Black Bart – real name Charles Earl Bowles (born 1829, died after 1888) – was an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for his poetic messages left after two of his robberies. Also known as Charles Bolton, CE Bolton and Black Bart the Poet, he was a gentleman bandit and one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to operate in and around northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s.
English royalty has no rank of “count,” using instead “earl” for the rank (though the earl’s wife is a countess). Legend has it was “count” wasn’t used because it could be pronounced as though the “o” wasn’t present.
The Sixties garage rock band Count Five had one big hit: “Psychotic Reaction.”
Four men were President of the United States during the Sixties: Dwight D. Eisenhower (through Jan. 1961), John F. Kennedy (1961-63), Lyndon Johnson (1963-69), and Richard M. Nixon (1969 to his resignation in Aug. 1974).
Stanley Kubrick based his film Barry Lyndon, about an 18th century Irish adventurer played by Ryan O’Neal, on a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In it, Lyndon serves in both the British and Prussian Armies in the Seven Years’ War.
The Seven Years’ War is regarded by some historians as the first true world war: Together with their allies and proxies, two European superpowers vied for global domination. The North American campaign is known as the French and Indian War, which climaxed with Wolfe’s victory over Montcalme on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City in September 1759.
The only dates where the day, month, and date are alliterative are Saturday & Sunday September 6th, 7th, 16th & 17th, and Friday February 1st, 4th, 5th, 14th & 15th.
Canada’s first television station, CBFT-TV, made its on-air debut in Montreal on September 6th, 1952.
Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV and The Comedy Network in Canada.
Deriving its name from the roadside gas station in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas is the only gas station for 60 kilometres (37 mi) in any direction. Brent Leroy (Brent Butt) is the proprietor of the station and Wanda Dollard (Nancy Robertson) works at the station’s convenience store as a retail assistant. An adjoining coffee shop, The Ruby, is owned by Lacey Burrows (Gabrielle Miller), who inherited it from her Aunt Ruby.
The series completed its run following broadcast of its sixth season on April 13, 2009, with a total of 107 episodes.
The show became an instant hit, averaging a million viewers per episode. Corner Gas has been the recipient of six Gemini Awards, and has been nominated almost 70 times for various awards.
On April 6, 2009, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall signed a proclamation that declared April 13, 2009 (and the same day every year after), “Corner Gas Day” in Saskatchewan
Dick Assman, owner of a Petro-Canada gas station in Regina, Saskatchewan, was a running joke in 1995, on the Late Show with David Letterman, where he was a nightly feature for about a month. Live field units in Canada interviewed him for the show. Over the weeks, Joe Namath declared himself an “Ass-maniac”, while Assman received a musical tribute from Tony Orlando on Letterman:
“Northgate Petro-Canada
Oh, they’re relocating
Their new office at Victoria Square
They’re celebrating
Oh vaya con dios, Dick Assman
Vaya con dios, my love”
A proctologist with the New York vanity license plate ASSMAN appeared in an episode of Seinfeld.
WWF Superstar “Bad Ass” Billy Gunn had an ill-conceived gimmick for awhile in which he called himself “Mr. Ass”, and would quite frequently moon the crowd. The opening line of his theme music was, “I’m an ass man.”
(I, um, once did a striptease to his music, which my then-girlfriend thought was funny as hell.)
What about Saturday & Sunday September 2nd?
The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour, set by an Apollo lunar rover.
The Enterprise crew meets the Greek god Apollo (actually an alien with powers akin to Q, but with a power source that can be destroyed by conventional weapons) in the Star Trek original series “Who Mourns for Adonais?” Chekov is notably not impressed.
Apollo (with authority): I AM APOLLO!
Chekov (with a shrug): And I am the czar of all the Russias.
The actor who played Apollo in that episode was Michael Forest. Michael Forest graduated from SJSU - San Jose State University.
The San Jose State Spartans football team has won 16 conference championships in its history, including eight championships (or co-championships) in the Big West Conference, making it the BWC’s all-time leader in league football championships. The Spartans have not won a conference championship since moving to the Western Athletic Conference in 1996, but they have earned two bowl berths as WAC members-- the 2006 New Mexico Bowl, and the upcoming 2012 Military Bowl.
Despite the conference being dominated by UNLV at the time, the last Pacific Coast Athletic Association basketball champions was Utah State. The PCAA changed its name to the Big West Conference in 1988.
In the 1989-1990 Mens Basketaball season, the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels featured future NBA star Larry Johnson, with Greg Anthony, Stacey Augmon, David Butler and Anderson Hunt. This team rolled through (most of) the NCAA March Madness Tournament, including ending Loyola Marymount’s Cinderells season - R.I.P., Hank Gathers. That win was decisive, by the score of 131-103.
In the championship game the Runnin’ Rebels crushed the Duke Blue Devils by the most lopsided score in championship history, 103-73.
Tom Cruise played IMF Agent Ethan Hunt in four Mission: Impossible movies. He has indicated an interest in playing him yet again.
Pro soccer player Ethan Zohn, the winner of “Survivor: Africa” (the show’s third season), once dribbled a soccer ball from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Washington, DC to promote his anti-AIDS charity, Grassroot Soccer. He and his girlfriend and fellow Survivor winner, Jenna Morasca, later competed on “The Amazing Race” and “Celebrity Apprentice”.