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Muhammad Ali‘s book, “GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali,” weighs 75-pounds, and is covered in silk and Louis Vuitton leather. Ten thousand books were published. The first 1,000 were signed and sold for $7,500 each. The other 9,000 sold for $3,000 each.
The Sheep and the Goats or “the Judgment of the Nations” is a pronouncement of Jesus recorded in chapter 25 of Matthewt. It is sometimes characterized as a parable, although unlike most parables it does not purport to relate a story of events happening to other characters. According to Anglican theologian Charles Ellicott, “we commonly speak of the concluding portion of this chapter as the parable of the Sheep and the Goats, but it is obvious from its very beginning that it passes beyond the region of parable into that of divine realities, and that the sheep and goats form only a subordinate and parenthetic illustration”.
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The parables of Jesus form about one-third of His recording teachings. Most of the parables are found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the Synoptic Gospels because they are so similar that they appear to be sourced from the same document. The Gospel of John is distinctly different from the other three. Many scholars believe the source of the Synoptic Gospels is Mark’s Gospel.
Following the success of Godspell, a musical based on the Gospel of Matthew, composer Stephen Schwartz was asked to write the English lyrics for the score for Mass, a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein. a work commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy as part of the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Television writer and producer Sherwood Schwartz got his start in show business as a writer for Bob Hope’s radio show in the late 1930s. Schwartz is best-known as the creator of two enduringly-popular situation comedies: Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch (and he wrote or co-wrote the theme songs for both shows).
The pilot episode of Gilligan’s Island, titled “Marooned”, was filmed in November 1963. On November 22, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination, the crew continued to work after hearing the shocking news. The departure of the Minnow was filmed on November 26, and all the flags in that sequence can be seen flying at half-staff. The episode eventually aired on TBS twenty-nine years later on October 16, 1992.
The 1969 film Marooned, about an Apollo spacecraft stuck in orbit with life support systems decaying, was the only Oscar-winning film to be lampooned on “Mystery Science Theater 3000” (where it was retitled Space Travelers). In both it and Armageddon, an emergency launch from Cape Canaveral occurs through the eye of a hurricane.
Marooned (1969) – I was 8 years old when that came out. I remember my dad taking us to the drive-in for that one (5 kids, 2 parents).
In play: Marooned (1969) was a movie based on a 1964 book of the same name by Martin Caidin. Martin Caidin also wrote Cyborg, which formed the basis for the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
The lifting-body crash footage shown in the opening sequence of “The Six Million Dollar Man” (“Flight com, I can’t hold her! She’s breaking up! She’s break—”) was that of the Northrop M2-F2 at Edwards AFB on May 10, 1967. Test pilot Bruce Peterson survived but lost an eye to infection, and went on to work for Northrop on the B-2 program.
Northrop built one and only one M2-F2. It flew 16 times in 1966 and 1967 by four different pilots, and it finally crashed on May 10, 1967 with Bruce Peterson piloting, as Elvis tells us. It was rebuilt as the M2-F3 which flew from 1970 until it was retired in 1972.
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Ron Strauss flew the Lisa Marie, Elvis Presley’s big private passenger jet named for his daughter, from 1975 until shortly after Elvis’ death on Aug. 16, 1977. The plane - a Convair 880 with the radio code name of ‘Hound Dog 1’ - was a Delta Airlines passenger jet until Elvis bought it from an airplane broker and friend of Strauss. The broker recommended Strauss, who was familiar with that type of aircraft, to Elvis’ father, Vernon Presley. The two met in Memphis and, soon after, the deal was finalized. Close in size to a 707, the Lisa Marie was customized with plush sleeping quarters, a conference table, a lounge area, two lavatories and a well-stocked galley and bar.
Northrop was forced to cut up and smelt all of its B-35 and B-49 flying wings by Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington shortly before he left government to become head of Convair. Jack Northrop later claimed that Symington had tried to force a merger that would have ended Northrop’s existence, and took an opportunity to retaliate. Northrop did, however, live long enough to see the B-2 flying wing bomber be created.
The Convair Aircraft company was previously Consolidated Vultee and made several military aircraft such as the B-36 Peacemaker which was the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built and had the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built (230 ft). Convair also built the Cold War aircraft such as the F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart, and the B-58 Hustler.
Stock footage of Convair B-58 Hustler bombers in flight was used in the 1964 Cold War thriller Fail Safe starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau and Larry Hagman. However, the warplanes were referred to as fictional “Vindicator” bombers in the film.
The ejection systems of the Hustler were tested with live bears (!).
Although Yuri Gagarin, like all other Vostok cosmonauts, used ejection seats and parachutes to land safely, the Federation Aeronautique Internationale requirement that a pilot occupy his craft for a complete flight to set a record led to the USSR party-line lie that they had done so. This system was replaced with retrorockets, fired near the ground, on the 2- and 3-man Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft, which had no room for multiple ejection seats.
During WWII, SAAB of Sweden (originally Svenska Aeroplan AB) and Heinkel of Germany independently developed the first ejection seats.
Yuri Andropov, who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1982, was known as ‘The Butcher of Budapest’ for his ruthless suppression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
According to the official biography, during WWII Andropov took part in partisan guerrilla activities in Finland, although modern researchers didn’t find records of his supposed partisan squad.