Cadillac de Villes were manufactured as a separate car series from 1958 to 2005. The first Coupe de Ville was built on the Cadillac Sixty Special chassis in 1950. The Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville was introduced late in the 1949 model year.
I can’t see the relation between Sampiro and Bullitt (ninja’ed 3 times in one day!), so here is one to tie them together.
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Among the sites travelers see while visiting Amarillo, Texas, is the Cadillac Ranch. It is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm. It consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line, most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs: the tailfins, from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
I didn’t go back to see if I was ninjaed. Is that my responsibility?
The more time you spend researching and composing and verifying a post, the greater the chance of being ninjaed.
Correct, I missed that.
Generally speaking, I believe it is the poster’s responsibility. But sometimes we miss a ninja. Sometimes one makes a post and for one reason or another isn’t able to check if they were ninja’d. It happens. But generally it is the polite thing to do.
Yes, that’s the nature of this game. We just have to deal with it.
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The Cadillac Ranch is one of many sites along the old Route 66. Others include Meteor Crater, the Chain of Rocks Bridge, and Roy’s Motel and Cafe in Amboy CA.
ETA: hey I’m just glad to not be ninja’d!
Amboy California was so named because it was the first of the stations established along the Mojave railway, which were to be named alphabetically. The more famous Baghdad was next, which ultimately became the setting for the eponymous movie. The third, and last station, was named Caciz.
The Amboy Dukes was an American rock band formed in 1964 in Detroit, Michigan, best known for their one hit single “Journey to the Center of the Mind”, and for being Ted Nugent’s original band. The band’s name comes from the title of a novel by Irving Shulman. In the UK the group’s records were released under the name of The American Amboy Dukes because of the existence of a British group with the same name
The station was Cadiz, not Caciz.
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According to the book, “1000 California Place Names” [©1959, University of California Press at Berkeley], the alphabetical list of railroad stations between San Bernardino and east to the Arizona state line 175 miles away was, originally in 1883: Amboy, Bristol, Cadiz, Danby, Edson, Fenner, and Goffs.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express, a musical about trains, was not the first musical piece to use the title. Andrew no doubt was aware of The Starlight Express, a children’s play by Violet Pearn, based on the imaginative novel A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood, with songs and incidental music written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1915, Sir Edward having been one of his brother, classical cellist Julian Lloyd Webber’s, favorite classical composer.
Elvis Andrus, whose last name is pronounced like Andrew or Andrews, is a shortstop for the MLB Texas Rangers. The Rangers recently lost their ALDS series against the Toronto Blue Jays in an epic battle in Toronto’s Rogers Centre on Wednesday night. The game 5 winner-takes-all and the loser-goes-home battle was tightly fought and entered the 7th inning tied, 2-2.
The 7th inning was a crazy one that saw the Rangers take a 3-2 lead in the first half of the inning on a bizarre throwing error by Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin. With Rangers right fielder Shin-Soo Choo at bat and batting left handed, the 4th pitch in Choo’s at-bat was a ball. When the right-handed catcher Martin threw the ball back to the pitcher, the ball hit the batter Choo’s left hand and rolled slowly towards the shortstop position. The runner on 3d scored the go-ahead run.
The umpires at first ruled the ball was dead and the run should not count, and the runner should return to 3d. But after a lengthy review they ruled that the thrown ball hit made incidental contact with the batter Choo, and Choo made no deliberate attempt to block the ball. Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin was charged with an error, the run was allowed to score, and the Toronto fans went crazy and littered the field with debris including beer cans and bottles.
When order was finally restored, Rangers (TXR) manager Jeff Banister filed a protest and the game continued.
In the bottom half of the 7th inning, TXR led 3-2 over TOR. TXR made 3 straight errors on three straight plays that led to TOR tying the game 3-3. Eventually, TOR would score 4 runs in their half inning powered by an epic upper deck home run by Jose Bautista, and would go on to win the game, 6-3. TOR won the series, 3 games to 2, and have gone on to face the Kansas City Royals (KCR) in the ALCS. As it stands right now, KCR leads that series, 1 game to none.
