Actor Geoffrey Rush’s middle name is Roy. Rush is the youngest amongst the few people who have ever won the “Triple Crown of Acting”: the Academy Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Tony Award. Rush does not have a Grammy Award.
Other such winners include:
Jack Albertson
Anne Bancroft
Ingrid Bergman
Shirley Booth
Ralph Burns
Ellen Burstyn
Melvyn Douglas
Bob Fosse
Jeremy Irons
Jessica Lange
Frances McDormand
Liza Minnelli
Helen Mirren
Thomas Mitchell
Al Pacino
Christopher Plummer
Vanessa Redgrave
Jason Robards
Geoffrey Rush
Paul Scofield
Maggie Smith
Maureen Stapleton
Jessica Tandy
Tony Walton
The middle group of consonants in the Greco-Roman alphabet are H K L M N. Those are the only five consonantal phonemes in the Hawaiian alphabet, an odd coincidence since the Greeks and Romans knew nothing about Hawaii. Those five consonants and the next five (P R S T V) are the only consonants in Finnish. The Greeks and Romans knew nothing about Finland, either. (J was not distinct from I until the 15th century, and Q was the Roman equivalent to the Greek K.)
On November 26, 1939, the Soviet Red Army shelled Russia’s own village (a false flag plot) Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving the USSR ostensible cause to launch a war (the so-called “ Winter War”) against Finland a few days later. Years after the incident, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wrote that the Mainila shellings were organized by Artillery Marshal Grigory Kulik. In 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin denounced the Winter War, agreeing it had been a war of aggression. As the war began, the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations.
The American Liberty League was an American political organization formed in 1934, primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures because they opposed the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Following the landslide re-election of Roosevelt in 1936, it sharply reduced its activities and disbanded entirely in 1940.
The Justice Society of America was an attempt by All American Comics of the 1940s to use their Superheroes to compete with their sister company DC/National Periodicals. The series ended in the 1951, but DC revived the concept with the Justice League of America in the late 50s.
The Schenectady Locomotive Works built the Jupiter of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868. The Jupiter was one of two steam locomotives to take part in the “Golden Spike Ceremony” on 10 May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. The golden spike now lies in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida is the only ballpark in the US to host four minor league baseball teams simultaneously. The Jupiter Hammerheads (Miami Marlins affiliate) and Palm Beach Cardinals (St. Louis Cardinals affiliate) of the Florida State League share tenancy, with one or the other hosting a home game most summer nights, while the Gulf Coast League Marlins and Cardinals (Rookie level) use it for day games.
For MLB’s Spring Training, 15 teams play in the Cactus League in and near Phoenix AZ, and the remaining 15 teams play in the Grapefruit League in and near Jupiter FL (although the Grapefruit League teams are fairly spread out in Florida, from Kissimmee to Fort Myers).
Every so often three of the planet Jupiter’s moons (Io, Ganymede and Callisto) cross in front of their parent planet at the same time. This rare alignment, known as a triple eclipse, happens only once or twice a decade.
Ganymede is Jupiter’s largest moon and the largest moon in our Solar System. It is over (slightly) 2x the mass of Earth’s Moon, and it is slightly larger than Titan, a moon of Saturn. Galileo discovered Ganymede in 1610.
Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen) is a fictional character appearing in DC comic books. A talented telepath from the 30th century, Imra first appeared in Adventure Comics #247 as a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Imra’s “Saturn Girl” title refers to her homeworld of Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn.
The independent GM brand of Saturn cars were built in Spring Hill, Tenn., not far from the 1864 Civil War battlefield site. The brand was discontinued in the depths of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
In Greek mythology, the Titans were a set of gods which preceded the Olympians. The lease of the Titans, Kronos (Saturn in Latin mythology) had overthrown his own father, Uranus, and feared that the same fate would happen to him, with his children overthrowing him.
Rather than practising birth control, he adopted the expedient of swallowing whole all of his children as they were born.
Finally, his wife, Rhea (who was also his sister), tired of losing her children. When the youngest, Zeus, was born, she hid him away and gave Kronos a small boulder swaddled as a baby. Kronos was taken in and swallowed the boulder.
When Zeus grew up, he challenged his father, right on schedule. He surreptitiously fed Kronos an emetic, which made him vomit up all of his children, now fully grown.
They joined Zeus in his rebellion. After 10 years of battle, Zeus and his siblings were successful and overthrew the Titans. They threw them down to Tartaurus and took their position on Mount Olympus, with Zeus as King of the gods.
On December 3, 1904, Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California. Himalia is named after a mythical nymph who bore three sons of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter).