Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (1926 – 2013) was an American businessman and was a key figure in bringing baseball back to Milwaukee in the form of the Milwaukee Brewers. His father was the namesake of the tragic ship that sank on 10 November 1975.
Key coloration is the difference between the intervals of different keys in a single non-equal tempered tuning, and the overall sound and “feel” the key created by the tuning of its intervals.
Historical irregular musical temperaments usually have the narrowest fifths between the diatonic notes (“naturals”) producing purer thirds, and wider fifths among the chromatic notes (“sharps and flats”). Each key then has a slightly different intonation, hence different keys have distinct characters. Such “key coloration” was an essential part of much eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music and was described in treatises of the period.
Modern music lacks key coloration because it uses equal temperament in which all keys have the same pattern of intonation, differing only in pitch.
Tempered steel is steel that has been heat treated in a process that results in a tougher steel that is less hard. It is less brittle and more ductile. Tempering of alloys dates to at least 1200 BCE, and in this process alloys have been quenched in water, liquid mercury or lead, or even blood or urine.
“Liquid Television” was a magazine-format series of animated features that aired on MTV in 1991-94, and introduced several enduring spinoffs including Aeon Flux and Beavis and Butthead. Airing on MTV, it was seen by few adults, but had enormous impact on the intellect and creativity of the MTV generation, who were about to assume control of an emerging digital technology. (My stepdaughter said “Dad, you gotta see this”, and thankfully, I did.)
MTV (formerly an initialism of Music Television) launched on 01 August 1981. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time, MTV launched with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.
The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” originally only available to homes in New Jersey.
In 1934, the song “Rock and Roll” by Boswell Sisters appeared in the film Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round. In 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker started to use the term “rock-and-roll” to describe upbeat recordings such as “Rock Me” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. By 1943, the “Rock and Roll Inn” in South Merchantville, New Jersey, was established as a music venue. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it.
LeBron James, star of the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, is a native of Akron, Ohio, not Cleveland.
One his first day of all-boys prep school, John Cleese was asked teasingly by his classmates if he was a cavalier or a Roundhead. It took him awhile to realize that they weren’t asking about his political beliefs, but rather something more personal.
Not in play, but a follow-up to this one:
The Chevrolet Monza was produced from 1974-1980. It was replaced by the Cavalier which was produced from 1991-2005. It is currently produced in China, beginning with the 2017 model year.
“The Laughing Cavalier”, a portrait painted in 1624 by Franz Hals, actually shows a slightly smiling man; his upturned mustache amplifies the smile. Currently in the Wallace Collection in England, the portrait became very popular in the Victorian era, with many thousands of reproductions printed and sold.
Jude Law will play the title role in The Young Pope, a drama about a young and quite possibly evil pontiff, coming to HBO in 2017.
ETA: He has no mustache.
Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of various cancers, such as prostate cancer. Movember is a portmanteau of the Australian diminutive word for moustache, “mo”, and “November”.
The name “Algernon” was originally a Norman French nickname, derived from aux gernons which means “having a mustache”. The nickname was applied to Baron William de Percy, a knight who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. It was first used a given name in the 15th century (for a descendant of William de Percy)
Percy the Small Engine is a fictional steam engine from The Railway Seriesof children’s books. Percy lives on the Island of Sodor with many other locomotives, including Thomas the Tank Engine, Gordon the Big Engine and Henry the Green Engine. He is the smallest, youngest and probably cheekiest, of the principal steam engine characters. He carries the number 6 on his bunker.
In the Avalon-Hill Kingmaker game, the Percy nobleman card is the single most powerful card, with a personal army of 100.
The first pack of playingcards ever printed may have been a 32-card Chinese domino pack, in whose cards all 21 combinations of a pair of dice are depicted. According to the Gui Tian Lu (歸田錄), an 11th-century Chinese text redacted, domino cards were printed during the Tang dynasty, contemporary to the first printed books. There is difficulty distinguishing paper cards and gaming tiles in many early sources as the Chinese word pái (牌) is used to describe both. Playing cards are paper pái while tiles are called bone pái. Paper playing cards and the woodblocks to print them are unambiguously attested in 1294.
The English and French word tarot ,as in tarot cards, derives from the Italian tarocchi, which has no known origin or etymology. The singular term is tarocco, commonly known today as a term for a type of blood orange in Italian. When it spread, the word was changed to tarot in French and Tarock in German. There are many theories to the origin of the word, many with no connection to the occult.[One theory relates the name “tarot” to the Taro River in northern Italy, near Parma; the game seems to have originated in northern Italy, in Milan or Bologna. Other writers believe it comes from the Arabic word طرق turuq, which means ‘ways’. Alternatively, it may be from the Arabic ترك taraka, ‘to leave, abandon, omit, leave behind’
The Apennine Peninsula is the boot that is the country of Italy. The Apennine Peninsula contains three smaller peninsulas, Calabria (the toe), Salento (the heel), and Gargano (the spur). The Apennine Peninsula gets its name from the Apennine Mountains which run the length of Italy. The Taro River runs from the north Appenine Mountains and flows east to the Val di Taro, the Taro Valley, and empties into the Po River.
President Eisehnower first described the “falling domino principle” in 1954, in his warning about the spread of communism from Indochina. The current record for falling dominos in a team stunt is is 4,491,863. The individual recore is 321,197, set in Communist China.