Here are my notes from that crazy, bizarre, once-in-a-lifetime 7th inning. The MLB has aired a 1-hour special about that 7th inning alone:
TXR @ TOR, Game 5, 2015 ALDS: crazy 7th inning
► Game 5 Starters:
TXR LHP #35 Cole Hamels (age 31) 7-1 3.66
TOR RHP #54 Marcus Stroman (age 24) 4-0 1.67
► ► T7, score 2-2, runner @3rd, 2 outs, 1-2 count to Shin-Soo Choo
► 7th inning starts @1813hrs
► Key people, T7th inning:
TXR manager Jeff Banister, former catcher
TOR manager John Gibbons, former catcher
TOR Pitcher: TOR RHP #41 Aaron Sanchez (age 23) 7-6 3.22
TOR Catcher: TOR C #55 Russell Martin (throws R) (error)
TXR Batter: TXR RF #17 Shin-Soo Choo (bats L)
TXR Runner @ 3rd: TXR 2B #12 Rougned Odor (scored go-ahead run)
Umpire: Dale Scott @ home plate, crew chief
► Odor had singled to left, was sac bunted to 2B by TXR C #38 Chris Gimenez, and was FC to 3B by TXR LF #7 Delino DeShields
► Choo at bat; 1-2 count, the 4th pitch in the AB is a ball, count is now 2-2: Martin’s return throw to Sanchez hits Choo’s L hand and the ball rolls slowly towards shortstop
► Odor breaks for home, Umpire Dale Scott calls Dead Ball and Odor touches the plate
► Umpire Dale Scott waves off the run, calls Dead Ball
► Lengthy review, Umpire Dale Scott rules the run does score. MLB Rule 6.03 (a) (3), pertinent section: "If the batter is standing in the batter’s box and he or his bat is struck by the catcher’s throw back to the pitcher, and, in the umpire’s judgment, there is no intent on the part of the batter to interfere with the throw, the ball is alive and in play.‘’
► E-2: TOR C #55 Russell Martin charged with an error
► TOR fans litter the field with bottles & cans & debris
► TOR manager John Gibbons protests the game
► Choo strikes out, ending T7; TXR 3 - TOR 2; TXR, 1-7 in elimination games, is 9 outs away from advancing to the ALCS
► Sanchez started the inning, replacing Stroman who finished the 6th; Sanchez would go on to pitch 1/3 of the 8th and was credited with the win.
► ► B7, TXR 3 - TOR 2
► Key people, B7th inning:
TXR LHP #35 Cole Hamels
TOR C #55 Russell Martin
TXR SS #1 Elvis Andrus (2 errors in the inning - cost TXR the 1st out, and then later cost TXR what should have been a double play, 5-6-3)
TOR CF #11 Kevin Pillar (scored the tying run)
TXR 1B #18 Mitch Moreland (1 error - cost TXR what should have been a double play, 3-6-3 or 3-6-1)
TOR PR/CF #45 Dalton Pompey (1st out, at home plate)
TOR 2B #17 Ryan Goins (scored go-ahead run on Bautista’s 3-run HR)
TXR 3B #29 Adrian Beltre
TXR RHP #47 Sam Dyson (instigated benches to clear, twice, with Encarnacion and then later with Tulowitzki)
TOR 3B #20 Josh Donaldson (scored on Bautista’s 3-run HR)
TXR 2B #12 Rougned Odor (judgment mistake that would have prevented the tying run from scoring)
TOR RF #19 Jose Bautista (3-run HR, upper deck: an epic HR and an epic bat flip)
TOR DH/1B #10 Edwin Encarnacion (exchanged words with Dyson, leading go the benches clearing)
TOR SS #2 Troy Tulowitzki (exchanged words with Dyson, leading go the benches clearing for the second time)
► E-6, fielding error: TXR SS #1 Elvis Andrus misplays leadoff hitter TOR C #55 Russell Martin’s easy ground ball, Hamels pitching.
1 missed out for TXR.
Runner on 1st, no outs: Martin is @1B.
► E-3, throwing error: TXR 1B #18 Mitch Moreland gloves TOR CF #11 Kevin Pillar’s grounder, but his thow to TXR SS #1 Elvis Andrus at 2nd for the force out bounces short; Andrus not able to make the catch. Martin, staying within the base path, adjusted his running line a little to the left to affect the throw and catch. Martin may have affected Andrus’ ability to see and field the ball clearly. Martin replaced at 2B by TOR PR/CF #45 Dalton Pompey.
2 missed outs for TXR (3 total); should have been a double play, 3-6-3 or 3-6-1.
Runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs: Pompey is @2B, Pillar is @1B.
► E-6, missed catch: TXR SS #1 Elvis Andrus, covering 3rd and looking to make a double play, takes his eyes off the ball just as it arrives to him from TXR 3B #29 Adrian Beltre, who had charged the bunted ball of TOR 2B #17 Ryan Goins.
2 missed outs for TXR (5 total): should have been a double play, 5-6-3.
Bases are loaded, no outs: Pompey is @3B; Pillar is @2B; Goins is @1B.
► Out #1: TOR PR/CF #45 Dalton Pompey out @home, 3-2, on TOR LF #7 Ben Revere’s FC grounder to TXR 1B #18 Mitch Moreland. Pompey’s slide takes out TXR C #38 Chris Gimenez.
Bases are loaded, 1 out: Pillar is @3B, Goins is @2B, Revere is @1B.
► TXR RHP #47 Sam Dyson replaces starting pitcher TXR LHP #35 Cole Hamels (age 31) 7-1 3.66; Dyson is called in to pitch to TOR 3B #20 Josh Donaldson
► TOR ties the game, 3-3; Out #2: TOR 3B #20 Josh Donaldson hits a bloop single just over the head of TXR 2B #12 Rougned Odor, who miscalculated the flight of the ball and backpedaled instead of turned for the ball, and then mistimed his jump. Pillar scores. Revere out @2B, 4-3, since he wasn’t sure if the ball would drop.
Runners at 1st and 3rd, 2 outs: Goins is @3B, Donaldson is @1B.
► TOR goes ahead, 6-3: TOR RF #19 Jose Bautista upper deck 3-run HR; Bautista watched the ball for a second, and then gave the bat flip to end all bat flips. TOR C #55 Russell Martin: "It was an epic home run, and it was an epic bat flip.‘’ TOR fans throw more litter onto the field; debris is seen flying from the stands during the replay.
► The benches clear; more debris thrown onto the field: TXR RHP #47 Sam Dyson approaches TOR DH/1B #10 Edwin Encarnacion, on deck. Encarnacion had been appealing to the crowd to settle down and stop throwing things onto field. Dyson and Encarnacion exchange words.
► Base hit, TOR DH/1B #10 Edwin Encarnacion
► Base hit, TOR 1B #15 Chris Colabello
Runners on 1st and 2nd, 2 outs: Encarnacion is @2B; Colabello is @1B
► Out #3: TOR SS #2 Troy Tulowitzki
► The benches clear a second time; more debris thrown onto the field: Dyson, instead of going straight to the TXR dugout, approaches Tulowitzki and taps him on the butt. Tulowitzki does not appreciate this gesture at such an emotionally charged time and exchanges words with Dyson.
► Hamels pitched 1/3 of the inning. Hamels was charged with the loss.
► Dyson pitched 2/3 of the inning.
► 7th inning ends @1906hrs; it began @1813hrs; the 7th inning lasted 53 minutes
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The All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT), also called Imperial Walkers, are large, four-legged mechanical ground assault or transport vehicles that were introduced in The Empire Strikes Back and also appear in Return of the Jedi.
The US military’s light truck, the HummVee, has been in service since 1984. It is being replaced by JLTVs, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, being built by Wisconsin-based truck maker Oshkosh. The big selling point for the JLTV is what Oshkosh calls the “Core1080 Crew Protection System,” which includes mine resistance, IED detection, and a lot of bolt-on armor.
Doyle Redland, the news anchor at The Onion Radio News, is an alumnus of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
According to the National Onion Association, world onion production is estimated at approximately 105 billion pounds each year. The average annual onion consumption calculates to approximately 13.67 pounds of onions per person across the world. Libya has the highest consumption of onions with an astounding average per capita consumption of 66.8 pounds.
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had the unusual habit of eating raw onions like apples.
Bud Abbott, the ‘straight man’ in the comedy duo of Abbott and Costello, was an avid gun collector, and owned one of Adolf Hitler’s shotguns and Tom Mix’s (a famous silent-film cowboy-movie star) pearl-handled six-shooters in his collection of firearms.
Tom Mix, like many cowboy film stars, was born in an eastern state, the town of Mix Run, Pennsylvania, named for his ancestors. He is not related to Charles Mix, who died two years earlier. Charles Mix was an administrator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and a county in South Dakota is named after him.