Sherrod Small is an American stand-up comedian and television personality. Small was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York City by his mother and two sisters. He is the cousin of comedians Chris and Tony Rock.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, often referred to as Bed-Stuy, is one of several New York City neighborhoods well known by its nickname, abbreviation, acronym or truncation. Others include SoHo “South of Houston Street”, TriBeCa for “Triangle Below Canal Street”, DUMBO (“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”), NoHo (“North of Houston Street”), and NoLIta (“North of Little Italy”).
Washington Roebling was a U.S. Army staff officer during the Civil War before he was chief engineer on the 14-year-long Brooklyn Bridge construction project. He played a key role in rushing troops up Little Round Top and saving the Union left flank at the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.
The theme song to H.R. Pufnstuf was composed by Sid and Marty Krofft, and it was found to closely mimic Paul Simon’s song, Feelin’ Groovy. Simon sued, and his name was later added to the credits. Feelin’ Groovy is also known as The 59th Street Bridge Song.
There was once a worldwide cultural boycott on South African musicians in protest of Apartheid. Paul Simon, in the spirit of rebellion, hired South African musicians for his albums Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints which bought stronger attention to the values and culture of black South Africa than the boycott did (my opinion).
This act remained controversial with some black South Africans and abroad (with some liberals, I guess) but it sold widely, was his best-selling album, and was the ’87 Grammy Album of the Year. Certainly, the albums brought POSITIVE attention to South Africa.
Before leaving the US for Johannesburg to record Graceland, Paul Simon contributed to the recording of “We Are the World”, a charity single to benefit African famine relief organized by Quincy Jones and Harry Belafonte.
Trumpeter Hugh Masekela, a Jo-burg native, and his once-wife singer Miriam Makeba were both prevented from returning to South Africa from the US by the apartheid government due to their political activism.
Alan Rubin, played trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet. He was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, a member of the Saturday Night Live Band, a member of The Blues Brothers, he portrayed Mr. Fabulous in the 1980 film, the 1998 sequel and was a member of the touring band.
Rubin played with an array of artists, such as Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Duke Ellington, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Gil Evans, Eumir Deodato, Sting, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Frankie Valli, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Miles Davis, Yoko Ono, Peggy Lee, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway and Dr. John.
Alan Rufus, also known as Alan the Red and various other names in different languages, was a relative and close supporter of William the Conqueror. He is believed to have been the leader of the Breton forces at Hastings, which were first on the field and fought well.
William granted him a number of estates following the Conquest, including the Honour of Richmond, which became the foundation for the title of Earl of Richmond.
The Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va. stood in for the United States Capitol in the political movies Dave (a comedy) and The Contender and Lincoln (both dramas).
The tallest state capitol building in the United States is the Louisiana capitol building, which is 450 feet in height. By contrast, the shortest state capitol building is the New Mexico capitol, which stands only 35 feet tall. The New Mexico building is also unique in the fact that it is the only round state capitol.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 22 miles north of Copenhagen, is the most visited art museum in Denmark. It has a wide range of modern art including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney and Asger Jorn. Perched above the sea, there is a sculpture garden between the museum’s two wings with works by artists including Henry Moore and Alexander Calder.
Its name has no connection to the US state, which was named after Louis XIV of France. The Louisiana Museum is located on a country estate named in 1855 by Alexander Brun (1814-93), who was an officer and Master of the Royal Hunt and who married three women who were all named Louise.
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 almost doubled the size of the United States at the time of its acquisition. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 encompassed an area in excess of 800,000 square miles of territory while the Alaskan Purchase of 1867 encompassed an area of about 586,000 square miles of territory.
Gateway Arch in St. Louis, in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, officially commemorates the Louisiana Purchase and westward movement of American explorers and pioneers, the first civil government west of the Mississippi River, and the debate over slavery raised by the Dred Scott case.
Married with Children character Jefferson Milhouse D’Arcy (played by Ted McGinley) is the alias of Marcy’s second husband who married her for her money. Marcy met Jefferson (a bartender) at his workplace after a bankers’ convention when she got drunk, and found herself married to him the next morning; she was horrified to find out that her name was now Marcy D’Arcy .
Bartender Sam “Mayday” Malone, along with with Carla Toertelli and Norm Peterson, is one of only three characters to appear in all 275 episodes of Cheers through the 12 years of its run.
Before hitting it big on Cheers, Ted Danson was a daytime soap opera star, playing Tom Conway on Somerset and Dr. Mitchell Pearson on The Doctors.
The first daytime TV soap opera in the United States was These Are My Children in 1949. The number of soap operas on U.S television reached a high of 19 in the 1969–70 season. Since January 2012, just four daytime soap operas – General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful – continue to air on the three major networks.
Other soaps in the US include
*As the World Turns
Guiding Light
Search for Tomorrow
The Edge of Night
Dark Shadows
In 1991, the then-ten year old Joseph Gordon-Levitt played both David Collins and Daniel Collins in the revival of the TV Gothic soap. Dark Shadows.