In 1986, Chief Justice Warren Burger informed the White House of his intent to retire. President Ronald Reagan wanted to appoint the first Italian-American justice. Antonin Scalia was called to the White House and accepted Reagan’s nomination. R.I.P., Antonin Scalia, 11 March 1936 - 13 February 2016.
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák spend the summer of 1893 in tiny Spillville, Iowa (population today 400), where he composed three of the works in his catalog, and experienced part of the inspiration for his famous New World Symphony.
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The theme from the Largo to the New World Symphony was the inspiration for the song “Going Home”, often mistaken for an African-American folk song.
“Going Home” has found its way onto the pipes, and is sometimes played at funerals. The piper often walks away from the gravesite playing the tune, called the “Highland walkaway”.
The tune was played to tremendous emotional impact at Payne Stewart’s funeral, where the piper walked away into the mist, leaving only foot prints in the heavy dew on the grass.
According to Dvorak himself, a number of the themes in his *New World Symphony * were inspired by ( in his own words) “negro” and “Indian” melodies.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was the last American president to publicly refer to the African American population as Negroes (to which, for much of his life, he gave the Texas pronunciation nigras, widely considered an insult by African Americans).
Lyndon LaRouche, Jr., is an American political activist. He has written on economic, scientific, and political topics, as well as on history, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. LaRouche was a presidential candidate in each election from 1976 to 2004, running once for his own U.S. Labor Party and seven times for the Democratic Party nomination.
In his beliefs, industry, technology, and classical music should be used to enlighten the world, whereas the Aristotelians use psychotherapy, drugs, rock music, jazz, environmentalism, and quantum theory to bring about a new dark age in which the world will be ruled by the oligarchs. Left and right are false distinctions for LaRouche; what matters is the Platonic versus Aristotelian outlook, a position that has led him to form relationships with groups as disparate as farmers, nuclear engineers, Black Muslims, Teamsters and pro-life advocates.
Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (played by Tim Robbins) was the baseball rookie pitcher in Bull Durham (1988) schooled by Lawrence “Crash” Davis (Kevin Costner), and also by Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon).
Tim Maia was a Brazilian superstar, influential in many genres of Brazilian music during his 55 year lifetime. A bio-drama film of his life was released in 2014. His professional career started in the USA, where he had a student visa, formed a traveling band (that did road trips in a series of stolen cars), and was deported for drug possession, back to his native country where he enjoyed huge (he was also obese) iconoclastic success.
In Greek mythology, Maia is the eldest of the heavenly Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas, who shine in the night sky as the Pleiades.
Between Eastbourne and Seaford, in East Sussex, England, are the white chalk cliffs known as The Seven Sisters. When “the white cliffs of Dover” are shown in movies or television, The Seven Sisters (west of Dover, Kent) are often shown instead.
The White Cliffs of Dover are best viewed from on the water, in the English Channel. They are not easily seen from on land. The Seven Sisters, however, are readily seen from on land and there are several walking trails in the vicinity.
The Seven Sisters was prominently shown in several dogfight scenes in The Battle of Britain (1969).
At the turn of the last century, popular choice for a list of Seven Greatest Scientists might be Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Galileo Galilei, Antoine Lavoisier, James C. Maxwell, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur. Then Albert Einstein appeared and a name had to be deleted to make room for him.
Not sure what you mean here, because weren’t all of Einstein’s notable achievements done within the 20th century? So, ‘at the turn of the last century’ Einstein hadn’t really done anything.
“20th Century Boy” is a song by T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan. It was released as a single in 1973 and reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was not featured on an original studio album but was included as a bonus track on a reissue of 1973 album Tanx. The song later returned to the UK Top 20 in 1991, peaking at No. 13, fourteen years after Bolan’s death, when it was used in a Chris Hartwill-directed commercial for Levi’s starring Brad Pitt.
Brad Pitt is banned from China. He is on a blacklist that includes Harrison Ford and Richard Gere and bars him from entering the country. The People’s Republic wasn’t happy when Pitt played a real-life friend of the Dalai Lama in Seven Years in Tibet.
Although his name looks Spanish, Tony Lama was born to Italian immigrant parents in upstate New York, and learned the cobbling trade in the US Army before World War One, at Fort Bliss, Texas. After his serv8ice, he stayed in El Paso, opened a shoe repair shop, and made 20 pairs of boots in his first year of business.
Although his name looks Italian, St Anthony of Padua was born in Lisbon to a wealthy aristocratic family. He died in Padua at the age of 35.
Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” is set in Padua. The origins of the play are a bit obscure, as there was also a similar play at the same time, “The Taming of A Shrew”. It is not clear which one was written first, and what the relationship was between the two.
The Killer Shrews was a famously bad monster movie, where the title monsters were represented by dogs with fake fangs.
The elephant shrew is a small-sized mammal that is found exclusively in Africa. It has a black body and its head is red, orange and yellow. The elephant shrew is also known as the jumping shrew, as elephant shrews can hop like rabbits using their long back legs.