One of the Class F shuttlecraft aboard Capt. James T. Kirk’s USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, in Star Trek: The Original Series, was named the Galileo. When it was destroyed, another shuttle was named after it, the Galileo II.
Actress Phyllis Hodges Boyce (1936 - 2010) was just two years old when she appeared, uncredited, in the classic movie Gone With The Wind (1939). She was one of the last surviving cast members of that movie. In her work she was often credited as Phyllis Douglas. This same Phyllis Douglas, at the age of 27, was a guest star in that STAR TREK:TOS episode, The Galileo Seven as Yeoman Mears. Here is an image of her with that Galileo shuttle crew from that episode — https://is.gd/wJCTee.
Ooo, that’s good trivia - thanks! Didn’t know about her *GWTW *role.
American actress Phyllis Douglas not only appeared as Yeoman Mears in “The *Galileo *Seven,” but also as Girl #2 (credited in the script as Mavig) in what is usually regarded as one of the worst Star Trek: The Original Series episodes, “The Way to Eden.”
Wow, I’d forgotten about “The Way to Eden”, and it appears it was for good reason too.
The etymology of yeoman is not clear and may be an Olde English contraction of iunge man, or “young man”. In the US Navy, the USS Ellis (DD-154), in service from 1919 to 1945, was named for Chief Yeoman George Henry Ellis (1875 - 1898) who was killed during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in the Spanish-American war.
(“The Way To Eden” is right up there with “Spock’s Brain” on the list of “Star Trek Episodes We Would All Rather Forget.” 
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On June 12, 1970 (fifty years ago last Friday), Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres.
Years later, Ellis acknowledged that he had pitched that game while under the influence of LSD, having taken the drug several times over the course of the prior evening, and again a few hours before the game started (as he did not realize what day it was). Though the story has been disputed by members of the Pirates organization who were at the game, people who knew Ellis have indicated that they find the story to be credible.
Author P.D. James worked as a hospital and National Health Service administrator, and the knowledge she acquired on the job is reflected in several of her mystery novels. A Mind to Murder, published 1962, the second of her 14 Adam Dalgliesh detective stories, is set in a psychiatric clinic where patients are being treated with “electro-convulsive therapy” and “lysergic acid” (aka LSD).
If you do the math, I think there’s a typo here, since Star Trek: TOS was produced from September 1966 to June 1969. Ms. Boyce would have had to have been 30 years of age at the time the “Galileo Seven” episode (season 1, episode 17, and originally broadcast on Jan 5 1967) was produced.
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Oh yes, correct, she was 30. My arithmetic was off. And my degree was a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics. Long ago.
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The 1962 San Francisco Giants lost the World Series to the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3. It was the first of three World Series appearances for the San Francisco Giants, all losses — in 1962, 1989, and 2002.
Back in 1957, just before the Giants moved from New York to San Francisco for the 1958 season, on their last game in New York at the Polo Grounds, Giants fans stormed the field and removed a memorial plaque to Eddie Grant from the outfield wall. Grant, a former Giants third baseman, had been the first MLB ballplayer to be killed in service in World War I.
The upset Giants fans supposedly put a curse on the Giants team headed for San Francisco. It is known as the Curse of Coogan’s Bluff, for the Polo Grounds location.
In 2008, a replacement Eddie Grant plaque was installed on the tower at right field in the San Francisco ballpark.
Since that plaque was installed (https://imgur.com/gallery/FU14u2q), the Giants have won three World Series Championships, in 2010, 2012, and 2014. And they have not lost any.
1962 was the only full calendar year of John F. Kennedy’s Presidency, notable particularly for the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of that year. Kennedy’s crisis-management skills were profiled by Harvard political scientist Graham T. Allison in his book Essence of Decision, still required reading in many graduate and undergraduate courses.
The Missiles of October was a made-for-television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Staged as a televised play, it first aired on ABC in December, 1974, and starred William Devane as John Kennedy, Martin Sheen as Robert Kennedy, and Howard Da Silva as Nikita Khrushchev.
Ninja’ed!
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba, either as Prime Minister or President, from 1959 through 2008. He assumed power after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista, and was succeeded by his brother Raul Castro, who had served as his vice-president.
Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90.
Julián Castro and Joaquin Castro are twin brothers who are also Democrats in the state of Texas. Joaquin is a member of the U.S. House, and Julian was the mayor of San Antonio, as well as a member of the Obama administration. He ran for President in 2016.
On The West Wing in the episode “Jefferson Lives,” broadcast in October 2003, Martin Sheen played **President **Josiah Bartlet who considered nominating Secretary of State Lewis Berryhill, played by William Devane, for the then-vacant post of Vice President.
In 1915 a proposed US state of Jefferson would have been a new state created from the dividing of Texas.
In 1941 a proposed US state of Jefferson would have been a new state created from parts of northern California and southern Oregon. Still today, in some rural parts of northern California, some signs of Jefferson can be seen along the side of highways.
Eight western North Carolina counties broke off and declared the state of Franklin, but failed to achieve statehood, and were reabsorbed by North Carolina. That was in 1790, less than two years after the death of Benjamin Franklin. A similar attempt later resulted in the present-day state of Tennessee.
The 15 states that share their name with a river are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
In all cases of a state sharing its mame with a river, the river was named first, and the territory afterwards.
The Dells of the Wisconsin River, also known as the Wisconsin Dells, is a sandstone gorge along the Wisconsin River, in the south-central region of the state of Wisconsin. The gorge features a number of unique rock formations, cliffs, and canyons.
The Dells were formed approximately 15,000 years ago, when an ice dam, which had caused the formation of Glacial Lake Wisconsin, burst, and the resulting flood carved out a gorge in the Cambrian-era sandstone.
The scenic beauty of the rock formations in the Dells led to the growth of tourism in the area, and the city of Wisconsin Dells (along with the neighboring city of Lake Delton) now is home to a range of tourist attractions.