Andrew Lloyd Webber had taken no special notice of Sarah Brightman when she appeared in the original London cast of CATS. When he saw her in the title role of Charles Strouse’s Nightingale: A New Musical, based on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy The Nightingale , he definitely took notice. He divorced his first wife (also named Sarah) and she divorced her first husband (also named Andrew) and their marriage lasted seven years.
St. Ulrich was the first Christian saint to be selected by papal canonization in 993. For the previous thousand years, saints had not been given any official distinction. In the early Church, there was no formal process to designate sainthood. Most saints were venerated on a local level. There were numerous regional saints whose legacy didn’t exist beyond the borders of a single diocese.
1000 is the smallest number that generates three primes in the fastest way possible by concatenation of decremented numbers (1000999, 1000999998997, and 1000999998997996995994993 are prime). The criterion excludes counting the number itself.
I was born in 1937, which has two divisors (other than one and itself)—13 and 149. So it’s an almost prime. Maybe numbers like this, larger than 1000, can be called “wannabe primes?”
On January 20, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as President of the United States for his second term. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States is on this date, due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Only one U.S. president was born in New York City and lived on Long Island: Theodore Roosevelt. Born in 1858 and raised in a townhouse at 28 E. 20th St., young Teddy vividly remembered seeing Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession as it went along 5th Avenue; a photograph of the procession shows Teddy and his brother Elliott looking out of the window.
After his marriage, TR purchased property in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and planned a house to be named Leeholme, in honor of his wife, Alice Lee. When Alice died at age 22, the house plans were put on hold and when building was resumed, the house was renamed Sagamore Hill. It was his home from 1885 until his death in 1919.
Alice Lee died on Valentine’s Day, 1884. A little earlier that same day, in the same house and one floor below where Alice died, Teddy Roosevelt’s mother also died.
Said the young Teddy, just 27 years old, “The light has gone out of my life.” Roosevelt wrote that in his personal diary that night.
Valentine’s Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):
*To-morrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn’d his clothes,
And dupp’d the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
*
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
Baseball coach Bobby Valentine had a promising career as a player until he suffered a severe injury as a 23 year old outfielder. He was batting .302 for the Angels when his spikes got caught in the outfield’s chain link fence while attempting to catch a home run ball. He suffered a multiple compound leg fracture and never regained his speed. After several seasons as a utility player he retired as a player at age 29.
Due to the popularity of the Nick Moore character played by Scott Valentine on Family Ties, three versions of a spin-off were produced. In the first incarnation titled Taking It Home, Nick returns to Detroit to live with his sister and grandfather (portrayed by Herschel Bernardi). After Bernardi’s death in May 1986, the series was canceled. The second version features Nick working in a day care center for juvenile delinquents.
In the final version, Nick, his sister (Kristine Sutherland) and her son (John Daman) live together in an East Village apartment with Nick working in a bookstore. The cast also included Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Art of Being Nick aired only once on August 27, 1987. Despite garnering solid ratings, NBC didn’t pick the series up reportedly due to the network’s reluctance to lose the popular Nick character from Family Ties.
Kiefer Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, producer, director, and singer-songwriter. He has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the TV series 24. He has a twin sister, Rachel. His maternal grandfather was Scottish-born Canadian politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, who is widely credited for bringing universal health care to Canada.
Kiefer Sutherland will play a Cabinet secretary who, after a national tragedy, becomes an accidental President of the United States in the upcoming TV series Designated Survivor, to premiere on ABC on Sept. 21.
Kiefer Sutherland played a Marine, 1stLt Jonathan James Kendrick, in A Few Good Men (1992). Kendrick was a Platoon Commander of Rifle Platoon Windward on Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. GTMO is the base airfield designator and is where the Gitmo name came from. The base is divided into three sections geographically, Guanranamo Bay, and Leeward Point to the west, and Windward Point to the east.
Guantanamera, meaning “woman from Guantanamo”, is a well known Cuban song; its lyrics include a poem by the Cuban poet and national hero José Martí.
Martí’s writings reflected his own views both socially and politically. “Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca” is one of his poems that emphasize his views in hopes of betterment for society:
- I cultivate a white rose
In July as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his hand frankly
And for the cruel person who tears
out the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns:
I cultivate a white rose
English musicals actor Marti Webb appeared on the West End as the second Evita, before starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s one woman show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1980. This included her biggest hit single, “Take That Look Off Your Face”, a UK top three hit, with the parent album also reaching the top thr
“Jack” Webb was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the Dragnet franchise (which he also created). He was approached to play the role of Vernon Wormer, Dean of Faber College, in National Lampoon’s Animal House, but he turned it down; John R. Vernon ultimately got the role.
Wormer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 13 km northwest of Amsterdam.
Pumpkin seeds can act as a natural de-wormer. They contain compounds called cucurbitacins which paralyze the worms in your body by attacking their nervous system, which causes them to stop growing and eventually die. These seeds also contain several other worm-killing nutrients like flavonoids, palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids.
You should eat at least 10 to 15 pumpkin seeds a day for them to act as a de-wormer.
One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in French by Charles Perrault in 1697, under the name Cendrillon. The popularity of his tale was due to his additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the introduction of “glass” slippers.