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The highest office attained by a former professional basketball player in the US is Senator, by former Princeton All-American and New York Knick forward Bill Bradley of New Jersey. Among current officeholders, former Detroit Piston forward and current Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is the highest-ranking.
Confederate cavalry genius Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest (correct spelling for him and for Gump) once threatened to kill Gen. Braxton Bragg, his commanding officer.
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Sen. Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey, took up basketball again in order to schmooze fellow lawmakers, rallying votes for the eventual passage of the 1986 Tax Reform Act.
Bill Bradley dropped out of Oxford two months prior to graduation in April 1967, to go into the Air Force Reserves.
On the Beverly Hillbillies it was said that Jethro went to Oxford. It was actually a town whose name was originally Oxen Ford but they shortened it to Oxford.
Jethro done graduated sixth grade and took to ciphering like a mule takes to millet!
Jethro Tull invented the seed drill and the horse-drawn hoe, helping to spark the Agricultural Revolution in Britain in the 18th century.
Not a play: Actually, he’s tied with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former Sacramento Kings guard.
In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro is the father in law of Moses and the father of Zipporah.
That is true as well in the Christian bible, in chapter 18 in the book of Exodus, the second book of the Old Testament. It’s in the Torah portion Yitro.
In Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), the Japanese characters in the film refer to the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor as “December 8,” which is technically correct, as Japan is about a day ahead of Hawaii. It was translated as “December 7” in the subtitles to avoid confusing American audiences.
By remembering the International Date Line, even though his own diary covered 81 days, Phileas Fogg is able to win his bet that he could travel Around the World In Eighty Days, in the Jules Verne novel.
On November 1, 1884, the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC agreed to establish international zones according to the same system. GMT was considered the “time zero,” and the twenty-four standard meridians marked the centres of the zones. The International Date Line was placed along the 180 degree meridian in the Pacific Ocean.
Although the agreement was never written, France agreed to accept Greenwich as the prime meridian rather than Paris, in return for Britain agreeing to accept the French-devised metric system. Helping Greenwich become the Prime Meridian was the fact that both the UK and US Navies, the world’s largest at the time, as well as their merchant fleets used UK Admiralty maps based on it.
Paris became known as the City of Lights due to the intellectual residents (the “lights”) who made Paris a world-renowned center, drawing other artists, writers and sculptors.
The present-day city of Paris is on the site of a town known as Lutetia during the era of Roman Gaul. The chemical element lutetium was named by its French discoverer, Georges Urbain, in honor of Lutetia.
Artist Pierre-August Renoir grew up in a slum that spring up in the courtyard of the Louvre in Paris.
Tom Paris was helmsman of USS Voyager, and later married and had a child with the half-Klingon B’Elanna Torres, chief engineer of the ship.
In the ST:TOS episode “The Corbomite Maneuver”, actor Jonathan Goldsmith did something commonly thought impossible - he survived the entire episode despite wearing a red shirt. The achievement is only one of many reasons he today is Dos Equis Beer’s Most Interesting Man in the World.
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The Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has over 1 million graves, including those of Chopin, Molière, Proust, Modigliani and Balzac. Also buried there are Jim Morrison, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan and Edith Piaf.
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