Liberty Bell 7 was astronaut Gus Grissom’s Project Mercury space capsule that launched him into space to become the second American into space behind Alan Shepard. Liberty Bell 7 flew on 21 Jul 1961.
“(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance,” written by hit song writing team Burt Bacharach and Hal David, was released by Gene Pitney in 1962. Although the song never appeared in the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, there is disagreement about whether the song had been intended to appear in it at all. Pitney has stated that the song’s recording session was paid for by Paramount, and that it was midway through the song’s recording session that he found out that the song was not going to be included in the film, when one of the orchestra members told him that the film had been released before they had finished recording the song. Neverthe less, the song was a hit, spending 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 4.
The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, released by Georgie Fame in the late 60s, was similarly not included in the film, Bonnie and Clyde, but it did benefit from the connection.
Bonnie is a Scottish name typically meaning pretty, attractive, or good (from the French, bonne). The Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, manufactured in the 1950s into the 1980s, is nicknamed The Bonnie.
My Bonnie was one of the earliest songs recorded by the Beatles, as the backing band for Tony Sheridan.
In the 1954 film adaption of the musical Brigadoon, the role of Charlie Chisholm Dalrymple was played by Jimmy Thompson, but his big singing number "I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean, was dubbed, with the song being sung by John Gustafson, The woman he’s singing about is named Jean, with “bonnie” being used as an adjective.
Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the liberated schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, whose theme song, Rod McKuen’s “Jean”, included the lyrics
Jean, Jean, you’re young and alive
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will, to the top of the hill
Open your arms, bonnie Jean
As most of us learned somewhere along the way, a prime number is a number greater than 1 that is divisible only by 1 and itself. In number theory, a formula for primes is a formula generating the prime numbers, exactly and without exception. No such formula which is efficiently computable is known.
There are infinitely many prime numbers.
The theme of “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” is symbolized by the Vulcans in a “Kol-Ut-Shan”, represented as a pendant of yellow and white gold with a circle and triangle resting upon each other, and adorned with a white jewel in the center, also called the IDIC Medal. In an issue of The Humanist, Majel Barrett claimed that the philosophy of “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” was based on the teachings of Rabbi Maimonides.
Spock wore the symbol during important gatherings and ceremonies as part of his dress uniform. It appeared for the first time in the Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) episode “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” It also appeared in Spock’s quarters in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The Kawasaki Vulcan is a cruiser-style motorcycle manufactured since 1984 and mostly with a V-twin engine. The smallest engine was a 125 cc, and the largest engine was over 2,000 cc.
American actor Mark Lenard played, in various incarnations of Star Trek, a Vulcan (Spock’s father, Ambassador Sarek), a Romulan and a Klingon.
Mark Lenard’s first Star Trek appearance was in The Original Series. He did not appear as Sarek or any other Vulcan, but instead as the first-ever Romulan seen by anyone, in the episode Balance of Terror (1966). His last Star Trek motion picture role was in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), as the Vulcan, Ambassador Sarek.
Although created by Gene Roddenberry, and having several similar elements, Andromeda is not considered to be in the Star Trek universe.
Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is a 1630 painting by Rembrandt, or Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn >> painting image - well technically it is NSFW so add a “z” (lower case) to the end of this:
She represents Rembrandt’s first full length mythological female nude history painting.
ETA: fixed the link.
The Rembrandts are a pop music duo, founded in Los Angeles in 1989 by Danny Wilde and Phil Solem.
They had a top-20 hit in 1990 with the song “Just the Way It Is, Baby,” but their enduring fame has come from recording the theme song for the TV comedy Friends, “I’ll Be There For You.”
Los Angeles, not San Francisco or any other city, has the steepest street in California. Eldred St., near Mt. Washington in Highland Park, has a 33% elevation grade, which is 1.5% higher than the grades on two of San Francisco’s most notoriously steep streets, 22nd St. and Filbert.
Filberts are a type of nut, closely related to the common hazelnut, but longer and narrower. The term ‘filbert’ comes from Norman French. Saint Philibert’s feast day is 20 August and the plant was possibly named after him because the nuts were mature in England and Normandy around this day.
The cashew nut grows on bottom of the cashew apple, which is an acidic fruit. The harvesting is arduous and time-consuming, which is why the price of cashews is much higher than most other nuts.
A nut is a fruit that is a dried seed with an inedible hard shell that does not open to release the seed when ripe – it is indehiscent.
The peanut is not a nut, it is a legume.
Walnuts are the oldest known tree food.
The hazelnut is Oregon’s official State Nut.
The shell of the cashew is toxic and can’t be eaten. Cashews are in the same plant family as poison ivy and poison sumac and their itchy oil is primarily contained in their shell.