Tracer Bullet, the alter-ego of Calvin in Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes strip, has only made three appearances. However, it is considered one of the best lampoons of the hard boiled detective comic strips.
Reformation theologian John Calvin said, “All (people) are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death.”
Calvin Johnson Jr. is an American football wide receiver who played his entire career for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He holds numerous records, among which are most receiving yards in a single season (1,964 yards), seasons with 1,600 yards receiving (2), and most consecutive games with at least 100 receiving yards (8).
In the 2010 regular season opening game against Da Bears, Detroit’s Megatron caught what he thought was the game-winning TD catch. Johnson was wrong. Officials called the catch an incomplete pass. Referee Gene Steratore said, “The ruling is that in order for the catch to be completed he has got to maintain possession of the ball throughout the entire process of the catch.”
The highly controversial catch and subsequent overturned TD was widely communicated throughtout the NFL and led to a clarification of the rules for a receiver’s catch to include possession and control all the way to the ground.
Lagan, goods cast overboard from a ship, buoyed so that they can be recovered later, are not classified as wreckage, and therefore are not under the jurisdiction of the Receiver of Wreck, an official who administers law dealing with wreck and salvage in some countries having a British administrative heritage.
In 1966, while on his deathbed, Walt Disney wrote his final words on a piece of paper: “Kurt Russell.” Kurt Russell first starred in a film with his current and long-time partner, Goldie Hawn, in 1968’s The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. In 1987 they starred together again in* Overboard*.
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Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, released in 1966, is the story of a rebellion of lunar colonists with purposeful similarities to both the American and the Russian revolutions.
When George II’s wife was dying, she advised George to marry again after her death. He replied, “Non, j’aurai des maîtresses.”
(“No, I will have mistresses.”)
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The location for the final scene in Cast Away is at these coordinates: N35°38.036 W100°27.076. This can also be found by searching Google Maps with, ‘final scene Cast Away.’
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Tom Hanks’ character in Cast Away never married his love interest in the film, played by Helen Hunt. He had just proposed to her before boarding the fateful flight. When he returned some 4+ years later, he found she had married already. That led Hanks to deliver the final package from that flight to a residence near that intersection at N35°38.036 W100°27.076.
Two cases of unusual casting selection: Thomas Horn, who played Tom Hanks’s son in Up Close and Incredibly Loud, was cast from his appearance on Jeopardy! Kids Week. Darlene Cates, who played Gilbert Grape’s morbidly obese mother, was cast after an appearance on The Sally Jessie Raphael show.
Raphael is an archangel, patron of healing.
Raphael is also a Renaissance painter, who died age 37 but had a tremendous output, known particularly for the School of Athens.
And of course, of most interest to the Piper Cub, Raphael is the Red Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, who fights with a Sai dagger in each hand.
Michael Jackson performed at the Wesergland Stadium in Hamelin, Germany, during his Dangerous World Tour on August 13 1992 in front of 25.000 people. The turnout represented about half the current population of Hamelin, noted as the site of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean was the first video by a black artist to air on MTV.
Songs by black artists were played on white stations in South Africa during Apartheid. The first I heard was “Do You Know Where You’re Going to” by Diana Ross, on Radio Highvelt in Johannesburg, in 1976, while driving down from Rhodesia.
The boerhund, or Boer hunting dog, was trained to protect land, cattle and other livestock against lions. They were bred with European, Arabian, and other African dog breeds to find the ideal mix for dogs to bay lions - several dogs to hold a lion at bay until a hunter can make the kill. Today the dog is known as the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
After the second Anglo-Boer War, a Boer diaspora occurred. Starting in 1903, the largest group emigrated to the Patagonia region of Argentina. One of the largest groups moved to New Mexico and Texas in the southwestern United States. Breeding stock of the Boer Goat is now centered in west-centrall Texas.
Breaker Morant is a 1980 movie about the court martial of Australians serving in the British Army during the second Boer War. They were accused of murdering captured enemy combatants and an unarmed civilian. Director Bruce Beresford said the movie was about exploring how otherwise normal and good people can be caused to perform unspeakable acts during war time.
John Beresford Tipton sent Michael Anthony around to give a million dollars to unsuspecting strangers in an early TV reality show. It convinced aliens on Galaxy Quest that humans were altruistic.
Tipton, California is a town midway between Fresno and Bakersfield on California Highway 99. It is a small town of about 2,600 people. There are at least 9 US cities and towns named Tipton, in the following states: CA IN IA KS MI MO OK PA and TN. To date, nobody of note is listed in Wikipedia as being from Tipton CA, however Gene Clark, who co-founded the singing group The Byrds, hails from Tipton MO.
Joe Clark served less than a year as Prime Minister of Canada. He defeated PM Trudeau in the general election of 1979, using the quip: “A recession is when your neighbour loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. Recovery is when Pierre Trudeau loses his job.”
However, he only won a minority government which was defeated in the Commons on a budget vote.
Trudeau defeated him in the subsequent federal election in 1980.