In Labatt Breweries v AG Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the federal Parliament lacked the constitutional authority to prescribe the meaning of “lite beer” and “light beer.” (The federal trade and commerce power in Canada is much more restricted than the US equivalent commerce clause.)
The decision is notable for reproducing, at p. 922, the beer label for “Labatt’s Special Lite”.
“The Primettes” was the original name of The Supremes; Berry Gordy of Motown agreed to sign the group on the condition that they changed their name. Diana Ross disliked “Supremes”, finding it too masculine, but the group went on to chart 12 number 1 hits, including “Baby Love” and “Stop! In The Name Of Love”.
Bob Woodward and William Armstrong’s secret inside source for their book The Brethren, about the Supreme Court of the United States during the late Sixties and early Seventies, was Associate Justice Potter Stewart, appointed to the court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stewart’s role did not become public until after he died.
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, and vocalist. When asked about his religion, Armstrong usually answered that he was raised a Baptist, always wore a Star of David, and was friends with the pope. He actually did wear a Star of David in honor of the Karnoffsky family, who took him in as a child and lent him the money to buy his first cornet. He was baptized a Catholic in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in New Orleans and he met Pope Pius XII and Pope Paul VI during his career.
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong took the title song from the musical to #1 on the singles chart in May 1953, and also appeared in the movie, singing the tune as a duet with star Barbara Streisand.
Barbra Streisand changed the spelling of her name from “Barbara” when she was 18, early in her singing career. She has stated that she has never liked her given name, and wanted to change it, but felt that a major change would feel “false.” (She’s also stated that she was advised to change her unusual last name, and elected to change her first name, instead.)
Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau did not get along at all during the filming of Hello, Dolly!, and the (many) scenes of Matthau being irritated or fed up with Streisand’s character were not feigned.
While he is better known today for his movies, Walter Matthau won two Tony Awards: in 1962, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for “A Shot in the Dark,” and in 1965 as Best Actor (Dramatic) for “The Odd Couple.” He recreated his part as Oscar Madison in the film version of The Odd Couple in 1968.
Marlon Brando played Fletcher Christian as both an aristocratic fop and a stranger to Capt. William Bligh in the 1962 epic The Mutiny on the Bounty, even though Christian came from relatively humble roots and was well-known to Bligh as a former shipmate.
Fletcher Christian lived for only 3 years after the mutiny on the Bounty, dying on Pitcairn Island at age 28. He was variously said to have died of natural causes, committed suicide, become insane or been murdered.
Christian and his Tahitian wife, Maimiti, had two sons and a daughter, and still have living descendants on Pitcairn, as well as on Norfolk Island, where a number of them moved when Pitcairn became overcrowded.
Norfolk is a county in England. The name is derived from the simple descriptive term, the “north folk” of East Anglia.
The coat of arms of the Duke of Norfolk features five lions, one of them (upper left, with the arrow) the royal lion of Scotland. This was an augmentation to the arms of Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, for his services at the 1513 Battle of Flodden, in which, by some accounts, he (or his archers) killed the Scottish king, James IV.
The title duke comes from French duc, itself from the Latin dux, ‘leader’, a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province.
Voivodeor Vojvoda (/ˈvɔɪˌvoʊd/; Old Slavic, literally “war-leader” or “warlord”) is an Eastern European title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word vojevoda, which in early Slavic meant the bellidux, i.e. the military commander of an area, but it usually had a greater meaning. In Byzantine times it referred to mainly military commanders of Slavic populations, especially in the Balkans, first Bulgaria being established as permanent Slavic state in the region.
Tchaikovsky’s later orchestral work, the symphonic ballad The Voyevoda, Op.78, was based on Alexander Pushkin’s translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s poem. It has the same name as the opera but is otherwise unrelated to it. Anton Arensky later produced his own operatic adaptation of the play as A Dream on the Volga.
The Volga is the longest river in Europe, flowing through central Russia and into the Caspian Sea. Eleven of Russia’s 20 largest cities are located in the drainage basin.
The national flags of the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Chile, Cuba, Slovakia, Nepal, the Czech Republic, North Korea and Thailand each have just three colors: red, white and blue.
The national flags of Norway, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg also all have only red white and blue.
You missed a few. There are 29 countries with r, w, &b:
1 Australia
2 Cambodia
3 Chile
4 Costa Rica
5 Croatia
6 Cuba
7 Czech Republic
8 Dominican Republic
9 Fiji
10 France
11 Iceland
12 Laos
13 Liberia
14 Luxembourg
15 Nepal
16 Netherlands
17 New Zealand
18 North Korea
19 Norway
20 Panama
21 Paraguay
22 Puerto Rico
23 Russia
24 Samoa
25 Serbia
26 Slovakia
27 Slovenia
28 United Kingdom
29 United States
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25 countries; Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, and Paraguay include seals with additional colors.
I wrote “just three colors,” red, white and blue, which is not true of several of those added by others.
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Per Wiki, Costa Rica plans to become a carbon-neutral country by 2021. By 2016, 98.1% of its electricity was generated from green sources, particularly hydro, solar, geothermal and biomass.