Morris Albert wrote the lyrics to “Feelings,” but not the music; he took the music from a French song called “Pour toi,” which means “For You.” This is not to be confused with the (also in French) Celine Dion song “C’est pour toi,” which means “It’s for you.”
Prince Albert, an American brand of pipe tobacco, was introduced by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1907. The blend has consistently remained as one of America’s best-selling pipe tobaccos.
The tobacco was personally named by R. J. Reynolds after Edward VII, who was known as Prince Albert before being crowned King. The portrait of Prince Albert that appears on the can was based on a portrait acquired by Reynolds while attending a tea party with Mark Twain.
Prince Albert / Edward VII is portrayed negatively in two films about Queen Victoria, Mrs. Brown (1997) and Victoria and Abdul (2017). In both films he is resentful of his mother’s friendship with a man, John Brown and Abdul Karim, and behaves vindictively after her death, destroying a statue of Brown (who had died 20 years earlier) and evicting Karim and destroying all the correspondence between him and Victoria.
Kareem (alternatively spelled Karim or Kerim) is a common given name and surname of Arabic origin that means generous or noble. It should not be confused with Al-Karim, which is one of the 99 names of Allah, meaning The Most Generous.
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar was a running back for several NFL teams in the latter part of the 1990s.
His birth name was Sharmon Shah; when he was in college at UCLA, his imam gave him the name “Karim Abdul-Jabbar.” Particularly once he joined the NFL in 1996, this new name led to attention (and confusion), as many people mistakenly believed that the younger Abdul-Jabbar was the son of the retired basketball great, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (it did not help that the younger man wore #33 on his uniform, as the older man had done, and that both men had attended UCLA).
In 1997, Kareem filed a lawsuit against Karim, believing that the younger man was using the name similarity to profit off of Kareem’s fame. They reached a settlement in 1998, in which the younger man changed his name to Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar, and agreed to use only the name “Abdul” on his football jersey.
The University of California is a public university system in the state of California. The University of California was founded on March 23, 1868, and operated temporarily in Oakland before moving to its new campus in Berkeley in 1873. The system now has campuses in 10 California cities: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
The oldest amusement park in the Six Flags chain is Six Flags New England in Agawan, Massachusetts. Originally called Gallup’s Grove, it was renamed Riverside Grove and called Riverside Park until it was joined the Six Flags chain.
San Diego County has the most missions in the state, with four in all: Mission San Diego de Alcala, Mission San Luis Rey, Mission San Antonio de Pala and Mission Santa Ysabel.
Zorro’s secret identity was the foppish Don Diego de la Vega. He lived in his wealthy father’s large hacienda, under which was a cave where he secretly stabled his horse, Tornado.
Bob Kane acknowledged that Zorro / Don Diego was part of the inspiration for Batman / Bruce Wayne.
Bob Dole, Republican of Kansas, resigned from the U.S. Senate in 1996 when he won his party’s nomination for President. He explained that this showed that he was totally committed to winning his race for the White House.
According to the author of Ecclesiastes, the race is not necessarily to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. “Time and chance happeneth to them all.”
Chance Rides Manufacturing is a roller coaster and amusement ride manufacturer. They are best known for their narrow-gauge miniature park trains and The Toboggan, in which a small vehicle climbs vertically up a tower then spirals back down around the same tower.
The toboggan is believed to have originated with the Innu and Cree peoples of northern Canada. It differs from most sleds in that a toboggan has no runners or skis (or very low runners) on the underside. The bottom of a toboggan rides directly on the snow.
“… but that’s the way to bet.” - Damon Runyon
The sport of bobsled, or bobsleigh as the Olympics people call it, began when hotelier Caspar Badrutt convinced some English regulars to remain through the entire winter at his hotel in the mineral spa town of St. Moritz, Switzerland. Keeping them entertained with food, alcohol, and activities, he quickly established the concept of “winter resorting”. In the early 1870s some adventurous English guests began adapting boys’ delivery sleds for recreational purposes. However, they soon began colliding with pedestrians in the icy lanes, alleyways and roads of St Moritz.
Guests soon began to invent “steering means” for the sleds. This led to the development of the bobsleigh (bobsled): two cresta’s (skeleton sleds) attached together with a board that had a steering mechanism at the front. Badrutt responded to complaints from the citizenry by building a dedicated ice run.
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Saddam Hussein appointed his eldest son Uday chairman of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. There were widespread reports that he tortured athletes who failed to win. Following the United States-led invasion of Iraq, he was killed along with his brother Qusay and nephew Mustapha by the U.S. Army’s Task Force 121 after a three-hour gunfight in Mosul in July 2003.
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It organizes and supports the U.S.'s national teams for both the Olympics and Paralympics.
The U.S. is in the minority of countries which does not have direct national / governmental support of its Olympic teams; rather, the USOC is a non-profit organization, relying on broadcast rights, licensing, and philanthropic gifts for its funding.
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The USOC’s logo in recent years has combined a thirteen-star American flag and the Olympic rings.
Unlike many people and places in the United States, Colgate University considers thirteen to be a lucky number. They were founded in 1819 by 13 men with 13 dollars, 13 prayers and 13 articles. The campus address is 13 Oak Drive in Hamilton, New York, and the male a cappella group is called the Colgate 13.
William Colgate, who was one of the primary benefactors of what would become Colgate University, got his start in business by opening a starch, soap and candle business in Manhattan in 1806. In 1873, the company started selling toothpaste that was sold in jars; in 1896, it was the first toothpaste to be sold in a collapsible tube.
According to a 2015 report, Colgate is the only brand in the world purchased by more than half of all households. Its global market penetration is nearly 50%, higher than the second-placed brand in the study, Coca-Cola, which has 43.3% penetration.