Porter Wagoner is known for his musical accomplishments, but also for casually opening his suit jacket while performing to show the fancy sequins and other decorations on the inside of his flashy Nudie suits. This is not to say the outsides weren’t equally ostentatious, because they were.
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The hottest-selling item in the University of Tennessee bookstore in Knoxville is a copy of a hand-drawn logo T-shirt created by a Florida boy who was bullied in class for wearing it.
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The 1965-66 Jerry Van Dyke sitcom “My Mother, the Car” was based on the notion of his late mother being reincarnated as a 1928 Porter touring car. Her voice was provided by veteran B-movie actress Ann Sothern, although only the Van Dyke character can hear her through the dashboard radio.
In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed it to be the second-worst show of all time, behind “The Jerry Springer Show”.
According to american-automobiles.com, Porter made cars in the 1910s into the 1920s.
Porter beer was supposedly invented by a barman in an English pub, made by blending lighter, hoppier beers, with older aged ales. This eventually led to porter being produced at breweries across the country.
Technically, stout is a stronger version of a porter. In fact, its original name was “stout porter.”
The production of beer dates back to thousands of years before recorded history; evidence of Neolithic beer production has been found in the Fertile Crescent. Beer was likely invented in conjunction with the invention of agriculture.
The Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile Rivers feed the Fertile Crescent, a concave-down arc bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and the Nile River Delta to the west, and arcing downward towards but not quite reaching the Persian Gulf. The Fertile Crescent is named for its rich soils and curved shape.
There has been recent debate as to whether the Nile or the Amazon is the world’s longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but the Brazilian government has supported studies claiming that the Amazon is longer by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal canal.
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Widely considered as one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz in the 1960’s to create a new sound with remarkable popular success. As such he is sometimes known as the “father of bossa nova”
Jobim’s collaboration with Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto in the production of the album Getz/Gilberto brought Brazilian music (and Bossa Nova, in particular) to American listeners. The biggest hit from that album, Garota de Ipanema (Girl From Ipanema) won record of the year and is one of the most recorded tunes of all time. It’s arguably not the best tune on the album, but was certainly the catchiest.
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American singer Frank Sinatra and Brazilian musician Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim collaborated on a 1967 bossa nova album that bears both of their names.
It was nominated for a Grammy that year but lost to an otherwise-obscure album: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wikipedia
“The Coffee Song” (occasionally subtitled “They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil”) is a novelty song written by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles, first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1946. The song caricatures Brazil’s coffee surplus, claiming (among other things) that no other beverages are available, and that the daughter of a politician was fined for drinking water.
According to Nat Geo in Apr 2004, the most commonly ingested drink not coffee, it’s not beer; it is tea. Tea predates coffee by about 3,000 years.
In 1991, The Spectator newspaper held a competition for new answers to the question Lewis Carroll posed at Alice’s Made Tea Party “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Among the prize winners were: “because one has flapping fits and the other fitting flaps”; “because one is good for writing books and the other better for biting rooks”; and “because a writing desk is a rest for pens and a raven is a pest for wrens”.
Another clever response is, because Poe wrote on both.
In the last episode of the first Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror, Lisa reads “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. In this adaptation, Bart is depicted as the raven, Homer finds himself in the role of the poem’s lead character, The Narrator, while Lisa and Maggie are seraphim. Marge appears briefly as a painting of Lenore. James Earl Jones narrates. The segment ends when The Narrator, infuriated by the Raven’s mockery of his grief, flies into a fit of rage chasing it across his study, ending with the Raven’s eventual victory and The Narrator lying wide eyed and staring under a pile of books.
Homer, Alaska, a city on the Kenai Peninsula (“KEY”-nigh), is only 15 miles away from the most westerly highway point in all of the Americas. That point is in the town of Anchor Point, also on the Kenai Peninsula.
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The southernmost Point in the United States is Ka Lae, which is Hawaiian for “The Point.” It is on Hawaii’s Big Island, and is as far south as you can go in the United States.
The southernmost point in the continental United States is the cleverly-named Southernmost Point Buoy, an anchored concrete buoy in Key West, Florida.
There has only ever been a single commissioned United States Navy warship named the USS Hawaii, a Virginia-class fast attack nuclear submarine launched in 2006 and still on active duty. She is homeported, appropriately enough, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.