Thomas Sean Connery, who dropped his first name when he went into showbiz, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 25, 1930. He just turned 86. He was referred to as “Tommy” in his youth, and his first job was as a milkman.
The original Broadway cast of The Who’s Tommy performed a one-night-only reunion benefit concert at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City on December 15, 2008. Produced by The Path Fund/Rockers on Broadway, the concert was a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Broadway Dreams Foundation and the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation.
During her career, actress Ann-Margret has been nominated twice for an Academy Award. In Carnal Knowledge (1971) she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and lost to Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show). In Tommy (1975) she was nominated for Best Actress and lost to Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).
A motorcyclist in her day, Ann-Margret was featured in Triumph motorcycles’ official ads in the 1960s.
Although romantically linked to Elvis Presley early on, Ann-Margret has been married to actor Roger Smith since 1967.
Ann-Margret met Elvis in 1964, when she was 23 and he was 29. When Ann-Margret started performing in Las Vegas three years later, Elvis came to see her. For every one of her Vegas openings, until his death in 1977, he sent her a guitar-shaped arrangement of flowers.
A keen motorcyclist, Ann-Margret was featured in Triumph Motorcycles’ official advertisements in the 1960s. She suffered three broken ribs and a fractured shoulder when she was thrown off a motorcycle she was riding in rural Minnesota in 2000.
Billy Joel has no bone in his left thumb, since his 1982 motorcycle accident. Joel is right-handed, though believes left-handed people have an advantage when playing the piano.
Most primate males have a bone in their penis. Human males are the exception, references to “boners” notwithstanding.
Men need to have erections regularly to keep their penis in shape. “It has to be essentially exercised,” says Tobias Kohler, MD, assistant professor of urology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
Contrary to what most people think, it’s entirely possible to have orgasms, with full ejaculation, without having erections.
Lesbian women orgasm 13.1% more often than straight women.
And…
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, about 250,000 people worldwide will have an orgasm.
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250,000 Japanese Yen equals approximately $2,455.80 in United States currency as of this date.
The highest valued currencies in the world are, approximately and in $ USD:
KWD = $3.28: دينار; Kuwaiti Dinar
BHD = $2.65: دينار; Bahraini Dinar
OMR = $2.60: ريال; Omani Rial
GBP = $1.42: £; British Pound
EUR = $1.09: €; Euro
USD = 1.00; **; US Dollar
CHF = $0.99; ₣; Swiss Franc
LYD = $0.74; دينار; Libyan Dinar
BND = 0.70; **B; Bruneian Dollar
SGD = 0.70; **S; Singapore Dollar
AUD = 0.69; **A, AU$; Australian Dollar
The West African CFA franc is the currency of eight independent states in West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Sénégal and Togo.
The British guinea was a gold coin, originally nominally one pound, but the value fluctuated with changes to the price of gold and silver. It was eventually fixed at the value of 21 shillings. Services offered to the upper class were often priced in guineas, as were professional services, such as solicitors’ fees.
Salaries for qualified solicitors range from £25,000 to £75,000. Experience, type of cases and specialist area, location and employer can all affect levels of pay. Partners in large firms or heads of in-house legal departments can earn in excess of £100,000.
You can buy one ounce gold proof coins, 2016s, today from the US Mint - only $1,660 for the American Eagle coin, and $1,690 for the American Buffalo coin.
Click now, our operators are standing by: http://catalog.usmint.gov/coins/gold-coins/
ETA: ninja’d by panache45, but my play still works because we’re talking money.
A belated thank you to The Stainless Steel Rat for rescuing the direction we’d been going, by making this play:
Still in play:.
Known in the numismatic world as a “Moby Dick Coin”, the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold “sixteen dollar piece” Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod, promising it to the first man who “raises” Moby-Dick. Herman Melville described it in detail:
Quito, Ecuador, is the highest capital city in the world. Quito sits at 9,350’ ASL.