Joe Besser whe only member of the Three Stooges team who was more successful in his solo career than he was with the Stooges. Also, Columbia shut down its shorts department, the Three Stooges were forced to take the act on the road, and Besser was invited to go but refused because he had to be home to take care of his sick wife. He was not fired as legend has it.
“Mighty Mo”, or “The Big Mo”, is not one of the Three Stooges but instead is one of the Iowa class battleships of WWII, the USS Missouri. The third US Navy ship to be named after the state of Missouri, Mighty Mo was the last battleship built by the Navy. Mighty Mo was launched in 1944
There were four states that allowed slavery, in which the Emancipation Proclamation had no effect: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that had seceded from the Union. Slaves in states that remained in the Union were not liberated until the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to show his support of it, even though the Constitution assigns no role to the President in the amendment process. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the U.S., was ratified after Lincoln’s death.
The father of the patriarch Abraham was Terah, whose name is Hebrew for “moon.” This is one reason that scholars speculate that the Jewish people’s ancestors were moon worshippers.
Dr. Eugene Shoemaker was a famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer who had trained the Apollo mission astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Dr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon on July 31, 1999, in an attempt to learn if there is water on the Moon.
Yes, Shoemaker’s final resting place is the moon.
For over 29 years, Willie Shoemaker held the record for most wins by a jockey in American thoroughbred horse racing; that record included four victories in the Kentucky Derby.
Since then, he’s been surpassed by Laffit Pincay, among others.
Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin’s Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky.
Rotund Montenegrin detective Nero Wolfe made his first appearance in the 1934 mystery novel Fer de Lance. Creator Rex Stout’s last Nero Wolfe novel, the Watergate-themed A Family Affair, was published in 1975.
The Roman Emperor Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. 1) The contemporary historian and chronicler Tacitus said Nero was at his villa in Antium 30 miles away when the fire that gutted Rome in AD 64 broke out; and 2) the violin was not even invented until the 16th century, although in some versions of the tale Nero plays a lute or lyre.
Saint Peter is said to have been put to death at the order of Emperor Nero; the cross was turned upside-down at Peter’s request because he saw himself as unworthy of being executed in the same manner as Jesus.
Peter Tork declined an invitation to rejoin The Monkees for a McDonald’s TV commercial, as he is a vegetarian. (Michael Nesmith also declined, because there was no promise of further work.)
Peter Tork is currently part of a band called Shoe Suede Blues
In 1992, an alternative rock group known as Suede was hailed as “The Best New Band in Britain”. The group’s debut album, also called Suede, won the Mercury Music Prize the next year after reaching the top of the UK charts.
The song “Blue Suede Shoes” appears twice on Rolling Stone’s List of 500 greatest songs and has been recorded or played in concert by Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Pat Boone, and many others.
Carl Perkins and David Bowie, two wholly different rock & roll legends, kill each other in hand to hand combat, in John Landis’ action-comedy ***Into the Night. ***
“Million Dollar Quartet” is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, arguably the first musical supergroup.
Eegah!, the story of a giant caveman, is one of the classic bad films. It was directed by Arch Hall and starred his son Arch Hall, Jr. Also in the cast – in title role – was Richard Kiel, who many years later became a minor star in the James Bond films playing the character Jaws.
James Bond, Agent 007, holds the rank of commander in the Royal Navy.