A “cigarette boat,” also known as a “go-fast boat,” is a powerboat with a long, narrow “planing” hull, meaning that when the boat is operating at speed, much of the hull is above the water’s surface, supported by hydrodynamic lift.
The name “cigarette boat” comes from Cigarette Racing Team, a company founded by Don Aronow, which began producing a particular style of go-fast boat in 1969. The name may also be reflective of the shape of the boat’s hull (long and narrow, like the shape of a cigarette). Such boats are used for racing, but their speed has also made them a choice for smuggling of various contraband merchandise.
Candy cigarettes are a candy introduced in the late 19th century, made of chalky powdered sugar (sometimes of bubblegum or chocolate), wrapped in paper and packaged and branded so as to resemble cigarettes.
Candy cigarettes’ existence on the market has long been controversial because research has shown that they prime children to take up smoking real (tobacco) cigarettes.
Another example are chocolate cigars, also a candy aimed at children.
Just hours before signing a trade embargo with Cuba that remains in effect even to this day, President John F. Kennedy had his head of press, Pierre Salinger, acquire some 1,200 Cuban Petit Upman cigars for the president’s personal use.
He literally opened the box of cigars and then signed the executive order making them illegal for anyone else to acquire.
Although there were numerous presidential directives starting with George Washington, the first Executive Order to be called as such and (retroactively) numbered was written by Abraham Lincoln. Executive Order 1 established a provisional court in occupied Louisiana and appointed Charles A. Peabody as the judge.
George Washington is the only President of the United States to appoint the entire membership of the Supreme Court, although Franklin D. Roosevelt came close, appointing all but one of the justices during his three full and one partial terms in office (1933-1945).
The Supreme Court of the United States is sometimes referred to by the acronym SCOTUS; use of this acronym in reference to the Court in the media and public discourse has become more common over the last 20 years.
Similar acronyms which have become popularized in recent decades are POTUS (President of the United States) and FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States).
The acronym “POTUS” was still unfamiliar enough to most of the public that it had to be explained in the first episode of the NBC political drama The West Wing, which premiered on Sept. 22, 1999.
“The White Potus” was a pre-taped sketch that appeared on Saturday Night Live during the show’s 50th season. It parodied the popular HBO series, The White Lotus, replacing lead characters with satirical versions of persons associated with the President of the United States (“POTUS”), as portrayed by current and former cast members of SNL.
SNL commonly stands for Saturday Night Live, but it also stands for Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories’s roots lie in World War II’s Manhattan Project which built the world’s first atomic bombs. Sandia National Laboratories began in 1945 as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm of Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1948 it became Sandia Laboratory and, in 1949, Sandia Corporation was established as a Western Electric company to manage the laboratory. In 1956 a second site was opened in California’s Livermore Valley. Later, in 1979, Congress made Sandia a Department of Energy national laboratory. In 1993 Sandia Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Martin Marietta (later Lockheed Martin Corporation).
The first electric utility in the USA was the Edison Illuminating Company, founded by Thomas Edison in 1880. It was designed to bring electric lighting directly into a business or home. But because it used direct current using 110 volts from generation to final destination, power plants had to be built in the middle of cities and could only supply customers less than a mile from the plant.
Thomas Edison’s first laboratory in Menlo Park NJ. Menlo Park CA, just south of San Francisco, was not named after Menlo Park NJ. Its name is derived from the anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic ‘Mionloch’, meaning ‘small lake’ in County Galway, Ireland. However, Menlo Park NJ is named after Menlo Park CA.
The Menlo Park CA train station holds the record as the oldest continually operating train station in California.
Sir James Galway is an Irish flute player. Early in his career, Galway played in orchestras, but decided to embark on a solo career in the 1970s. Galway plays a traditional classical repertoire, as well as modern compositions, and has collaborated with folk and rock bands including the Chieftains and Pink Floyd; he was a featured soloist on the original soundtracks for The Lord of the Rings films.
Despite his surname, Galway is not from County Galway (which is in the western region of the Republic of Ireland); he was born and raised in Belfast, in Northern Ireland.
According to ➜ https://stagemusiccenter.com/music-school-blog-winchester-acton-ma/flute-the-oldest-musical-instrument ■ , the flute is one of the oldest instruments ever created. Flutes from Neanderthal and European caves have been discovered dating back 60,000 and 40,000 years, respectively. The Neanderthal flute had been made from the left thigh bone of a young cave bear. The European cave flute was made from a vulture bone.
Various names for a flute player include flutist, flautist, fluter, or flutenist.
Anjelica Huston has appeared in five movies directed by Wes Anderson. In three of those, she portrayed a woman separated from her husband (The Royal Tenenbaums, divorcee; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, separated; The Darjeeling Limited, widowed); in the other two she voiced a poodle (Isle of Dogs) and narrated the open (The French Dispatch).
Walter Huston won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Sporting Actor for his role as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Walter’s son John Huston won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Director for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
John’s daughter Anjelica Huston won an Academy Award in 1986 for Best Sporting Actress for her role as Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi’s Honor.
As such, Anjelica Huston is a third-generation Academy Award winner.
Only two families, the Coppolas and the Hustons, have had three generations of Academy Award winners. The Hustons were the first, in 1986. The Coppolas achieved it in 2004 (Carmine in 1975, Francis Ford in 1971, and Sofia in 2004).
(Not in play: the Coppolas, in fact, have two third-generation members who have won Academy Awards; Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Coppola) is Carmine’s grandson, and won a Best Actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas.)
In 1977, animation studio Rankin/Bass released a made-for-television movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The film featured an eclectic cast of actors providing voices, including Orson Bean (Bilbo), John Huston (Gandalf), Richard Boone (Smaug), Hans Conried (Thorin), Otto Preminger (Thranduil, the “Elvenking”), Cyril Ritchard (Elrond), and Brother Theodore (Gollum).
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) featured four members of the main cast who were also appearing in other blockbuster cinematic franchises at the time:
Ian McKellen (Gandalf) also appeared as Magneto in X-Men (2000) and subsequent sequels
Hugo Weaving (Elrond) also appeared as Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999), The Matrix: Reloaded (2003), and The Matrix: Revolutions (2003)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas) also appeared as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and subsequent sequels
Christopher Lee (Saruman) also appeared as Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2003)
