DeForest Kelley, who played Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy on the original Star Trek, was the only member of the original cast who claimed to have seen a UFO he believed to be terrestrial. It occurred while he was on a road trip in the swamp country of Louisiana long before the series. He described the object as cigar shaped with red lights and emitting green flames when it zoomed off.
The Bones TV series is very loosely based on the life and writings of novelist and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. Its title character, Temperance Brennan, is named after the protagonist of Reichs’ crime novel series. Similarly, Dr. Brennan in the Bones universe writes successful mystery novels featuring a fictional forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs.
The femur is the strongest bone in the human body
A Colles’ fracture is a fracture of the distal radius in the forearm with dorsal (posterior) and radial displacement of the wrist and hand. The fracture is sometimes referred to as a “dinner fork” or “bayonet” deformity due to the shape of the resultant forearm.
When the Romanov family was shot in a basement in Ekaterinburg 98 years ago this month the men died almost instantly but several of the women did not and were run through with bayonets. A post mortem examination showed that they had so many diamonds and other precious stones sewn into their garments- several pounds each- that it was deflecting bullets. (This is what is what would today be known as “rich white girl problems”.)
Yekaterinburg, alternatively Romanized as Ekaterinburg, is the fourth-largest city in Russia. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was named Sverdlovsk after the Communist party leader Yakov Sverdlov.
According to USA Today the top ten landmarks to visit in Rome are:
The Pantheon
Piazza Navona
Collisseum
Roman Forum
Trevi Fountain
The Spanish Steps
Castel Sant’Angelo
The Vatican
The Catacombs of St. Domitilla
Galleria Borghese
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[del]According to USA Today the top ten landmarks to visit in Rome are:
The Pantheon
Piazza Navona
Collisseum
Roman Forum
Trevi Fountain
The Spanish Steps
Castel Sant’Angelo
The Vatican
The Catacombs of St. Domitilla
Galleria Borghese
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/top-ten-landmarks-rome-106655.html[/del]
In play:
Russia’s largest cities are:
11.5M: Москва, Moscow
4.88M: Санкт-Петербург, Saint Petersburg
1.47M: Новосибирск, Novosibirsk
1.35M: Екатеринбург, Yekaterinburg
1.25M: Нижний Новгород, Nizhny Novgorod
1.16M: Самара, Samara
1.15M: Омск, Omsk
1.14M: Казань, Kazan
1.13M: Челябинск, Chelyabisnk
1.09M: Ростов-на-Дону, Rostov-on-Don
The long and terrible Nazi siege of Leningrad, since renamed Saint Petersburg, is a key formative experience for the protagonist of Joe Haldeman’s critically-praised 1987 sf espionage novel Tool of the Trade, about a Soviet sleeper agent in Boston late in the Cold War.
The Chicago Cubs have the longest World Series drought in history, including all teams and current droughts. They last won the World Series in 1908.
The longest droughts since their last championship are:
107 Seasons: Chicago Cubs - 1908 - (current)
87 Seasons: Chicago White Sox - 1917 - 2005
85 Seasons: Boston Red Sox - 1918 - 2004
77 Seasons: Philadelphia Phillies - 1903* - 1980
67 Seasons: Cleveland Indians - 1948 - (current)
63 Seasons: St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles - 1903* - 1966
62 Seasons: Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins - 1924 - 1987
55 Seasons: New York/San Francisco Giants - 1954 - 2010
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- the team’s first year of existence.
The name “Indians” for the Cleveland baseball team originated from a request by club owner Charles Somers to baseball writers to choose a new name to replace the “Naps” following the departure of their star player Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie after the 1914 season. The name “Indians” was chosen as it was one of the nicknames previously applied to the old Cleveland Spiders baseball club during the time when Louis Sockalexis, a Native American, played in Cleveland. The attribution of the new name as being in honor of Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is generally discredited today given the discriminatory treatment of Native Americans in general, and Sockalexis in particular during that era.
Louis Sockalexis played in only 94 major league games but is remembered today as the first Native American, and first recognized minority, to play in the National League. He was signed by the Cleveland Spiders in 1897, fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson is a children’s novel about a young girl, Shirley Temple Wong, an immigrant from China in the 1940s, like its author, Bette Bao Lord.
In the comedy My Favorite Year, the larger-than-life character played by Peter O’Toole (and said to be based on Errol Flynn) declares, “I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”
Errol Flynn starred in 1941’s They Died with their Boots On, as General George Armstrong Custer. Custer was 36 when he died near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Errol Flynn only lived to 50. He died of a heart attack, but cirrhosis probably was a contributing factor.
Errol Flynn’s leading lady in 1941’s They Died with their Boots On was Olivia de Havilland.
Olivia de Havilland just celebrated her 100th birthday this month.
CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/entertainment/cnnphotos-tbt-olivia-de-havilland-100th-birthday/
YouTube: - YouTube - includes several scenes of her with Flynn.
Errol Flynn starred as a Royal Flying Corps officer in the 1938 remake of The Dawn Patrol, along with Basil Rathbone and David Niven. The film was a word for word copy of the original from only 8 years earlier, later renamed Flight Commander, with Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Neil Hamilton. Warner Brothers producer Hal Wallis had been dissatisfied with the sound quality in the early talkie, and wanted to take advantage of much better technology.
The four Warner Brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack, are Polish. The family emigrated from Poland and the last name was either Wonskolaser or Wonsal before it was Anglicized.
The first commander of a new Military base in the US state of Georgia was Colonel Charles E. Thomas. He wanted to name this depot in honor of his mentor, Augustine Warner Robins, who was called by his middle name Warner. Regulations prevented him from doing this, which required the base to be named after the nearest town. Not deterred by this, Colonel Thomas persuaded community leaders to rename the town of Wellston. So on September 1, 1942, the town was given the new name of Warner Robins. Soon thereafter on October 14, 1942, the base was renamed to become Warner Robins Army Air Depot. So the city of Warner Robins has a unique name that no other town in America has.