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Quincy, M.E. was an American medical mystery-drama television series that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC. Jack Klugman starred in the title role, as a Los Angeles County medical examiner who routinely engaged in police investigations. Originally broadcast as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation, the series was popular enough to receive its own weekly time slot.
The Sureties of the Magna Charta include several crusaders; among whom Henry de Bohun and Saher de Quincy each died en route to the Hioly Land.
[oog: I won’t give up easily.]
Thomas De Quincey, an essayist, is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Scholars suggest that De Quincey’s book, which made him famous overnight, inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.
The ancient Sumerians, who may have been the first peoples to cultivate the opium poppy, called it ‘Hul Gil’, or the ‘joy plant’.
Chinese laborers working on the Central Pacific Railroad in the late 1860s commonly used opium to relax on Sundays, their day off, according to Stephen Ambrose in his 2000 book on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, Nothing Like It In the World.
Last month was the sesquicentennial celebration of the Golden Spike.
My brother went, but not me. I’ve been there 2x but couldn’t get away for that sesquicentennial.
Two memorable songs featured at the American Adventure attraction in Disney World’s Epcot are the upbeat “Golden Dreams” and the poignant “Two Brothers.” Sometimes thought to be a folk song from the Civil War era, “Two Brothers” is about families divided by the war:
Two brothers on their way
One wore blue and one wore gray
. . . .
A cannonball don’t pay no mind
Though you’re gentle or you’re kind
It don’t think of the folks behind
All on a beautiful morning
Two girls waiting by the railroad track
Two girls waiting by the railroad track
For their darlings to come back
One wore blue and one wore black
The song was written by Irving Gordon, best known for “Unforgettable”, which was originally titled “Uncomparable”.
Nat King Cole, who had been dead since 1965, reached number 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and also number three on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1991 with a remix of his 1951 hit “Unforgettable”, with his daughter Natalie’s voice dubbed in to make it a duet. The song also won three awards at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992): Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.
Nat King Cole died in ‘65.
Natalie Cole died at 65, in 2015. Natalie Cole’s debut single released in April 1975 and one of her biggest hits, becoming a number-one R&B and number-six pop smash in the US was This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).
On October 24, 1937, composer Cole Porter was riding with Countess Edith di Zoppola and Duke Fulco di Verdura at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, when his horse rolled on him and crushed his legs, leaving him substantially crippled and in constant pain for the rest of his life. Though doctors told Porter’s wife and mother that his right leg would have to be amputated, and possibly the left one as well, he refused to have the procedure. Porter remained in the hospital for seven months before being allowed to go home to his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He resumed work as soon as he could, finding it took his mind off his perpetual pain.
Waldorf University, in Forest City IA, is about 120 miles south of Minneapolis MN and 123 miles north of Des Moines IA. Waldorf University was founded in 1903 as a result of “The Great Hotel War of Forest City”, where two upper-class hotels were built at the same time and led to the Waldorf Hotel being left vacant after only four months of operation. The vacant hotel provided an opportunity for Rev. C.S. Salveson to put together the necessary resources in order to create a Christian college.
The Waldorf salad, which is generally made of fresh apples, celery, grapes and walnuts, was named after the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The salad was first created in 1896 for a charity ball. The Waldorf-Astoria’s Head Waiter, Oscar Tschirky, is generally credited with creating the salad.
There are various versions of the origin of Thousand Island salad dressing. They agree only in locating it in the Thousand Islands area, on the St. Lawrence river. Some attribute it to George Boldt, the manager of the Waldorf-Astoria, who like other New York City residents had a summer house in the area in the late 1800s. Others state that it was a local dressing that was popularized when summer residents brought it home to the city.
Alexander Lipson’s textbooks of the Russian language for English speakers include wonderful brief stories, including several about Cowboy Bob and his talking horse Waldorf, and a visit to the tourist base on the Great Sea of Blinsk (where musicians play wild Western jazz and say “Kul, men, kul!”), as well as the marching song of the concrete workers’ brigade.
Adrian Veidt, billionaire tycoon, brilliant scientist, secret crimefighter and global visionary in the graphic novel Watchmen, consciously patterned himself on Alexander the Great’s example. The ancient Greek king’s cutting of the Gordian Knot becomes a metaphor for Veidt’s own plan to save humanity from itself.
Adrian Veidt, with a net worth of 7 billion dollars, only comes in at 18th place of this list of The 20 Richest Fictional Movie and TV Characters of All-Time. Other notables on the list are Thurston Howell III, Jed Clampett, Jay Gatsby, and Smaug. The richest is Scrooge McDuck, who has a fortune of 65.4 billion dollars.
Nicholas Breakspear is the only Englishman to become Pope, as Adrian IV.
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The other countries to have only one Pope, besides…
— England, Pope Adrian IV, 1154-1159
are
— The Netherlands, Pope Adrian VI, 1522-1523,
— Poland, Pope John Paul II, 1978-2005, and
— Argentina, Pope Francis, 2013-present.
As for other countries, there have been 196 popes from Italy, 16 from France, 15 Greeks, 8 from Germany, 6 from Syria, 3 from Africa, 2 from Portugal, 2 from Spain, and 3 from Israel.