Bonanza TV star Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on October 31, 1936. If he were alive today he’d be coming up on his 78th birthday. Landon died of pancreatic cancer in 1991. He was 54 years old.
In the television show Bewitched Samantha’s seldom-seen warlock father is named Maurice.
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In the Steve Miller song, “The Joker”, the word pompatus is a nonce word. It is used in these lyrics:
Some people call me the space cowboy.
Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice,
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love.
The Greeks distinguished poetry into three forms, each of which had its own muse: Erato, of*** lyric ***poetry, Calliope of epic poetry, and Euterpe of elegiac poetry. There is a neighborhood in old New Orleans in which nine parallel streets are named for the muses.
It was Barthelemy Lafon, a lover of the classics, who named the nine streets after the muses of Greek mythology in what is now the Lower Garden District of New Orleans: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Euterpe, Polymnia and Urania.
Madison Square Garden is round; it takes its name from its original location on Madison Square.
The rock band Nazgul is playing at Madison Square Garden when an interdimensional alien comes to Manhattan in Watchmen. Most if not all of those in attendance are killed.
Of course, it’s all a fakeout by Ozymandias to avert World War III.
(It’s fun to hear the cops slaughtering the pronunciations of them on the police radio. Was it also Lafon who names Arts, Agriculture, Industry and Duels Streets?)
Alan Moore, the creator of “Watchmen” was also a competent stage magician.
In the early 50’s, James Bond actor Roger Moore was a model appearing in print advertisements for knitwear. He was given the nickname ‘The Big Knit’!
Moore was cast on **Maverick **as Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick (James Garner), Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) and Brent Maverick (Robert Colbert). He was 16 episodes.
The University of Mississippi acquired the nickname “Ole Miss” after using the term as the title of the student yearbook, in 1887,a name suggested by student Elma Meek. That was only two years after Ole Miss became the first in the South to hire a female faculty member, and five years after becoming co-educational.
The Spanish word olé, originally a bullfighting cheer but now an international soccer cheer, is thought to derive from the Arabic w-állah, “by Allah!”, although there is disagreement.
Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain found bullfighting very unpleasant to watch. When required to attend, she always wore opaque sunglasses.
There are restaurants in California that offer Opaque Dining in the Dark.
The customers eat in a room that is pitch black. They can’t see anything.
Here is a link, 'cause if someone had told me this was a thing, I wouldn’t have believed it. Most Unusual Restaurants In Los Angeles - CBS Los Angeles
Standard concert pitch generally has the A above middle C at 440 Hz.
James Gaffigan, chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, led the Cleveland Orchestra in its concert tonight at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio.
Lucerne, also known as alfalfa, is a plant in the pea family that is grown in many countries as a forage crop.
Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, is named after the ninth governor of Oklahoma, “Alfalfa Bill” Murray. During his election campaign, Murray tried to win the vote of farmers, by frequently referring to his success as an alfalfa grower. When Alfalfa County was organized, it was named in honor of the governor.
Actor and comedian Bill Murray was born in the Evanston, IL area. As a teenager he worked as a golf caddy. In college he was, for a time, a pre-med student. He got married on Super Bowl Sunday, 1981, when the Oakland Raiders beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10. Raiders QB Jim Plunkett, a Stanford grad, was the MVP of that Super Bowl.
The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society is an organisation that was established in 1907 with the aim of providing health services to babies and young children. It was named for its patron, Lady Plunket, wife of the Governor of New Zealand, the 5th Baron Plunket.