The largest-ever smuggling bust for monitor lizards occurred on the Thai-Malaysian border this past April: More than 1800 of the animals that were destined for China.
On 8/27/2010 a woman was arrested at the Bangkok airport after it was discovered that hidden among the stuffed toy tigers in her suitcase was a real like one, sedated.
The character of Tigger, the stuffed tiger, does not appear in the book Winnie the Pooh. His first appearance was in the sequel, The House at Pooh Corners.
A.A. Milne, author of the Winnie the Pooh books, also wrote several plays, among which was Miss Elizabeth Bennet, a 1936 interpretation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The play was recently performed at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
Adolph Hitler hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Jesse Owens dominated the track and field competition, destroying Hitler’s Aryan philosophy.
Owens won the 100-metre dash in 1936; the second place finisher, Ralph Metcalfe, who won a gold along with Owens on the relay team, was also African-American, so the Aryans couldn’t even finish second. Metcalfe later served in Congress; he represeted Illinois’s 1st district in the House.
However, in order to put Owens and Metcalfe on the 4x100 relay team, two Jewish athletes, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were kicked off. Owens protested to no avail. Glickman later became well-known as a radio and TV sports announcer.
Owens Lake in the Sierra Nevadas, which was 200 miles across in the Pleistocene Era, was virtually emptied by the 1924 construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which it feeds. The corruption, intimidation, and even violence surrounding the project were the background for the 1974 film Chinatown.
The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota. It contains the remains of fauna and flora preserved by entrapment in a karst sinkhole during the Pleistocene era. Mammoth bones were found at the site in 1974
Gerald Ford became President in 1974, upon the resignation of Richard Nixon, due to Watergate. Ford had become VP upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew, who resigned due to a bribery scandal unrelated to Watergate.
Aw, heck, I’ll just c/p Wiki with this one:
“The name of the [Watergate] complex was derived from the terraced steps west of the Lincoln Memorial that lead down to the Potomac River. The steps were originally planned as the official reception area for dignitaries arriving in Washington, D.C., via water taxi from Virginia, but they never served this function. Instead, beginning in 1935, the steps faced a floating performance stage on the Potomac River on which open-air concerts were held. Up to 12,000 people would sit on the steps and surrounding grass and listen to symphonies, military bands, and operas. The concerts on the barge ceased in 1965 when jet airliner service began at National Airport, making too much noise for music programs to continue.”
The five dollar bill has the names of 26 states written on it – as part of the design of the Lincoln Memorial on the back.
The dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922 was one of Robert Todd Lincoln’s last public appearances.
Lincoln Memorial University is not in Washington, but in the Tennessee town of Harrogate. The school’s collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia is said to be the world’s third-largest.
Lincoln Logs were inveted by John L. Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
San Diego Charger RB Keith Lincoln gained 329 yards from scrimmage
(206 rushing on 13 carries, 123 recieving on 7 catches) in the 1963 AFL
season title game vs the Boston Patriots. I cannot source it but I am quite
sure the total is a record for all US pro football final championship games.
The Chargers won the game 51-10.
In the next season’s AFL title game, also held in 1964 against Buffalo
Lincoln had 58 yards from scrimmage in the 1st quarter (47 rushing on
3 carries, 11 on 1 reception) when he suffered broken ribs. He did not
play again that day, and the Chargers, who had been ahead 7-0, lost 20-7.
Lincoln’s teamamte, Lance Alworth was the 1st AFL player inducted into the Hall of Fame in Canton, OH.
NFL wide receiver Lance Rentzel authored “When All the Laughter Died in Sorrow”, which covered his life from his football career to his arrests for indecent exposure. His Wikipedia page reports that Lance Armstrong was named for him.
Jonny Quest was originally developed to be cartoon based upon the radio series Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy. When Hanna-Barbera could not get the rights to Armstrong, the scripts were revamped and rewritten for new characters.
Jazz trumpeter and marijuana enthusiast Louis Armstrong was named a U.S. “goodwill ambassador” by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.