Because of combinations of dominant and recessive genes, it is possible for parents of one blood type to have children of another. For example, a family of 4 may represent all 4 blood types, with parents of types A and B having children who are types O and AB. One parent with A and another with B can produce a child with A, B, AB or O blood types.
(As I found recently to my surprise when our kids were old enough to give blood: I’m type A, spouse is B, firstborn is O and 2nd is AB)
Jos Leduc was born Michel Pigeon and lived from 1944-1999. He was a Canadian professional wrestler best known for a 1978 live television interview in which he cut his own arm with an axe (his shtick in the ring was that he was a lumberjack) in a storyline “blood oath.”
Justice Pigeon was a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. While still a law professor at the Université de Montréal, he enforced a strict “no smoking” policy in his classroom.
He once kicked a chain-smoking student out and wouldn’t let him back into class without an apology and a promise not to smoke in class.
The student, René Lévesque, gave the Gallic equivalent of “Screw this nonsense!”, left law school for journalism, and eventually became the separatist PQ premier of Quebec.
The word lumberjack inevitably brings upthe Monty Python song, written and composed by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson. At the end of the version in Flying Circus, a letter written by an enraged viewer (voiced by John Cleese) is shown to complain about the portrayal of lumberjacks in the sketch. The letter reads: “Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which you have just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women’s clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks, and only a few of them are transvestites. Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.”
LaDainian Tomlinson was a former professional American football player in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. During his career, he was invited to five Pro Bowls, was an All-Pro six times, and won consecutive rushing titles in 2006 and 2007. An effective passer on halfback option plays, Tomlinson threw seven touchdown passes and ranks second behind Walter Payton (who had 8) for non-quarterbacks since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970.
The oldest Bowls green still played on is in Southampton, England where records show that the green has been in operation since 1299 A.D. There are other claims of greens being in use before that time, but these are unconfirmed.
The most famous story in lawn bowls involves Sir Frances Drake and the Spanish Armada. On July 18, 1588, Drake was playing a game at Plymouth Hoe when he was told that the Spanish Armada was approaching. He responded “We still have time to finish the game and to thrash the Spaniards, too.” He finished the match (which he lost) before leaving for battle. This story first appeared in print over 30 years later, and is probably apocryphal.
In the run-up to WWII, when Chamberlain was in power and appeasement was the policy, there was a media campaign to get Churchill into Cabinet.
Punch ran a cartoon of Churchill as Drake, in Elizabethan garb and a bowling ball in his hand, asking “Any telegrams for me?”
Wilt Chamberlain, who played 2 seasons of basketball for the University of Kansas, decided to skip his senior season and join the professional ranks. However, at that time the NBA did not accept players until after their college graduating class had been completed. Therefore, Chamberlain was prohibited from joining the NBA for a year, and he decided to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 1958 for a sum of $50,000.
Chamberlain played in the NBA from 1959 till 1973. In the 1973-1974 season, he was the player-coach of the San Diego Conquistadors. But, because he still owed the Los Angeles Lakers the option year of his contract, the Lakers successfully sued him and prevented him from playing that season. After that season, Chamberlain retired from professional basketball.
Wilt is a character from the animated show Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. He’s a very tall, friendly and incredibly nice red-colored friend with only a right arm and a crooked left eye-stalk. He is a basketball player and fan, and is the former imaginary friend of Jordan Michaels (a parody of Michael Jordan).
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Children of the British Royal Family are traditionally baptized with blessed or holy water taken from the Jordan River in the Middle East, evoking the baptism there of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist, as described in the Bible’s Books of Matthew, Mark and Luke (but not John).
The Jordan River is celebrated in spirituals as being deep and wide, as in “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”, “Deep River”, and “Roll, Jordan, Roll”. However, in size it is more of a creek than a river, only about 100 feet wide at its broadest spot, and maybe 17 feet at its deepest point.
Mark Twain reported after seeing it in 1867 that “when I was a boy I somehow got the impression that the river Jordan was four thousand miles long and thirty-five miles wide. It is only ninety miles long, and so crooked that a man does not know which side of it he is on half the time. In going ninety miles it does not get over more than fifty miles of ground. It is not any wider than Broadway in New York.” It actually flows southward about 223 miles from Mount Hermon into the Sea of Galilee, then into the Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea is 1,237 ft deep, making it the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. A hypersaline lake is a landlocked body of water that contains significant concentrations of sodium chloride or other mineral salts, with saline levels surpassing that of ocean water. The surface and shores of the Dead Sea are 1,388 ft below sea level, making it Earth’s lowest elevation on land.
The Jordan River in Utah also empties into a hypersaline lake, the Great Salt Lake.
Habitable, Earthlike worlds in the various versions of Star Trek are called M-class worlds. Letters have subsequently been assigned to other types of planets, most of which are hostile to humanoid life.
About 76% of the main-sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are class M stars. However, class M main-sequence stars have such low luminosities that none are bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye, unless under exceptional conditions.
Judi Dench played M in seven Bond films, with a cameo in an eighth, between 1995 and 2015.
Letitia Wright played Shuri, the Bond-inspired “Q” character and T’Challa’s sister who provides his vibranium-based weaponry and other equipment, in Black Panther. T’Challa appoints her the head of the first Wakandan Outreach Center, in Oakland.
John de Lancie, who rose to fame as Star Trek’s “Q,” portrayed Eugene Bradford for several years on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Soap Operas have been around since the 1930s when Proctor & Gamble produced 15-minute episodes of love and drama for radio. Allegedly, the term “soap opera” was coined because these shows were sponsored by a company that made cleansers.
Guiding Light, which premiered on television in 1952, is considered to be the longest-running soap opera. It began in 1937 as a radio program before making the transition to television.
These Are My Children ran on NBC from January 31, 1949, to February 25, 1949. The show was broadcast live from Chicago, Illinois, airing fifteen minutes a day, five days a week. It is widely credited as the first soap opera broadcast on television. It is also considered to be the shortest-running soap opera.
Proctor and Gamble used to have a logo of a bearded man and 13 stars. Rumours began to spread in the 1980’s that the logo was Satanist in nature.
Proctor & Gamble eventually abandoned the logo because of the bad publicity, and sued Amway and Amway distributors for slander, alleging that they had spread the rumours.
The Church of Satan has apparently issued news releases, denying any link to Proctor & Gamble.
At Cambridge University in England the Proctors are nominated every May by colleges identified in a predetermined cycle. They then serve for one year from 1 October, assisted by their Deputy Proctors and two Pro-Proctors. Their functions are twofold: (1) taking part in all university ceremonials, and (2) enforcing discipline in the case of members of the University who are in statu pupillari (undergraduates, Bachelors of Arts and Bachelors of Laws).
