A conservative Christian friend of mine, who insists that *all *of the Bible is important and should guide us in our daily lives, changed the subject when I asked if he and his wife both agreed with St. Paul.
In play:
The rector or chief priest of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the largest parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, is a woman, the Rev. Jeanne Leinbach.
That’s just disgraceful 
In play: When conservative, church going Christian “lady” Anita Bryant opened her disgraceful mouth and lost her entertainment gigs and later her marriage, as well as being sued by the government for unpaid taxes and her employees for unpaid wages, she blamed the homosexual agenda for all her troubles.
Per Wiki, Anita Bryant scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including “Paper Roses” which reached No. 5 on the charts. She was also a former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and was a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1979 for the Florida Citrus Commission, which marketed orange juice.
Limone is the Italian word for ‘lemon’, and the town with this name on the shore of Lake Garda was once renowned for growing lemons and other citrus fruits. Limone’s name, however, is coincidental, since it is said to be much older than the lemon groves, and to derive from a Latin word meaning ‘boundary’.
An Garda Síochána (Irish for “the Guardian of the Peace”), colloquially known as the Gardai or the Guards, are the police force of the Republic of Ireland. The force was formed in 1923, soon after the formation of the Irish Free State. Most members of the Gardai do not routinely carry firearms.
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and took its current name in 1959. The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The Scott Trust was created in 1936 “to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of the Guardian free from commercial or political interference”. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to benefit an owner or shareholders.
For a time in the Seventies, The Guardian become so notorious for its poor editing and proofreading that it was nicknamed The Guarniad.
That '70s Show is an American television sitcom that aired on Fox for 8 seasons from 1998 to 2006. The series focused on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in the fictional city of Point Place, Wisconsin. The first episode took place on May 17, 1976; the last on December 31, 1979.
Even though That '70s Show lasted for eight years in real life, the timeline only went from 1976 to 1979.
“Old Bones” was the nickname of Exterminator, the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby. He was put in as a last-minute replacement for his stablemate, Sun Briar, who had been the favorite.
“Old Bones” was the nickname of Exterminator, the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby. He was put in as a last-minute replacement for his stablemate, Sun Briar, who had been the favorite.
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The winner of the 1919 Kentucky Derby was a horse named Sir Barton. Sir Barton went on to win both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, thus becoming the first horse to win the American Triple Crown of horse racing.
In his 1956 series of six interrelated short stories, Venture to the Moon, Arthur C. Clarke wrote of the first lunar mission, which apparently took place in the mid-1970s. It landed in Mare Imbrium and included an American ship, the Goddard; a Russian ship, the Ziolkovsky; and a British ship, the Endeavour. The stories were written as if told by the captain of the Endeavour.
In 1971, Apollo 15 actually did land in Mare Imbrium.
In Rendezvous with Rama by Clarke, the space survey vessel sent to rendezvous with the incoming alien Rama probe, is named Endeavour, after HMS Endeavour, the ship used by Captain Cook in his voyage of the South Pacific.
The commander of the survey vessel, Commander Bill Norton, has a portrait of Captain Cook in his cabin, and frequently muses on how Cook would deal with the issues Norton is facing.
W. W. Norton & Company is an American publishing company based in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by William Warder Norton. The company is known for its Norton Anthologies, which are frequently assigned in university literature courses. The best known anthology in the series is the Norton Anthology of English Literature; its 10th edition appeared in 2018.
William Howard Taft was, in 1908, the next-to-last man from Ohio to be elected President of the United States; Warren G. Harding was the last, in 1920. For now.
The “G.” in Warren G. Harding stands for “Gamaliel.”
In the Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise, Lord Peter is challenged to come up with a rhyme for “Gamaliel” and promptly suggests “impale you all” and “jail you all”.
While impalement is probably best known due to Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, better known in history as Vlad the Impaler, the use of impalement for punishing crimes goes back to at least the Code of Hammurabi, promulgated about 1772 BC by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, which specifies impaling for a woman who killed her husband for the sake of another man.
“Vlad” is a Romanian name, a shortened form of “Vladislav”, meaning “possessor of glory”.