Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for As Good as It Gets (1997). Nicholson and J. T. Walsh costarred in A Few Good Men (1992). Walsh died just before the Academy Awards in 1998, and Nicholson dedicated his award to him.
Australian awards and honours are announced twice a year: the Australia Day list (26 January) and the Queen’s Birthday list (second Monday in June).
Australia Day has also been unofficially named “Anniversary Day”, “Invasion Day”, “Foundation Day”, and “ANA Day” (Australia Natives’ Association).
Karan and Kartiri Chand of Bradford, England celebrated their 89th wedding anniversary on 11 December 2014.
In 2009 Bradford was designated as the first UNESCO City of Film. Currently there are five such cities: Bradford, Sydney, Busan, Galway, and Sofia.
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (15 January 1850 – 10 February 1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.
Evelyn Boyd Granville (Yale, 1949) was one of the first African American women to receive a Ph. D. in mathematics in the USA.
Harry S. Truman, Democrat of Missouri, and Alben Barkley, Democrat of Kentucky, were inaugurated as President and Vice President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1949. Barkley, 71 at the time, still holds the record as the oldest person to become Vice President.
Harry Truman and Bess Wallace were classmates in their one-room schoolhouse in Independence MO. While in the Army, Harry was an artillery officer (“Arty Oh”, in the lingo) and trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Fort Sill is the artillery school for the US Army and the US Marine Corps.
Lawton, Oklahoma, it’s a happenin’ place. 
Lt. Gorman, Sgt. Apone, Cpl. Hicks and the other soldiers shown in the James Cameron sf action thriller Aliens were members of the U.S. Colonial Marines, the USCM, an obvious transposition of “USMC.”
In 1977, James Cameron was a truck driver. When he saw Star Wars (1977), he quit that job to enter the movies. His first film was Xenogenesis (1978).
John Cameron Swayze was the anchor of the first NBC daily newscast in 1949, and may have been the first person referred to as an “anchorman.” After the show was done, he became spokesman for Timex and their slogan “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”
Actor Patrick Swayze, whose real last name was Swayze, had a sister whose real first name was Bambi.
William Patrick Stuart-Houston (né Hitler) (12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. Born to Adolf’s half-brother, Alois Hitler, Jr., and his first wife, Bridget Dowling in Liverpool in the UK, William later moved to Germany and subsequently emigrated to the United States, where he enlisted and fought in World War II. He subsequently changed his surname to Stuart-Houston.
Sam Houston is the only American to be elected Governor of two different states. (Texas and Tennessee)
The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal representative of the Monarch. He is not elected, but appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the Premier of New South Wales. The Governor is appointed for an unfixed period of time - known as *serving At Her Majesty’s pleasure *- though five years has become the norm in recent years.
If the Governor dies in office, or leaves the country for longer than one month, the Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales, a role concurrently held by the Chief Justice of New South Wales since 1872, serves as Administrator of the Government and exercises all powers of the Governor. Should the Lieutenant Governor become incapacitated while serving in the office of Governor, the next most senior judge of the Supreme Court is sworn in as the Administrator.
Cool. Good trivia!
It was Governor Ronald Reagan (R - California), in 1967 when responding to war protestors chanting Make Love, Not War, who replied to the ragged-looking bunch,
“Those guys look like they can’t make either of both.”
Places 2-8 in the Table of Precedence for the Commonwealth of Australia are filled by the Governor-General and the six state Governors (in order of their appointment):
- Governor-General of Australia (Sir Peter Cosgrove)
- Governor of Victoria (Alex Chernov) (8 April 2011)
- Goverernor of Queensland (Paul de Jersey) (29 July 2014)
- Governor of South Australia (Hieu Van Le) (1 September 2014)
- Governor of New South Wales (General David Hurley) (2 October 2014)
- Governor of Western Australia (Kerry Sanderson) (20 October 2014)
- Governor of Tasmania (Kate Warner) (10 December 2014)
In the No.1 position is, of course, Queen Elizabeth II.
There are currently 17 people in the US Presidential line of succession who may become or act as President of the United States. This is specified by the Constitution, and by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (amended) shortly after the death of F.D.R.
Office Current officer
1 Vice President of the United States Joe Biden (D)
2 Speaker of the House John Boehner ®
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch ®
4 Secretary of State John Kerry (D)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew (D)
6 Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter (D)
7 Attorney General Eric Holder (D)
— Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (D)[a]
8 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (D)
9 Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (D)
10 Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez (D)
11 Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell (D)
12 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro (D)
13 Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx (D)
14 Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (D)
15 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (D)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald ®
17 Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (D)
Sally Jewell is not eligible because she was born in the U.K. All others are eligible.
A parabola is the locus of points in a plane that are equidistant from a line (known as the directrix) and a point, not on the directrix (known as the focus).