Theatre legend is that Shakespeare would play the role of Adam, the old servant of Orlando, in As You Like It.
]Theatre legend is that Shakespeare would play the role of the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, in * Hamlet *.
In 1769, Alta California was explored by Padre (Father) Junípero Serra & Gaspar de Portolá, and Juan Bautista de Anza (in 1772). Some in their expeditions were the first Europeans to spot San Francisco Bay.
Three-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady attended Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California.
Greg and Marcia Brady attended Westdale High School. It’s rival was Coolidge High, whose mascot was a goat named Racquel that Greg kidnapped in one episode.
The name Greg, in English usually short for Gregory, is derived from the Greek γρηγορος (gregoros) meaning “watchful, alert”
Canadian Forces Station Alert, at the settlement of Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, is the northernmost settlement in the world. Ellesmere is part of part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. There is no permanent population at Alert, but Canadian Forces members and scientists are regularly rotated through Alert.
Ellesmere Island is the 10th largest in the world by area. Ellesmere Island Is 75,767 sa mi and is a little smaller than the ninth largest island, at 80,823 sq mi, Great Britain.
Perry White is a fictional character who appears in the Superman comics. White is the Editor-in-Chief of the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Planet. White’s most well known catchphrases are “Great Caesar’s ghost!” and “Don’t call me chief!”.
John Perry, a widowed Ohioan, is the protagonist of John Scalzi’s award-winning 2005 military science fiction novel Old Man’s War, and several sequels.
Perry Como was the seventh son of a seventh son, spoke Italian before he learned English due to his immigrant family, and was locally famous as a singing barber before he became a full time professional singer. Supposedly he was equally good as a barber.
Oliver Hazard Perry is called “The Hero of Lake Erie” for winning decisive lake battles against the British during the War of 1812. Perry commanded the USS Niagara.
The Battle of Fort Detroit was an early engagement in the War of 1812. A British force under Major General Isaac Brock with Native American allies under the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, used bluff and deception to intimidate the American Brigadier General William Hull into surrendering the fort and town of Detroit, Michigan, despite the Americans outnumbering the British.
When Abraham sent a servant to find a bride for and arrange the marriage of his son Isaac he had the servant swear an oath with his hands under Abraham’s thigh that he would find a wife among Abraham’s relatives and not among the Canaanites. The servant found Abraham’s grandniece and brought her back, consensually, to be Isaac’s wife.
Abraham does not seem to have been instrumental in finding wives for his other seven sons, though some of their daughters and female descendants are mentioned as marrying Esau and other descendants of Isaac.
When not developing the theory of gravitation and do-inventing calculus, Sir Isaac Newton was appointed warden of the Royal Mint. The job involved preventing and hunting down counterfeiters, something Newton took to with gusto. He prosecuted them, often using evidence he collected himself. His biggest case was to bring down William Chaloner, a confidence man with so many friend in high places that he was able to evade justice for years. Newton built an air-tight case and Chaloner was hanged.
Isaac’s son, Jacob, had his name changed by God. To Israel.
Israel has a president, but he (never yet a she) holds a ceremonial post as head of state, with political power being exercised by the Prime Minister. The current President of Israel is Reuven “Ruvi” Rivlin. A member of the Likud party. Rivlin was Minister of Communications from 2001-03 and subsequently served as Speaker of the Knesset from 2003-06 and again from 2009-13. On June 10, 2014, he was elected President. He is fluent in Arabic.
The 12 tribes of Israel are the descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob. In birth order they are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin.
Jacob also had a daughter Dina by Leah. As the Biblical tale goes, Dinah went out to visit the women of Shechem, where her people had made camp and where her father Jacob had purchased the land where he had pitched his tent. Shechem (the son of Hamor, the prince of the land) “took her and lay with her and humbled her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah … he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her”, and Shechem asked his father to obtain Dinah for him, to be his wife.
Hamor came to Jacob and asked for Dinah for his son: “Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you.” Shechem offered Jacob and his sons any bride-price they named. But “the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah”; they said they would accept the offer if the men of the city agreed to be circumcised.
So the men of Shechem were deceived, and were circumcised; and “on the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob and Leah, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males. They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.” And the sons of Jacob plundered whatever was in the city and in the field, “all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses.”
“Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ‘You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.’ But they said, ‘Should he treat our sister as a harlot?’” This tale is told in Genesis 34:31.
Super Bowl 50 was just played in Levi’s Stadium. With Super Bowl XIX in 1985 at Stanford Stadium, they are the only Super Bowls ever played in the San Francisco Bay Area.