In baseball, the “foul line” is considered to be entirely in fair territory, and a ball touching the line is considered fair. Conversely, in football and basketball, the boundary line is considered out of bounds, as is any player whose foot touches the line.
One of the well-known speeches of the Witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth is
*Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
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The three Witches have been portrayed in many different ways throughout the play’s production history; in spite of Macbeth’s stating that they look almost like men, with beards, and they are old with “choppy” fingers, they have been played by attractive young women. In Geoffrey Wright’s 2006 Australian gang setting they are played as teen schoolgirls in uniform.
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American comedy-fantasy film based on John Updike’s novel of the same name. Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson, and Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches.
In the first 38 years of its existence, the Baseball Hall of Fame enshrined only one third baseman – Pie Traynor. In the next 38 years, starting with Eddie Mathews, sixteen more have been added. Two of them (Kell and Brett) are named George.
Homer Simpson, idiotic family patriarch in the long-running Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons, is notoriously undiscriminating in his choices of food. He was once pleased to find a piece of floor pie: mmmm, floor pie! - YouTube
Throwing a pie in a person’s face has been a staple of film comedy since Ben Turpin received one in Mr. Flip in 1909.
McDonald’s franchises around the world feature a variety of pie flavors, some available only seasonally. In Mexico, apple and cheese pies are sold; sweet cream cheese pies are also available there and in Panama and Costa Rica. Taiwan has mango pineapple pies, New Zealand has plum and custard, Canada has blueberry maple, berry, and butter tart pies, and Pakistan has blueberry custard pies.
Since 1947 when the Little League World Series was founded, the country with the most championships to date, with 17, is Taiwan.
??? The USA has won 33.
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from here: Little League World Series - Wikipedia.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are in the same counry.
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Taiwan was known as Formosa during the early part of the Cold War, when many countries refused to recognize that the island of Formosa and the mainland of China were governed by different administrations. To a geographer, Formosa is a 300-year-old Portuguese name of an island. To a political scientist, Taiwan is the name of a political entity located on that island. Taiwan was originally a name for a part of the harbor at the port of Tainan. In 1960, Taiwan suddenly replaced Formosa in western usage.
They break it down by Country/State. Taiwan has the most championships.
1930s star Hedy Lamarr invented a new technology to stop Nazis from jamming Navy torpedoes, but the idea was rejected until 1962 and implemented during the Cold War. Her frequency hopping technology is the basis for modern Bluetooth technology.
Following her sixth and final divorce in 1965, Hedy Lamarr remained single for the last 35 years of her life.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: Thank you, Hedy, thank you.
Hedley Lamarr: It’s not Hedy, it’s Hedley. Hedley Lamarr.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You’ll be able to sue her.
Mel Brooks said of Robyn Hilton and her 40-inch chest, who played Miss Stein in ****Blazing Saddles (1974) in her film debut,“When you first meet Robyn, it’s very hard to take your eyes off her mind. Seriously, however, she’s got a lot up front, but much more upstairs.”
After her debut in Blazing Saddles, Robyn Hilton also appeared as a guest on Johnny Carson.
In December 1973, Johnny Carson joked on Tonight about an alleged shortage of toilet paper. Panic buying and hoarding ensued across the United States as consumers emptied stores, causing a real shortage that lasted for weeks. Stores and toilet paper manufacturers had to ration supplies until the panic ended. Carson apologized in January 1974 for the incident, which became what The New York Times called a “classic study” of how rumors spread.
Johnny Carson’s father was nicknamed “Kit” Carson. Johnny Carson was offered the role of The Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles, but he declined. The role went to Gene Wilder.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose Little House series about life on the frontier recounted the hardships of pioneer life, was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and of the Delano family. She was a distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; however, as a libertarian she was strongly opposed to the New Deal.
W.C. Fields said that he wasn’t in favour of the New Deal: he thought the double shuffle was good enough.
When people first started putting toilets inside their homes, they often were retrofitted into closets, hence he word Water Closet, called a WC for short. Early indoor toilets had in fact been known as garderobes because they actually were used to store clothes, serving double duty, as the smell of ammonia was found to deter fleas and moth