Arizona State University Sun Devils won national championships in men’s archery 15 times, women’s archery 21 times, mixed archery 20 times, men’s badminton 13 times, women’s badminton 17 times and mixed badminton 10 times, all which are not recognized by the NCAA.
The Sun Devil mascot is named ‘Sparky’.
The modern Flint, used in lighters to make an ignition** spark**, is not related at all to the stone Flint. It is made of Ferrocerium, an alloy of iron and a rare-earth metal, invented by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach.
A lighter is a flat-bottomed barge. It is used to ferry passengers and goods to and from moored ships.
On October 15, 2003, at 3:21 p.m., the Staten Island Ferry vessel Andrew J. Barberi crashed full-speed into a concrete pier at the St. George ferry terminal. Eleven people were killed and 165 injured, some critically
Saint George is the patron saint of England. His feast day is celebrated on 23 April.
In April 1970 when George Harrison’s “For You Blue” was released in America as a double A-side with Paul McCartney’s “The Long and Winding Road” in April 1970. It became the Beatles’s second chart-topping double A-side and “For You Blue” became Harrison’s second number one hit
Queen Frederika, consort of King Paul of the Hellenes, was a granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. She was said to be an extremely strong-willed woman.
The Electric Light Orchestra’s song “Mr. Blue Sky” from the group’s double album Out of the Blue was used in ads for the 2004 Jim Carrey/Kate Winslet movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Queen Elizabeth II did not appear in the film.
Queen Elizabeth II also did not appear in the classic film “Bubba Ho-tep”, nor did any character who thought he was Queen Elizabeth II.
When the Australian film The Story of the Kelly Gang was released in 1906, it was the longest narrative film seen up that time. It lasted for over an hour.
When Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin switched on the TV camera on the Lunar Module, three tracking antennas received the signals simultaneously. They were the 64 meter Goldstone antenna in California, the 26 meter antenna at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra in Australia, and the 64 meter dish at Parkes, NSW.
In the first few minutes of the broadcast, NASA alternated between the signals being received from its two stations at Goldstone and Honeysuckle Creek, searching for the best quality picture.
A little under nine minutes into the broadcast, the TV was switched to the Parkes signal. The quality of the TV pictures from Parkes was so superior that NASA stayed with Parkes as the source of the TV for the remainder of the 2.5 hour broadcast.
Sir Henry Parkes, for whom the town of Parkes was named, was five times Premier of NSW. He is considered the Father of Australian federation.
Parkes: and a very nice place it is, too.
The address of the Atlanta Braves’ Turner Field is 755 Hank Aaron Drive. The street is named after famed Milwaukee Braves slugger Henry Aaron, and the number 755 is for his record-setting career home runs. Asron hit home run number 755, his final home run, at Milwaukee County stadium on 20 July 1976 against the California Angels.
The record for the most home runs by two brothers playing major league baseball is 768 by Hank and Tommy Aaron.
In Test cricket its Steve and Mark Waugh, with 18956.
Patrick Roy is a Hall-of Fame Canadian hockey player who pronounces his name “Waugh”, but does not spell it using any of the letters in “Waugh”.
English author Evelyn Waugh, best known for Brideshead Revisited, was a man with the full name Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh.
Richard **Evelyn **Byrd, an American naval officer, claimed to be the first man to ever reach both the North and South Pole.
Evelyn Waugh’s first marriage was to the Hon. Evelyn Gardner, daughter of Lord Burghclere. Friends and family referred to them as ‘He-Evelyn’ and ‘She-Evelyn’ to distinguish them.
Waugh considered Helena, of all his works, to be the best that he wrote. It is a quasi-biography of Saint Helena, finder of the True Cross.