Also like Rodney Dangerfield saying, “When I was born, the doctor slapped my mother.”
A mass murder occurred at the First Baptist Church in Daingerfield, Texas, on June 22, 1980. Alvin Lee King III, a former high school teacher, killed five people and wounded 10 others. He committed suicide in prison before he could be convicted.
Oscar Wilde’s play Salome retells the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, who, at the urging of her mother Herodias, asks for the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. In the play’s climactic moments, Salome makes a long speech to Jokanaan’s severed head, describing her lust for him and saying over and over that she has kissed his mouth; the last line of the play is the order of the horrified Herod, telling his soldiers “Kill that woman!”
Salome MC is a female rap and multimedia artist from Iran. She is known for being Iran’s first female rap artist. She has been recognized as one of the top non-English-speaking hip-hop artists. She lives in Iran and raps in Farsi, working around strict cultural controls.
Qusai Kheder, known by the stage names Qusai and Don Legend the Kamelion, is a Saudi Arabian hip hop artist, singer/songwriter, record producer, rapper, television personality and DJ who lives part-time in Orlando. He is most famous as the host of the TV show “Arabs Got Talent” in the Persian Gulf area.
Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti was the second son of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father’s heir apparent in 2000. He died, along with his older brother Uday, in a gun battle with U.S. Troops in Mosul in 2003.
“Ahab the Arab” is a novelty song written and recorded by Ray Stevens in 1962. In the song, Arab is pronounced “Ay-rab” to rhyme with Ahab. The hero of the story is Clyde the camel and Stevens has made references to Clyde numerous times throughout his career. Stevens has also said that Clyde was named after rhythm-and-blues singer Clyde McPhatter, formerly the lead singer of The Drifters.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens was, as a boy, present at the 1932 World Series baseball game at Chicago’s Wrigley Field in which Babe Ruth famously called his shot. Stevens later recalled, “Ruth did point to the center-field scoreboard. And he did hit the ball out of the park after he pointed with his bat, so it really happened.”
Prior to being elected as Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani was Cardinal-Prelate of San Marco and Patriarch of Venice.
The Latin Patriarch of Antioch was a religious office of the Catholic Church created in 1098. The jurisdiction of the Latin patriarchs in Antioch extended over the three feudal principalities of Antioch, Edessa, and Tripolis. Towards the end of the twelfth century the island of Cyprus was added.
Billed as the “Alligator Capital of the World,” Orlando’s Gatorland features thousands of alligators and crocodiles, a breeding marsh with boardwalk and observation tower, reptile shows, aviary, petting zoo, swamp walk, and educational programs. The classic Old Florida attraction is also known for its collection of leucistic, or albino, alligators.
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On December 30, 1702, James Moore—governor and patriarch of sorts of the colony of Carolina—ended a siege at the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, and returned, humiliated, to Charles Town.
The song “Ach du lieber Augustin” supposedly originated in Vienna during the Plague period of 1678-1679. Legend has it that one evening, Augustin, a singer and bagpiper, drank too much and fell asleep in the street on his way home. The morning corpse patrol threw his body on the cart with the other corpses and took him away. Fortunately Augustin awoke in the nick of time; in some versions of the legend he was at the bottom of a pile of corpses in a mass grave, and, unable to get out, played his bagpipes until he was rescued. The rumor spread that wine cured and prevented the plague, and Augustin was seen as a symbol of hope.
“[del]Doughnuts[/del] Bagpipes - is there anything they can’t do?”
– Homer Simpson, after a lone Piper stops the runaway Monorail.
100 Pipers is a brand of blended Scotch whisky that is produced by Pernod Ricard. The company says it is the “seventh-largest blended Scotch worldwide”. It is one of the best-selling whiskies in Thailand.
The price of “eleven piping pipers” has been estimated at $2,708.40.
The Piping Plover is an endangered North American shore bird, whose numbers have dwindled to less than 6,000 individuals, but there has been some recovery, due to the public closing of nearly all beaches where they are known to customarily breed.
Plovers are found throughout the world, with the exception of the Sahara and the polar regions, and are characterized by relatively short bills. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipes do. They feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
Emi Koussi is a pyroclastic shield volcano that lies at the southeast end of the Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara Desert of the northern Borkou Region of northern Chad. At 11,302 feet in elevation, it is the tallest mountain in the Sahara.