In play: The title of George Orwell’s 1984 is believed to have come from the fact that he wrote the book in 1948, and transposed the last two numbers.
Peanuts comic strip from January 1, 1984
A drawing by Charles Schulz (“Sparky”, age 15) captioned “A hunting dog that eats pins, tacks, and razor blades is owned by C. F. Schulz, St. Paul, Minn.” was published 1937 in Ripley’s Believe it or Not!.
No. I said Texas has no natural lakes lying wholly within its state boundaries.
Caddo Lake and Sabine Lake are not wholly within Texas state lines. Natural Dam Lake is a dammed lake, by man made dam. Also, my sister and her husband are geography college professors in TX, at TX State San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University and at the University of Texas at Austin, and both of them state what I posted. Although my sister no longer teaches, she and her husband each hold a Ph. D in geography. When they were at TX State San Marcos it had (and might still be) the largest undergraduate geography program in the country.
I choose to take their educated word over the link you provided.
Back in play: A list of the names for the seven dwarfs that Disney considered and rejected included “Snoopy.”
Different versions of the Snow White tale havedifferent names, and quantities, for the dwarves, although none had names in the original Brothers Grimm story. In the film sequel (of sorts) Happily Ever After, starring Irene Cara, Malcolm McDowell, Edward Asner, Carol Channing, Dom DeLuise and Phyllis Diller, the dwarves’ names were Blossom, Critterina, Marina, Moonbeam, Muddy, Sunburn, and Thunderella.
What about Green Lake?
In play: The Seven Dwarfs in the original Grimm Bros. fairy tale were not named. The first time they were named was in the 1912 Broadway play, where they were given the names Blick, Flick, Glick, Plick, Quee, Snick, and Whick.
In the Robert McCloskey children’s book Make Way for Ducklings, set in Boston’s Public Garden (across Arlington Street from the Common, and now home to bronze statues of the Mallard family) and the area nearby, the ducklings were named Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack. Before the last Super Bowl, the duck statues were all fitted with Patriots jerseys.
The last of Dr. Seuss’s children’s books published in his lifetime was 1990’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. When released, it reached #1 on the New York Times’ hardcover best-selling fiction list. Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, passed away at the age of 87 on 24 September 1991.
In a collaboration with political humorist Art Buchwald, Dr. Seuss took a two-year-old copy of his book Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?, crossed out “Marvin K. Mooney” wherever it occurred and wrote in “Richard M. Nixon”. Buchwald and his editors reprinted the markup as a newspaper column, published July 30, 1974.
Milhous Children’s Services, located in Nevada City, California, helps to focus priorities for struggling children. Milhous, also Nixon’s middle name, likely has no connection to the ex-President.
John Huston, the actor/director/screen-writer, was born in Nevada, Missouri.
John F. Kennedy’s highest U.S. Navy rank was lieutenant. In 1961, he succeeded in the Presidency Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had been (and would be again, after leaving office) a five-star U.S. Army general.
There are no five star generals in the US Marine Corps. The highest rank is full General, or four star general. To date there have been, since 1945, 65 Marine Corps Generals. The second such was General Roy S. Geiger, who achieved his 4th star posthumously in 1947. His promotion date was back-dated to the day he died, 23 January 1947. The Marine Corps’ east coast School of Infantry and Staff Non-Commisioned Officer Academy are on Camp Geiger, North Carolina. Camp Geiger is part of Camp Lejeune.
The Geiger counter, is an instrument used for measuring ionizing radiation. It detects ionizing radiation such as alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays using the ionization effect produced in a Geiger–Müller tube; which gives its name to the instrument. The original detection principle was discovered in 1908, but it was not until the development of the Geiger-Müller tube in 1928 that the Geiger-Müller counter became a practical instrument. In wide and prominent use as a hand-held radiation survey instrument, it is perhaps one of the world’s best-known radiation detection instruments.
Johannes “Hans” Wilhelm Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the detector element of the Geiger counter. Geiger studied at the University of Erlanger, and then worked with Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester. Hans Geiger was a member of the Uranium Club, Germany’s nuclear weapons project that started in 1939 and whose plenipotentiary was Air Marshal Hermann Göring.
Over the years, Wilhelm Grimm worked extensively on the book of Grimm’s fairy tales, polishing the language. Some changes were made in light of unfavorable reviews, particularly from those who objected that not all the tales were suitable for children because of scenes of violence and sexuality (is there anything new under the sun?). He worked to modify plots for many stories; for example, in the first edition Rapunzel clearly shows a sexual relationship between the prince and the girl in the tower, which was edited out in subsequent editions.
Wilhelm and Jacob were the Brothers Grimm who wrote many children’s stories including Rapunzel, as Annie-Xmas tells us, and also Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and also Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White which were made into Disney classic movies.
In the 1930s and 1940s, some of these Brothers Grimm tales were used as Nazi propaganda by the Third Reich.
The Disneyfication of the Brothers Grimm is really, really pathetic. The original tales were extremely violent and sexually suggestive. And much more fun to read.
The Brothers Grimm had a very appropriate last name.
Mother Goose and Grimm is an internationally syndicated comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News. It was first syndicated in 1984, and is distributed by King Features Syndicate to 500 newspapers. Peters has received recognition for the strip with the National Cartoonists Society’s 1991 Reuben Award and a nomination for their Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 2000.
The strip revolves around a yellow Bull Terrier named Grimm, owned by an anthropomorphic goose named Mother Goose, along with a dimwitted Boston Terrier named Ralph and a cat named Attila.