One of the specialties of the company Polk Audio is high end home audio. With the release of the first successful model in 1974, the Monitor 7, Polk Audio started to become a recognized name in audiophile circles. Its seven speaker bundles currently retail from $2500 to over $8000.
septimus, following your request and going back to seven.
James K. Polk was probably the first President to be photographed while in office, although some historians believe that William Henry Harrison may have been but the photograph was subsequently lost: http://www.historybyzim.com/2013/02/first-president-photograph/
Harry Harrison was an American science fiction author, known for his ‘Deathworld’ trilogy, his most famous character, the Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). During the 1950s and 1960s, he was the main writer of the Flash Gordon newspaper strip.
Soylent Green was the last film role for Edward G. Robinson, who for once did not play a gangster but a retired police analyst who discovered the secret of the food and, through his own death, informed Charlton Heston of it.
For septimus:
John Glenn was the last of the Mercury 7 to pass away.
[well thanks – I think I’ll return to the bloodied field of Flodden]
While Sir David Home of Wedderburn died at the Battle of Flodden, he can take solace that his seven oldest sons fought with him at that Battle and were immortalized in poem.
Andrew Pitcairn, Laird of Innerthey, was less fortunate. He and seven sons all died at Flodden on that ill-fated Ninth of September, along with their sovereign, James IV King of Scots.
Iron Maiden’s seventh studio album was Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. It was also their first to include keyboards, and marked the band’s progression into prog-rock. It was their first album to debut in the UK at #1 since The Number of the Beast.
The seven-day week seems to have originated in the Persian Empire and is sometimes attributed to Zarathustra himself.
Seven Bridges Road" is a song written by American musician Steve Young, recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known version being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews recorded by the American rock band Eagles in 1980.
The phrase ‘Seven Sisters of Oil’ refers to the seven companies which dominated petroleum exploration, production and distribution in the mid 20th century. They included Shell, Texaco, what is now BP, and four successor companies to Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. The five American ‘sisters’ have since merged to form just two companies: ExxonMobil and Chevron.
Per Wiki, John D. Rockefeller was the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University, and funded the establishment of Central Philippine University in the Philippines. He was a devout Northern Baptist and supported many church-based institutions. He adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life.
“The Rockafeller Skank” (also known as “Funk Soul Brother”) is a song by English big beat musician and DJ Fatboy Slim. It was a hit single released from the 1998 album You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. The song features the repeated line “Right about now, the funk soul brother / Check it out now, the funk soul brother”, which is a truncated vocal sample of rapper Lord Finesse on the track “Vinyl Dog Vibe” by Vinyl Dogs, the original line being “Check it out right about now, it’s no other than the funk soul brother, the Lord Finesse”.
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Funk originated in the mid-1960s, with James Brown’s development of a signature groove, followed by groups like Sly and the Family Stone and other performers such as Chaka Khan, Labelle, Lyn Collins, Brides of Funkenstein, and Klymaxx.
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was an American hip-hop group led by Mark Wahlberg. The Funky Bunch consisted of Wahlberg (alias Marky Mark), Scott Ross (alias Scottie Gee), Hector Barros (alias Hector the Booty Inspector), Terry Yancey (alias DJ-T), and Anthony Thomas (alias Ashey Ace). The group’s best known song is “Good Vibrations”, which made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991.
Good Vibrations, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: - YouTube
Dr. Gordon Gee, twice president of Ohio State University, was known for his bow ties. In the latter part of his tenure, he was paid more than the Governor of Ohio.
The Introductions is the opening scene from the 1990 movie, Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, where actor Ray Liotta as Henry Hill introduced the mob players:
“*There was Jimmy and Tommy and me…
…and there was Anthony Stabile, Frankie Carbone…
…and then there was Moe Black’s brother Fat Andy… and his guys Frankie the Wop, Freddie No Nose…
…and then there was Pete the Killer who was Sally Balls’s brother…
…and you had Nicky Eyes, and Mikey Franchesi…
…and Jimmy Two Times who got that nickname because he said everything twice like (I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers)…
For us to live any other way was nuts. Eh… to us those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, worried about their bills, were dead. They were suckers, they had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad believe me they never complained again. It was just all routine, uhh, you didn’t even think about it.*”
(I transcribed this from the YouTube link and believe it to be among the most accurate transcripts of this introduction available on the net to date.
>> search: Jimmy Tommy Anthony Stabile Frankie Carbone Moe Black Fat Andy Frankie the Wop Freddie No Nose Pete the Killer Sally Balls Nicky Eyes Mikey Franchesi Jimmy Two Times
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmy+Tommy+Anthony+Stabile+Frankie+Carbone+Moe+Black+Fat+Andy+Frankie+the+Wop+Freddie+No+Nose+Pete+the+Killer+Sally+Balls+Nicky+Eyes+Mikey+Franchesi+Jimmy+Two+Times&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
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“The Simpsons” character Johnny Tightlips (also known by his real name, Jonathan Schmallippe) is a frequently appearing mobster and an associate of Fat Tony in the D’Amico crime family. His catchphrase is “I ain’t sayin’ nothin’!” He is a reference to Frank “Tight Lips” Gusenberg – who was shot down in the real-life St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago and replied, “nobody shot me,” while dying.
The feast of St. Valentine on February 14 was first established in C.E. 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among all those “… whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God.”
Super Bowl XXXVI, in 2002, was the first Super Bowl played on a February Sunday. The first 35 Super Bowls were all played on January Sundays.
Super Bowl XXXVII, in 2003, was the last Super Bowl played on a January Sunday. The last 14 Super Bowls, since Super Bowl XXXVIII, have all been played on February Sundays.
Super Bowl LII is the next one to be played. It will be on 04 February 2018 at Minneapolis’ US Bank Stadium.
All Super Bowls, except for Super Bowl 50, are named using Roman numerals.
Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, watched his children playing with a Super Ball and then coined the term Super Bowl. He wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle dated July 25, 1966: “I have kiddingly called it the ‘Super Bowl,’ which obviously can be improved upon.” The leagues’ owners decided on the name “AFL-NFL Championship Game,” but the media immediately picked up on Hunt’s “Super Bowl” name, which became official beginning with the third annual game.