In the great but forgotten superhero TV series, Once a Hero – showing the life of Captain Justice, a former superhero who crossed over from fantasy and in the real world, where superpowers didn’t exist. The fourth (but never aired) episode was the story about an actor who played Captain Justice on TV and who now was typecast in the role and was frustrated that no one would take him seriously as any actor any more. The part was played by Adam West.
The characters in Comedy Central’s raunchy spoof of both animated TV shows and CBS’ “Big Brother”, “Drawn Together”, parodies superheros with the character Captain Hero. Others include Foxxy Love, Ling-Ling, Princess Clara, Spanky Ham, Toot Braunstein, Wooldoor Sockbat, and Xandir P. Wifflebottom.
Robert April, Christoper Pike, James T. Kirk and Spock all served as captain of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701.
American Episcopal Bishop James Pike died in the Judean Desert while searching for evidence of the historical Jesus. It is not known whether he fell into a creek bed or climbed into one and, unable to get out, died of exposure and thirst.
The first hijacking of a commercial airliner was the Miss Macao, a Catalina seaplane owned by Cathay Pacific. On July 16, 1948 during a flight from a Chinese island to Hong Kong. Piracy for robbery and ransom was the motive, but it ended badly when the plane crashed and all aboard died except for one of the hijackers. But this had never happened before, and no one could figure out who had jurisdiction to try him – Macau, Hong Kong, China? – and the hijacker was eventually released and deported to China.
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Just double-checked, and that was a flight from Macau to Hong Kong.
Pardon the technical glitch above.
Macau was leased by Portugal, starting in 1557, for an annual rent of 500 taels of silver. It served as a trafficking point for Chinese slaves to Portugal and Brazil.
::Wow:: It was James Pike who performed the sacrament of confirmation on Septimus G. Stevens. He spoke to me on another occasion when I carried the processional cross at Grace Cathedral. That was long long ago and I had no idea about this news item.
Does this put me two degrees of separation from the historical Jesus? 
Naturally occurring silver has two stable isotopes – Ag109 and Ag107. The two isotopes are almost equal in abundance with Ag107 making up 52% of the element. This is rare for elements to be so evenly split among its isotopes.
The film Risky Business’s scene of Tom Cruise dancing to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet’s Band “Old Time Rock & Roll” is one of the best known and most parodied song videos in history.
While Bob Seger recorded a song called Makin’ Thunderbirds, his best-known connection to the auto industry is Chevrolet’s use of his Like a Rock in a long-running ad campaign.
ZZ Top, Seasick Steve and* They Might Be Giants* each recorded different songs titled “Thunderbird”, celebrating the fortified wine produced by E. & J. Gallo Winery, which also produces Ripple and Night Train Express.
The Thunderbirds are the showcase aerobatic group of the U.S. Air Force; they fly F-16 Falcons. Their U.S. Navy equivalents are the Blue Angels; they fly F/A-18 Hornets.
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s demonstration team, the Snowbirds, is formally 431 Air Demonstration Squadron. Based at CFB Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, it is the only RCAF unit still flying the Canadair CT-114 Tutor.
The “US Air Force” song (usually referred to as “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder”) predates the US Air Force. It was written for the Army and the original lyrics ended with “Nothing can stop the Army Air Corps.” When the Air Force became a separate branch of the military in 1947, they lyrics were changed.
The new Chief of Staff of the Indian Air Force is Air Marshal Norman K. Browne. His predecessor 1960-64 was Air Marshal Aspy Engineer.
George C. Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, appears as a character in the WWII drama Saving Private Ryan, reading President Abraham Lincoln’s famous letter to Mrs. Bixby of Boston, expressing his condolences over what was believed to be the death of her four sons in U.S. military service.
Three of the five Sullivan brothers, of Waterloo, Iowa, were killed on 11/13/42 off Guadalcanal in the sinking of the light cruiser USS Juneau. One more brother died a day later, and the fifth jumped out of his life raft and drowned himself in grief after five days adrift. The US military adopted the Sole Survivor policy, the basis of Saving Private Ryan, as a result. The Sullivans (DD-537) was the first USN vessel to be named after more than one person.
Juneau, Alaska is the only state capital that is not reachable by the rest of the state by road. If you want to drive there, you need to take a ferry.
Richard Smith, the Staten Island Ferry captain, who drove the vehicle into a pier post and killed eleven people, only served 18 months in prison for the incident.