A dirge is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral.
Don McLean’s American Pie uses the word ‘dirges’ in the second verse:
The irrational number pi (π) is a mathematical constant, equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Pi day (π day) is usually on 14 March because 3.14 are the first 3 digits of pi. 2015 will have a special significance because at 9:26:53 AM it will be 3/14/15, 9:26:53 - and this represents the first 10 digits of pi:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286…
355/113 is the best rational approximation of pi with a denominator of four digits or fewer.
355/113 is also a very bad blood pressure number.
As in something bad has happened.
113 is the 30th prime number.
The most common agreed upon date for the crucifixion of Jesus is April 7, 30 (common year).
In Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Brian and a fellow inmate in a Jerusalem jail discuss the considerable likelihood that he will be subject to crucifixion, not an uncommon punishment under Roman law.
Brian Dickson was appointed the Chief Justice of Canada two years after the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into force and wrote several seminal judgments on the Charter. A veteran, Dickson was mentioned in dispatches during the Normandy campaign and lost his leg in battle. He was born in Saskatchewan and said that his interest in the law was triggered by watching the evening debates in the Saskatchewan Legislature, after he and his school chum did their homework in the Attorney General’s office.( The AG was the father of his school chum.)
Dixons Retail plc is one of Europe’s largest specialist electrical retailing and services companies.
Ivan Dixon played Sgt. James “Kinch” Kinchloe in “Hogan’s Heroes”, as the show’s only black, only sane, only normal, and only intelligent character.
Certainly the only black, but the only sane, normal and intelligent character? Reasonable people might differ…
Capt. James T. Kirk, commanding officer of the USS Enterprise, once told his friend Dr. Leonard H. McCoy that he was a serious, even “positively grim” student at Starfleet Academy.
While Picard was a notorious hell raiser at the Academy.
Dominic Picard from the Ville de Québec plays Centre for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Picard was All-Canadian while playing university ball with the Université Laval’s Rouge et Or, which won two Vanier Cups while he was with the team. He signed with the Riders in early 2012, to replace centre Gene Makowsky, who had been elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature. Picard was on the winning Grey Cup Riders team last fall, and has signed a contract extension until 2015.
Lou Monte’s song “Dominic the Donkey” tells a pseudo-Italian Christmas story about the creature who carries Santa’s gifts to all the good little children.
Lou Ferrigno, who played the titular monster in the 1978-82 TV show The Incredible Hulk, sometimes wore green shoes when the series was filming on NYC streets: Lou_ferrigno_hulk_0014.jpg (image)
*The Red Shoes *is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It tells the story of a young girl who is punished for her vanity and impiety by being forced to dance continuously in a pair of red shoes/slippers.
Hans Christian Andersen visited England twice, and acquired a friend in Charles Dickens. On his second visit, however, he stayed at the Dickens house for five weeks, whereupon he was asked to leave and Dickens cut off all further communication.
The English author Monica Dickens was the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
When Charles Dickens was 30 he visited the United States. He visited the White House and met President John Tyler, and Washington Irving.