Queen (the British rock band) formed in London in 1970. At the time, Freddie Mercury was known by his birth name, Farrokh “Freddie” Bulsara. When he joined Queen he changed his name and suggested the band name itself “Queen”. Queen released its first album in 1973.
The Jesus is Savior’s webpage on Freddie Mercury is on one hand a hoot and a half, and on the other a good illustration of the dangerous beliefs of the radical Christian groups.
We Will Rock You debuted in 1977. Actually, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions were issued together as a worldwide top 10 single. Soon after they were released, many radio stations began playing the songs consecutively and without interruption.
The 2001 Heath Ledger film A Knight’s Tale employed a number of modern rock songs in its soundtrack, and some viewers felt that the anachronistic music took away from the story (set in the medieval period).
Among the songs used in the film were Queen’s “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions” (the latter a re-recording with Robbie Williams on vocals), David Bowie’s “Golden Years,” Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town,” and AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.”
You Shook Me All Night Long was released in 1980. It was one of several AC/DC songs on the movie soundtrack for Steven King’s Maximum Overdrive (1986) that also included Hells Bells and For Those About to Rock.
We salute you.
The movie’s screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King’s short story “Trucks”, which was included in King’s first collection of short stories, Night Shift.
Maximum Overdrive was Stephen King’s one and only outing as a movie director. King has apparently stated that he was “coked out of his mind” throughout production of the film, and had no idea what he was doing.
The plot of the film revolves around machines becoming sentient after the Earth passes through the tail of a comet. A group of trucks begin to terrorize humans; one of the primary antagonists is the “Happy Toyz” truck, which has a giant replica of the face of a classic Spider-Man foe, the Green Goblin, attached to its grill.
I am obviously living in the past.
In play: Stephen King published his first novel, Carrie, in 1974. Over the course of the next 9 years, King published another 13 novels. Two of these novels were released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II’s father, was the last British monarch to hold the title King-Emperor of India. India gained its independence before Elizabeth II took the throne in 1952. George VI was played by Colin Firth in the critically-acclaimed movie The King’s Speech, despite looking nothing like the monarch.
A “firth” is a term in Scotland and north-east England, generally meaning a widened estuary leading to the sea. The Firth of Forth is the estuary of the Forth River.
The word “firth” is a cognate to the Norwegian word “fjord”.
Alaska’s Kenai Fjords National Park is on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska and near the town of Seward, which is 125 miles south of Anchorage (gMap — Google Maps). The fjords were carved by glaciers moving down from the mountains from the Harding Icefield (named after Warren Harding), the largest icefield contained entirely within the US.
Kenai Fjords National Park was established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, signed into law by Jimmy Carter, and is about 88% as big as Yosemite. Exit Glacier is a popular destination at the end of the park’s only road and is one of the most accessible valley glaciers in Alaska.
William Henry Seward, Republican of New York, served as Secretary of State for eight years, throughout the entire administrations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. A recent biographer theorized that Seward might have paid bribes in order to help win Johnson’s acquittal in his 1868 impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, but conceded there was no definite evidence of it.
Seward AK is located on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula, on Alaska’s southern coast. Seward is the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad and the historic starting point of the National Historic Iditarod Trail to the Alaskan interior, with Mile 0 of the trail marked on the shoreline at the southern end of town (image — Iditarod national historic trail from Seward to Nome trail marker. Placed at Mile 0 in Seward, Alaska, USA Stock Photo - Alamy). The trail’s end is in Nome, about 1,200 miles away.
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In his attempt to murder Secretary William Seward, on the same night that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Lewis Powell inflicted serious injuries on seven people, including four of Seward’s children, a bodyguard, and a messenger. Powell burst into the Seward home, and when Seward’s son Frederick blocked his way he tried to shoot. Powell’s gun failed so he used it as a club on Frederick’s head, causing skull injuries and putting him into a coma for two months.
Powell stabbed Augustus Seward, William Seward Jr. and threw the small, frail Fanny Seward to the ground; she died of tuberculosis the following year. He stabbed George Robinson, the nurse/bodyguard in the lungs, and as he left the house he stabbed a State Department messenger, Emerick Hansell, in the back, leaving him paralyzed for life.
