Former MLB catcher Ray Fosse, now a commentator for his old Oakland A’s team, was best known for incurring a career-limiting shoulder injury in a collision at home plate with Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970 All-Star Game. In fairness to Rose, Fosse suffered numerous other injuries in his career. Fosse, then with the Cleveland Indians, was credited by Gaylord Perry for pushing him to win the 1972 Cy Young Award.
The Cleveland Indians have announced that they will retire the Chief Wahoo logo, which many find racist and offensive, next year (although not entirely).
This is when I really started disliking Pete Rose…
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The wahoo is a fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is well known to sports fishermen, because its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish. In Hawaii, the wahoo is known as ono.
Specimens have been recorded at up to 8 ft 2 in in length, and weighing up to 183 lb. Wahoo can swim up to 60 mph. They are some of the fastest fish in the sea.
The word wiki, part of Wikipedia, is Hawaiian for “fast”.
Hawaiian Airlines is the tenth-largest U.S. commercial airline, per Wiki. It is the oldest American carrier never to have had a fatal accident or a hull loss throughout its history, and frequently tops the on-time carrier list in the United States, as well as boasting the fewest cancellations, oversales and baggage handling issues.
Mohawk Airlines was a regional passenger airline operating in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, mainly in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1961 Mohawk was the first airline to use a centralized computer-based reservation service, and in 1965 the first regional airline to use flight simulators, and also became the first regional airline to fly jets.When hired in 1958 by Mohawk, Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African-American flight attendant in the United States.
1961 was the most recent ‘upside down year’; that is, a year which reads the same when the numerals which form the year’s number are rotated 180 degrees (turned upside down). Before 1961, the two most recent upside-down years were 1881 and 1691. The next one will be 6009.
All four of those numbers are examples of a strobogrammatic number, which is a number whose numeral is rotationally symmetric, so that it appears the same when rotated 180 degrees.
Chirality is the property of a figure that is not identical to its mirror image — a chiral object has no symmetry. The term chirality is derived from the Greek word for hand, kheir. Human hands, left and right, are the most common examples of chiral objects. The hands cannot be superposed. Each hand is a chiral object.
Two flasks can be superposed, and they are said to be achiral.
Image: chiral hands - Google Search
(Does the image link work for you, showing one image with chiral hands and achiral flasks?)
(Yes, it does).
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who made her name as a legal advocate for feminist causes long before taking the bench, has become a heroine for young American female lawyers, one of whom got a tattoo of her: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150211161158-ruth-bader-ginsburg-tattoo-large-169.png
ETA: New page! Justice Ginsburg has two chiral hands.
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The Supremes were a singing group formed in 1959 as The Primettes when Diana Ross and Mary Ballard were 15, Florence Ballard was 16, and Betty McGlown was 18. They were a sister group to The Primes, with Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, and Kell Osborne. The Primettes changed their name to the Supremes in 1961.
Ninja’ed. I’ll be back.
The **Ballard **Institute and Museum of Puppetry is a public museum of puppetry operated by the University of Connecticut and located in Storrs, Connecticut. Its permanent collection of over 2,500 puppets from all over the world includes marionettes, glove puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, body puppets, and stage materials. The University of Connecticut is the only institution in the United States that offers a master’s degree in puppetry.
Puppetry of the Penis is a performance show. The show was initially conceived by Australian Simon Morley as the title of an art calendar, showcasing 12 of his favourite penis installations (known as Dick Tricks). The show involves two nude men who bend, twist, and fold their penises and scrotums into various shapes.
OK, this is something that I probably did not need to know…!!
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Morley is a fictional brand of cigarette that has appeared in various television shows, films, and video games that otherwise have no connection to each other. The iconic, fictional brand packaging resembles the original packaging of the Marlboro cigarette brand. The name “Morley” is a play on “Marleys”, a nickname for Marlboro cigarettes.
Morleys appear at least as far back as 1960, in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho. There is also a Morley Lights version, in a gold and white package (similar to Marlboro Lights), marked “Lights”.
The incumbent Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is the former head of the Australian Republican Movement, and supports replacing the Australian monarchy (Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is also Queen of Australia) with a republic. The last time a referendum was held in Australia as to whether the nation should become a republic, in 1999, the vote was 55% “no” and 45% “yes.”
ETA: Ninja’d! Turnbull does not smoke Morleys.
The party currently leading the opposition in Canberra originally went by the name Australian Labour Party, using the spelling standard for that country, but changed the spelling to “Labor” in 1912. While it is standard practice in Australian English both today and at the time to spell the word “labour” with a “u”, the party was influenced by the United States labor movement, and a prominent figure in the early history of the party, the American-born King O’Malley, was successful in having the spelling “modernised”. The change also made it easier to distinguish references to the party from the labour movement in general.
The concept of the “Official Opposition” was a significant step in the development of responsible democratic government in Britain.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, opposition to the king’s policies could often trigger accusations of disloyalty or sedition, because the King was the leader of the nation and the government.
As the king’s power waned and Cabinet government developed, it became possible to distinguish between being a loyal supporter of His Majesty, and yet be opposed to polices being proposed by his current ministers. The first person to be known as the Leader of the Opposition was Viscount Howick in 1807, although Charles Fox had acted as the informal leader of the opposition for some decades before that.
The title and concept are now well established in parliamentary systems around the world.
Jeremy Corbin is the current Leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition in the British Parliament.
Charles James Fox was a controversial figure in British politics and opposed George III by supporting American independence; the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, is named for him. He is also remembered for his campaign for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain in 1807.
Jimmy Foxx, affectionately known as “Double X”, which in turn is now affectionately known as “Dos Equis”, would have been know as the Babe Ruth of his time, were it not for Babe Ruth of his time. Ruth and Foxx, both Marylanders, held the record for most home runs hit in a season by two players born in the same state. It was nearly broken later by Ralph Kiner and Vern Stephens, both born in New Mexico. But it would be another 30 years before a MLB home run would be hit by a player who graduated from high school in New Mexico. Even Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, buth from Alabama, could not break the MD and NM marks.
In the 2006 movie, “Amazon Grace”, Fox was played by Michael Gambon.
William Wilberforce was played by Ioan Gruffudd, and Albert Finney played John Newton, a former slaver, now a minister, and the author of the hymn, “Amazing Grace.”
Benedict Cumberbatch played Wilberforce’s friend and political ally, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger.
Fox is portrayed as initially unsympathetic to Wilberforce’s crusade to end the slave trade, but as time passes becomes a supporter. On one of the crucial votes, Fox lures away a significant number of MPs who oppose it, sending them to the races, helping to ensure the bill’s passage.
The film ends with a triumphant stirring scene of pipers playing “Amazing Grace.” The scene is an anachronism, as “Amazing Grace” was not played on the bagpipes until the 1970s.