The city of Brest in present-day Belarus was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918. The treaty between Russia and the Central Powers marked Russia’s exit from World War I while affirming the independence of Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine.
Anne Sullivan started teaching 6-year-old Hellen Keller on March 3, 1887, leading to a successful film, stage play, radio drama, and a new type of bad-taste joke. The 2005 Bollywood remake of The Miracle Worker, Black, made Time’s list of the top 10 films of the year.
The name of Time Magazine’s annual Man of the Year award was changed to Person of the Year in 1999.
Up to that point, the award had been given to four women:
1936 Wallis Simpson
1937 Soong Mei-ling [Madame Chiang Kai-shek] (co-winner with her husband)
1952 Queen Elizabeth II
1986 Corazon Aquino
George W. Bush, who was Time’s Person of the Year in both 2000 and 2004, was sworn in for his second term on Jan. 20, 2005 in Washington, D.C., having defeated John Kerry in the November 2004 election. Later that year Bush appointed John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States after the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and dealt with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Apache Chief does not appear in the mainstream DC comics universe. He was created (along with the Wonder Twins) specifically for the Hanna-Barbera TV show, Super Friends.
A teenaged Margaret Mitchell caused a scandal in Atlanta when she and a male friend performed a danse Apache* at an Atlanta Red Cross benefit for the Spanish Flu pandemic. She drew from this when she had the teenaged Scarlett scandalize Atlanta by dancing at a Confederate hospital benefit while dressed in mourning for her first husband in Gone With the Wind.
*Apache rhymes with panache rather than the usual pronunciation for Geronimo’s tribe
After the success of the Ultima series, Origin Systems decided to try a lateral scrolling, combat oriented game with Oriental mysticism and themes. Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony was very successful, spawning a sequel, Windwalker.
John Barth once wrote a story called “Frame Tale” – eight words that were printed on a Moebius strip, so it went on forever.
“Moebius Trip” is the punning title of a track from HP II, the second album by the Chicago-based psychedelic group H. P. Lovecraft. The band took its name from the science fiction/horror writer.
The rock group Chicago Transit Authority had to drop the last two words of its name after the real public-transport organization complained.
The Chicago Transit Authority’s buses were painted in various shades of green for decades (through the end of the 1980s), leading to the nickname “green limousine”.
“Green Tambourine” was the proverbial one hit by the one-hit wonders The Lemon Pipers, released in late 1967. It was the first US #1 hit for the Buddah label. The Lawrence Welk version placed on the Billboard Easy Listening survey.
Buddah Records were best known for producing bubblegum music and pop hits and, for some reason, the first album by Captain Beefheart, Safe as Milk.
The album Safe as Milk was also the subject of a double page center fold in in the first edition of Rolling Stone magazine.
[del]Pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper may be best remembered, other than for his Scottish “skirt”, for his role as the hero Nada in 1988’s They Live, based on a subliminal mind-control scheme by invading aliens who can only be seen with special sunglasses, in which he ad-libbed the line “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.”[/del]
The back cover of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s other Buddah album, Mirror Man, erroneously claims that its tracks were “recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965.”
In fact, the tracks date from 1967. Two of them were subsequently rerecorded for the next Beefheart project Strictly Personal, which appeared on the Blue Thumb label.
The Watts Riots lasted for 6 August days in 1965 in Los Angeles, starting with a white LAPD officer’s attempted arrest of a drunken driver in front of a black crowd. LAPD chief William Parker helpfully described the rioters as “monkeys in the zoo”. A thousand buildings, mainly representing white-owned businesses, were damaged or destroyed.
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Ed Leslie, long time ring partner of Hulk Hogan, almost died during a freak parasailing accident where his face was nearly destroyed and needed 100 metal plates. After a long career in the WWF, ECW and WCW, Leslie retired but was unable to avoid controversy. In 2004, he was involved in an anthrax scare when he was caught in a Boston MTBA station in possession of a mysterious white powder. Luckily, the powder was merely cocaine for himself, and he was able to avoid charges by promptly entering rehab.
Ed Leslie is also known as Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake, but was unable to use that name because of the WWE’s practice of trademarking wrestler’s names.
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One of Terry Bollea’s many aliases for the wrestling ring has been Hollywood Hulk Hogan. Although mail addressed to the 90028 zip code should be marked “Hollywood, CA”, Hollywood is not a city in its own right – it’s part of Los Angeles.
The original Hollywood sign was erected in 1923. Despite it’s “wavy” appearance, the sign is actually straight and square when seen at it’s level.