Love it! Here’s the most I could find on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqBJJF2yvE
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The correct plural for Postmaster General is Postmasters General; likewise Attorneys General and Solicitors General.
Cabinet Pudding is a dessert that comes in many versions and sometimes under different names; there is no one “correct” version. Supposedly it originated in France where it’s called ‘Poudin a la chanceliere’, Chancellor’s pudding. A recipe appears in the classic Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).
It is usually made with crystallised fruits placed in the bottom of a mold and filled with layers of sponge fingers (or macaroons) soaked in liqueur and bavarois with glace cherries, or currants and sultanas, and steamed with custard. Australian versions incorporate fresh fruit such as cherries, while Anglo-Indian versions are much simpler, without liqueur and with the fruit appearing only in the form of jam.
The most consumed fruit in the world is not the grape, or the apple, or the banana.
The most consumed fruit in the world is the mango. Mangoes are consumed worldwide by a factor of three to one over bananas and ten to one over apples. Although mangoes are still considered to be exotic fruits in America, ranking as number 24 of the top 25 fruits consumed in the U.S., they are considered to be staples in India, South Asia, China, and Latin America; often being referred to as “the king of the fruits”.
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In the United States, bananas are the most popular fruit, followed closely by apples. Grapes, strawberries, and oranges round out the top 5. The next 5 on this list are watermelons, lemons, blueberries, peaches, and pineapples.
On October 1, 2014, the Boston Herald ran an editorial cartoon depicting an intruder asking if Obama has tried watermelon-flavored toothpaste, to much controversy. The cartoonist, Jerry Holbert, said on Boston Herald Radio the watermelon reference was inadvertent. He argued he was “naive” about any racial undertones and “wasn’t thinking along those lines at all.” Holbert said he used the watermelon flavor because he found “kids Colgate watermelon flavor” toothpaste in his bathroom at home. “I want to apologize to anyone I offended who was hurt by the cartoon,” Holbert said. “It was certainly, absolutely, not my intention.”
Jerry Ford, Republican of Michigan and President of the United States (1974-77), was mentioned or quoted in many Doonesbury cartoons in the Seventies, but was never actually shown. He was always just out of frame or speaking from within the White House.
The late Jerry Reed is best known for his role as the truck driver ‘Snowman’ in the movie ‘Smokey and the Bandit’. also provided the hit song “East Bound and Down” for the film. After promising director Hal Needham that he would come up with a title song, he didn’t have one at the end of filming. After Needham asked him about it, Reed promised he would have something for him the following morning. Reed managed to sing his new song “East Bound and Down” for Needham the next day, despite having been out all night. When Needham didn’t react right away, Reed said, "If you don’t like it I can change it. “If you change one damn note, I’ll f*****n’ kill you!” the director replied.
Smokey and the Bandit was the second-highest domestic grossing film of 1977, grossing over 126 million dollars.
The highest grossing film, which grossed over 221 million dollars, was a movie which you may or may not be familiar with: Star Wars.
The Wars is a novel by Timothy Findlay, exploring the horrors of WWI.
The Lord of the Rings’s Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson’s next movie will be a colorized and digitally-restored documentary about World War I, They Shall Not Grow Old: They Shall Not Grow Old – New Trailer – Now Playing In Theaters - YouTube
Jack Ryan, or John Joseph Patrick Ryan (1920-1998), was the birth name of the actor whose stage name was **Jack Lord, of the TV series Hawaii Five-O, which ran from 1968 to 1980. As a child, he developed equestrian skills on his mother’s fruit farm in New York’s Hudson River Valley. Later, he served in the Merchant Marines.
In 1966, according to William Shatner, Gene Roddenberry offered Lord the role of Captain James T. Kirk on STAR TREK, to replace Jeffrey Hunter, whose wife was making too many demands. Lord asked for 50 percent ownership of the show, so Roddenberry offered the role to Shatner.
The last public hanging in New York City took place on July 13, 1860, at a gallows constructed on Bedloe’s Island (also known as “Gibbet Isle”) out in the harbor, where the Statue of Liberty has stood since 1886. Albert W. Hicks had been convicted of slaughtering the crew of an oyster sloop with an axe.
The procession of “Hicks the Pirate” from jail to gallows took on the aspect of a circus, and a general holiday atmosphere prevailed. Excursion boats had been lined up beforehand for the twelve thousand spectators. Peanut vendors and lemonade stands did a brisk business to the beat of the fife and drum.
Soon after Hicks was buried, grave robbers stole his body, spawning a long-standing rumor that he had somehow defeated the hangman and was running around wreaking havoc under an alias. In fact, his body had been sold to medical students. Within months of the hanging, P. T. Barnum’s American Museum featured a wax image of Hicks among its other notorious figures.
In the movie The Greatest Showman, Ellis Rubin portrayed the young P. T. Barnum with Ziv Zaifman providing Barnum’s singing voice. The adult Barnum was portrayed by Hugh Jackma, who also sang the songs.
Michelle Obama appeared last Friday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She disclosed that her then-boyfriend Barack Obama once took her out to dinner and started an argument with her, saying that marriage was an outdated and unnecessary institution - knowing that she would rise to the challenge - just before presenting her with an engagement ring.
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Politician Jack Ryan’s 2004 campaign for the Senate, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to perform sexual acts in public, led to Ryan’s withdrawal from the campaign
Jack Ryan is the name of the character created by author Tom Clancy and is featured in many of his best-selling novels. Throughout the books, Ryan rises from CIA field officer to Deputy Director of the CIA to National Security Advisor to Vice-President to President.
Ryan has been portrayed in movies by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. An 8-episode television series focusing on Ryan’s work as a CIA analyst, starring John Krasinski, was released on Amazon Prime in August of this year.
Ryanair is an Irish low-cost airline founded in 1984, headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland, with its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports. . In 2016, Ryanair was the largest European airline by scheduled passengers flown, and carried more international passengers than any other airline.
Several places claim to have developed the modern recipe for Irish coffee (hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, stirred, and topped with cream) in the 1950s. One version is attributed to a Joe Sheridan, head chef at the restaurant and coffee shop in the Foynes Airbase Flying Boat terminal building, County Limerick (next to the future site of Shannon Airport). In 1942 or 1943 he added whiskey to the coffee of some disembarking passengers to refresh them after a long flight from America.
The limerick is a form of poetry with a strict AABBA rhyming scheme. The origin of the name is unclear, though it may have been named for the Irish city (or county) of Limerick.
The form was popularized by English writer Edward Lear in the 19th century (though Lear did not use the term “limerick”). While limericks do not necessarily have to be obscene, many of them are, and a number of writers (including George Bernard Shaw) have held that a true limerick must, by definition, be obscene.
Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes, the 1997 Pulitzer winner for biography/autobiography, described (perhaps with some embellishment) his impoverished youth in Limerick during the Depression.