There has never been an assassination of a Canadian Prime Minister.
The assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, while he and his wife were walking home from a movie, has never been offically solved, despite the conviction (and later reversal) of a suspect. Conspiracy theories involve the CIA, the KGB, the Yugoslav secret police, and the South African apartheid government.
The organization known as the KGB underwent many name changes of the the years, starting out as the Cheka; the OGPU; the NKGB; the MGB and GRU, and finally the KGB.
Nick Foley is a sleeper agent of the KGB in Boston in Joe Haldeman’s 1987 science fiction/Cold War espionage thriller Tool of the Trade.
Wrestler/actor Mick Foley has used the stage names Dude Love, Cactus Jack and Mankind in the ring - er, 'scuse me, the “squared circle”. He has charted on the NY Times bestseller list multiple times with his memoirs.
“Mick”, Mickey Goldmill, was Rocky Balboa’s initial trainer and manager.
Rocky Butler was the fourth string quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2002. In the Labour Day Classic of that year, he was the starter, because injuries had knocked out the first, second, and third string quarterbacks.
A feeling of gloom hung over Taylor Field as the fans came in. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were led by Khahari Jones, the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player of 2001. It was Butler’s first professional start. And if he went down, there was no back-up QB left.
Rocky led the Riders to an improbable 33-19 win over the Bombers, in one of the best Labour Day Classics ever!
Go Riders! (Off to Taylor Field in two hours for this year’s Labour Day Classic.)
The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry famously known as the “Rough Riders” was also known as “Wood’s Weary Walkers”
The First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood, M.D.
It’s not known if the Saskatchewan Roughriders took their name from Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders, or if it was simply a common term in the Dakotas and Saskatchewan at that time.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a publicly owned team, similar to the Green Bay Packers.
The three primary colors of light are red, blue, and green.
In 1672, Isaac Newton originally divided the light spectrum into five primary colors: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. He later included orange and indigo.
Contrary to assumption, the major export of South Carolina prior to the Civil War was indigo. Because of the difficulty converting indigo into dye (a process that involved soaking the plant in urine), and the prevalence of disease in the indigo-growing areas of the state, the aristocracy – who owned the farms but lived in Charleston) thought their entire livelihood would be destroyed if slavery ended, because they couldn’t get anyone but a slave to work in those conditions. It was one of the reasons why South Carolina was so opposed to emancipation and became the first state to secede.
The Mood Indigo Festival is the annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. It is a four-day long event held towards the end of December every year, and is the largest festival of its kind in Asia.
The name Mood Indigo was inspired by Duke Ellington’s jazz composition “Mood Indigo”. The organizers also have another justification to the name. “The color chosen to be representative of the Mood was Indigo — a fusion of Red and Blue. Red for the warmth and passion of an artistic adventure, blue for the originality of the rational mind, giving Indigo, the symbol of creativity and intellectualism.”
Duke Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., and was featured on the “state quarter” in 2009.
On September 13, 2009, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 55-10. That 45 point deficit was Saskatchewan’s most lopsided victory over Winnipeg, until today’s Labour Day Classic: Saskatchewan 52, Winnipeg 0.
(I’ll stop now - but it was a pretty sweet game to watch!)
(Unless you were a Bomber fan, of course.)
55-10: another football score, this time in the NFL; the most lopsided Super Bowl ever was in Super Bowl XXIV when the San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos by that same score.
(It sounds like you had fun today, Northern Piper.)
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was the debut album by Pink Floyd.
“The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is the name of a chapter in the Wind in the Willows, in which Rat and Mole encounter Pan, playing his pipes on the river-bank early in the morning.