Rowlf was the first Muppet to make regular appearances on national TV, on The Jimmy Dean Show in 1963. Dean would perform duets with Rowlf; the segment was the most popular one of the show. Though a major star in country music in the 60s, Dean is best remembered today for his sausage.
Although FDR married Teddy’s niece, the blood relationship between the two Roosevelt Presidents was not particularly close: they were fifth cousins. For comparison, Presidents Tyler and Monroe were 4th cousins; George H.W.Bush was 4th cousin (2x removed) with Pres. Garfield; and President Zachary Taylor was probable 4th cousin (4x removed) with Jimmy Carter.
It took me so long to double-check the genealogy that Siam Sam skipped away from the Roosevelts. A little later I realized I could salvage my effort by segueing back with Jimmy Carter.
Woohoo! 199 pages!
Jimmy Dean appeared, playing a Howard Hughes-style billionaire recluse, in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
Just a note: I watched those 1963 episodes with Rowlf the Dog. My parents about bust a gut laughing. I’d forgotten about Rowlf and didn’t even realize at the time of course that he was a Muppet.
In play: Diamonds are the only pure gemstone, being made of a single element: carbon.
mm - shouldn’t let the Cub have my iPhone
Forbes Field, where the Pittsburgh Pirates played until 1970, had at its opening a distinctive heart-shaped baseball diamond.
No one ever pitched a no-hitter in Forbes Field.
Just-retired Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek holds the major league record for catching no-hitters, with four. The pitchers were Hideo Nomo, Derek Lowe, Clay Buchholz, and Jon Lester. In addition, he was one shake-off by Curt Schilling away from a fifth. Varitek is the only player to have performed in the championship games of Little League World Series, a state high school tournament (his Lake Brantley, FL HS team was chosen #1 in the nation by USA Today), the College World Series, and the Major League Baseball World Series, and in both the Olympics and the World Baseball Classic.
In 1997, the Seattle Mariners traded Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek to the Red Sox for relief pitcher Heathcliff Slocumb. Slocumb paid immediate dividends as he helped the Mariners make the playoffs that year, but he was out of the majors by 2000, while Varitek just retired this month and Lowe is now with the Cleveland Indians.
The Cleveland Indians have regularly played at League Park, Cleveland Municipal Stadium and Jacobs Field, now known as Progressive Field. President Bill Clinton was present for the current park’s opening, and threw out the ceremonial first pitch, in April 1994.
League Park, part of which still exists as a public park, was also the home of the 1890’s Cleveland Spiders of the National League and the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Negro American League. The Cleveland Lake Shores of the new American League, later renamed the Indians after a popular player, Louis Sockalexis, replaced the Spiders after the NL franchise folded.
The Drew Carey Show is the only show to have three different opening sequences, with three different songs: “Moon Over Parma” sung by Drew Carey “Five O’Clock World” by The Vogues, and “Cleveland Rocks” by The Presidents of the United States of America.
“Cleveland Rocks” was written by Ian Hunter and appeared in the US on his 1979 album “You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic” but was first released as a single in England in 1977 as “England Rocks” because his label would not release “Cleveland Rocks” as a single in the States.
The oldest rocks in the world have been found in the Canadian Shield, Australia and Africa. They have been dated to between 2.5 and 3.8 billion years old.
Bandleader Guy Lombardo, a native of London, Ontario, named his band the Royal Canadians in honor of his home. They played New Year’s Eve concerts from 1929 to 1976 at the Roosevelt Hotel and later the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, then for 2 more years in a CBS studio after Lombardo’s passing. From 1948 to 1949, Lombardo was also the US champion hydroplane speedboat racer, eventually winning every trophy in the sport.
The Depot Division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, located in Regina, Saskatchewan, is the training station for all RCMP cadets. Every summer the cadets put on the Sunset Ceremony once a week, displaying their band, drill, and antique weapons. The ceremony has links to the Tattoo ceremonies of the British military.
Corn is not a major crop in Saskatchewan. Wheat, rye, oats, barley, flax, birdseed and canola are far more significant.
Dick Simmons played the starring role in the 1955-58 television series “Sergeant Preston of the Yukon” as the noble RCMP officer, along with his horse Rex and his dog Yukon King. He was satirized on “Rocky and Bullwinkle” in their “Dudley Do-Right” segments. While Preston faced a different criminal foe each week, and always got his man, Do-Right was invariably outwitted by Snidely Whiplash.
J.K. Simmons has an uncredited role as a police detective in the 2011 medical thriller The Good Doctor, starring Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings).
Robert Blake has an uncredited role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). He’s the little Mexican boy selling lottery tickets toward the beginning.