Blue Bloods is an American police procedural drama series that airs on the CBS Network. The series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Francis Xavier “Frank” Reagan is the Police Commissioner. Frank’s oldest son Danny is an NYPD detective, his youngest son Jamie is an NYPD police officer, and his daughter Erin is the assistant district attorney. Frank’s father Henry is a former NYPD beat cop who rose through the ranks to Police Commissioner.
Jameson “Jamie” Reagen, the youngest Reagen child, went to Harvard Law, became engaged toJ Sydney Davenport, graduated from Harvard Law School, but became a police officer after his brother Joe was killed. Sydney broke off their engagement, probably because she thought she was getting a Harvard lawyer, but ended up with a beat cop.
Erwin Griswold of Ohio served as dean of the Harvard Law School (of which he was a graduate) before serving as Solicitor General - the U.S. Government’s top appellate lawyer - during both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations.
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark case in the United States in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution, through the Bill of Rights, implies a fundamental right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut “Comstock law” that prohibited any person from using “any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception.” By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the “right to marital privacy”, establishing the basis for the right to privacy with respect to intimate practices. This and other cases view the right to privacy as a right to “protect[ion] from governmental intrusion.”
National Lampoon’s Vacation is a 1983 movie starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as the Griswold family, traveling cross country to visit an amusement park. It was followed by the sequels National Lampoon’s European Vacation and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
The name Chevy Chase did not originate with either the actor nor the city in Maryland. It was first mentiolned in an oral ballad, dating back at least to the 1300s. The ballads tell the story of a large hunting party upon a parcel of hunting land (or chase) in the Cheviot Hills, straddling the English-Scottish border, hence the term, Chevy Chase. Unrelated Chevrolet motor cars were named after Uauo designer Louis Chevrolet, who was an immigrant from Switzerland.
The world’s longest staircase is located on the face of Mt. Niesen in Switzerland. The 2.1 mile long staircase goes up the side of the mountain with 11,674 steps, ranging from an altitude of 2,300 feet at the bottom (from the side of the Kander river in Mülenen) to 7,750 feet at the top (the terminus near the summit of the mountain). Its average gradient is a monumental 55%, with a maximum of 65%.
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In the USA in the 1970s for FM radio stations, the most requested song by listeners, despite the song never having been released as a single (in the USA), was Stairway to Heaven.
It is symbolic of the measly 5-minute edit window, which is tantamount to a violation of the Americans with Disabilities act. Not all posters here are able-bodied enough to detect and repair all necessary typos within the five minute window.
One suggestion is to draft your entry in another app, like Notepad / Word / another and, when it’s properly composed, c&p it to the SDMB.
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The Bee Gees’ song “Too Much Heaven” earned more than seven million dollars for UNICEF by 2003; the song and its royalties was their contribution to the “Music for UNICEF” fund. The recording process was the longest of all the tracks on their album Spirits Having Flown as there are nine layers of three-part harmony, creating 27 voices, with the high falsetto voices are the most pronounced in the final mix.
On August 30th, 2007, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and*** flown*** for more than three hours across several states from North Dakota to Louisiana. The missiles, which were being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber’s wings.
Wings cigarettes were introduced in 1929 by Brown and Williamson, to take advantage of the sudden craze for flight. The brand is now owned by a Japanese company, marketed mostly in east Asia. The brand became very popular during WWII, when each pack featured a collector card depicting WWII-era aircraft.
Cincinnati’s United States Playing Card Company introduced its still-popular Aviator brand in 1927 in commemoration of Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. They are of lower quality and price than the Bicycle and Bee brands.
High card by suit refers to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit. When suit ranking is applied, the two most common conventions are (a) using alternating colors starting with spades (highest ranking suit), followed by hearts, then clubs, then diamonds, and (b) reverse alphabetically starting with spades (highest ranking suit), followed by hearts, then diamonds, then clubs. Method (a) ranking is used in the Chinese card game Big Two or Choh Dai Di, and method (b) ranking is used in the game of bridge.
Several attempts have been made to identify the ‘fair lady’, ‘lady gay’, or lady ‘lee/lea’ of the popular children’s rhyme "London Bridge is falling down. including: Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080–1118) Henry I’s consort, who between 1110 and 1118 was responsible for the building of the series of bridges that carried the London-Colchester road across the River Lea and its side streams between Bow and Stratford; Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223–91), consort of Henry III who had custody of the bridge revenues from 1269 to about 1281; a member of the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, who have a family story that a human sacrifice lies under the building and the River Lea, which is a tributary of the Thames.
"The Isis"is an alternative name for the River Thames, used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the Thame at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. It derives from the ancient name for the Thames, Tamesis, which in the Middle Ages was falsely assumed to be a combination of “Thame” and “Isis”. Notably the Isis flows through the city of Oxford. The name “Isis” is especially used in the context of rowing at the University of Oxford. A number of rowing regattas are held on the Isis, including Eights Week, the most important Oxford University regatta, in the Trinity term (summer), Torpids in the Hilary term (early spring) and Christ Church Regatta for novices in the Michaelmas term (autumn).
An eight is a rowing boat designed for eight rowers. The first Olympic eights race was held in 1900 and won by the United States.
The oldest continuous annual sports competition in North America is the Royal St. John’s Regatta, held every year since 1818 on Quidi Vidi Lake in Newfoundland’s capital city. The rowing event probably dates to the 17000s, but is documented annually only since 1818, when it celebrated the anniversary of the coronation of King George III.