Lucille Ball co-starred with the Marx Brothers in their film Room Service.
Lucille Ball owned Desilu Studios, which produced the first Star Trek series. Gene Roddenberry always said that Ball was very supportive of the program.
The Ball Corporation had been the leading manufacturer of glass Mason jars, used for preserving food, since 1884, until farming the manufacturing side out (while keeping its name on the product). Ball branched out into the aerospace business in the 1950’s, and provided much of the technology for many orbiting telescopes used today.
The five Ball Brothers, founders of The Ball Corporation, bought the bankrupt Indiana Normal Institute and gave it to the state of Indiana. The school was formally renamed Ball Teachers College in 1922 and Ball State University in 1965. Its alumni include character actor Andy Devine, cartoonist Jim Davis (creator of Garfield) and David Letterman.
James Garfield, the 20th President, servved 200 days in office before being shot on July 2nd. He was the 2nd to be assassinated; and since his death only 2 more Presidents have met this fate.
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Garfield was succeeded in office by Chester A. Arthur, the only graduate of Union College in Schenectady to become President. Jimmy Carter also attended classes at Union, but as what would now be called continuing education. Union actually has no record of Carter attending, since they didn’t keep records of non-matriculated students at that time, but Carter has confirmed that he took the classes when he was working in the Navy’s Kesselring nuclear site.
Jimmy Carter was the only graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis to serve as President (1977-1981).
Jimmy Carter is the only president to have a documented UFO sightingin his records; he gave an official report on a bright object he saw change colors and sped across the sky in Leary, Georgia (a tiny town in SOWEGA*) in 1969. Asked about it during his campaigns he maintains he saw it but says he doubts it was extraterrestrial.
*SOWEGA [pronounced so-WEE-gah] is local speak for Southwest Georgia.
“Georgia On My Mind” was written by Hoagy Carmichael, a singer-songwriter-actor. Ian Fleming said Carmichael matched his mental image of what James Bond looked like.
A hoagy is called different names in different parts of the US, including submarine, sub, grinder, hero, Italian sandwich, po’ boy, wedge, zep or zeppelin, torpedo, bocadillo, blimpie, bomber, cosmo, rocket, spuckie, tunnel, or wedge. The etymologies for many of these names are obscure or doubtful, but many are clearly descriptive.
The Zeppelin was a type of airship originally designed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. The Zeppelin differed from other airships with its rigid frame and multiple airbags, which allowed larger designs that could handle larger loads. Zeppelins were first used to carry passengers, however, after World War I, they were primarily used for military purposes.
Led Zeppelin was originally named The New Yardbirds, after Jimmy Page’s former group. They adopted the new name to establish their own identity as a band. Legend has it that the name came from a remark by John Entwistle that a proposed supergroup including him, keith Moon, Page, and Jeff Beck would “go over like a lead zeppelin”, the British version of the American term “lead balloon”. Their manager took out the first A out of an expectation that the thick Yanks would mispronounce it.
Peg Entwistle, a stage and film actress and stepmother of future actor Brian Keith, became famous not for her career but for jumping to her death from the letter H in the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in 1932. The sign was later shortened to just HOLLYWOOD, though not due in any way to Entwistle’s death.
John Entwistle of The Who had a very unique style of bass play, and an odd musical relationship with the other players in the band. In many songs, Pete Townshend and they reversed their traditional roles, with the lead guitar providing the backing, rythmic drone while the bass delivered the complex melodies, arpegios or solos. In other songs, Entwistle kept the rythm for the band while Keith Moon did the improv, melodic bits on the drums.
Earth’s Moon is the largest such satellite, as compared to the planet which it orbits, of any in the Solar System. The first manned landing upon it was by Apollo 11 in July 1969.
The Holden Apollo (essentially a re-badged Camry) was manufactured by Toyota, but sold as a Holden (General Motors brand) in Australia from 1989 to 1997.
Maybe now. But up until 2006, Charon was the largest satellite in comparison to the planet it orbited. Charon has a mass that is 11.6% of Pluto’s. The Moon’s mass is only 1.2% of Earth’s.
But getting back on the track: Before building automobiles, Toyota was originally a textile company that got into mechanical manufacturing by making automated looms. Toyota still has a division that makes textiles and textile machinery.
The Toyota Camry is the most likely to be stolen car as far as total numbers stolen per year, though the Cadillac Escalade is the most stolen in terms of “number stolen:number on the road” (about 11 for every 1000 manufactured as opposed to <2 for every 1000 manufactured for Camrys).
Tony Soprano of HBO’s award-winning Mafia drama The Sopranos drove an Escalade, and once got a blowjob from a stripper in his while his wife Carmela was visiting Paris.
Fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs, briefly on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives list, was apprehended when his Cadillac Escalade was pulled over due to an expired temporary Colorado tag outside of Las Vegas. The officer said he probably would have just issued a citation had the driver, Jeffs’ half-brother Isaac (their father Rulon [pictured herewith two of his wives] had more than 60 children) not acted so nervous.
