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When Robert Lopez won the Oscar for the song “Let It Go” from Frozen, he became the 12th member of the EGOT club, the youngest member at age 34, and he joined the club in only 10 years, the shortest span ever!
EGOT stands for winners of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar & Tony Award. Lopez’s qualifications are:
E: Best Music Direction and Composition, “The Wonder Pets,” 2008 (Daytime Emmy)
G: Best Musical Theater Album – “The Book of Mormon,” 2012
O: Best Original Song – “Let It Go” from “Frozen,” 2014
T: Best Original Score – “Avenue Q,” 2004
The popularity of frozen yogurt today is attributable to the TCBY chain (This Can’t Be Yogurt), which sweetened the flavor and introduced soft-serve machines, like the ones used for ice cream, beginning in 1981.
Homer Simpson doesn’t get any frozen yogurt in a retelling of W.W. Jacobs’s 1902 story “The Monkey’s Paw” on The Simpsons, as a creepy store owner warns him that the frogurt is cursed.
Jerry Clower was a traveling salesman who was locally famous for his tall tales and funny stories and became an unlikely recording star when he recorded a clean and country themed “Party record” that was a bestseller. He parlayed this into a stand-up career and Grand Ol’ Opry stardom. His wife was named Homerline, the feminine version of her father Homer’s name.
The French word for “key” is feminine, notwithstanding freudian associations.
In his comic essay “Make Mine a Double,” humorist and novice French speaker David Sedaris discusses the bizarre gender-assignment conventions of the French language. He finally begins ordering two of everything when shopping so that he doesn’t have to remember the sex of, say, cheese, cucumbers or radios, as French plurals have no gender.
Marie Tussaud was a successful maker of life and death masks before the French Revolution, but it was her collection made during the Reign of Terror, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Danton, and Robespierre, that became the basis for the wax museum she opened in London after she refugeed.
Moulded wax masks were a part of the funerary rites of ancient Rome. They were worn in the funeral procession either by actors who were professional mourners, or by appropriate members of the family.
The full name of the BCP of 1662 is:
"The BOOK of
Common Prayer,
And Adminiſtration of the
S A C R A M E N T S,
AND OTHER
RITES and CEREMONIES
OF THE
C H U R C H,
According to the Uſe of
The CHURCH of ENGLAND:
TOGETHER WITH THE
PSALTER OR
PSALMS of DAVID,
Pointed as they are to be ſung or ſaid in Churches"
*Euouae *is a Catholic liturgical music term which describes the pattern of notes to used in singing the final cadences of a psalm verse. It takes its name from the vowels at the end of the doxology…saeculorum, Amen.
There’s an example here.
Definitions of the word ‘catholic’ include ‘all-embracing’.
Anglicanism considers itself part of the catholic (small ‘c’ ) church.
Lutherans during worship will pray The Creed, based on the Nicene Creed, which has this line,
‘And [we believe] in one, holy, catholic and apostolic church’.
The Nicene Creed takes its name from the First Council of Nicea. The ancient city of Nicea is located within modern Iznik, in Turkey.
The American Flag boxing Trunks were not worn by Rocky until Rocky III. The were lent to him by Apollo Creed, for the match with Clubber Lang.
Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music and poetry amongst others. The son of Zeus and Leto, he had a twin sister, Artemis.
The source for Apollo is generally thought to be the god Apulu in Etruscan mythology.
Saint Apollonia (feast day 9 February) is the patron saint of dentists and those suffering from toothache.
In most of the world medicine and dentistry are separate (though related fields). In South Asia, dentistry is just another speciality, although one chosen earlier than normal in medical education.
South Australia was the only one of the Australian colonies that was founded entirely by free settlers i.e. no convicts.