Ian Fleming’s only children’s novel, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, was published in October 1964, two months after his death.
Singer/songwriter Janis Ian is a published science fiction author and an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Janis Joplin’s 1965 Porsche 356C Cabriolet was originally an oyster white colored car, but she had it famously painted in psychedelic colors and designs. It is on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
ETA: http://rockhall.com/blog/post/gallery-talk--janis-joplin-1965-porsche-356-cabrio/
Janis Joplin was a high school classmate of future U. of Miami, Dallas Cowboys, and Miami Dolphins head coach and “Survivor” contestant Jimmy Johnson, in Port Arthur, Texas.
Jimmy Johnson and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones were teammates on the Arkansas Razorbacks football team in 1964 that went undefeated and was the national champions as recognized by the Football Writers of America.
Jerry Richardson, a former Baltimore Colt who later founded the Hardee’s fast food chain and the Carolina Panthers franchise, is the only man to participate in a Super Bowl as both a player and an owner.
Gerald “Jerry” Ford, Republican of Michigan, is the only Eagle Scout to ever become President of the United States.
The Michigan\Ohio State football rivalry, one of the most heated in all of sports, began in 1897.
Michigan leads the rivalry, 58–46–6, the basterds
GO BUCKEYES!!!
The Bucks have been equalizing the total pretty quickly in recent years.
Former Ohio State coaching legend Woody Hayes was famous for never saying the word Michigan - it was always “the school up north” or “the state up north”. Legend has it that once, when he was recruiting a player up there, he ran out of gas and pushed his car across the state line rather than spend a single penny in Michigan.
The Hanson Buck was a whitetail deer shot near Biggar Saskatchewan in 1993, by Milo Hanson. The Boone & Crockett Club has declared that the antlers on the buck were the largest ever known.
Antlers is a city in, and the county seat of, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, in the Oklahoma Choctaw nation. The town was named for a tree that became festooned with antlers, first to denote the location of a spring. The town was ravaged by an F5 tornado in 1945.
The reindeer is the only cervid species in which both males and females grow antlers.
Moose are the largest members of the cervidae, and the pudús are the smallest. Moose weigh upwards of 450kg (1,000 lb). Pudús normally weigh up to 12 kg (26 lb).
Since 1889 the magnitude of the kilogram has been defined as the mass of an object called the international prototype kilogram (IPK). The IPK is made of a platinum alloy known as “Pt‑10Ir”, which is 90% platinum and 10% iridium (by mass) and is machined into a right-circular cylinder (height = diameter) of 39.17 millimetres to minimise its surface area. The IPK and its six sister copies are stored at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (known by its French-language initials BIPM) in an environmentally monitored safe in the lower vault located in the basement of the BIPM’s Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres on the outskirts of Paris. Three independently controlled keys are required to open the vault.
Lawyers appearing in the Supreme Court of Canada have the constitutional right to use either English or French in their oral and written pleadings. Simultaneous translation is available for any lawyer or member of the audience.
‘Audience’? Are Supreme Court proceedings so dramatic?
In play: Haïr (‘to hate’) is the only French verb with ending -ïr.
One rule of thumb for gender of French nouns is that a word ending in “-tion” will always be feminine.
“L’audience assistent à l’audience devant la Cour suprême.”
One never knows - sometimes counsel gets quite passionate about the equity of redemption in a foreclosure case.
Excepting the United States, the closest country to Canada is France.
I was taught that rule too, but with one exception: le bastion.
In play: A small area in Canada in central Saskatchewan, including the towns of Leask and Shellbrook, is antipodal to the uninhabited Australian territories of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands.
Kinoosao and Sturgeon Landing, both in Saskatchewan, are two isolated communities that are accessible by road only by first approaching from a neighboring province. You cannot drive to either place from within Saskatchewan without first leaving that province and entering Manitoba.