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Davy Jones Locker is a seafarers term for the bottom of the sea. It was first referenced in print in a story by Daniel Defoe in 1726. But its origin is disputed.
Originally Posted by gkster View Post
Isn’t trivia supposed to be factual? Yes, it’s possible that Brady will win, but not a fact.
I have no issue with trivia being about fictional facts and characters. However, a statement that real-world player X and team X will definitely win an upcoming game is speculation and not fact.
Sorry, I forgot to mark the previous post as not in play.
Back in play:
In 1703, Daniel Defoe was sentenced to three days in the pillory for writing a supposedly seditious political pamphlet. According to legend, instead of having dirt or rocks thrown at him as frequently happened to those pilloried, he was regarded as a hero by the crowd and was pelted with flowers.
The Sedition Act of 1918 gave the US government sweeping powers to prosecute anyone for speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light. It was repealed in 1920, but not until future presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs spent two years in prison for a conviction on sedition charges.
Codell, Kansas, is a small unincorporated town in the north-central part of the state. It is noted for having been struck by a tornado on May 20 in three successive years: 1916, 1917, and 1918. Each year the tornado was stronger than the previous year, and the 1918 tornado, rated F4 on the Fujita scale, destroyed or damaged many businesses and homes. The small town never fully recovered from the devastation of the 1918 tornado.
Faced with a popular uprising and likely defeat in World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated both the Imperial German and the Prussian thrones on Nov. 9, 1918. He went into exile in the Netherlands, where he remained until his death in 1941.
And what is the link to #37550?
In play: “Weird Al” Yankovic’s parody of “Eye of the Tiger” has an old Rocky running a deli. It is called “Rye or the Kaiser”
Double Ninja’ed. Back soon.
“Rocky Top” is an American country and bluegrass song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 and first recorded by the Osborne Brothers later that same year. It is associated with the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee (UT), whose Marching Band has played version of the song at the school’s sporting events since the early 1970s.
gkster’s point is a good one. Let’s keep it real, shall we?
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During Kaiser Wilhelm’s rule, in 1918 the first confirmed outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic occurred at Camp Funston at Fort Riley, Kansas, in the north-central part of the state and only 140 miles west of Codell KS (gMap: Google Maps). The pandemic lasted from roughly January 1918 to December 1920 that infected 500 million people around the world and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million. Roughly 3-5% of the world’s population) died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It even killed people in Tennessee.
Comment: Kansas in 1918 was not the place to be! 
Tom Brady.
Kansas is named after the Kanza people, also known as the Kaw.
The name “Arkansas” isn’t related, despite the close spelling.
The only University of Kansas head basketball coach to have a losing career record was James Naismith. The inventor of the game.
Orson Welles believed that John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) was a perfect textbook of filmmaking and claimed to have watched the film more than forty times in preparation for the making of Citizen Kane.
Monument Valley, located on the Navajo Nation within Arizona and Utah, has been featured in many John Ford films, including *Stagecoach *(1939) and The Searchers (1956). It has also been featured in the film *Easy Rider *(1969), Robert Zemeckis’ film Forrest Gump, Clint Eastwood’s film *The Eiger Sanction *(1975), and recently the popular United Kingdom television show Doctor Who in the two episodes “The Impossible Astronaut” and “Day of the Moon”. The twin buttes of Monument Valley (“the Mittens”), the “Totem Pole”, and the Ear of the Wind arch, among other features, have developed iconic status.
Not in play:
My grandfather was drafted in the late stages of WWI and reported to Camp Funston at Fort Riley on 11/9/18. The Armistice was signed two days later on 11/11/18. Grandpa used to joke that when the Germans heard that he was coming, they surrendered.
Also not in play:
Within the borders of Kansas, the Arkansas River is pronounced Ar-Kan-Zas. (Ar-Kansas). Everywhere else it’s pronounced the same as the state of Arkansas.
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Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay for a 1967 counterculture film called ‘The Trip’ which featured Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. When a spot opened up in Fonda’s and Hopper’s movie ‘Easy Rider’, Nicholson got the part, for which he received his first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.
Henry Fonda’s first acting appearance was at the Omaha Community Playhouse. His mother’s friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky.
Monument Valley, in southern Utah and northern Arizona, is one of my favorite places! I have passed through it 3-4 times over the years. I want to go back, in the summer, and be there in the early morning before the sun rises, to sit there in the dark, in the quiet, and just watch the sun rise. To watch the light change from faint civil twilight, watching the monuments change from dark shadows, to faint hints of their presence, to watch as the colors fill in and feel the warmth of the sun displace the chill of the night.
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Dorothy “Dodie” Harper Douglas, the character in the 1960-1972 TV sitcom My Three Sons, was played by actress Dawn Lyn Nervik. Dawn Lyn Nervik is the younger sister of singer Leif Garrett who was born Leif Per Nervik. Dawn Lyn Nervik and Leif Per Nervik guest-starred together in an episode of Gunsmoke and also an episode of Wonder Woman.
Gunsmoke began as a radio Western drama in 1952 and ran until 1961. The television series began in 1955 and ran until 1975. James Arness, who played Matt Dillon, and Milburn Stone, who played Doc Adams, starred in the TV series for all 20 years of its existence.
James Arness played the title role in The Thing from Another World, a carnivorous vegetable-based being found in a crashed alien spacecraft in the Arctic. The film was loosely adapted by Charles Lederer, with uncredited rewrites from Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, from the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.; the story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction under Campbell’s pseudonym Don A. Stuart (Campbell had just become Astounding’s managing editor when his novella appeared in its pages).
NFL running back Earl Campbell never played in a Super Bowl. In the 8 seasons of his NFL career he rushed for 9,407 yards for two teams, the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints. He retired after the 1985 season and was inducted into Canton OH in 1991.