In 1993, Natalie Portman and Britney Spears were both understudies for the central role of Tina in “Ruthless: The Musical”.
Lycanthropy is limited to werewolves. The more generic term is “therianthropy”, which refers to man’s ability to turn into any kind of animal, not just a wolf. Evidence of cultural belief in therianthropy dates back 13,000 years to cave drawings in France.
*Werwolf *was a Nazi plan for a guerrilla movement which would harass the Allied occupiers after defeat of the conventional German military forces. After only a handful of minor operations, and reprisals afterward, most of their operatives were captured (and thousands of innocents too, by the Soviets) and the operation ended.
In the Patriation Reference in 1981, the Supreme Court of Canada held that Prime Minister Trudeau’s plan for unilateral Patriation of the Constitution was lawful, but unconstitutional in the conventional sense.
Kaiser Wilhelm II caused considerable offence when, in September 1891, he signed the Golden Book of Munich with the words suprema lex regis voluntas (‘the sovereign’s will is the supreme law’).
Janette Lowrey’s “The Poky Little Puppy” was published by Golden Books 72 years ago, and is the largest selling hardcover children’s book of all time, outselling any titles by Dr. Seuss.
72 years ago, the British launched the Dieppe Raid. The majority of the troops involved were Canadian. The raid was a fiasco and showed the futility of trying to capture a heavily defended port from the sea. The Raid changed Allied strategy to focus on landing on the beaches of Normandy.
Lt Col Merritt, commander of one of the Canadian regiments, the South Saskatchewan, was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Adrien de Pauger, who was born and raised in Dieppe, France, designed and laid out the plans for the part of New Orleans now known as the French Quarter.
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Adrian IV (Adrien IV en français) was the only English Pope to date. He was originally named Nicholas Breakspreare.
NBA Hall of Famer Adrian Dantley played college ball for Notre Dame. As a freshman, he played an important role in one of the biggest games in college basketball history, Notre Dame’s 1974 upset to end UCLA’s record 88-game winning streak. That UCLA team, coached by John Wooden, featured Bill Walton, Jamaal Wilkes (then known as Keith Wilkes), and Dave Meyer.
This morning marked the end of Australian Eastern Standard time and the commencement of daylight saving, which will continue through summer until 5 April next year.
The Southern Pacific Railroad’s Coast Daylight, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, was nicknamed “the most beautiful train in the world” on the basis of its orange, black, and red paint scheme. When Amtrak took over US passenger rail service, it was merged with the Coast Starlight, running further north to Seattle but bypassing San Francisco in favor of Oakland.
There are no train tracks across either the Golden Gate or the Bay Bridges, so a north-south train track through San Francisco is not supported.
The highest elevation train track in Australia is 1905 metres above sea level at Mt Blue Cow station on the Alpine Skitube railway.
Lion’s*** Gate ***Entertainment, a major film distribution company, gets it name from the entrance to the harbor at Vancouver, Canada, where the company was founded and is headquartered. Lion’s Gate, the geographical feature, is alwo known as “First Narrows”.
How does this relate to my previous post?
I don’t see it, either. jtur88, what say ye?
I’ll play off of both:
Candlestick Park, which opened in 1960 and is the former sea level stadium of the San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers, is located next to the geographical feature in San Francisco Bay called Candlestick Point.
There was an intervening post that I did not see because I did not refresh before posting. I even bolded the word gate, to aid any user who might have difficulty determining what I was playing off on, and it shouldn’t have been that hard to find…
Thanks for the 'splanation. Around here that’s considered as you being Ninja’d by Cunctator, and so your play would usually be retracted and Cunctator’s would still be in play.
It happens. We’re good, thanks again, and play on!