Lizard Point in Cornwall is the most southerly point of the island of Great Britain.
Patricia Cornell’s theory has been totally discredited by several Ripper experts. And her book is one of the extremely few I was unable to finish.
Patricia Cleary was a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, the trial-level court of the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. She was defeated in her reelection bid in November 2000 after a controversy over her jailing of a pregnant woman due to the judge’s personal opposition to abortion.
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When Beverly Cleary was writing her first Henry Huggins book, she realized that all of the characters she had created thus far had no brothers or sisters. “Someone should have a sibling,” she wrote in her memoir My Own Two Feet, “so I tossed in a little sister to explain Beezus’s nickname. When it came time to name the sister, I overheard a neighbor call out to another whose name was Ramona. I wrote in “Ramona,” made several references to her, gave her one brief scene, and thought that was the end of her. Little did I dream, to use a trite expression from books of my childhood, that she would take over books of her own.”
Jon Cleary was an Australian novelist. His best known work is The Sundowners.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton of Nova Scotia was the first colonial novelist to achieve general success throughout the British Empire, with his “Clockmaker” novels. The protagonist is a slightly shady Yankee clock seller, Sam Slick.
Chandler Bing, played by Matthew Perry on the hugely popular Nineties TV sitcom Friends, had the middle name “Muriel.”
Mariel Hemingway is the granddaughter of Nobel/Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway.
Hemingway lived from 1899 to 1961 when he shot himself with a shotgun in his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He was married four times, and he also lived in Key West and in Cuba among other places during his lifetime.
During WWI Hemingway worked for the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in combat zones and was seriously injured by German artillery.
During WWII Hemingway was present at the D-Day invasion at Normandy but by then was considered ‘precious cargo’ and was not allowed on the beach during the invasion. He remained afloat. His ship was within sight of Omaha Beach but when it came under fire the ship turned around in order to protect the personnel aboard.
The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked in Oak Park.
Penny Wright is a member of Australia’s Senate. Yesterday, this senate repealed their ‘Carbon Tax’. In doing so, Australia became the world’s first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse gas emissions.
The element carbon has atomic number 6.
The Biblical number of the beast is written in Greek numerical form as χξϛʹ, or sometimes literally as ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ, hexakósioi hexēkonta héx, “six hundred and sixty-six”.
Henry Ford’s “Model 999” racecars, made famous by driver Barney Oldfield, were named for the Empire State Express locomotive No. 999. On January 12, 1904, Henry Ford personally drove one 91.37 mph on the frozen Lake St. Clair, setting a new land speed record.
Paul Giamatti starred as Barney Panofsky in “Barney’s Version,” a movie based on Mordecai Richler’s last novel. Dustin Hoffman played the role of Barney’s father, who dies of a heart attack in a bordello, with a smile on his face.
The best-known film performance by Dennis Miller, once of SNL and now of cable talk, was in Bordello of Blood, based on HBO’s Tales from the Crypt. Miller played a private investigator visiting a vampire whorehouse, with a Super Soaker filled with holy water.
Keith Miller was a well-known Australian cricketer. He served with the RAAF during World War II. He was a man of blunt speech. When asked once about the pressures faced by cricketers in top-level matches he replied tersely:“pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not”.
The Messerschmitt Aircraft Company lives on today. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, it is now part of Airbus.
The names of the parts into which an hour is divided are derived from the Latin terms *pars minuta prima *(“the first small part”) and *pars minuta secunda *(“the second small part”) etc. Older trigonometry tables used to carry an even smaller division, known as thirds, from pars minuta tertia.
It was illegal to stage Lillian Hellman’s play “The Children’s Hour” on Broadway when it was first produced on Broadway due to the subject matter of lesbianism. It was against the law at the time to mention homosexuality on stage in New York, but the law was not enforced against the play.