License plates from the Mexican state of Michoacan are distinguishable by the graphic of a flock of monarch butterflies.
Nice.
Tree climbers are some people who use the Michacan friction hitch, a special type of knot, that allows one to tie onto a main rope and move up and down that rope in a controlled manner. The Michoacan friction hitch can be slid up or down the main rope, but if the climber were to fall, the Michoacan friction hitch would grab the main rope and hold.
The phrase “tree hugger,” was inspired by India’s Chipko movement , based on the influence of Mohandas Gandhi, whose members set up peaceful resistance to deforestation by literally hugging trees.
The “face hugger” in the Alien series of movies is the he second stage in the Alien’s life cycle. It has eight long, finger-like legs, which allow it to crawl rapidly, and a long tail adapted for making great leaps. its only purpose is to make contact with the host’s mouth for the implantation process, by gripping its legs around the victim’s head and wrapping its tail around the host’s neck.
The term “hugger-mugger”, denoting confusion and secrecy, appears in Shakespare’s Hamlet:
Act IV, Sc.5,line 84, spoken by King Claudius.
“For good Polonius’ death; and we have done but greenly,
In hugger-mugger to inter him”.
The title of the December 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series episode, “The Conscience of the King,” is taken from Shakespeare’s Hamlet - the concluding lines of Act II: “The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” Excerpts from the play appear in the episode.
“The Thing from Another World”, remade twice since as “The Thing”, is considered to be one of the 1951 films that has stood the test of time. Ranking 46th in boxoffice receipts when released, film101.com now lists it as the 13th best film made in that year, outranking such classics as “The Red Badge Courage”, “Quo Vadis” and “A Christmas Carol”.
Link should be films101.com, he says 301 seconds later. It’s not the posters’ fault if lots of unchecked and unverified information gets left uncorrected here.
Quo Vadis (1951), starring Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, was nominated for eight Academy Awards: twice for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Leo Genn as Petronius and Peter Ustinov as Nero), and also for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture. However, the movie did not win a single Academy Award.
Rereading this, it may come across as snarky but it wasn’t meant to be. It really was amusing.
Peter Ustinov is ¼ Ethiopian, from his mother’s side.
Peter Ustinov was waiting nearby to interview Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for Irish TV when she was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.
The Meusel brothers - Bob and Emil “Irish” Meusel – faced each other in the World Series in three consecutive years – 1921-23. Bob played for the Yankees, while Irish played for the Giants.
They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. The group is best known for an unconventional and experimental style of alternative music. Over their career, they have found success on the modern rock and CMJ charts.
The group was named for a stage play and 1971 film, written by James Goldman. George C. Scott played a millionaire widower who spends his days fantasizing about being Sherlock Holmes. Joanne Woodward plays Dr. Watson, a psychiatrist who joins his quest to defeat Moriarty. The title refers to Don Quixote’s view of windmills.
On 6 October 1889, the Moulin Rouge (“red mill”) opened in the Jardin de Paris, at the foot of the Montmartre hill. Marked by a red windmill on the roof, the original building burned down in 1915 and has been rebuilt.
A cephalophore (Greek for “head carrier”) is a saint generally depicted in art as carrying his own head. This depiction is usually for a martyr killed by beheading. Saint Denis is a cephalophore who was martyred by beheading in the 3rd century AD. Denis is said to have picked up his head from the ground after being decapitated and walked over 5 miles, all while preaching from his carried head.
A ‘mountain of the martyr’ in Paris is named after Saint Denis who was decapitated on the top of the mountain. This mount has been gallicized as Montmartre. Saint Denis is the patron saint of the Kingdom of France.
The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France which hold the remains of over six million people. Nightly processions of bones from 1786 to 1788 transferred remains from cemeteries to the reinforced tunnels, and more remains were added in later years.
The mosque Noor-e-Islam is the oldest existing mosque on French soil, built in 1905. It is located in Saint-Denis, the capital of the Department of Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean.
Paul Simon’s song “Mother and Child Reunion” was inspired by a menu item of that name that Simon saw in a restaurant, for a chicken and egg dish. There no report as to which came first.
The Weavers had several famous concerts at Carnegie Hall. Their Comeback Concert of 1955 celebrated their re-uniting after they were allowed to perform again — they had been blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. Their two-day Reunion Concert in 1963 celebrated their 15th anniversary. (It was the 23rd anniversary of the original Hays-Seeger duet.)
In 1980, the Weavers got together and staged a final Reunion at Carnegie Hall.