Epilepsy has no identifiable cause in about half the people with the condition. In the other half, the condition may be traced to various factors, including genetic influence, head trauma, brain conditions such as tumors or strokes, and infectious diseases such as meningitis, AIDS and viral encephalitis.
“Is AIDS a judgment of God? I could not be sure but I think so,” said Billy Graham back in 1993 during the height of the AIDS epidemic that caused the death of millions of people globally at that point. It was a time when the world continued to fight for a cure.
Of course, like many who get called when using their own voice as that of God’s, he backtracked, stating: “l don’t believe that and I don’t know why I said it. I remember saying it, and I immediately regretted it and almost went back and clarified the statement… God stands in judgment of all sins, but AIDS is a disease that affects people, and is not part of that judgment. To say that God has judged people with AIDS would be very wrong and cruel. I would like to say that I am very sorry for what I said.”
Billy Graham was listed by Gallup as one of the “Ten Most Admired Men in the World” more than 50 times. He met with every US president from Harry Truman to Donald Trump…
In the TV series “The Crown,” Billy Graham is played by Paul Sparks, who has also had important roles in “Boardwalk Empire” and “House of Cards.”
Not in play: Bullitt, I didn’t know this! A few years ago, hubby had viral meningitis as a complication of West Nile. I’ll tell him to be aware that he may develop epileptic seizures, but fortunately it seems to be a fairly low risk (according to articles online). Still, forewarned is forearmed.
Carry on
I’m glad he’s doing well. Yes, forewarned is forearmed. I read that fom the Mayo Clinic site, Epilepsy - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
I’m no doc, I’m a SW engineer.
Carrying on…
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, founded in 1907, is California’s oldest surviving amusement park. It is also one of the few seaside parks on the West Coast.
((Star Wars engineer? Cool! 
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In play:
The California cities of Santa Cruz and Huntington Beach have both long been known as “Surf City,” and both cities have formally adopted the term as a nickname. However, in 2004, Huntington Beach filed for trademark status for the term “Surf City USA,” sparking a multi-year legal fight between the two cities over the use of the name.
What is now Surf City was originally formed as Long Beach City borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on September 19, 1894, from portions of Stafford Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day. The borough was renamed Surf City by a resolution of the Borough Council as of May 26, 1899.
Maximilian Kolbe, John Ford, Harold Macmillan, Jack Benny, Bessie Smith, Nikita Khrushchev, Martha Graham and Rudolf Hess were all born in 1894.
Bessie Smith died in a horrific car crash on September 26, 1937.
Her estranged husband Jack Gee thwarted all efforts to purchase a gravestone for her, once or twice pocketing money raised for that purpose. Smith’s grave was unmarked until a tombstone was erected on August 7, 1970, paid for by the singer Janis Joplin and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Smith
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was buried in an unmarked grave in Vienna, not a mass pauper’s grave despite folklore. The gravesite in St. Marx Cemetery has indeed been marked since 1859.
Louis Marx and Company was one of the leading U.S. manufacturers of toys in the first half of the 20th century. Marx was particularly known for their line of toy trains, as well as for boxed “playsets,” many of them representing historical events and figures.
Marx’s sales went into decline in the 1960s, and when Louis Marx retired, he sold the company to Quaker Oats in 1972. The company was then sold to an English toy company (Dunbee-Combex-Marx) in 1976, which went bankrupt several years later, ending the Marx brand.
The Marx Brothers last name was indeed “Marx”; their first names were:
Chico: Leonard
Harpo: Adolph
Groucho: Julius
Gummo: Milton
Zeppo: Herbert
Zeppo was the last to die at age 79 in 1979, from lung cancer.
When Margaret Mitchell was asked (in an interview) who she thought should play Rhett Butler in the film version of Gone With the Wind, she replied “Groucho Marx”, jokingly showing her lack of interest in the casting.
In the SDMB thread, “Wherefore, Exapno Mapcase?”, on 05-13-2007 SDMB user Defective Detective asks in his (her?) OP,
“*I want to know where some of these crazy Doper names came from. Obviously, in most cases, this thread will require a response from the member named. Please redirect me if this thread has been done before - couldn’t find it. I am, after all, the Defective Detective.
Some names that I have always been curious about:
Exapno Mapcase
Quiddity Glumfuster
Bosda d’Chi of Tricor
I know my name may not seem so interesting, but it was supposed to be Selective Detective (two consecutive rhymes from a Billy Joel song that I like), but I had a brain-fart when I was signing up. So now instead of having a name that makes me seem careful and discriminating, I have a name that makes me look like an idiot. I probably deserve it, though I wish I could change it…
Okay, now you try it. Name some names that you would like to see explained. If your name comes up in this thread, please explain it for the rest of us, should you be so inclined.*”
Exapno Mapcase was originally spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet as ХАРПО МАРКС, which is Harpo Marx’s name transliterated into Russian.
This came about back in 1933 because, following US diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, Harpo Marx spent six weeks in Moscow as a performer and goodwill ambassador. His tour was a huge success. When he saw his name in Cyrillic, Harpo, having no knowledge of Russian, pronounced it as “Exapno Mapcase”.
(I’m not claiming that this is the derivation for the SDMB user’s name, though.)
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In post #26 of that thread, Exapno Mapcase confirms the derivation.
In 1951, Allen Sherman’s first 78-rpm parody single"A Satchel and a Seck", parodying “A Bushel and a Peck” from Guys and Dolls, coupled with “Jake’s Song”, parodying “Sam’s Song”, a contemporary hit for Bing Crosby and his son Gary. The single sold poorly and when Sherman wrote his autobiography, he did not make reference to it. Sherman lived next door to Harpo Marx, who invited him to perform his song parodies at parties attended by Marx’s show-biz friends. After one party, George Burns phoned an executive at Warner Bros. Records and persuaded him to sign Sherman to a contract. The result was an LP of these parodies, My Son, the Folk Singer, released in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
Allan Sherman achieved Top-100 success on the Billboard chart with the 1963 hit Hello, Muddah, Hello Fuddah (A Letter from Camp), a novelty song that complains about the fictional “Camp Granada”. The song rose to #2 on the charts for 3 weeks, but never got to #1. It was kept from the top spot by Fingertips by “Little” Stevie Wonder and My Boyfriend’s Back by The Angels.
Adm. Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, was hostile to the institutional interests of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was not an ally of the Corps during the debates on military reform and service consolidation in the massive demobilization that followed the Allies’ victory in World War II.
In military terms, a “corps” is a military unit that is composed of two or more divisions. Were you to have a unit of two or more corps, that would be an “Army” in the organizational sense of that word.