Grace Slick jokingly told nurses that her newborn daughter (actually named China) would be named God. The nurses took her seriously, and spread the story- as a result, numerous trivia and reference books to this day claim falsely that Slick has a child named God.
For many Christians, the grace of God is one foundation of our faith and is a gift of God, not something that we earn. This concept is demonstrated in the New Testament, in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 8:
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–"
The widespread computer language COBOL was based on the Flow-Matic language, developed by Admiral Grace Hopper.
Rear Adm. Grace Hopper is the only female Navy officer to now have a U.S. Navy warship named after her.
To encourage computer programmers to write the most efficient code possible, Adm. Grace Hopper would carry with her strips of wire 11.8 inches long, the distance that light could travel in one nanosecond. She also carried a coil of wire almost 1000 feet long and implored programmers to not turn nanoseconds into microseconds.
Kevin Spacey provided the voice of the evil locust Hopper, in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life.
It is incorrect to use the term “insect” and “bug” interchangably. Bugs are only those insects of the order hemiptera.
Some people include only members of the suborder Heteroptera among the “true bugs”. Families of this suborder include assassin bugs; bedbugs and flower bugs; and stink bugs.
Ambush Bug was a DC superhero/villain whose main power was teleportation, but who quickly became a metacharacter who commented on superhero tropes and cliches and was aware that he was a comic book character.
In the late 19th century Thomas Edison favored DC current, while Nikola Tesla favored AC current, in bringing electricity to the masses.
Edison Arantes do Nascimento is better known as Pelé, by most accounts the greatest footballer ever. A career-long member of Santos until a last hurrah with the New York Cosmos in the NASL, hewas the star of the Brazil side that won the 1958 World Cup against Sweden when was only 17.
The Gospel according to Thomas is a non-canonical gospel, consisting of sayings attributed to Jesus.
Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution near Stanford University in California.
In 1860, Maine-born Milton Bradley invented and released the Game of Life- the oldest board game still produced by the company that bears his name.
Milton Bradley is an outfielder with the Seattle Mariners. He has also played with the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, and Montreal Expos in his career.
A “clerihew” is a form of comic verse named after its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956).
It consists of two metrically awkward couplets and usually presents a ludicrously uninformative ‘biography’ of some famous person whose name appears as one of the rhymed words in the first couplet."
Example:
*John **Milton
**Never slept in a Hilton
Hotel.
Just as well. *
Bentley Motors, headquartered in Crewe, England, has several models including the Mulsanne, Continental, and the EXP-9 concept car.
The town of Crewe was named after a railway station called Crewe, as opposed to the railway station being named after the town.
The Cardassian space station Terok Nor was, after it was turned over the provisional Bajoran government and the United Federation of Planets, renamed Deep Space Nine.
Drummer Ian Paice is the only musician who has been part of EVERY lineup of Deep Purple.