The principal Pacific salmon species are sockeye, chum, coastal cutthroat trout, chinook, coho, steelhead and pink.
The Hardy Boys – Frank and Joe – solved mysteries in Bayport, with the help of their chum, Chet Morton.
Austin “Chumlee” Russell is one of the stars of the History Channel series “Pawn Stars”, set in the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. He is the lifelong best buddy of the third generation of pawnbrokers there, Cory Harrison, son and grandson of Richard Harrison Sr. and Jr. Chumlee’s nickname comes from the walrus friend of Tennessee Tuxedo, whose voice was provided by Don Adams.
The lyrics to the second verse of Burl Ives’s Christmas classic recount the tale of the Wise Men bringing gifts to Jesus, even though there is no mention in the Bible of their bringing silver.
Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Wise men brought gifts to the manger I’m told
Mary was humble to see
Shepherds and kings there on bended knees
It’s silver and gold, silver and gold
Feeling the world with their lives
Silver and gold how they shimmer on ev’ry Christmas night
On ev’ry Christmas night
Frankincense is showing promise in fighting cancer and easing symptoms of arthritis. Myrrh is used in mouthwashes and as an aid in healing skin abrasions.
Henry Miller’s novel Tropic of Cancer was banned in the US, leading its (potential) US publisher, Grove Press, to challenge US obscenity laws. The Supreme Court ruled in 1964 that the book was not obscene, leading to a liberalization of the laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court was unable to do anything at its first meeting on February 1, 1790, at the Merchants’ Exchange Building in New York City (then the national capital), as it lacked a quorum.
The Quorum of Twelve was the governing council of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, even after that civilization’s near-destruction in the Second Cylon War, in the SciFi Channel remake of the series “Battlestar Galactica”. The Quorum, and the Kobol legend itself, were borrowed loosely from the Book of Mormon.
The scene of Laura Roslin being sworn in as President in the series premiere of the Battlestar Galactica remake was loosely based on the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson on Nov. 22, 1963, aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s nickname, LBJ, is also used by basketball star LeBron James, who also goes by King James.
The Cleveland Police Department cancelled virtually all leaves and mounted a major security effort last night at The Q Arena for the game between the Cavaliers and the Miami Heat. It marked LeBron James’s first time playing in Cleveland since leaving the Cavs to much municipal chagrin and angst this summer. Although the crowd clearly disliked James and verbally made that very clear, the game went surprisingly smoothly (although the Cavs lost, 118-90).
Two different General Motors vehicles were known as Cavaliers – the Chevrolet Cavalier, manufactured in the USA and Mexico for the North American market, and the Vauxhall Cavalier, which was primarily sold in the UK, and was originally assembled in Belgium before production moved to England.
LBJ’s death received less media prominence than it normally would have, as the day he picked to die, January 22, 1973, was the day of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision, which dominated the news.
Oh, damn! :smack: I screwed up. In coming back on, I mistook the last post on the previous page as the most recent post. Here, I’ll try again:
General Motors is the world’s second-largest carmaker by sales and production, behind Japan’s Toyota. The latter displaced the former in 2008.
For several decades after WWII, the largest car manufacturer in the world – with a total yearly production in 1962 of 50 million units, more than all the car manufacturers put together – was Lesney, maker of Matchbox cars.
One of the biggest truck manufacturing companies today is located in Minnetonka, Minnesota, home to (get this), TONKA TOYS.
There used to be (and maybe still is) a fierce civic rivalry between the twin cities on Minneapolis and St. Paul, fueled in part by a baseball rivalry between the minor league Minneapolis Millers and St. Paul Saints. People from one city were reluctant to have anything to do with each other, and the Minneapolis Lakers has left the city in part because they had trouble drawing fans from St. Paul. For this reason, when major league franchises were added in the Minneapolis area in 1961, both teams used the name of the state and not the city – the Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Twins.
They were probably the first major league teams to be named for a region and not a city; some newspapers, including Newday on Long Island, insisted on calling the teams the Minneapolis Twins at first.
The Los Angeles Angels, originally owned by former cowboy star Gene Autrey, joined the American League in 1961, at the same time the Washington Senators moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul and became the Twins. The Angels were first based in Los Angeles, then Anaheim and are now known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s full name was actually Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. He created a Commodore Wesley in the original series, and Wesley Crusher, the annoying young son of Enterprise chief medical officer Dr. Beverly Crusher, in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Representative Seaborn Roddenbery (D-GA) was obsessed by the marriages of Jack Johnson to white women and in 1912 introduced Resolution 368 which called for a national criminalization on interracial marriage and relationships, a practice he found “abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government”. Roddenbery briefly toured the country screaming the evils of miscegenation (often to great applause) until he lost his voice due to what turned out to be the throat cancer of which he died a few weeks later.