George Washington and Continental Navy hero Capt. John Paul Jones exchanged letters during and soon after the American Revolution, but it does not appear that they ever met. Jones sent copies of the Houdon bust of himself to Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others as a token of his esteem (and as a shameless bit of self-promotion). Jefferson’s copy is still displayed at Monticello.
Led Zeppelin’s bassist and keyboardist was original member John Paul Jones, who co-founded the band with Jimmy Page in 1968. They disbanded after the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980. More recently, Jones has joined Josh Homme and Dave Grohl with the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.
The original John Paul Jones, frustrated by Congress’s failure to maintain a navy after the American Revolution, went, with Congress’s permission, to Russia to serve as an admiral in Tsarina Catherine the Great’s Black Sea fleet. He won key victories despite gross insubordination and disobedience from several of his officers, and a lack of political support from Prince Potemkin and Catherine herself.
The cover band Dread Zeppelin, including guitarist/founder Jah Paul Jo, does covers of songs done by John Paul Jones’ band, but in a reggae style. Their lead singer is a 300 pound Elvis impersonator named Tortelvis.
Elvis Costello is married to Canadian jazz musician Diana Krall; she is his third wife. If they can make it past 2019, it will be the longest of his marriages. Elvis and Diana have twin sons, who will turn 13 this year.
Flamborough Head is an 8-mile long promontory on the east-central coast of England (here, gMap, about 50 miles E of York). In the American Revolutionary War in September 1779, the US with French assistance fought the British Royal Navy. The USS Bonhomme Richard and Pallas, with USS Alliance, captured HMS Serapis and HM hired ship Countess of Scarborough. It was the best-known incident of Captain John Paul Jones’s naval career. It was during this battle when John Paul Jones uttered the famous words, “I have not yet begun to fight!”, one of the longest-lasting quotes from the war.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s third marriage to wife Madeleine Gurdon has lasted for 28 years, ten years longer than his first (12 years) and second (6 years) marriages combined, making it his longest marriage.
The 1985 comedy/mystery film Clue was based on the board game of the same name, and starred Tim Curry, Madeleine Kahn, Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, and Michael McKean.
The film was shot with three different endings, each of which revealed a different character (or characters) as having been the murderer. In the film’s original theatrical release, three different versions were shipped to theaters, each with one of the three endings. When the film was released for home video, all three endings were contained, with “Ending C” being indicated as the actual story.
The 1997 production of Clue: The Musical has an interactive feature in which audience members randomly select cards that determine which suspect committed the murder, which weapon was used, and in what room the murder took place. Based on the cards drawn, the show has 216 possible endings, with some interchangeable dialogue between characters that is delivered as the story unfolds.
The board game Clue was originally devised by Anthony E. Pratt from Birmingham, England, in 1949. It was called Cluedo, and the victim was Dr. Black in the UK version. (In the North American version, the victim is Mr. Boddy).
The long-running Merv Griffin game show “Wheel of Fortune” evolved from several pilots called “Shopper’s Bazaar”, whose vertical wheel featured the Bankrupt wedge and featured a wedge where a contestant could call a vowel for free, as well as a “Your Own Clue” wedge that allowed contestants to pick up the Clue Phone and hear a private clue about the puzzle. That was the origin of the intelligence-disparaging snap “The Clue Phone’s ringing … it’s for you!”
According to hobbyLark.com, the Top Ten Board Games of All Time are
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[li]Chess[/li][li]Stratego[/li][li]Monopoly[/li][li]Risk[/li][li]The Settlers of Catan[/li][li]Scrabble[/li][li]Battleship[/li][li]Clue[/li][li]Dominion[/li][*]Ticket to Ride[/ol]
Dudley Randall’s poem “Ballad of Birmingham” (1965) is subtitled “On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963” and commemorates the death of four young girls, ages 14 to 11, killed during choir practice by a bomb placed by white supremacists. Randall’s poem uses the repetitive dialogue format of traditional Scots border ballads such as “Edward, Edward” and “Lord Randall”.
While there were many clues as to the identity of the bombers, the first of them was convicted only 14 years later, in 1977, and 2 others were convicted much later, in 2001 and 2002.
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According to hobbyLark.com, the Top Ten Board Games of All Time are
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[li]Chess[/li][li]Stratego[/li][li]Monopoly[/li][li]Risk[/li][li]The Settlers of Catan[/li][li]Scrabble[/li][li]Battleship[/li][li]Clue[/li][li]Dominion[/li][li]Ticket to Ride[/ol][/li][/QUOTE]
Wow, I always enjoyed it, but I’m surprised Stratego ranks so high!
In play:
The 1963 bombing murders of four little girls in a Birmingham church is the opening scene of the 2014 Oscar-winning Civil Rights Movement film Selma.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 1963) has been called the most important document of the Civil Rights Era.
To coax Congress into passing the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Dr. King focused on the Woolworth’s lunch counter demonstration in St. Augustine, Florida, involving the arrest and imprisonment of 16 young black protesters and seven juveniles. St. Augustine was the only place in Florida where King was arrested; his arrest there occurred on June 11, 1964, on the steps of the Monson Motor Lodge restaurant. He wrote a “Letter from the St. Augustine Jail” (he was officially taken there for “his own protection”, said the cops) to his old friend, Rabbi Israel Dresner, in New Jersey, urging him to recruit rabbis to come to St. Augustine and take part in the movement. The result was the largest mass arrest of rabbis in American history; this occurred on June 18, 1964, at the Monson motel. One of the arrests at the Monson Motor Lodge and its white-only swimming pool was of the mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, greatly increasing political pressure on Congress.
The colors of the flag of Israel, blue and white, are the same colors as the Jewish *tallit *or prayer shawl. The flag displays the Star of David, long a symbol of Judaism.
I’m surprised too. I’ve never played it – maybe I should give it a try.
According to theRams.com, their uniform colors have been blue and white before.
The first NFL helmet logo was created either in 1946 or 1948, depending on the source, and it was the Los Angeles Rams’ swirling rams horn that we recognize today. It was in blue and yellow.
In 1964 the Rams’ colors changed to blue and white.
In 1973 the Rams’ colors changed to blue and gold (yellow, yellow-gold, or even Millennium Blue and New Century Gold, whatever).
In 2017 the Rams’ colors changed to blue and white.
There have been other variations but these include the major color changes.
The Los Angeles Rams are the only current NFL franchise which has moved cities/markets three times: from Cleveland to Los Angeles in 1946, from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, and from St. Louis back to Los Angeles in 2015.
However, in 2020, the Raiders will join the Rams on the thrice-moved list: they moved from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982, then back to Oakland in 1995, and are planning to move to Las Vegas for the 2020 season.
There is a myth that King Christian X of Denmark, during the period of occupation by Nazis, wore a yellow Star of David in solidarity with the Jews. The myth is based on an entry from the King’s diary where he wrote “When you look at the inhumane treatment of Jews, not only in Germany but occupied countries as well, you start worrying that such a demand might also be put on us, but we must clearly refuse such this due to their protection under the Danish constitution. I stated that I could not meet such a demand towards Danish citizens. If such a demand is made, we would best meet it by all wearing the Star of David.”
King Christian X abdicated in 1944, celebrated his 76th birthday on 26 September 1946, and died several months later.