Will Smith, born in Philadelphia, never attended college, although he was admitted to an MIT pre-engineering summer program but did not attend. He is 49 years old and worth an estimated $250 million. As of 2016, his films have grossed $7.5 billion worldwide.
At one point in the not too distant past, there was a Smith on each of Saskatchewan’s courts: Madam Justice Smith on the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Smith on the Queen’s Bench, and Judge Smith on the Provincial Court.
Killer7 is a 2005 action-adventure video game for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. The game follows an elite group of assassins called the ‘killer7’. The assassins are physical manifestations of a man named Harman Smith. The names of the assassins are Dan Smith, MASK Smith, Garcian Smith, Coyote Smith, KAEDE Smith, Kevin Smith, and Con Smith.
The Con Smythe trophy is awarded at the end of the Stanley Cup final, to a player on one of the two teams, based on that player’s contribution to his team over the entire season. No runner-ups are named.
Not in play: Not to quibble, but I don’t think this is correct. According to nhl.com, (bolding mine)
Michael Stanley Dukakis, future Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic candidate for President, served in the U.S. Army in South Korea but never saw combat.
The name Smythe is one of several English variants of the surname Smith. Others are Smyth and Smijth, and possibly Smithers. One fictional variant is Psmith; Rupert Psmith is a character created by P.G. Wodehouse. The P in his surname is silent (“as in pshrimp” in his own words) and was added by himself, in order to differentiate himself from other Smiths.
One famous Smith in American politics was Al Smith, elected Governor of New York four times and the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
Al Smith, as a child, crossed the workers’ temporary, rickety wooden suspension bridge high above the East River during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His father, who accompanied him, was a guard for the bridge company. David McCullough tells the story in his award-winning history, The Great Bridge.
General Walter Bedell “Beetle” Smith was a senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during much of World War II. After World War II, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1948, then as Director of the CIA from 1950-1954.
A young Dwight D. Eisenhower, while at the U.S. Military Academy, formed a pact with several of his fellow West Point cadets to never get married so as to focus exclusively on their Army careers. Within a few years of graduation, however, almost all of them - Eisenhower included - had broken the pact.
Eisenhower refused to sit down until after the marriage ceremony, because he didn’t want to spoil the creases in his uniform.
Dwight Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, but his parents moved to Abilene, Kansas, when he was a young boy, and he always considered Abilene as his hometown. His childhood home is preserved there as part of the Eisenhower Museum, and the Eisenhower Presidential Library is also located in the same complex. The Place of Meditation is the final resting place for Eisenhower, his wife Mamie, and their son Doud, who died of scarlet fever in 1921 at the age of three.
The surname Eisenhower is derived from the German eisen, meaning iron, and hauer, meaning hewer, miner or smith; the name could be anglicized as “Ironminer”, “Blacksmith” or “Smith”. Governor Al Smith’s father, Alfred Emanuele Ferraro, an Italian immigrant, simply translated his name, “Ferraro” being Italian for smith.
Geraldine Anne “Gerry” Ferraro was an Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. In 1984, she was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party.
Geraldine Ferraro died in 2011 aged 75; her 1984 running mate, Walter Mondale, is still alive and well aged 90.
On his radio show “A Prairie Home Companion”, Garrison Keillor did fake commercials for “Bertha’s Kitty Boutique,for people who care about cats. When your cat has come to the end of its earthly journey and you’re looking for a final resting place, ask your pet mortuary about The Eternal Lap memorial park for cats. Other pet cemeteries are open to dogs, fish, birds, and goodness knows what. The Eternal Lap is only for cats. Don’t you think this is what your cat would have wanted? Bertha’s, located in the dales: Roy 'n Dale, Airedale, Teasdale, Clydesdale, Chippendale, Mondale, and all the other fine shopping centers.”
Walter (“Fritz”) Mondale was born in Ceylon MN on January 5, 1928. My mother was born the same day in 1909, and my father was born and lived in Elmore MN where Mondale lived for the time he was in high school.
‘A Prairie Home Companion’ aired on Saturdays from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, MN, from 1974 to 2016. Other ‘sponsors’ of the show included The American Duct Tape Council, The Federation of Associated Organizations, and Rent-a-Raptor (Rid your home of mice, rabbits, squirrels, and pesky boyfriends).
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Little Mosque on the Prairie is a popular Canadian television sitcom about a Muslim community in Saskatchewan. The series was broadcast on Canadian TV from 2007 to 2012 and can currently be viewed on subscription services online.