Burdine Stadium opened in 1937 in Miami, Florida, just west of downtown in Little Havana. It was demolished in 2008 and the site is now occupied by Marlins Park, where the MLB’s Miami Marlins play. Burdine Stadium was renamed in 1959, and from 1959 until 2008 it was known as the Miami Orange Bowl.
A marlin is a fish from the family Istiophoridae. It has an elongated body, a spear-like snout or bill, and a long, rigid dorsal fin which extends forward to form a crest. Its common name is thought to derive from its resemblance to a sailor’s marlinspike. Marlins are fast swimmers, reaching speeds of about 50 mph.
The larger species include the Atlantic blue marlin,which can reach 16.4 feet in length and 1,803 lbs. in weight and the black marlin, which can reach in excess of 16.4 feet in length and 1,480 lbs. in weight. They are popular sporting fish in tropical areas.
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George R.R. Martin once, as a kid, got fleas when he saw a movie at a very run-down old theater in his native New York City.
Judging by the Wikipedia photo of Geroge R. R. Martin, he once took fleas with him to a theater in his native New York City.
Martin Luther was a German friar, priest, professor of theology, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Initially an Augustinian friar, Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God’s punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar, with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.
Martin Luther was a law student when, caught outdoors during a strong electrical storm, his fear for his life led to him devoting his life to God.
Martin Crane, the sit-com father of Frazier, is the only famous “person” whose first and last names are the names of kinds of birds.
Aviation pioneer Glenn Martin, whose name lives on in Lockheed Martin Inc., was a Hollywood stunt pilot early in his life. He co-starred with Mary Pickford as a dashing young flyer who wins her heart in A Girl of Yesterday. A devoted mama’s boy, Martin never married.
A Mary Pickford is a Prohibition Era cocktail made with white rum, fresh pineapple juice, grenadine, and Maraschino liqueur. It is served shaken and chilled, often with a Maraschino cherry. It is said to have been created for actor Mary Pickford in the 1920s by either Eddie Woelke or Fred Kaufmann at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba on a trip she took to Havana with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
“America’s Sweetheart” Mary Pickford was Canadian.
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Leslie Nielsen is one of many Canadians who has made a nice career in Hollywood. Among many other deadpan comic roles, he played RCMP Sergeant Buck Frobisher on “Due South”, very well because he really was the son of a Mountie. In one episode, Constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) describes him as bearing an uncanny resemblance to “a certain famous Canadian comedian”.
Canadian William Shatner had only done serious roles before he agreed to host Saturday Night Live and tell the Trekkers on the show to “get a life.” He credits this appearance with getting him the role of The Big Giant Head on 3rd Rock from the Sun, which led to Boston Legal.
In 1919, Canadian Mary Pickford, along with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, formed the independent film production company United Artists.
The 1980 western Heaven’s Gate was loosely based on the Johnson County War between farmers and ranchers. Self-indulgent director Michael Cimino’s budget was not under control, and the film was such a flop that it drove UA into merger with MGM.
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is a song written and sung by Bob Dylan, for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Released as a single, it reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song, measured simply in terms of the number of other artists who have covered it, is one of Dylan’s most popular post-1960s compositions.
Following the release of Todd Haynes’ Dylan biopic I’m Not There, J. Hoberman wrote in his 2007 Village Voice review:
In short, there’s only one Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan first met his girlfriend Suze Rotolo in Manhattan, across the street from Ulysses Grant’s tomb, at a folk concert at Riverside Church.
ALF and his adoptive human family, the Tanners, lived in Riverside, California.
Can we really all have so quickly have forgotten NFL superstar Parrot Eagle? :: sigh ::
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The Seal of California has had a number of different versions over the years, and even today there is considerable variation in its design, despite efforts to standarize it.