After being played by Elliot Gould in the movie and Wayne Rogers in the MAS*H TV show, Bonanza’s Pernell Roberts got the role of Trapper John (McIntyre) MD in the sequel.
Drs. “Trapper” John McIntyre and Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, central characters in both the movie and the TV show MASH*, each held the rank of captain in the U.S. Army.
Sixteen states have named a county after Revolutionary War hero Nathaniel Greene. Two of those counties, in Wisconsin and Kentucky, are misspelled as “Green”, but still named after General Greene. It is possible to drive through all 16 states that have a Green/Greene County, without passing through one that does not.
Nathaniel Hathorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on the 4th of July, 1804, the great-great-great grandson of John Hathrone, the only judge at the Salem Witch trails who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel added the “W” to his name (Hawthorne) when he started publishing, possibly to avoid being associated with John.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” has been adapted to a screenplay for eleven different movies, from 1908 to 1995.
The 1995 remake of The Scarlet Letter, costarring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall, was nominated for seven Golden Raspberry Awards at that year’s ceremony, winning “Worst Remake or Sequel.”
After a decade of working in theater and television, Robert Duvall made his film debut as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1962.
There are 14 species of Mockingbirds in the Americas, only one of which (Northern Mockingbird) occurs regularly in the United States. They are members of the Mimidae family, so named for their excellence in imitating the songs of other birds. They are closely related to the Thrashers, which are usually brownish in color, in contrast to the gray plumage of mockingbirds. Five states have selected the Northern Mockingbird as their state bird.
“Listen to the Mocking Bird” was the instrumental introduction to a number of the early short films by The Three Stooges, rendered in a comical manner with birds chirping in the background. The first Stooges short to employ this theme was 1935’s Pardon My Scotch; in later shorts the song was replaced with “Three Blind Mice.”
During a trip to Ireland in the 1930s, the Three Stooges were billed as"The Three Hooges" since the word “stooge” was used as a slang term for sexual intercourse.
ISO 3166 is a standard defining codes and abbreviations for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states). The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions.
For the United States, for example, its ISO 3166 codes are:
840: Numeric Code
US: ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code
USA: ISO 3166 Alpha-3 Code
Some country abbreviations are not obvious. For Croatia, for example, its ISO 3166 codes are:
191: Numeric Code
HR: ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code
HRV: ISO 3166 Alpha-3 Code
The Republic of Croatia, in the Croatian language, is Republika Hrvatska.
For Germany, or Deutschland, its ISO 3166 codes are:
276: Numeric Code
DE: ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code
DEU: ISO 3166 Alpha-3 Code
For Ireland, for example, its ISO 3166 codes are:
372: Numeric Code
IE: ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code
IRE: ISO 3166 Alpha-3 Code
“Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense” is a play written by David and Robert Goodale based on the 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. It made its world premiere at the Richmond Theatre in October 2013, then transferred later that month to the West End. It is currently on tour in England. The production won the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award, for Best New Comedy.
A bursary is a monetary award made by an institution to individuals or groups of people who cannot afford to pay full fees. In return for the bursary the individual is usually obligated to be employed at the institution for the same duration as the bursary. According to The Good Schools Guide, a bursary is “usually for helping out the impoverished but deserving and those fallen on hard times.”
As a teenager, Sir Laurence Olivier’s family could not afford to send him to acting school. He was awarded a bursary to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. The bursary was awarded by the school’s founder, Elsie Fogerty, who had taught and was fond of Olivier’s older sister, Sybille.
Central Consolidated Schools is a public school district based in Shiprock, New Mexico, United States. The district covers a 2,819-square-mile area. The racial makeup of the district was 89.22% Native American, 8.29% White, 2.12% Hispanic, 0.26% African American, and 0.12% Asian/Pacific Islander.
The Taos Pueblo is located near the New Mexico town of the same name, and near the Sangre de Cristo Range. The pueblo now has about 150 full time residents and is considered one of the oldest continually inhabited communities in the United States.
Teddy Roosevelt took 48,000 acres of the mountain land and made it into Carson National Forest. Unfortunately, this land was Puebloan hunting ground and included Blue Lake, a sacred place for the Red Willow Tribe, which meant that the locals could not take any game from the area. This created a serious hardship, resulting in arrests and imprisonments for illegal hunting. Finally, in 1970, after decades of legal wrangling over religious freedom by the tribe, Richard Nixon returned the stolen land to them.
The Palace of the Governors was built in Santa Fe New Mexico as the seat of government for the Spanish Territory in 1610. That was ten years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, making the Palace of the Governors the oldest public building in America. Santa Fe has continuously been a designated administrative capital for more than 400 years. It is also the highest US state capital above seal level.
The state flag of New Mexico shows the red sun symbol of the Zia tribe on a field of yellow. It was officially introduced in 1925 and was voted the best-designed flag of any U.S. state, territory or Canadian province, according to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association.
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In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) asked visitors of its website to give their opinion on 72 subnational and territorial flags of the United States and Canada. 100 NAVA members and over 300 non-members ranked the 72 flags on a scale of 0 to 10. Georgia, which ended in last place in the survey, adopted a new flag in 2003.
The last-place Georgia flag:
The state seal of Georgia includes three words: Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation. The qualities of wisdom, justice, and moderation with reference to government were first mentioned in chapter 4 of Plato’s Republic. In that work, Plato analyzed four cardinal “virtues” associated with government: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. It is possible that the soldier with drawn sword standing between two of the pillars was meant as a symbolic representation of Plato’s fourth virtue - courage. In any event, the 1799 law creating the state seal specifically provides that the man with drawn sword represents “the aid of the military in defense of the Constitution.”
King Arthur: I am your king.
Peasant Woman: Well, I didn’t vote for you.
King Arthur: You don’t vote for kings.
Peasant Woman: Well, how’d you become king, then?
[Angelic music plays… ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis the Peasant: You can’t expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up
Dennis the Peasant: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: [shakes Dennis] Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I’m being repressed!
Arthur: Bloody Peasant!
Dennis: Ooh, what a giveaway!