Although Saskatchewan looks like a rectangular province with four sides. In reality its eastern boundary with Manitoba contains several correction lines.
In 1951 Bette Nesmith Graham invented a correction fluid for covering over typing mistakes. In 1968 she sold the Liquid Paper Company to Gillette for $47.5 million.
Graham’s son, Mike Nesmith, was a member of the Monkees, who starred in a movie, “Head” produced by Jack Nicholson.
The cause of death of Jack French Kemp, former Congressman, HUD Secretary and 1996 GOP Vice Presidential nominee, has never been revealed more specifically than some kind of cancer. He died in May 2009.
Jack Kemp’s son Jimmy Kemp played quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the 1996 season.
Jack Dempsey lost the heavyweight crown to Gene Tunney in 1926. The scheduled rematch became famous as the “long count” bout, where Dempsey, losing on points, knocked down Tunney. Dempsey did not adhere to the new rule that the fighter go to a neutral corner (he usually stood over the downed fighter to attack him as soon as he got up). Because of this, it was several seconds before the referee started the count. Tunney got up in time to win the bout. Though many say that Dempsey would have won by knockout if the count began as soon as Tunney was down, photos of the fight show that Tunney was sitting up and resting as the referee was counting him, and likely would have been on his feet even if the count had begun immediately.
Gene Roddenberry and Bill Clinton share a birthday - August 19 (1921 for Roddenberry, 1946 for Clinton).
Clinton Richard Dawkins is the actual name of the biologist known for such books as The Selfish Gene. He generally goes by his middle name.
Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford were both adopted.
Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford were both left-handed, as were the two Presidents who served between them, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Ronald Reagan is the only President to survive an attempted assassination.
Andrew Jackson survived at assassination attempt in 1835, when an unemployed house painter leveled a gun at him from point-blank range. The gun misfired. While people were still reacting, he pulled out a second pistol. That gun misfired. Both guns were found later to be in perfect working condition, but the damp weather may have played a factor.
Gerald Ford survived two assasination attempts less than three weeks apart in 1975. In the first one Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, drew a .45 caliber pistol on Ford but was restrained by Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf. In the second, Sara Jane Moore fired a revolver at Ford from 40 feet but a bystander, Oliver Sipple, grabbed Moore’s arm and the shot missed.
IIRC, Jackson actually chased after the perp himself.
But possibly what Didact Lectorem777 meant is Reagan was the only president to have actually been wounded in an assassination attempt and lived to tell the tale.
Gerald Ford was at one time a male model.
Out of game: Theodore Roosevelt also survived an assassination attempt, although it occurred in 1912,when he was an ex-president running as the Bull Moose candidate after being succeeded by William Howard Taft in 1909.
In play: Gerald Ford’s son Steven is an actor whose roles include private investigator Andy Richards on The Young and the Restless.
“The Young and the Breastless” is a Midland, Texas-based association of young (however one chooses to define it) women who have or have survived breast cancer.
“Cancer” the disease and the Zodiac sign are from the same word, which was Latin for “crab.” The zodiac sign, of course, is a crab, but the disease was named so because the appearance of veins on a tumor that makes it look like a crab’s legs. Due to the bad connotation of the word, the zodiac sign is sometimes called “Moon Children.”
The Moon Motor Car Company was based in St. Louis from 1905 to 1930. It produced not only trucks and passenger cars, but a cotton picker as well.
William Least Heat-Moon, also known as William Lewis Trogdon, wrote the nonfiction book Blue Highways, which spent 34 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.
Blue is the traditional colour for conservative political parties in Canada.