A.Y. Jackson was one of the leading figures of the Group of Seven, a set of artist in the 20s and 30s who established a distinctively Canadian style of painting, emphasising the outdoors and the North. One of his mist famous paintings is http://www.yorku.ca/dcohn/redmaple2.jpg Red Maple No. 2.
In the 1812 Grimm Brothers publication of “Snow White”, the **Seven **Dwarfs were not given names, but simply enumerated as the First through the Seventh. They were given the now familiar names for the first time in the 1937 Disney film.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” is a common misquote from the 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The actual quote is:
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II was born in 1937. During the first of his two Space Shuttle missions he made the first ever untethered free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit in 1984.
The original German said "“Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand,
Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?”, repearing “Mirror, mirror”. It was Disney who misquoted Grimm. Hollywood rewrote nearly all traditional stories, including switching Dorothy’s silver slippers to red ones to spruce up a technicolor movie…
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Astronaut Bruce McCandless II was born in 1937. During the first of his two Space Shuttle missions he made the first ever untethered free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit in 1984.
In George Orwell’s novel *Nineteen Eighty-Four *‘Room 101’ is torture chamber where a prisoner is forced to face his worst fear.
Orwell is said to have named the room after a conference room at Broadcasting House where he used to sit through tedious meetings.
The early 1970s TV show, Room 222, aired on ABC on Friday nights and was part of a famous and memorable lineup:
8:00pm: The Brady Bunch
8:30pm: The Partridge Family
9:00pm: Room 222
9:30pm: The Odd Couple
10:00pm: Love, American Style
In Greek mythology Perdix was the nephew of Daedalus who, jealous of Perdix’s inventive skill, tried to kill Perdix by pushing him from the top of a high tower. Athena, taking pity on Perdix, changed him into a partridge. The legend lives on in the scientific name for the partridge, perdix perdix.
The Tower Treasure was the first book in the long running Hardy Boys mysteries.
Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian freelance writer, was hired through a want-ad to write for a syndicate that specialized in children’s books, and created The Hardy Boys. .
Leslie McFarlane’s autobiography is titled Ghost of the Hardy Boys.
In his book The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane, William Holtz maintains tat the 'Little House on the Prairie books were actually ghostwritten by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter Rose, who was a well known author long before her mother starting the series.
Lou Holtz, celebrated coach of Notre Dame Football and subsequently a TV football commentator, was born and raised in East Liverpool, Ohio, and his mother still lives there.
Bill Belichick was headed to Raleigh right after graduating from Wesleyan to be a graduate assistant under Lou Holtz at NC State, bu0 then Holtz left to take over the New York Jets. Belichick then took a nearly-unpaid gopher job with Ted Marchibroda of the Baltimore Colts, meaning he has never held a post-college job outside the NFL.
After the Baltimore Colts bolted from the stable, the Canadian Football League filled the gap with a US expansion team. The team was originally called the Baltimore CFL Colts, but the former Colts objected, saying it violated their trademark.
The CFL team then switched its name to the Baltimore Stallions. The Stallions won the Grey Cup at Taylor Field in Regina in 1995, in a very cold game where the bitter wind gusted as high as 80 km/hr from the north-west. The Stallions beat the Calgary Stampeders, becoming the only US team to hold Earl Grey’s mug.
The next year, when all the other US expansion teams folded, the Stallions re-located to Montreal, becoming the Montreal Alouettes (second creation).
The now-Indianapolis Colts are one of two NFL teams originally named the Dallas Texans, the other being the Kansas City Chiefs. Legend has it that when Lamar Hunt moved his franchise out of Dallas, he intended to name them the Kansas City Texans. Cooler heads prevailed.
The NFL Dallas Texans had previously been the New York Yanks, who played in Yankee Stadium. But there was no corporate linearity. The Yanks folded, and left a team of players with no contract, so Hunt formed a new entity (The Dallas Texans) and signed all the former Yanks players.
The New York Yanks were originally the Boston Yanks, who played home games at Fenway Park. The Washington Redskins were originally the Boston Braves, who changed their name to Redskins after being evicted from Braves Field for nonpayment of rent and moving to Fenway Park. Fenway was also home to the Boston Bears of the 1940-41 American Football League, and previously to the 1926 Boston Bulldogs of the first AFL and the 1936-37 Boston Shamrocks of the second one.
Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John of then-Gen. George Washington, “He is polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity; modest, wise and good.”
The grave accent mark occurs in many languages, and is defined by the angle of the stroke, not the effect it has on the vowel on which it is used diacritically. As distinct from an acute accent, the grave accent slash goes from upper left down to lower right. It has no formal function in English, but can be used artistically to show a syllable that is archaically pronounced, such as in “cooked”, to show that the second syllable is pronounced for poetic meter…