7th of January, 1610.