The Porsche 911, in production since 1963, is a rear-engined car, whereas the Porsche Cayman, in production since 2006, is a mid-engined car. The Porsche 356, in production from 1948 to 1965, is like the 911 a rear-engined car, but the very first 356 prototype, the 356/1, was mid-engined. That 356/1 prototype was built in 1948.
Orwell wrote “1984” in 1948, and simply transposed the last two digits of the year for the title of his book.
Apple Computer’s Super Bowl commercial to introduce the Macintosh was titled, “1984.” It aired in - you guessed it - 1984.
It featured British athlete Anya Major in red shorts and white tank top running and throwing a hammer at a large screen.
I could watch that commercial all day, every day: https://www.google.com/search?q=anya+major+1984&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW4dWywuzLAhUIRyYKHT_ICqsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=672 (sigh)
When 1984 actually came on the calendar, there was almost no American media play on the Orwell novel, because Americans who re-read it discovered that the global dystopia of the book was evolving from American corporatism, not Soviet socialism, and it reflected on the military-industrial complex…
Kathryn D. Sullivan, now retired, was a geologist and scientist for NOAA, and she was also a Captain in the US Navy. On 11 October 1984, as an astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger, Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a space walk, an EVA - Extravehicular Activity. Her total EVA time that day was 3:29:00. Kathryn D. Sullivan would be a space shuttle astronaut on three missions.
John Lawrence Sullivan, also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was an American boxer recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing, holding the title from February 7, 1882, to 1892. He is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring Rules.
The Boston Celtics and the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers alone own almost half of all the NBA Championship titles. Combined, they have won a total 33 of 68 championships. Of the 68 NBA championships, the Celtics and Lakers have appeared in a combined total of 52 of them: the Celtics 21 times, the Lakers 31 times, and of those the Lakers and Celtics played each other 12 times.
The Boston Celtics were the first NBA team to draft a black player, to play a black player, to start five black players, or to have a black coach. Nonetheless, when they won the 1986 title with a largely-white team (Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge), defeating the Lakers in the title series, they became synonymous among some Laker fans with racism. Whaddaya gonna do?
The Boston Red Sox were the last major league baseball team to break the color bar with a black player (Pumpsie Green) in their lineup on July 21, 1959, twelve years after Jackie Robinson broke into major league baseball…
The Boston Bruins became the first integrated team in the NHL when Willie O’Ree joined them in 1958. Yes, Boston’s *hockey *team integrated before the Red Sox.
Interesting trivia. Watching the Celtics in the 70s and 80s, I always considered them to be a largely white team.
In play:
► In 1950, Chuck Cooper was the first black player selected in the NBA draft as the 2d pick of the 2d round by the Celtics.
► In 1964, on 26 December, the Boston Celtics were the first NBA team to start five black players. This happened in St. Louis MO when Tommy Heinsohn (white) was too injured to start. Heinsohn, a Hall of Famer, was replaced by Willie Naulls at forward. Naulls was joined by regular starters Thomas “Satch” Sanders (forward, Hall of Famer), Sam Jones (guard, Hall of Famer), K. C. Jones (guard, Hall of Famer), and Bill Russell (center, Hall of Famer).
► In 1966, on 15 October, Bill Russell became the first black man to coach an NBA team when as a player-coach, Russell’s Celtics defeated the San Francisco Warriors 121-113 in Boston.
Adding to this:
… a little more interesting trivia about those starting five black Celtics: they won their first 12 straight games as a starting five.
And,
http://www.sportshistorytoday.com/celtics-start-black-team-december-26-1964/
The 1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team represented Texas Western College, now known as the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and was coached by Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins. The team made history by winning the 1966 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament, becoming the first team with an all-black starting line-up to win an NCAA basketball national championship; a feat that was not considered likely by many. The Miners defeated Kentucky (a team that was all white until 1969) 72-65 in the historic championship game, played at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland on March 19, 1966.
Not so, if you count the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: List of flags with reverses that differ from the obverse - Wikipedia
In play:
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, the seedling for what would become the symbolic White Tree of Gondor was stolen by Isildur, Elendil’s son, to save it from the evil Numenorean regime of King Ar-Pharazon.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a partially recognized state.
In play: the Tolkien fictional character Elendil’s name means either “Elf-friend” or “Star-lover” in the author’s fictional language of Quenya.
There are municipalities in Quebec named after 422 different saints, not counting duplicated names that might reference different saints with the same name. One of them is Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, the only town in the world spelled with an exclamation point. Why, Arizona, is not spelled with a question mark.
Why is the left fielder.
The town of Why, Arizona does not include a ? in its name. Why is Why named Why?
Why, Arizona derives its name from the fact that the two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection. At the time of its naming, Arizona law required all city names to have at least three letters, so the town’s founders named the town “Why” as opposed to simply calling it “Y.”
So, Why, not Y.
Why not?
Roosevelt Field mall in Long Island, New York, is built on the site of the airfield from which Charles Lindbergh took off for his historic transatlantic flight. It is named for Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, a pilot killed in World War one. It is adjacent to a major highway, the Meadowbrook State Parkway.