The city hall in Saint John, New Brunswick has the Royal Arms which formerly hung in the city hall of Boston until the late unpleasantness over tea taxes.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise found that the New Providence colony on Jouret IV had been destroyed by the Borg in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Best of Both Worlds,” which first aired in June 1990.
Laura Childs has written three cozy mystery series, a total of 38 books in 15 years: The tea shop mysteries (17 books), the scrapbooking mysteries (14 books) and the Cackleberry Club mysteries (7 books), a very enterprising endeavor.
The label “G. N. D. N.” marks several Jefferies Tubes in the USS Enterprise of Star Trek: The Original Series. It means Goes Nowhere. Does Nothing.
That was actually in a DS9 episode: Power relay | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Captains Robert April, Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk, Will Decker and Spock all commanded the Constitution-class starship USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, at various times.
It started in ST:TOS also: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) - Wikipedia
ETA: And, thank you Elvis.
I saw the list of ships but missed that they were a class of ships.
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In addition to playing Christopher Pike and Jesus (The Greatest Story Ever Told), actor Jeffrey Hunter played Gordon Grant in the first film adaptation of Ira Levin’s first novel A Kiss Before Dying. In his book Danse Macabre, Stephen King praises Levin for putting the novel’s biggest surprise in the middle (and if you’ve read it, you know what it is) instead of the ending, so readers can’t turn to the last page to see who done it.
The 1964 comedy film Kiss Me, Stupid was filmed on location in Twentynine Palms CA (a.k.a. 29 Palms). Twentynine Palms CA is in the Mojave Desert and was named for the palm trees found there during an early survey done in the 19th century. Twentynine Palms CA is home to MCB 29 Palms, the Marine Corps Base. MCB 29 Palms has the large MCAGCC (say “mc-KAG-SEE”), the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center where CAXes (“KAKS-es”), combined arms exercises, are held.
In 1999, Paul Stanley, lead singer of the group KISS, traded in his makeup for the Phantom’s mask when he starred in a Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera. He appeared in the musical from May 25 to August 1, and again that year from September 30 to October 31, 1999.
Cameron Mackintosh announced a cast change for the Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera today. Starting June 13, the leading role of Christine will be played for the first time by an Asian American, Ali Ewoldt, whose mother is from the Philippines.
Broadway, San Francisco has several nightclubs including the hungry i, but the famous hungry i where Mort Sahl, Tom Lehrer, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby performed was actually located a few blocks away.
The Naked i was one of the best known strip clubs in Boston’s Combat Zone, where all adult establishments were required to be via zoning laws. The clubs have gone out of business due to gentrification, expansion of Chinatown, videos and now the Internet. The area is now called the Ladder District by realtors due to its street layout.
In the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, one item of evidence was that the wood from the ladder left at the crime scene matched a plank from the floor of accused kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann’s attic. A forensic analyst reexamining the evidence over 70 years later, in 2005, came to the same conclusion.
Giordano Bruno, (1548-1600) born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its “center”. In 1600 he was burned at the stake in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori having been convicted of heresy.
Although Pope Benedict XIV authorized a publication of Galileo’s scientific works in 1741, and the ban on the uncensored works of Copernicus was lifted in 1835, all writings by Giordano Bruno remained on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum throughout. Pascal, Voltaire, Milton, Descartes, Rousseau, Balzac, Sartre and Alexandre Dumas (both father and son) are among the other famous writers honored by inclusion on that Index.
Nicolaus Copernicus’s book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Johannes Kepler’s book Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, and Victor Hugo’s book Les Misérables, were all on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum at one point and then removed.
Johannes Kepler was one of the early inventors of the calculus. Wine was sold in barrels which were sold based on a single stick measurement. Kepler computed the optimal barrel shape to get a bargain and stocked up for his wedding.
The oldest known wine making was in Iran in the Neolithic period. Zagros mountain villagers were making and storing wine around 5400 B.C. in some of the earliest pottery jars archeologists have found.
The Ertebølle-Ellerbek cultures centered near Denmark were among the last European cultures to adopt farming. About 4200 BC the barley-growing Funnelbeaker culture, named after its style of pottery jars, developed among the indigenous fisher-gatherers there. Some think this sudden conversion to farming came when they learned the recipe for beer.
The first US Marine Corps recruiting station was in a bar serving beer, Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.