The River Shannon is the longest river on the island of Ireland, with a length of 360.5 km. Its reputed source is the Shannon Pot and it ends at Limerick where it flows into the sea.
At 314 miles long the Cagayan River is the longest river in the Philippines.
There are at least 77 rivers in the world that are 1.000 miles or longer, and there are at least 176 rivers in the world that are at least 600 miles or longer. The Cagayan River, and the River Shannon of Ireland, don’t come close to the longest river systems in the world which are over 3,000 and 4,000 miles long.
Runabouts, small warp-capable auxiliary spacecraft in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and later series, were named after Earth rivers. Among the named Runabouts were the Volga, Rubicon, Rio Grande and Mekong.
Nine Men’s Morris is an ancient board game, likely originating in Roman times. Titania refers to it in A Midsummer’s Night Dream: “The Nine Men’s Morris is filled up with mud.” The sentence was an example of how disordered country life had become since Titania and Oberon began their feud.
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The Winter’s Tale has only one.
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Two deaths, actually: young Prince Mamillius, and Antigonus (that is of course assuming that the Bear is successful in pursuit 
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The original 9 Lives cat food mascot Morris the Cat appeared 2 films The Long Goodbye with Elliott Gould and Shamus with Burt Reynolds. There have been 2 other cats that have portrayed Morris since the original Morris’ death in 1978
Burt Reynolds played himself in a single episode of the FX animated spy spoof Archer. Sterling Archer, the lead character, is a big, big fan of Reynolds.
Sterling silver is an alloy of silver and another metal, usually copper. It has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925 i.e. 925 parts per thousand of pure silver in the alloy, or 92.5% by mass of silver.
“Helen O’Loy” is a famous science fiction short story. The title character is a female robot, whose name is an amalgam of “Helen of Troy” and “Helen Alloy.”
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The singer-songwriter who wrote Helen Reddy’s #1 1974 hit “Angie Baby” also wrote over 100 songs for the Saturday morning series, Muppet Babies. He also wrote the Righteous Brothers’ #3 Gold hit “Rock And Roll Heaven”.
He also wrote and sang the million-selling Gold-certified #1 hit in 1977, Undercovver Angel. That man is Alan O’Day.
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Undercover angel
Midnight fantasy
I never had a dream
That made sweet love to me
Undercover angel
Answer to my prayer
You made me know
That there’s a love for me out there
(Somewhere)
Yeah, somewhere
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Between 1926 and 1936 a contest took place in Toronto, Canada where women competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for a bequest in a will. It became known as the Great Stork Derby.
Four women each received $125,000 for producing nine children.
In 1917 and in 1922, the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky Derby were run on the same day.
In the 1917 Canadian federal election, some women were given the right to vote for the first time. The franchise for women was tilted in favour of women who had men at the Front and thus were presumed to support the Government, which was fighting the election on introducing conscription to increase the size of the Canadian forces in France.
Though not Canadian, Boxer Lee Canagata took the name “Canada Lee” when an announcer, seeing, “Canagata, Lee” on his cue card, mondegreened it. Lee had to leave boxing due to blindness in one eye, and literally stumbled into acting when, while looking for a job, he went into the wrong room and discovered they were casting a play. Lee did a cold reading and got the part, and became one of the most successful Black actors on Broadway in his era. He’s best known now for his work in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat; his career collapsed when he was blacklisted in the early 50s.
US Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph “Dan” Daly was one of only nineteen men (including seven Marines) to have received the Medal of Honor twice. Of the Marines who are double recipients, only Daly and Major General Smedley Butler received their Medals of Honor in two, separate conflicts.
In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, Daly received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly defending his position against repeated attacks and inflicted casualties of around 200 on the attacking Boxers.
Georgia Congressman Seaborn Roddenberry was obsessive in his hatred of interracial marriage- particularly between black men and white women and most particularly between Jack Johnson and the white women he married- and proposed legislation in the House that would make it illegal in every state. During one of his philippics on the subject he began bleeding from the mouth- it turned out to be throat cancer, probably from his heavy cigar habit- and he died in agony and with dementia. He was largely forgotten for a century until analogies were made by editorialists between his rhetoric against interracial marriage and the more extreme rhetoric of those opposed to gay marriage debates in the 21st century.
The term philippic originated with Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens who delivered several attacks on Philip II of Macedon in the 4th century BC.
Terry Savalas’s brother George was part of the cast of Savalas’s hit series Kojak. In order to obscure the relationship, in early seasons he was billed as Demosthenes.
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s opera Iolanthe the Christian names of the two earls are George (Earl of Mountararat) and Thomas (Earl Tolloller).
Raymond Edward O’Sullivan paid homage to Gilbert & Sullivan and reached career success under the name Gilbert O’Sullivan.
As a youth, Gilbert O’Sullivan was interested in boxing where, in the ring, he boxed over fifty bouts.
When you’re a boxer in the ring, you’re pretty much on your own. You are Alone Again, Naturally.
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