Shortstop Ozzie Smith, nicknamed “The Wizard” for his defensive brilliance, set major league records for career assists (8,375) and double plays (1,590) by a shortstop (the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel {Go Giants!}), as well as the National League (NL) record with 2,511 career games at the position.
“John Smith” was a alias used by the Doctor when he needed to give a name. The Third Doctor was the first to use it. The Doctor’s real name has never been revealed, though in one episode an old friend from Gallifrey called him “Thete.” It’s unclear if that’s his name, a school nickname, or a case of mistaken identity.
John F. Kennedy almost won the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1956 when Adlai Stevenson left the decision up to the convention. When a friend said shortly afterwards that he could surely get it four years later, Kennedy laughed and said, “I’m opposed to vice in all its forms.” He had already decided to run for the top spot, and would run and win in 1960.
Cape Canaveral is a headland in Brevard County, Florida, near the center of the state’s Atlantic coast. Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River. KSC, the John F. Kennedy Space Center, is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968.Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral. It is 34 miles (55 km) long and roughly 6 miles (10 km) wide.
NASA came into being on 1 October 1958 as the successor to NACA, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, created in 1916 as a civilian government organization performing research into aviation.
Apollo 1 was planned to launch on 21-Feb-1967, but burned in a test on the launch pad on 27-Jan, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. The next Apollo mission to launch was Apollo 7 on 11-Oct-1968 with Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham.
William Peterson’s ***CSI ***character, Gil Grissom, was inspired by Daniel Holstein, a real life forensic scientist with the Las Vegas police department. Peterson gave Grissom some of Holstein’s real traits and hobbies. For instance, Grissom, like Holstein, has a large collection of insects.
Center fielder Marquis Grissom finished his 18-year MLB career with the San Francisco Giants.
The USS Grissom, a Starfleet science vessel presumably named after the late American astronaut, is destroyed by a Klingon warship in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Dr. Benjamin Spock said, “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”
Benjamin and Joseph were the only sons of the patriarch Jacob by his favorite wife Rachel.
Bilhah was Rachel’s handmaid, and she also became a wife of Jacob.
After Moby Dick, the great white whale, sank the Pequod and killed most of its crew, Ishmael was rescued by a ship called the Rachel.
From Genesis we learn that Leah and Rachel were sisters. The Bible tells us that Rachel was very beautiful while Leah was tender eyed.
In Stephen King’s book, The Stand, it is noted early in the story that the full name of the character Glen Bateman is “Glendon Pequod Bateman,” possibly in reference to either the Pequod or the Native American Pequot tribe.
Abagail Freemantle, also known as “Mother Abagail”, leads the “good” survivors of the Captain Trips plague, and is also a prophet of God. She is 108 years old and lives in a farmhouse in Hemingford Home, Nebraska.
The Fremantle Doctor is a cooling afternoon sea breeze off the Indian Ocean which refreshes Perth, Australia and its port town of Fremantle. It played a large role in design and strategy of the 1987 America’s Cup regatta off Fremantle, the first time the regatta had been held outside the United States since the very first one in 1851 off the Isle of Wight.
“Scirocco” means easterly wind arising from a warm, dry tropical airmass pulled northward by low-pressure cells moving eastward across the Mediterranean Sea, with the wind originating in the Arabian or Saharan deserts.
Both Kansas and Arkansas take their names from the Kanza (or Kaw) Indian nation. The name “Kanza” is widely (though not necessarily correctly) believed to mean “people of the Southern wind.”
Aragorn and Legolas together sing the Lament for Boromir as his boat drifts away. Aragorn sings the songs of the North and West Winds and Legolas sings the song of the South Wind. Gimli says he will not sing the East Wind. Aragorn agrees, because the people of Gondor endure the East Wind from Mordor but do not ask it any tidings.