Seward himself bore the scars from the attack for life but escaped death because he was wearing a neck brace and bandages for a broken jaw suffered in an accident the previous week. Fanny and George Robinson worked to save Secretary Seward’s life and tend to the others who were injured, attempting to stanch their bleeding and tending to their wounds until doctors could arrive.
Seward’s wife was sure that their son Frederick was going to die; instead, she died herself 3 months later, on June 21, 1865 of a heart attack.
The Iditarod National Historic Trail begins near Seward AK, and ends in Nome AK on the south coast of the Seward Peninsula. The Seward Peninsula is a remnant of the Bering land bridge, a roughly thousand mile wide swath of land connecting Siberia‘s Chukotka Peninsula with mainland Alaska’s Seward Peninsula during the Pleistocene Ice Age.
The Canadian territory of Yukon shares a border with Alaska. Yukon was carved out from the North-West Territories in 1898, when gold was discovered in the Klondike gold rush, and a local government was needed.
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The three territories of Canada are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon.
Nunavut — Did you know?[ul][li]Nunavut is the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world[/li][li]Iqaluit, population just under 8,000, is the capital of Nunavut and is its only city[/li][li]In all of Nunavut’s over 787,000 sq. miles, there are no sidewalks (cite — Nunavut - Wikipedia)[/li][li]Nunavut means “our land” in the Inuktitut language (an Inuit language)[/li][li]Although Nunavut is land-connected to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories, one cannot drive to Nunavut from anywhere else in the world outside of Nunavut[/ul]The five largest country subdivision in the world are:[/li]#1 Sakha Republic of Russia (gMap — Google Maps; Wikipedia picture map — File:Map of Russia - Sakha (Yakutia) (Crimea disputed).svg - Wikimedia Commons),
#2 Western Australia (gMap — Google Maps; Wikipedia picture map — File:Western Australia in Australia.svg - Wikimedia Commons),
#3 Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia (gMap — Google Maps; Wikipedia picture map — File:Map of Russia - Krasnoyarsk Krai.svg - Wikimedia Commons),
#4 Greenland (gMap — Google Maps; Wikipedia picture map — File:Greenland (orthographic projection).svg - Wikimedia Commons),
#5 Nunavut Territory of Canada (gMap — Google Maps; Wikipedia picture map — File:Nunavut in Canada.svg - Wikimedia Commons)
Nearly 80% of the population of Western Australia live in and around the City of Perth. The remaining 975,000 square miles is home to the remaining 20%, around 500,000 people.
The Parker Brothers board game originally called Risk: The Continental Game and then later called Risk: The Game of Global Domination had six continents with a total of 42 countries (pic — File:Risk game map fixed.png - Wikimedia Commons):
North America (9)[ol][]Alaska[]Alberta (Western Canada)[]Central America[]Eastern United States[]Greenland[]Northwest Territory[]Ontario (Central Canada)[]Quebec (Eastern Canada)[]Western United States[/ol]Europe (7)[ol][]Great Britain (Great Britain & Ireland)[]Iceland[]Northern Europe[]Scandinavia[]Southern Europe[]Ukraine (Eastern Europe, Russia)[]Western Europe[/ol]Asia(12)[ol][]Afghanistan[]China[]India (Hindustan)[]Irkutsk[]Japan[]Kamchatka[]Middle East[]Mongolia[]Siam (Southeast Asia)[]Siberia[]Ural[]Yakutsk[/ol]South America (4)[ol][]Argentina[]Brazil[]Peru[]Venezuela[/ol]Africa (6)[ol][]Congo (Central Africa)[]East Africa[]Egypt[]Madagascar[]North Africa[]South Africa[/ol]Australia (4)[ol][]Eastern Australia[]Indonesia[]New Guinea[]Western Australia[/ol]
Since the abolition of the electoral district of Kalgoorie in Western Australia, the federal electoral district of Nunavut is the largest district in the world which elects a single member.