Gardner’s Island, at the end of Long Island in New York, was granted to Lion Gardner by King Charles I in 1639. The Gardner family descendants still own the island (though there has been a lot of drama in the past few years). Captain Kidd buried treasure there; it was returned to the crown when Kidd was caught.
Long Island Iced Tea also goes by other names, including Texas Iced Tea, Georgia Iced Tea, Tokyo Tea, Three Mile Island, and Adios Mother Fucker.
U.S. Navy divers have, in recent months, been diving on and recovering artifacts from the wreck of the Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia, scuttled in the Savannah River to prevent capture in December 1864.
Not a problem, mind you, but how did this pay off of Bullitts’ trivia? I’m probably dense, but I can’t see the connection.
Working from your trivia:
The jazz song, Sweet Georgia Brown, was adapted by the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team sometime between 1950-1952. The version used by the Globetrotters is a 1949 instrumental by Brother Bones and His Shadows, featuring whistling and bones by Brother Bones. It was adopted as the Globetrotters theme around 1950, and today is inextricably associated with the team.
(The link was “Georgia”)
Georgia Brown, played by Lena Horne, was the name of the hussy who lures Little Joe (Eddie “Rochester” Anderson) away from his wife Petunia (Ethel Waters) in Cabin in the Sky, an all-black film (unusual for a major studio then) directed by Liza Minnelli’s father Vincente.
Ethel Waters was the second African-American actress (after Hattie McDaniel) to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress for Pinky).
Ethel Waters played the mother of 7 year old Sammy Davis, Jr., in the now obscenely politically incorrect 1933 short Rufus Jones for President.
Sammy Davis, jr served during WWII in the US Army. He entertained troops while in an entertainment Special Services unit. He found that even prejudiced white men respected and enjoyed his performances. He said, “My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man’s thinking.”
Pete Seeger was already well known before the war as a member of the isolationist Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie, Josh White, and various other Greenwich Village folksingers. Although formally trained as a truck mechanic by the Army, he actually spent the war performing for his fellow soldiers, as his CO’s traded him from base to base for favors. When asked later on what he did in the war, Pete would simply answer “I played my banjo.”
Pete Seeger wrote the song Turn! Turn! Turn! in the late 1950s. The song was made popular when it was sung by The Byrds in 1965 by their album of the same name as the song.
Seeger’s lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the King James Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, verses 1-8:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Joseph Haydn wrote his “Mass In Time Of War” in 1796, in dread of what was going to happen due to Austria’s mass mobilization, responding to French invasion of Germany and Italy in the wake of the French Revolution. In 2001, Karl Jenkins responded with “The Armed Man: Mass In Time Of Peace”, dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis.
Joseph Haydn was known as the “Father of the String Quartet.” He was a friend of Mozart, and a teacher of Beethoven.
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Franz Joseph Haydn’s younger brother, Michael, was also a prolific composer: 43 symphonies, 12 concertos, and a long list of other pieces, including the Marcia Turchese in C major, one of my favourite marches.
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The song, Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore is a spiritual that dates from the Civil War. It was first published in 1867 in Slave Songs of the United States. In 1961, the American quintet The Highwaymen’s version reached #1 on the American pop charts.
On July 1,1867, Queen Victoria proclaimed in force the British North America Act, 1867 which merged the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada.
The first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, had wanted the new country to be named the Kingdom of Canada, but the timorous British had refused, afraid to upset the Americans to the south.
“Dominion” was chosen instead, possibly inspired by Psalm 72:8: “He shall have dominion from sea to sea.” Canada’s heraldic motto is the Latin version: “A Mari usque ad Mare.”
Of the 66 books in the (Protestant) bible, the shortest book is 3 John at 299 words. The longest book is Psalms, at 43,743 words.
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John Donne (1572-1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons.
Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He spent much of the money he inherited during and after his education on womanising, literature, pastimes, and travel. In 1601, Donne secretly married Anne More, with whom he had twelve children.[3] In 1615, he became an Anglican priest, although he did not want to take Anglican orders. He did so because King James I persistently ordered it. In 1621, he was appointed the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and in 1614.
In the film Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews sings “Feed the Birds” while an old lady sells bags of seeds and crumbs to people who feed the pigeons outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. The old lady was played by Jane Darwell, best known as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, in her final film role.
The hardnosed, skilled but troubled Metropolitan Police Det. Chief Insp. Jane Tennison was played by Helen Mirren in the Prime Suspect series. It ran for seven seasons.
According to a series of commercials in the 80s, Doctor Who’s TARDIS had a Prime (brand) computer.