The ‘Catholic Bible’ is composed of the 46 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament. The Old Testament books in the Catholic Bible that do not appear in Protestant Bibles are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees.
US Route 73 is only 113 miles long. It starts in Dawson NE, in the southeast corner of the state, and it ends in the south at Bonner Springs KS, just west of Kansas City. gMap, Google Maps.
Comment: for the 46 OT books and the 27 NT books in the Catholic bible (of which I do own one), that would be 73 books, so, Route 73 Bible, perhaps?
The Maccabees Building (sometimes called Wayne Tower) is a historic building located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and is currently owned by Wayne State University. Construction on the building began in 1926, and completed in 1927. The building was constructed for the fraternal organization Knights of the Maccabees which later established the Royal Maccabees Insurance Company. ETA: Detroit, Michigan is not on Route 73 (dammit, Bullitt)
The Detroit Tigers currently play at Comerica Park, Detroit’s new and beautiful downtown stadium. Their ballpark history includes:
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[li]2000 - now: Comerica Park[/li][li]1961-1999: Tiger Stadium[/li][li]1938-1960: Briggs Stadium[/li][li]1912-1937: Navin Field[/li][li]1896-1911: Bennett Park[/li][/ul]
The Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park, the oldest playing field in Major League Baseball, has hosted the World Series ten times, with the Red Sox winning five of them, and the Boston Braves winning onee 1] The first, in the park’s inaugural season, was the 1912 World Series and the most recent was the 2013 World Series. (And the next one is apt to be 2018!)
The Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia is the oldest active sports stadium in the world, having hosted audiences of over 100,000 since 1854. It also has the record for the highest light towers in any sports facility in the world.
Cricket, also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), is a short musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth’s 60th birthday celebration. Several of the tunes from the show were later used for Aspects of Love, so the work was dropped from public performance or recording. Cricket was the last original musical Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote together.
Crickets chirp at different rates depending on their species and the temperature of their environment. The relationship between temperature and the rate of chirping is known as Dolbear’s law. According to this law, counting the number of chirps produced in 14 seconds by the snowy tree cricket, common in the United States, and adding 40 will approximate the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
England and Australia play regular cricket test matches for The Ashes. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia’s 1882 victory at The Oval, their first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia”. The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to “regain those ashes”. The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes.
One of the regular venues for these matches is the Gabba, in Brisbane, not all that far from Queensland’s Capricorn Highway, previously designated Route 66.
Cricket fighting is a blood sport involving the fighting of male crickets. Unlike most blood sports such as bullfighting and cockfighting, cricket fighting rarely causes injuries to the animals. It is a popular pastime in China and dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty. The National Cricket Fighting Championships are a two-day event held annually in Beijing, following regional competitions at 25 locations around China.
Route 66 was know in some places as “Bloody 66” because some stretches were narrow and windy and caused frequent accidents. A book by Barry Duncan, “Route 66: A Trail of Tears”, is a photograph collection of serious crashes taken by former Carthage MO mayor Carl Taylor on Route 66 in Jasper County.
According to The Guardian, The National Trust for Historic Preservation has placed Route 66 on its 2018 list of the 11 most at-risk sites. The Trust highlights architectural and cultural spots it deems in danger from development or neglect.
Route 66 is up for designation as a national historic trail, which the Trust says would bring “recognition and economic development” to historic sites along the famous road.
(Bullitt, you might want to move up your departure date…)
The British newspaper The Guardian was long notorious for its poor editing and frequent typos, with some dubbing it The Guarniad.
One of The Guardian’s notable scoops was the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowler’s phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UK’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, the News of the World.
The Weekly World News was a largely fictional news tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical. Characters such as “Bat Boy” and numerous sightings of Elvis and other dead celebrities were prominently featured in the tabloid. While the printed version is gone, the tabloid lives on at http://weeklyworldnews.com/
Bat Boy is probably the only stage show to ever be developed from a tabloid story. It premiered in 1997 and is an American rock musical with a book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe.
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, a children’s novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar (and the only other novel he published outside of his James Bond series) was adapted into a movie and then a stage musical based on the film, opening at the London Palladium theatre. It was directed by Adrian Noble with musical staging and choreography by Gillian Lynne, and starred Michael Ball.
Caractacus Potts made Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang by modifications to the sole prototype of the Paragon Panther. He was able to afford his tinkering and inventing hobby from sales of his invention, Toot Sweet candy, made in the shape of a whistle that could be blown before the sugar dissolved. The name is a pun based on the French tout de suite, with all speed.
One of Illinois’ largest public access areas, Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (or, JEPC) in west-central Illinois is a mosaic of mature forest land, agricultural land, grassland and rare hill prairie that is home to a rich assortment of wildlife. JEPC includes the former Panther Creek Conservation Area and totals 16,550 acres.
North of Auburn IL, Route 66 crosses Panther Creek on what is today Illinois Route 4. If one were to drive over the creek fast enough, one could claim they were driving tout de suite, with all speed (perhaps?),
The SR-71 Blackbird used a fuel additive called “Panther Piss” to reduce infrared emissions from its exhaust.