In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saturdays are days on which the Mother of God and All Saints are commemorated, and the day on which prayers for the dead are especially offered, in remembrance that it was on a Saturday that Jesus lay dead in the tomb. For Jews, Messianics, Seventh Day Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists, the seventh day of the week, known as Shabbat (or Sabbath for Seventh-day Adventists), stretches from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday and is the day of rest.
Ozzie Osbourne, who the younger tykes may not know was a rock singer before he was a reality TV star, came to prominence with his group Black Sabbath, ranked by MTV as the “Greatest Metal Band” of all time. His accent is frequently mistaken for simple incoherence but is actually from their hometown of Birmingham, England.
A business can bypass the Bergen County New Jersey Blue Laws by being closing two hours before sundown Friday afternoon and staying closed until two hours after sundown Saturday night for Shabbos (the Jewish Sabbath), and being closed for the first two and last two days of Passover, and Yom Kipper and Rosh Hashanah. A store can be open on Sunday and sell anything and everything. Totally kosher.
When I explain this to people who ask about it, I am always amazed they don’t know that Blue Laws are Christian laws.
Way back in the early territorial days in Alaska, a lot of the criminal element was attracted to the place to prey on miners, trappers and the like. The justice system was nearly non-existent and most troublemakers were either shot, hanged, banished or otherwise punished by fed-up locals. Eventually, Alaska’s few peace officers developed a system called “blue ticketing” for bad actors. This meant offering a choice of jail or one-way tickets back to the U.S. The term “blue ticket” stemmed from the color of steamship passes at the time.
The Wikipedia entry for “North-West Mounted Police” suggests that the Klondike gold rush in Canada was the place where the term “blue ticket” originated. Northern Piper knows all things Canadian and perhaps he could weigh in.
Certainly possible, although the entry doesn’t give a background for it. A note of interest: blue tickets are still issued in Native villages in Alaska when someone has become uncontrollable.
reply to #34339 (albeit 40 and 41 are also covered)
The International Airport Transport Association (IATA) announced that as of 1 June 2008, none of their member airlines (which represent the large majority of passenger carriers) would issue paper tickets and that all ticketing would be by electronic ticketing (or E-tickets).
Off topic, can’t remember the last time I had a paper ticket…2005 in Kenya, perhaps?
“Ticket to Ride” was written by the Beatles in February 1965 (52 years ago). Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles’ seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit in the United States.
off-topic: Elendil’s Heir, I hope that they find some surviving Pinta Island tortoises!
Me, too, but the outlook isn’t bright.
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Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton were among the Beatles friends and fans in the studio audience, singing in the chorus for the live satellite broadcast of “All You Need Is Love.”
The last minute or so of “All You Need is Love” has bits of “Greensleeves” and “She Loves You” in it.
“The Last Post” is a bugle piece played in Commonwealth countries at funerals of military veterans and at Remembrance Day ceremonies. It is often followed by a period of silence, and then either “Reveille” or “The Rouse” is played.
The bugler’s “Call to the Post”, typically associated with horse racing as a means to tell riders to get their horses to the paddock exit, originated as the military’s “First Call”, a notification of a pending Reveille (Army) or raising of the Morning or Evening Colors (Navy).
In English, Reveille is pronounced /ˈ’revəli/, with three syllables and the accent on the first syllable; it rhymes with “revelry”. How to pronounce REVEILLE in English
In its original French, while the word is written with an accent on the first syllable, réveille, it is pronounced in two syllables, with equal weight on both. réveille pronunciation: How to pronounce réveille in French
It almost rhymes with “repay”.
English King Henry II was played by Peter O’Toole in both Becket and The Lion in Winter. The first focuses on his early reign and his fraught relationship with his friend and the eventual Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, while the other focuses on his late reign and his difficult dealings with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his three sons, the princes Richard, Geoffrey and John.
Geoffrey would have been Richard’s successor instead of John, but he died in a tournament before Richard did. Geoffrey did, however, have a son and a daughter, Eleanor and Arthur. Prince Arthur of Brittany was twelve years old when Richard died, but, although under the rules of primogeniture he should have been the King, John took control of the throne and had Arthur executed. Arthur’s sister, Eleanor, spent the remainder of her life locked away in a castle. She became known as the Fair Maid of Brittany.
In the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood, King Richard the Lionheart (portrayed as a lion) and Prince John are both voiced by Peter Ustinov.
On October 31, 1984, Peter Ustinov was due to interview Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi for Irish television. She was assassinated on her way to the meeting.
The earliest version of perhaps the most famous tongue twister in history was published in Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by John Harris in London in 1813.
The modern version (at least one variation of it):
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?Peter Baker, a 1988 graduate of Oberlin College, is the White House correspondent for The New York Times and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He was responsible for covering the Obama Administration. After being assigned as Jerusalem bureau chief for the *Times *he was, in December 2016, reassigned to the White House beat for the incoming Trump Administration.
On June 27, 1952, the Congress of Guatemala passed Decree 900, redistributing unused lands of sizes greater than 224 acres to local peasants and having a major effect on the nation’s land reform movement. The legislation had been proposed by President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán. In June 1954, Árbenz Guzmán was overthrown by a multi-faceted coup operation involving a small army led by Castillo Armas, scattered right-wing violence in the countryside, a US Navy blockade (called “Operation Hardrock Baker),” bombardment by CIA planes, and a sophisticated CIA strategy of psychological warfare intended to demoralize Árbenz and provoke military defections.