Clarence Darrow, as the defense attorney, asked the judge to find John Scopes guilty because there was good reason to believe he did not actually commit the crime he was accused of and they needed to be able to appeal the case to get the law declared unconstitutional.
Clarence Darrow was born in Farmdale, Ohio, and died in Chicago, Ill., age 80. He is sometimes said to have remarked, “I have never wished anyone dead, but I have read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.”
The Darrow college-preparatory school in Upstate New York opened in 1932. Its alumni include Apollo 12 commander and third man to walk on the Moon Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr., and actor Christopher Lloyd.
When Apollo 12 was struck by lightning, data returning to Mission Control was corrupted. Coincidentally, the person sitting at EECOM, John Aaron, was one of the few people at NASA that recognized the corruption and he saved the mission by telling the Flight Controller “Try SCE to Aux.” which was so obscure pretty much no one knew what he was talking about.
And that’s where most people end the story.
The call of changing the Signal Control Module to auxillary was so obscure that quite literally no one in either Mission Control or on Apollo 12 knew what he was talking about … except Alan Bean who just happened to be the astronaut in the seat responsible for that switch. So while everyone else was going back and forth on the radio trying to figure out what to do, Bean calmly flipped the switch and thus Apollo 12 was saved.
In 1960 Alan Bean attended the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS) at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, where his instructor was his future Apollo 12 Commander, Pete Conrad.
@Saint_Cad that’s a great story!
The marble statue of the Apollo Belvedere, in the Vatican museum, was the most admired piece of sculpture in the world in the 1700s and 1800s. Napoleon boasted of having looted it from the Vatican, and it was often alluded to as a standard of male beauty, with handsome men being described as like the Apollo Belvedere. It appears on the official logo of the Apollo 17 mission, but has been largely forgotten.
Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions, and it was also the last of six missions during which a person from earth walked on the moon. The Lunar Module touched down on the moon on December 11, 1972, and remained there for about 75 hours before lifting off on December 14. Gene Cernan, commander of the mission, remains the last human to set foot on the moon.
Of the 12 men who ever walked on the moon, only 4 still walk this earth.
Buzz Aldrin, b 1930-01-20
Dave Scott, b 1932-06-06
Charlie Duke, b 1935-10-03
Harrison Schmitt, b 1935-07-03
The eldest son of the British monarch, now Prince William, is also customarily Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, among other titles.
John Wayne’s nickname, “Duke,” originated from his childhood. As a boy, he was inseparable from his dog, an Airedale terrier, also named Duke. Local firefighters in Glendale, California, where he lived, started calling him “Little Duke” because of his constant companion, and the nickname stuck.
The Duke of Cornwall is a memorable villain in Shakespeare’s King Lear, a play with several other villains, including Goneril, Regan, and Edmund.
Cornwall tortures the Earl of Gloucester, exclaiming as he plucks out his eye, “Out, vile jelly! Where is thy luster now?”
John Wayne was acquainted with Wyatt Earp in his early days in Hollywood working with Tom Mix and adapted his way of walking and talking from him.
The Orange County Airport in Irvine, CA, was renamed the John Wayne Airport in 1979. There is a nine-foot statue of “The Duke” in the Thomas F. Riley Terminal on the Arrival Level. Similar to the nearby Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, it has a noise abatement and curfew in place, due to close proximity of neighborhoods. (And if you’ve ever flown into these airports, you’ll know about the steep, short drops and hard braking of landing aircraft.)
Flying out of John Wayne can also be exciting. If you take off towards the south, your plane sits at the end of the runway, throttling up with the brakes on, before rapidly taking off. You climb at a steep angle after takeoff, and then the engines are throttled back for a few moments (as the plane passes over suburbs). My experience has been that the pilots explain this to their passengers ahead of time, to minimize freak-outs. 
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Jack Riley was a comic actor and voice actor. He was best-known for his recurring role as Elliot Carlin, the neurotic and cynical patient of psychologist Dr. Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show. Riley also regularly did voiceover work for commercials, including long-running ad campaigns for Country Crock spread and CompUSA.
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I’m guessing that one could stump most Americans by asking ‘What do these three men have in common?’ I certainly wouldn’t have known the answer until I read this post.
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CompUSA was founded in 1984 in Addison, Texas, under the name Soft Warehouse. Its name was changed in 1991; at its peak, the company operated over 200 retail locations. But beginning in 2006, stores began to close due to poor sales, and in 2008, the company was sold to Systemax. The last of the CompUSA branded-stores was closed in 2012.
Barack Obama was reelected President of the United States in 2012. He told White House aides and close friends that he considered the win more satisfying than when he was first elected in 2008, as that had been attributable, in large part, to the economic crisis which swept the country that fall and public antipathy towards the GOP at the close of President George W. Bush’s eight years in office. Obama considered his reelection win to be a vindication of his leadership in his first term.
As well it should be!
In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama ran against Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.
Two positions in baseball use a mitt instead of a glove: catcher and first base.
Good trivia! I’m a former 3rd baseman. I love the ‘hot corner’ and its screaming line drives.
In play — when the San Francisco Giants won 3 World Series Championships in 5 years there were 8 players who played on all 3 of those Worlds Series teams. 2 were starting pitchers, 2 were position players, and 4 were relief pitchers. No other players were on all three team rosters. These ‘Core 8’ players are:
• #55 RHP Tim Lincecum
• #40 LHP Madison Bumgarner
• #28 C Buster Posey
• #48 3B Pablo Sandoval
• #41 LHP Jeremy Affeldt
• #46 RHP Santiago Casilla
• #49 LHP Javier López
• #54 RHP Sergio Romo
There was a 9th player who received all three World Series rings: #18 RHP Matt Cain. Matt Cain played on the 2010 and the 2012 World Series teams, but in 2014 he was injured. He finished the 2014 season on the disabled list after having surgery on 11 August 2014 to remove bone chips in his pitching elbow.
Also, #28 C Buster Posey was the starting catcher on all 3 World Series teams. Furthermore, his backup catcher never played in any games in those World Series. There were 3 different backup catchers, and they were:
• 2010 — #22 Eli Whiteside
• 2012 — #29 Hector Sanchez
• 2014 — #34 Andrew Susac
None of them ever played. With Buster Posey behind the plate, they weren’t needed.
Actor James Garner’s birth name was James Bumgarner; when he began his acting career, and signed a contract with Warner Bros., the studio changed his stage name to Garner; the actor later legally changed his name to match.