Gertie the Dinosaur, a 1914 animated film, was made before animation cels and required literally thousands of individual pen and ink drawings by “America’s Greatest Cartoonist” Winsor McKay.
On September 3, 1914, Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeded Pope Pius X as the 258th pope.
Pius IX was the pope who declared the matter of Papal Infallibility (on ex cathedra matters) and who extended the church’s ban on abortion to include inanimate (i.e. “not yet quick”) fetuses, both in 1869. (He is also the namesake of Pio Nono Avenue in Macon, Georgia, though I honestly don’t know why it was named that.)
[Not a domino, but regarding the above: as a matter of curiosity I looked it up and in case anybody else is interested, the reason Macon, GA has a Pio Nono Ave. is because there was a Jesuit school named that in the 1870s; the school still exists but is now St. Joseph’s.)
In The Godfather III, Cardinal Lamberto of Sicily, was elected Pope John Paul I in 1979. Approximating real life, Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice was elected Pope John Paul I in 1978.
Wow, the Brewers get no respect.
The title of the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a quote from the poem “Eloisa to Abelard” by Alexander Pope.
Too late.
An albino is someone with unusually light skin, hair and eyes.
ETA: damn, too slow…
Although now better known as a poet, Alexander Pope also published translations of Homer’s Illiad and The Odyssey.
Ronald Reagan played Grover Cleveland Alexander in “The Winning Team.”
Grover Cleveland, the only man to serve nonconsecutive terms as President, served on the board of trustees of Princeton University after leaving the White House, and is buried in the Princeton cemetery.
Princeton-by-the-Sea, near Half Moon Bay California, is the site of the famous Maverick’s surfing contest (being held this weekend).
Woodrow Wilson, our only PhD president, was the 13th president of Princeton University, from 1902-10.
Wilson’s tomb in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is engraved with the coats of arms of the U.S. and of Princeton University; Wilson is the only President buried in Washington.
Wilson’s real first name was Thomas; Woodrow was his middle name.
Musician Thomas Dolby’s real name is Thomas Robertson. He was sued by Dolby Laboratories over his stage name, and reached a settlement in which he agreed to use the name Dolby only in conjunction with his first name, Thomas.
Ironically, Dr. Ray Dolby, the founder of Dolby Laboratories, has a son named Thomas.
Thomas Dolby married “Dynasty” starlet Kathleen Beller; he also received credit, as “Tom Dolby,” for playing the keyboards on Foreigner’s “4” album.
The part of Blake Carrington on Dynasty was originally played by George Peppard, who left the role because he felt the character was too unsympathetic.
George Peppard played Hannibal Smith in the 1980s TV show The A-Team; Liam Neeson plays Hannibal Smith in the 2010 big screen remake.