Only four Canadian provinces have a court entitled the Supreme Court.
They are all trial courts.
A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) and his love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.
Canada’s 15th Governor General, Baron Tweedsmuir, was better known as John Buchan, author of *The 39 Steps * and several other novels of adventure.
Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron, was originally a cavalry recon officer for the German Army before becoming the pilot who would be credited with 80 confirmed kills in less than three years of flying. He was shot down and killed over France at the young age of 25.
“Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” is a novelty song written by Phil Gernhard and Dick Holler and recorded in 1966, by the Florida-based pop group The Royal Guardsmen. It was inspired by the Charles Schultz cartoon, Peanuts.
The single made number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (US) chart during the week of December 31, 1966, number 6 on the Record Retailer (UK) chart in February 1967;[1] and number one in Australia for five weeks from February 1967.
The song: - YouTube
The Red Baron’s successor as commander of the von Richtofen squadron was Hermann Göring. Though Göring had an impressive record, his succession was believed to have been more the results of political influence (he was well connected through his godfather Hermann, Ritter von Epenstein) and was bitterly resented by von Richtofen’s brother Lothar.
Lothar, an African prince of great strength, was the right hand man of Mandrake the Magician, and is widely regarded as the first superhero to be created for the comics. Mandrake was drawn by Lee Falk in 1934, before Falk want on to become the creator of the more widely-known The Phantom.
Peter Falk, perhaps best known for his TV role as Det. Columbo, also appeared as a fictionalized version of himself (and a former angel) in Wim Winders’s 1987 film Wings of Desire.
The first actor to play Detective Columbo was veteran character actor Thomas Mitchell, an Oscar winner for 1939’s Stagecoach though probably more famous for his role as Scarlett’s father Gerald O’Hara in Gone With the Wind that same year. He portrayed him on Broadway in the play Prescription Murder in the final year of his life.
The origin of the concept of a legally regulated prescription for drugs may date back
to Baghdad, where the first pharmacies, or drug stores, were established in 754, under the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age. By the 9th century, these pharmacies were state-regulated.
Though pot can be bought openly in Amsterdam and some other major world cities, as well as in some states of the U.S. with a prescription and two states without, Portugal is the only nation that has actually legalized the sale of marijuana and most other recreational drugs. The Netherlands and several others where drugs are openly available have decriminalized but not legalized the drug trade.
The Netherlands was the first country in the Western world to establish a policy of religious tolerance. This made Amsterdam a magnet for Sephardic Jews leaving Portugal in the 1500s and 1600s.
Portugal is the only original member of the Eurovision entertainment consortium never to have produced a winner of its annual song contest. Ireland leads with 7 winners, Sweden has had 6, and the UK, France, and Luxembourg 5 each.
Winning the Eurovision Song Contest usually provides a short-term boost to the winning artists’ career, but rarely results in long-term success. Notable exceptions are ABBA (winner in 1974 for Sweden) and Céline Dion (winner in 1988 for Switzerland), both of whom launched successful worldwide careers after their wins.
ABBA had four top ten hits in the USA: “Waterloo” (#6), “Dancing Queen” (their first and last US #1), “Take a Chance on Me” (#3) and “The Winner Takes it All” (#8).
SPI’s “Wellington’s Victory: Battle of Waterloo” was a monster grand tactical recreation of the Battle of Waterloo, with 1,960 die-cut counters to represent the units of the French, Allied and Prussian armies, and four maps of the battleground, each measuring 34" x 22".
Prussian Blue was unceremoniously stripped of its name by Crayola in 1958, after teachers continued to voice concerns that the crayon wasn’t Cold War sensitive. Crayola hoped the color’s new name, Midnight Blue, would help make it less politicals. Rather than educate teachers, Crayokla just let them think (and presumably teach) that Prussian and Russian were the same thing.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Field Marshal. He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The Second World War German heavy cruiser Blücher, named in honor of the Field Marshal, was completed in September 1939, and pronounced ready for service on 5 April 1940 after completing a series of sea trials and training exercises. The vessel was sunk four days later near Oslo during the invasion of Norway.
Since the introduction of Crayola crayons by cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith in 1903, more than two hundred distinctive colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. As of today, discontinued colors include:
[ul]
[li]Flesh (changed in 1962 to Peach)[/li][li]Prussian Blue (introduced 1949, and discontinued 1958 as jtur88 tells us)[/li][li]Indian Red (introduced 1958, changed in 1999 to Chestnut)[/li][li]Blue Gray, Green Blue, Lemon Yellow, Maize, Orange Red, Orange Yellow, Raw Umber, and Violet Blue discontinued 1990, replaced with Cerulean, Fuchsia, and Dandelion[/li][li]Blizzard Blue, Magic Mint, Teal Blue, and Mulberry discontinued 2003 (Crayola’s 100th birthday), replaced with Inch Worm, Jazzberry Jam, Mango Tango and Wild Blue Yonder[/ul][/li]ETA - Ninja’d by SSR but my play still works: Prussian.
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Since the introduction of Crayola crayons by cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith in 1903, more than two hundred distinctive colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. As of today, discontinued colors include:
[ul]
[li]Flesh (changed in 1962 to Peach)[/li][li]Prussian Blue (introduced 1949, and discontinued 1958 as jtur88 tells us)[/li][li]Indian Red (introduced 1958, changed in 1999 to Chestnut)[/li][li]Blue Gray, Green Blue, Lemon Yellow, Maize, Orange Red, Orange Yellow, Raw Umber, and Violet Blue discontinued 1990, replaced with new colors including Cerulean, Fuchsia, and Dandelion[/li][li]Blizzard Blue, Magic Mint, Teal Blue, and Mulberry discontinued 2003 (Crayola’s 100th birthday), replaced with Inch Worm, Jazzberry Jam, Mango Tango and Wild Blue Yonder[/ul][/li]ETA - Ninja’d by SSR but my play still works: Prussian.