Jeff Yagher was originally cast as Officer Tom Hanson in the pilot of 21 Jump Street. He was replaced after the original pilot episode was filmed, and his scenes were reshot with Johnny Depp.
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania gets its name from the Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans. The name Wyomissing means “the land of flats”. Wyomissing PA is near the SE corner of the state and is some 60 miles NW of Philadelphia. Actress Megan Gallagher hails from the Wyomissing area. She attended Wyomissing Area Junior and Senior High School. Megan Gallagher is the wife of actor Jeff Yagher.
Leo Anthony Gallagher, Jr., known as Gallagher on stage, is an American comedian and prop comic, known for smashing watermelons as part of his act. Gallagher’s signature sketch is a pitch for the “Sledge-O-Matic,” a large wooden mallet that he uses to smash a variety of food items and other objects, culminating with a watermelon. It also features a variety of props, including a large trampoline designed to look like a couch.
Gene Anthony Ray, best known for playing the role of Leroy Johnson in the movie and TV series Fame was known for his drug and sexual escapades, and was HIV positive when he died of a stroke at the age of 41.
Ray Anthony is, at age 95, the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Anthony has been a trumpeter, actor, songwriter, and a band leader. After WWII, his band became well known for hits that included The Bunny Hop and Hokey Pokey. He also wrote the theme for the TV show “Dragnet” and for “Peter Gunn”.
While candy maker Sam Born’s company Just Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its marshmallow chick line in 1953 =, and soon the “largest marshmallow candy manufacturer in the world,” the Marshmallow Peeps Bunny was not introduced until twenty years later in 1973.
Although Samuel Pepys’ fame derives from his extensive diaries, written from 1660 to 1669, he was also a Member of Parliament and Chief Secretary of the Admiralty.
Winston Churchill served as First Lord of the Admiralty (the top British civilian official) in 1911-15 and 1939-40. Although he was energetic and reform-minded, the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign and the failure to keep Norway from falling to Nazi invasion both occurred on his watches.
::off topic:: Boy, is my face red. Anthony most certainly did NOT write the themes for those two TV shows. Peter Gunn was, of course, written and performed by Henry Mancini (which I knew), who won an Emmy and a Grammy for the work. He also didn’t write the theme for Dragnet, but did have a chart hit with it.
The Hellespont was, in Greek legend, the strait between the town of Sestos, where lived Hero, priestess of Aphrodite, and Abydos, where her lover Leander lived; supposedly Leander would swim across the strait at might to meet Hero in secret. Christopher Marlowe wrote a poem abut the lovers, published in 1598, and Lord Byron recreated the swim on May 3, 1810, commemorating it in his poem “Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos” and counting it as one of his greatest achievements. Two hundred years later, long-distance swimmers do the 4 Km swim, with authorities closing the busy shipping lanes for a few hours on a set race day. Byron did the swim in 1 hour 10 minutes; the current record is 48 minutes.
On June 15, 1815, the Duchess of Richmond held a ball in Brussels, Belgium, that was and is described as “the most famous ball in history.” Lord Byron’s poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” emphasizes the contrast between the glamorous ball and the horror of the Battle of Waterloo, which took place three days after the ball. On June 15, 1965, the British Ambassador in Brussels held a ball to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo and the Duchess of Richmond’s ball. This commemoration ball has now become an annual event.
The Federation starship named USS Enterprise just before Capt. Jean-Luc Picard’s ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starfleet registry number NCC-1701-C, was of the Ambassador class. It was featured in the episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” Picard’s command, NCC-1701-D, was of the Galaxy class.
In mathematics, the Picard group of a ringed space X, denoted by Pic(X), is the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves (or line bundles) on X, with the group operation being tensor product. The name is in honor of Charles Émile Picard’s theories, in particular of divisors on algebraic surfaces.
A **sheave **is a pulley with a grooved wheel for holding a belt, wire rope, or rope. The grooved wheel spins inside the frame of the sheave. This allows the wire or rope to move freely minimizing wear and abrasion on the cable.
In mathematics, a sheaf is a tool for systematically tracking locally defined data attached to the open sets of a topological space. A simple explanation of a sheaf is a way of translating between locally-defined data and globally-defined data.
“Bringing In The Sheaves” is an American gospel song written in 1874 by Knowles Shaw, who was inspired by Psalm 126:6. Many people mishear it as “bringing in the sheep”, but in fact the song is about sheaves of grain.