Hmm. For the first two and the last one in your list, those are nicknames, not given first names, and FWIW I have never heard of Madison and Monroe referred to as “Jim.”
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Selah is a contemporary Christian vocal trio which, since forming in 1997, has won seven Gospel Music Association Dove Awards and sold more than four million album and single units combined. One of their biggest hits was a cover of “You Raise Me Up.”
ETA: The word "Queen" appears nowhere in that song.Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Queen’s Freddie Mercury. It is six minutes long, and when released in 1975 it was the most expensive single ever made. According to Mercury’s friend Chris Smith, Mercury first started developing Bohemian Rhapsody in the late 1960s; he used to play parts of songs he was writing at the piano, and one of his pieces, known simply as “The Cowboy Song”, contained lyrics that ended up in the completed version produced years later, in 1975, specifically, “Mama, just killed a man.” This echoes the opener of a 1962 b-side called Mama by Roy Orbison, and also on Roy Orbison’s Greatest Hits (1962).
ETA – ninja’d, so I will also add that Selah is a word used seventy-four times in the Hebrew Bible—seventy-one times in the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk. The meaning of the word is not known, though there are various interpretations. (It should not be confused with the Hebrew word sela‘ which means “rock”.) It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like “stop and listen.” Selah can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm. The Amplified Bible translates selah as “pause, and think of that.” It can also be interpreted as a form of underlining in preparation for the next paragraph.
Ninja’ed AGAIN…going to start posting at 2:00am…
A year on the planet Mercury is just 88 days long. And despite being the smallest planet (now that Pluto has been re-classified), it is the second densest planet, only Earth being denser (no Trump voter jokes allowed).
Mercury was a common treatment for syphilis and other STDs in men during the 17th and 18th century, leading to the joke “A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury”. Amongst its many other side effects is insanity, hence the term “mad as a hatter” since so many hatters suffered neurological side effects from using mercury to remove hair from leather.
The Fresnel lenses of old lighthouses used to float and rotate in a bath of mercury which acted like a bearing.
Madison was known to his friends as Jem, or Jemmy.
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Mercurochrome was a widely used antiseptic in the mid 20th century, before the adverse effects of Mercury were well known. It was a chemical compound of mercury with bromine, not chromium, It has been banned in USA, France and Germany.
The **Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment **was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service studying the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama under the auspices of receiving free health care from the United States government.
None of the men infected were ever told they had the disease, and none were treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic became proven for the treatment of syphilis in 1947.
Playing off of jtur88 because of the ninja.
Mercurochrome is a trade name for merbromin, a compound containing mercury and bromine. Merthiolate is a trade name for thimerosal, a compound containing mercury and sodium. Both were commonly used in the 1960s as topical antiseptics.
Mercurochrome is no longer sold in France, Germany and the US because of the mercury content. In 1998 the US FDA regarded mercurochrome as “not Generally Recognized as Safe.”
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I grew up being treated with that stuff; now they tell me.
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The region of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (which has been known by many other names) is separated by the Rhine from Germany and features a blend of French and German heritage and customs. It has a very violent past due to its buffering of the two nations.
Me too!
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The region of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (which has been known by many other names) is separated by the Rhine from Germany and features a blend of French and German heritage and customs. It has a very violent past due to its buffering of the two nations.
The Rhine River is 820 miles long. It originates in the Swiss Alps. It splits, and the Upper and Lower Rhine both wind their way through Switzerland before flowing into Lake Constance and plunging over the Rhine Falls. It marks Germany’s borders between Switzerland and France and also the Swiss borders between Liechtenstein and Austria. Its longest expanse is within Germany, and after flowing northwest into the Netherlands, the Rhine parts to form the Lower Rhine and Waal Rivers, which rejoin before reaching Rotterdam and emptying into the North Sea.
“Oben am jungen Rhein” (“Up above the young Rhine”) has been the national anthem of Liechtenstein since 1920. It shares the same melody as the United Kingdom’s national anthem, “God Save the Queen”, the only difference being an additional refrain at the end of the song.
A critical moment in the fall of Rome came in winter of 406 when the Rhine River froze solid enough to cross. That is when, to quote one historian I read, "what had been a barrier to invasion became a highway to invasion’ and Vandals and Visigoths and other tribes poured by the thousands into Roman territory. The Roman armies were able to hold them back for 3 years, but in 410 the Eternal City was overrun and sacked for the first time in eight centuries.
Rome, New York is a city in Upstate NY, about 60 miles NW of the Baseball Hall of Fame in the village of Cooperstown. The city developed along the Rome Canal which connected Lake Ontario, via Wood Creek, to the Mohawk River which leads to the Hudson River near Cohoes Falls, and on to the Atlantic Ocean. The city was named after the canal.
Ilium, New York was the fictional place invented by Kurt Vonnegut and used in Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five. Its name, like Rome, probably derived from the nearby Troy, New York, near Albany and Schenectady. The corporation, based in Ilium, that provided the setting of Player Piano was based on General Electric in Schenectady, which for a time employed Vonnegut in their PR department.
The San Francisco Giants trace their roots back to the Troy Trojans who played in Troy NY, Watervliet NY, and West Troy NY for four seasons from 1879 to 1882. When the Giants won the 2010 World Series, they toured the trophy back to Troy NY.
The first modern Olympic Games to feature the torch being lit at Olympus and carried through the host country to light the official torch at the opening ceremony was the 1936 Berlin Games, featured in Leni Riefenstahl’s film Olympia.
I don’t see the connection…? Is it bringing the torch from Olympus to Berlin, connected to bringing the 2010 World Series trophy from San Francisco to Troy?
Carrying a symbol of an athletic event to a hometown.