Jefferson Airplane consisted mainly of Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Spencer Dryden. Jefferson Starship consisted mainly of Pete Sears, David Freiberg, Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Craig Chaquico, and John Barbata.
Common to both were Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, and Grace Slick.
In The Matrix, computer hacker Thomas Anderson, soon to become Neo (Keanu Reeves), is told by Morpheus to “follow the White Rabbit.” He meets a girl with a White Rabbit tattoo and impulsively decides to follow her to a nightclub, setting his adventure in motion. The White Rabbit is almost certainly an allusion to the Lewis Carroll character from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as Neo, like Alice, learns that the world was not at all as he thought it was.
ETA: Grace Slick does not appear in the movie.
There have been many interpretations of “Alice in Wonderland”, one of the more interesting ones starring Sammy Davis Jr. as the Cheshire Cat, and Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble as the Caterpillar.
Dean Martin once carried a laughing Sammy Davis Jr. onto a Las Vegas stage, saying, “I’d like to thank the NAACP for my special award…”
The NAACP Image Award is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, music, and literature. Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the over 40 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the award organization’s members (in this case, NAACP members). Anthony Anderson, star of “Black-ish”, has hosted the last 6 awards programs.
W.E.B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) was one of the organizers of the NAACP, which was created in 1910. In 1945, he was one of three delegates from the NAACP to San Francisco when the United Nations was formed.
The site of the UN headquarters in Manhattan, formerly the site of Turtle Bay, which was filled with slaughterhouses and tenement buildings, is outside US jurisdiction. However, in exchange for local police, fire protection and other services, the United Nations agrees to acknowledge most local, state, and federal laws.
While the complex, opened in 1952, was being built, the UN used the Sperry Corporation offices in Lake Success, Long Island, after several other temporary sites, including the 1939 (and later 1964) World’s Fair site in Flushing Meadows.
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is a leftover from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Century of Progress. It was the Art Pavilion, and after the fair ended, it was turned into the Museum of Natural History, until 1933 when it became the Museum of Science and Industry.
Correction on the last post, 1893 World’s Fair was the Columbian Exposition, 1933 World’s Fair, also held in Chicago, was Century of Progress.
One of the famous names associated with New York City’s Museum of Natural History was the dinosaur hunter of the Gobi Desert, Roy Chapman Andrews, who was one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones.
Only 5% of the Gobi Desert is covered by sand dunes.
The newest national park in the US is Indiana Dunes National Park, on the shores of Lake Michigan. It was “promoted” to that status, from National Lakeshore, in February 2019. That makes Indiana the 29th state to have a national park, but with a long way to go to catch California with 8 of them.
Henry Jones, Sr., the father of Indiana Jones, was portrayed by Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Connery was only 12 years older than Harrison Ford, who played his son, but one reason for Connery being chosen was that James Bond was an inspiration for Indiana Jones.
Indiana is one of 8 states that border at least one of the Great Lakes. The others are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Michigan borders 4 of the 5 Great Lakes.
Indiana is one of four US states whose capitals start with the same letter.
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Dover, Delaware
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Hawaii and Alaska are the last two states admitted to the union. For a very brief time, there were 49 stars on the flag.
Eight US state capitals have names of French origin:
Juneau, Alaska
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Boise, Idaho
Des Moines, Iowa ,
Montgomery, Alabama
Montpelier, Vermont
Pierre, South Dakota
Richmond, Virginia
Juneau was the name of the ill-fated ship on which the five Sullivan brothers, from Iowa, perished during wwII.
The Ed Sullivan Show aired for almost 23 years on CBS, from June of 1948 till June of 1971. Originally called Toast of the Town, it ran on Sunday evening during each year of its existence. In its first season, it aired in the 9-10 ET time slot; in each subsequent season, it aired in the 8-9 ET time slot.
The first place black performers were seen on TV regularly was Ed Sullivan. Among his favorite performers in the early days were the great stars Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey and Nat King Cole, who shook hands with Ed, causing an uproar at the time.
Ed Sullivan would later a huge promoter and advocate of Motown artists and his show gave them a national platform to share their talents. The Jackson 5, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, just to name a few, were all part of the incredible roster of Motown acts who appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.