Comment: I look forward to seeing this film, and I like Tom Hanks’ work. However, when I see Sully I really think William H Macy bears a striking resemblance.
You tell me.
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I’m guessing Macy was at least considered for the role.
The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 feet, using the measurement of the foot of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and standardizing it as 1,000 steps by a soldier, each step covering 5 ‘feet’. However, the greater importance of furlongs in pre-modern England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards in 1593.
[del]In play: Barry Pepper’s breakout role was in Saving Private Ryan (1998) where he played a bible-quoting sniper. When he was five years old, he and his family spent five years living on a sailboat as they sailed through the South Pacific islands. They used only a sextant and the stars as guides. While visiting such exotic locales as Fiji and Tahiti, Pepper was educated through correspondence courses and sometimes enrolled in public schools. He grew up around Polynesian children and credits them for his love of dance, music and other expressive arts.[/del]
Ninja’d!
Hicham El Guerrouj is the current world record holder in the mile run with a time of 3:43.13. Since 1976, the mile has been the only non-metric distance recognized by the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) for record purposes.
Roger Bannister was the first person recorded as running a mile in under 4 minutes, on 6 May 1954 at Iffley Road track in Oxford. Bannister’s exact time was 3 min 59.4 sec. Hr was a medical student at Oxford at the time.
Bannister’s record lasted just 46 days. John Landy of Australia held the new world record for three years with a time of 3:57.9.
The best American high school athlete of all time, as determined by ESPN.com, wasn’t Tiger Woods, or LeBron James. It was the miler Jim Ryun. In 1964, as a high school junior, Jim Ryun became the first high school athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes. His time was 3:59.0. In 1965 as a senior, Ryun ran a 3:55.3 mile, a record that stood for 36 years. Ryun ran a sub-four minute mile five times while in high school. He is the only high school athlete to have run more than three sub-four minute miles.
ETA: Jim Ryun participated in the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics. At age 17 years, 137 days in 1964, he remains the youngest American male track athlete to ever qualify for the Olympics.
Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to ride on a submarine.
The first use of a submarine in warfare was in the American Revolution, when Sgt. Ezra Lee tried to attach an explosive charge to Admiral Richard Howe’s flagship, HMS Eagle, below its waterline in New York Harbor. Lee used David Bushnell’s Turtle, built and shaped like a wooden egg, and powered by a hand-cranked propeller.
The first railroad in America ran a distance of 11 miles between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
11 is the 5th smallest prime number. It is the smallest two-digit prime number in the decimal base; as well as, of course, in undecimal (where it is the smallest two-digit number). It is also the smallest three-digit prime in ternary, and the smallest four-digit prime in binary, but a single-digit prime in bases larger than 11, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and sexagesimal. 11 is the fourth Sophie Germain prime, the third safe prime, the fourth Lucas prime, the first repunit prime, and the second good prime. Although it is necessary for n to be prime for 2^n − 1 to be a Mersenne prime, the converse is not true: 2^11 − 1 = 2047 which is 23 × 89. The next prime is 13, with which it comprises a twin prime. 11 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. Displayed on a calculator, 11 is a strobogrammatic prime and a dihedral prime because it reads the same whether the calculator is turned upside down or reflected on a mirror, or both.
15 years ago today, on 9/11/2001, we all woke up to a different world. And for 2,996 inocent victims, that morning was their last wake up.
265 were killed on the four planes.
125 were killed at the Pentagon.
2,606 were killed at the World Trade Center.
Most were civilians. 71 law enforcement and 343 fire personnel were killed at the World Trade Center. One law enforcement person was killed at on United 93 in Shanksville PA. 55 military personnel were killed at the Pentagon.
At least eleven unborn babies were also killed on 9/11.
May we always remember. May we never forget.
Mychal Judge, a Roman Catholic Franciscan friar, was designated as “Victim 0001” on 9/11 and thereby recognized as the first official victim of the attacks. Although others had been killed before him, including the crews, passengers, and hijackers of the first three planes, and occupants of the towers and the Pentagon, Judge was the first certified fatality because his was the first body to be recovered and taken to the medical examiner.
Judge was a NYC Fire Department (FDNY) Chaplain and on hearing of the attacks rushed to the scene with an engine from the FDNY house across from the church where he lived.
Judge prayed over some bodies lying on the streets, then entered the lobby of the World Trade Center North Tower, where an emergency command post had been organized. There he continued offering aid and prayers for the rescuers, the injured, and the dead.
When the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 am, debris went flying through the North Tower lobby, killing many inside, including Judge.
Shortly after Judge’s death, an NYPD lieutenant found his body. He and two firemen, a FDNY emergency medical technician, and one civilian bystander then carried Judge’s body out of the North Tower. This event was captured in the documentary film 9/11, shot by Jules and Gedeon Naudet. Shannon Stapleton, a photographer from Reuters, photographed Judge’s body being carried out of the rubble by the five men. It became one of the famous images related to 9/11 and has been called “an American Pieta”
Before his death Judge was already well known in the city for ministering to the homeless, the hungry, recovering alcoholics, people with AIDS, the sick, injured, and grieving, immigrants, gays and lesbians and those alienated by society.
Ninja’d.
Judge was a long-term member of Dignity, a Catholic LGBT activist organization that advocates for change in the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. On October 1, 1986, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued an encyclical, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, which declared homosexuality to be a “strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil”. In response, many bishops, including John Cardinal O’Connor, banned Dignity from diocesan churches under their control. Judge then welcomed Dignity’s AIDS ministry to the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, which is under the control of the Franciscan friars, thereby partially circumventing the cardinal’s ban of Dignity.
Judge disagreed with official Roman Catholic teaching regarding homosexuality, though by all accounts he remained celibate. Judge often asked, “Is there so much love in the world that we can afford to discriminate against any kind of love?”
The Father Mychal Judge 9/11 Walk of Remembrance is held each year on the Sunday before Sept. 11. It begins with religious services (Mass and Rosary) at St. Francis of Assisi Church. The crowd then proceeds almost three miles through the streets of New York to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, where Father Judge’s body was brought after his collapse at Ground Zero. The procession, which includes almost 1,000 participants, stops at firehouses along the way to remember the first responders lost on Sept. 11.
“Towards Zero” is a murder mystery written by Agatha Christie and featuring Superintendent Battle as the sleuth. Although the murder is suitably violent, the motivation is subtle and the denouement depends on what Battle calls a “psychological kink.”
Mike Battle was a marginal player for the New York Jets (if that’s not redundant) who had two claims to fame: an 86-yard punt return that was part of the Jets victory the first time they played the NY Giants (in the preseason) and his penchant for eating glass. (Yes, he’d chew up a beer glass and swallow it.)
Who was that?
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The Dukakis campaign distributed “I Like Mike” buttons during the 1988 presidential campaign, harkening back to the much more popular “I Like Ike” buttons of the 1952 and 1956 Eisenhower campaigns.
The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 21 to July 26, 1952, which was the same arena the Republicans had gathered in a few weeks earlier for their national convention. Four major candidates sought the nomination: U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, II, of Illinois, Senator Richard Russell of Georgia and Averell Harriman of New York.
I remember watching part of those conventions on our little B&W TV.
Richard J. Guadagno, Project Manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
https://www.nps.gov/flni/learn/historyculture/richard-j-guadagno.htm