There are only two populated places in the USA named Ford. They are in Kansas and Wisconsin, and have a combined population of less than 500. By contrast, there are eight places named Ford in the United Kingdom.
KSWI is a radio station that serves Atlantic, IA.
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In play: Gerald Ford is the only US President to have been an Eagle Scout.
Leslie Lynch King was the first person to significantly change his name and become president of the United states, serving as Gerald Ford. But not the last. He was followed by William Jefferson Blythe III, later known as Bill Clinton. If Hillary Clinton become president, there would be the oddity of two presidents named Clinton, but neither with that name at birth.
George Bush 41 and Bill Clinton 42 were the only consecutive left-handed US Presidents.
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In the novel The Hitchhikers’s GUide to the Galaxy,, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never actually knew what the Question was.
The Hitchhikers’s GUide to the Galaxy is perhaps unique among iconic arts, in that it originated as a radio program, before being spun off into print, visual media, or any other artistic presentation. It first appeared in 1978 on BBC Radio.
Dragnet started out as a radio show in 1949, before becoming a TV show, a couple of movies, and a series of novels.
The Tom Hanks/Dan Aykroyd movie *Dragnet *was credited by one film historian with making the first condom joke in major motion picture history. (The Hanks character wakes up after a hot night with his girlfriend, picks up a condom box and shakes it. Nothing falls out; it’s clearly empty. Hanks shrugs and, unfazed, turns back towards his girlfriend…).
Ben Alexander, who played the original sidekick Frank Smith on early TV “Dragnet”, was born in the gold-rush town of Goldfield Nevada, which is now nearly a ghost town, but still the county seat of Esmeralda County, with a population of about 250. Wyatt Earp and Mark Twain also once lived there.
I remember a condom dialogue and jokes in The Summer of 42.
In play: Wyatt Earp is buried just south of San Francisco, in Colma CA.
Caleb Wyatt is the first person to ever perform a successful backflip on a large motorcycle. On April 25, 2002 at the Rogue Valley Motocross track in Central Valley, Oregon, Wyatt executed the backflip.
over a mulch pile of grass clipping, leaves and bark which was originally intended for the maintenance of the RVMX track.
Caleb Cushing (1800 – 1879) was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce.
In 1843 President John Tyler nominated Cushing for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, but the U.S. Senate refused to confirm him for this office.Cushing was, however, appointed by President Tyler, later in the same year, to be commissioner and United States Ambassador to China, holding this position until March 4, 1845. In 1844 he negotiated the Treaty of Wang Hiya, the first treaty between China and the United States. While serving as commissioner to China he was also empowered to negotiate a treaty of navigation and commerce with Japan.
Donald Sutherland and Alan Alda played the MAS*H character, Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, in the movie and TV series, respectively. Pierce hailed from Crabapple Cove, Maine and attended college in Androscoggin, Maine. After completing his medical residency in Boston, he was drafted into the US Army Medical Corps and served in the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH). His nickname, Hawkeye, came from his father and the book, The Last of the Mohecans by James Fenimore Cooper. A TV series loosely based on the book was titled the same, and then later retitled and released as Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohecans, and as Hawkeye. This later TV series was set in New York state’s Hudson River valley.
Edna Krabappel (the original German spelling of the name Crabapple) was the teacher of Bart Simpson’s 4th grade class at Springfield Elementary School, later becoming Ned Flanders’s wife.
Krabappel was the only character that Marcia Wallace voiced on a regular basis. Following the real-life Wallace’s death, the character was retired.
In his novel 11/22/63, Stephen King speculated that, if JFK survived an assassination attempt in Dallas and was narrowly reelected in 1964, he might be succeeded in the White House by segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1968.
Four men managed both the New York Yankees and the New York Mets: Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Joe Torre, and Dallas Green.
Only one man managed both the New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants: Bill Rigney.