The lone breakthrough hit by London-based punk group Screaming Blue Messiahs was “I Wanna Be A Flintstone”.
Handel’s Messiah was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742. Messiah has been described as a commentary on Jesus Christ’s Nativity, Passion, Resurrection and Ascension, beginning with God’s promises as spoken by the prophets and ending with Christ’s glorification in heaven. It includes Christ’s virgin birth as predicted by the Old Testament prophets, and the annunciation to the shepherds of the birth of the Christ is represented in the words of Luke’s gospel. Handel uses a compilation of extracts from the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible.
“The Drumhead” was a 1991 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation exploring questions of public hysteria, military justice and McCarthyism. It was directed by Jonathan Frakes, best known for playing Cmdr. Will Riker.
ETA: Handel is not mentioned in the episode.
Dammit!
ST: TNG first aired on 23 September 1987. Prior to that, Jonathan Frakes had acted as a guest star on The Waltons, Hill Street Blues, Matlock, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Eight is Enough, and in recurring roles in Falcon Crest and the miniseries North and South.
Frakes is one of only two *Star Trek *actors to appear on four of the five different *Star Trek *series (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise). Frakes never appeared on the original series.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is the only actor to appear in all five of the Star Trek television series.
Jonathan Frakes’ wife is Genie Francis, who has made a long career out of playing Laura Spencer on “General Hospital”. The television couple of Luke and Laura wed on November 17, 1981 (culminating a relationship that began with a rape), with 30 million viewers tuning in to make the episode the highest-rated hour in soap opera history.
Former NFL tight end Russ Francis grew up in Hawaii, played college ball for Oregon, and went on to a 13-year NFL career with two teams, twice with the New England Patriots where he began and ended his career, and once with the San Francisco 49ers. He won a Super Bowl with the 49ers after the 1984 season when the 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX, 38-16, at Stanford Stadium. That was Dolphins QB Dan Marino’s one and only time to play in a Super Bowl.
Francis the Talking Mule was a series of films in the 1950s starring Donald O’Connor and the talking mule. The producers of the movie later developed Mister Ed for television.
(Russ Francis set the national high-school record in the javelin).
Donald O’Connor’s best-known film role was in Singin’ in the Rain, with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. The film shows the transition in Hollywood from silents to talkies, with some former stars left behind because of their voices.
Singin’ in the Rain - Cool. I never saw it but have it recorded. Will watch it soon.
Gene Kelly was cast for the lead in the movie, but he was not the original choice. Howard Keel was. Keel was replaced by Kelly as the screenwriters evolved the character from a “Western actor” to a “Vaudeville song-and-dance man”.
Keely Smith, wife and occasional singing partner of Louis Prima, most notably on “That Ol’ Black Magic”, is still an active performer at age 87.
The new AC62 class yacht for the upcoming 35th America’s Cup to be hosted in Bermuda in 2017 is 10 feet shorter than the previous yachts raced in San Francisco. Their keels will sport wings at the bottom.
Philip Wallach Blondheim became friends with John Phillips when they both were growing up in Virginia. Phillips would later write write “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” Blondheim would change his name to Scott MacKenzie and record the song that would be considered “the anthem of the 1960’s.”
John Phillips was with the singing group, The Mamas and the Papas. His daughter, Laura Mackenzie is the the actress known as Mackenzie Phillips. John Phillips was born in Parris Island, SC, where also USMC boot camp MCRD Parris Island is located. The Marines only have two boot camps. The other one is in San Diego. Both are called MCRD, Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
The current insignia of the U.S. Marine Corps is an eagle, globe and anchor. During the Civil War, it was a hunter’s horn with the Gothic letter “M” in it.
The Marine Corps horn and “M” insignia was similar to the insignia used by other organizations such as U.S. Army units. After the U.S. Civil War, Marine Corps Commandant Jacob Zeilin (1806-1880) decided that the Marines needed a more distinctive and more unique insignia. The Marines’ current insignia, the eagle, globe and anchor (the “EGA”), drew upon the history of the Marine Corps and the influential legacy of the British Royal Marines. The eagle is crested, the globe shows the western hemisphere, and the anchor is fouled. The eagle and the globe represented the global reach and projection of the power represented by the Marine Corps. The fouled anchor displayed the naval tradition of the Marine Corps and the ships on which it served.
The crested eagle is not specific to the United States. It is not the American bald eagle.
1868 saw the first official adoption of the EGA as the Marine Corps emblem when it was used as a cap ornament. The horn and “M” continued to be used until November 1869.
Effective 01 July 1876 the use of the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor became “the sole emblem of the United States Marine Corps.”
Semper Fidelis,
Bullitt
Missed the edit window, to provide reference:
Marine Corps Trademark Licensing Program
Office of U.S. Marine Corps Communication
http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/divpa/Units/MarineCorpsTrademarkLicensingProgram/History.aspx
Please allow me, I really wanted to extend this play. Thanks in advance. Extended play below.
The Marine Corps horn and “M” insignia was similar to the insignia used by other organizations such as U.S. Army units. After the U.S. Civil War, Marine Corps Commandant Jacob Zeilin (1806-1880) decided that the Marines needed a more distinctive and more unique insignia. The Marines’ current insignia, the eagle, globe and anchor (the “EGA”), drew upon the history of the Marine Corps and the influential legacy of the British Royal Marines. The eagle is crested, the globe shows the western hemisphere, and the anchor is fouled. The eagle and the globe represented the global reach and projection of the power represented by the Marine Corps. The fouled anchor displayed the naval tradition of the Marine Corps and the ships on which it served.
The crested eagle is not specific to the United States. It is not the American bald eagle.
1868 saw the first official adoption of the EGA as the Marine Corps emblem when it was used as a cap ornament. The horn and “M” continued to be used until November 1869.
Effective 01 July 1876 the use of the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor became “the sole emblem of the United States Marine Corps.”
Extended play:
Eagles and anchors have been used in Marine Corps insignia since the turn of the nineteenth century. For example, in 1804, the buttons of Marine uniforms displayed a fouled anchor with an eagle perched atop it and surrounded by thirteen stars. This device represents the oldest military insignia in continuous use in the United States.
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Reference:
Marine Corps Trademark Licensing Program
Office of U.S. Marine Corps Communication
http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/divpa/Units/MarineCorpsTrademarkLicensingProgram/History.aspx
Semper Fidelis,
Bullitt
Semper fidelis means “always faithful.” The motto of the US Coast Guard is Semper paratus, “always ready”. They have another, unofficial motto too: “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.”
Marines have unofficial mottos and sayings:
The Few, The Proud
Once a Marine, Always a Marine
First to Fight
Leatherneck
Esprit de Corps
Devil Dogs (from the Germans in WWI when at the Battle of Belleau Wood they called Marines Teufel Hunden)
Uncommon Valor
And some other ones:
M-A-R-I-N-E: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected
U-S-M-C: U Signed the Mother-F***ing Contract
The term SNAFU was coined by the military during WWII as an acronym of the initials of the words Situation Normal, All Fucked Up, which summed up the chaos and confusion of the war. despite this origin, snafu has become a perfectly acceptable, polite word.