In 1991, Wayne Allwine married Russi Taylor. They remained married until he died in 2009. They had similar careers. Russi Taylor has been the voice of Minnie Mouse since 1986. Wayne Allwine, to date, was the longest to be the voice of Mickey Mouse.
Although Mickey and Minnie never had a public wedding ceremony, their voices did.
Ub Iwerks created Mickey and Minnie Mouse in 1928. Minne first appeared in the cartoon Plane Crazy, in which she parachutes out of Mickey’s plane.
One of the first parachutes in history comes from the 15th century. Leonardo Da Vinci, in his Codex Atlanticus drew the concept and said, “If a man have a tent of linen without any apertures, twelve ells across and twelve in depth, he can throw himself down from any great height without injury.”
Like many of da Vinci’s ideas, the invention was never actually built or tested by Leonardo himself. But, in 2000, daredevil Adrian Nichols constructed a prototype based on da Vinci’s design and tested it. Despite skepticism from experts, da Vinci’s design worked as intended and Nichols even noted that it had a smoother ride than the modern parachute.
Credit for the invention of the first practical parachute usually goes to Sebastien Lenormand in 1783.
Accordng to Wikipedia, the first watch to bear the name Timex was in 1950. Mickey Mouse watches were made by Waterbury Clock Company, under the brand name Ingersoll, 17 years before the company morphed into Timex. As a child I had a Pluto watch, before 1950. Pluto’s ears pointed to the numbers.
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If the earth were reduced to the size of a grapefruit, it wold be smoother than a grapefruit. The highest peaks on earth are less than 1/1000 of the planet’s diameter.
I did not word that too well and was equating Timex’s history with that of the Waterbury Clock Company.
According to this web site, If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system, which makes a painstaking (and quite impressive) attempt to show the solar system to scale, starting from if the moon was exactly 1 pixel, then Jupiter would have roughly the same diameter as a pink pencil eraser, the sun’s diameter would be about the same as a silver dollar coin, the earth would be about the size of this period ( . ), and to get to Pluto you’d have to do a whole lotta scrolling to the right.
In 2014, The Drug Enforcement Agency spent 18 million dollars to destroy 4.29 million marijuana plants.
That works out to $4.20 per plant.
According to the license plate progression, Texas state and local government agencies have bought 200,000 new cars and small trucks in the past seven years, bearing official state plates. Assuming an average cost of $25,000 per vehicle, that works out to $5-billion, or about a thousand dollars per wage-earner, whose own personal car is, on average, 9 years old.
A driver in Florida got the random license plate number A55 RGY. Since there is a Florida State Orange in the middle of the plate, it looks like A55ORGY. When people complained, he refused to give it back to the authorities.
Wyoming is the only state whose license plate does not contain a slogan or motto. It does, however, have a picture of a bucking bronco.
William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody, who founded the town of Cody, Wyoming, was as baptized into the Catholic Church by Father Christopher Walsh of the Denver Cathedral on January 9, 1917 and died the next day.
Try this on for size: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Star-sizes.jpg
Here it is: http://www.990wbob.com/uploads/1/0/2/5/10259617/1329342045.jpg
But this is my favorite: http://failocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/eaththekidsfirst.jpg
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William Seward of New York expected to get the Republican nomination for President in 1860, but lost to Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. He agreed to serve as Lincoln’s Secretary of State, and stayed on throughout Andrew Johnson’s administration. He is credited with leading the negotiations that led to the U.S. acquisition of Alaska from Russia.
The only professional football player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame that never played in the NFL is William Lewis “Billy” Shaw, a Buffalo Bill offensive guard. Shaw played from 1961-1969 in the AFL and retired after the 1969 season just prior to the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. He was in 8 Pro Bowl/all-star games. He is on the All-Time All-AFL Team, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 1999.
AWESOME.
That was revoked in 2011. Too bad, it’s a great one.
Then there are the Virginia license plates that take advantage of the University of VA logo: AGINA, and AGINAS.
https://www.google.com/search?q=virginia+license+plate+agina&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-nuaqwJPMAhVX8mMKHVSBCQ0Q_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=672
Let me try responding this way: awesomE!!!
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Cal Hubbard is the only person in the Baseball Hall of Fame (as an umpire – he never played baseball) and the NFL Hall of Fame (as a player.)
Winners of college football’s Heisman Trophy who went on to play major league baseball are Vic Janowicz (1950, Ohio State QB / kicker, Pittsburgh Pirates bench) and Bo Jackson (1985, Auburn RB / KC Royals OF). Mike Garrett, Chris Weinke, and Ricky Williams didn’t make it out of the minors. Special mention to Howard “Hopalong” Cassady (1955, Ohio State RB), later a first base coach for the NY Yankees farm club in Columbus.
Only 13 athletes have played in both Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association, or its predecessor the Basketball Association of America. They are Mark Hendrickson, Danny Ainge, Gene Conley, Ron Reed, Dick Groat, Steve Hamilton, Cotton Nash, Frank Baumholtz, Dick Ricketts, Howie Schultz, Chuck Connors, Dave DeBusschere, and Michael Jordan.
(And thanks, jtur88.)
Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige was an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who became a legend in his own lifetime by attracting record crowds wherever he pitched. At age 42 in 1948, he was the oldest major league rookie while playing for the Cleveland Indians. He played with the St. Louis Browns until age 47, and represented them in the All-Star Game in 1952 and 1953. He was the first player who had played in the Negro leagues to pitch in the World Series, in 1948, and was the first electee of the Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Satchel Paige acquired his nickname as a young Pullman porter; he devised a contraption to enable him to carry several bags / satchels simultaneously. The word satchel comes from the Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum “money bag, purse,” diminutive of Latin sacculus, diminutive of saccus “bag”
