In 1959, actor Ronald Reagan was elected for the last time to be president of SAG, the Screen Actors Guild (this was to be his seventh and final year as SAG president, after 1947-1952 consecutively). Earlier, in 1951, he starred in the movie, Bedtime for Bonzo in the role of Professor Peter Boyd.
And I thought it was Bedtime for Bongo.
And that’s, still, alright by me. Oh well. 
Neil Innes, one of the songwriters of the Bonzo Dog Band, also wrote songs for Monty Python, including “Brave Sir Robin” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A biography of his live was titled “The Seventh Python.”
Monty, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, was shot through his right lung by a sniper in Belgium during WWI. In WWII during Operation Overlord he commanded all ground troops from the initial landings until after the Battle of Normandy.
There have been many reports in the press that Pope Francis has lived most of his life with just one lung, but the surgery, which took place when he was 21, actually removed only the upper part of his right lung. Recent research shows the possibility that some lung tissue can regenerate.
Slobbovia first started in Killarney, Manitoba in 1969, among Venturer Scouts as a live action role-playing game. The game mythos was set in a mythical land named Slobbovia, after the perpetually frozen country that occasionally appeared in Al Capp’s daily comic strip, Li’l Abner, portrayed as an Upper Slobbovia and a Lower Slobboia, in about 1949i.
Ninja’ed by jtur (albeit I can’t find the link).
In 1952, L’il Abner reluctantly proposed to Daisy Mae Scragg to emulate the engagement of his comic strip “ideel,” Fearless Fosdick. Fosdick’s own wedding to longtime fiancée Prudence Pimpleton turned out to be a dream—but Abner and Daisy’s ceremony, performed by Marryin’ Sam, was permanent. Abner and Daisy Mae’s nuptials were a major source of media attention, landing them on the cover of Life magazine’s March 31, 1952, issue.
“Upper”… Maybe each entry should highlight the repeated link word. Unless it’s more fun to search for it.
In play:
Patience and Prudence McIntyre (age 11 and 15) were sisters who made it near the top of the music charts in 1956 with “Gonna Get
along Withut Ya Now”, a song written five years earlier and previously recorded by Theresa Brewer.
Fozzie Bear the Muppet character was first introduced in 1976. He debuted on The Muppet Show as the show’s stand-up comic. Though it is often thought that Fozzie’s name is a pun of Frank Oz (F.Oz), the character was actually named after Al Fuzzie, the mascot of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority in the mid-1970s. Wife of Muppet creator Jim Henson, Jane, was a member of the sorority.
And…
US track star Dick Fosbury won Olympic Gold at the 1968 Mexico City summer olympics in the high jump. He is known for revolutionizing the sport, radically changing the form used in the high jump from facing the hugh bar as you go over it, to facing away from it. It is known as the “Fosbury Flop”, and almost all high jumpers of today use the Fosbury Flop. Fosbury’s technique allows the jumper’s center of mass to be much lower than before. Done correctly, the center of mass in the Fossbury Flop actually passes below the high bar as the jumper clears the top of it.
I’m playing off of Fos or Foz here.
ETA: ninja’d, so added ‘the top of’.
ETA2: Fosbury first started experimenting with the new technique in high school when he was 16.
That’s what I prefer.
Mexico City was the first Latin American host for the Olympic Games in 1968. They were controversially held at the highest altitude ever, 2,239 meters (7,349 feet). The thin air was bad for athletes in endurance events, but it led to records in short races, relays, and jumping events.
Lakes and rivers make up only .002% of the state of New Mexico’s total surface area. That is the lowest water-to-land ratio of all 50 states. Most of New Mexico’s lakes are man-made reservoirs. A dam on the Rio Grande formed the Elephant Butte Reservoir the state’s largest lake.
New Mexico once had a water-defined border, but now it is one of five states that do not. The course of the Rio Grande, where it formed a short section of the Texas border, has changed so much that the border is now entirely on dry land. The other states with no water borders are Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
45 states have at least one water border. Of those states:
the ones having a lake border all also have a river border. The closest state to having a lake border and no river borders is only one: Michigan. Michigan has three short rivers as borders: the Detroit River (28 miles long) connecting Lake St. clair to Lake Erie, the St. Clair River (41 miles) connecting Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair, and the St. Mary’s River (75 miles) connecting Lake Superior to Lake Huron. Michigan has 3,288 miles of coastline, and (28 + 41 + 75) / 3,288 =
of the ones bordering an ocean, only two states have no river or lake border: Alaska and Hawaii.
Michigan also has two rivers forming most of its border with Wisconsin. Misssouri has rivers forming part of the borders with states to the north, east, south and west.
The waves in the Great Lakes are large enough to allow surfing many days throughout the year; Lake Michigan is one of the most frequently surfed lakes, with Sheboygan, Wisconsin formerly the home of a surfing competition.
(I visited Lake Huron a few years ago and was amazed at the size of the waves. It looked like an ocean.)
Mamitoulin Island, in Lake Huron, is the largest island in the world surrounded by fresh water. The island has 12,000 residents. Owing to the alkalinity of the soil, a species of edible Hawberries is endemic to the island, but Manitoulin is devoid of many species of flora that occur on the nearby mainland.
The Odawa Peoples moved from the east coast of Canada and the United States in ancient times and they settled on Manitoulin Island. The name Odawa is said to mean “traders”, and is sometimes spelled Odaawaa, or Ottawa. The Odawa consider Manitoulin Island to be their original homeland.
One of the most popular attractions in Ottawa is the Changing of the Guard on Parliament Hill, with the guardsmen in full traditional uniform including tall bearskin hats. The Ceremonial Guard is assembled from two regiments – the Governor General’s Footguards and the Canadian Grenadier Guards – and also has its own regimental band and pipers who perform in the ceremony.
The French spelling of Ottawa is still used as a geographical name with five consecutive vowels, as in the wiki-fr entry “L’Outaouais est une région administrative du Québec”. There is also a river and provincial forrest in Quebec spelled with seven letters, only one of them a conconant: Ouareau, named for a town near Calais, France. To a Serbo-Croatian speaker, that would be considered to be seven consecutive vowels.