[del]Frank Morgan, later to gain fame as the title character in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, was in the Broadway production of Seventh Heaven that ran from 1922 to '24.[/del]
Feeder Airlines is based in the recently-formed country of South Sudan.
Robert Hays must take over as pilot of a Trans American Airlines flight in the disaster movie spoof ***Airplane! ***
Trans Canada Airlines was re-named Air Canada in the early 1960s as the result of private member’s bill by a new backbencher named Jean Chrétien.
I think Elendil’s Heir got skipped over a few posts back. How are we playing that?
Aw, I don’t mind.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was impersonated by a Montreal DJ in a prank call to Queen Elizabeth II in October 1995.
[I’ll play off both of **Elendil’s Heir’s** posts.]
As Queen of Canada, Queen Elizabeth is represented at the federal level in Canada by the Governor General, and at the provincial level by Lieutenant Governors.
As Queen of the United Kingdom, she is represented in Canada by the British High Commissioner to Canada.
A handy acronym to remember most Canadian provinces bordering the USA from west to east is BASMOQ: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
Saskatchewan’s economy is the fastest growing in Canada. In fact, in 2007, when the mortgage/housing bubble crisis hit most of North America, house prices in Regina and Saskatoon began to skyrocket.
Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada where the people do not have to change their clocks when there is a time change. The province stays on Central Standard Time all year round.
Saskatchewan is the only province where neither of the old-line parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, has any elected members in the Legislature.
Winston Churchill was first elected to Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party. He crossed over to the Liberal Party in 1904 over the Conservatives’ tariff policies. As the Liberals started losing power to the Labour Party, Churchill, after losing an election as a Liberal, rejoined the Conservative Party in 1924. The Conservatives mistrusted him and he became isolated from the party, who didn’t like his constant criticism of their foreign policy, notably his warnings about the dangers of Hitler. He denounced the Munich Agreement, and, when Hitler invaded Poland, they were forced to admit he had been right all along and he was named Prime Minister.
David Lloyd George, a Liberal leader and British prime minister at the end of World War I, was a mentor to Winston Churchill, but was a bit taken aback by his driving ambition. He once joked, “Winston would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises.”
Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. for his “mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”
A young Churchill is reported to have said: “We are all worms. But I believe I am a glow-worm.”
The Mills Brothers, best known for their close-harmony recordings of “Glow Worm” and “You Always Hurt the One You Love”, were originally from Piqua, Ohio.
At different times, the General Mills corporation has owned the Parker Brothers toy & game company, the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurant chains, and the Eddie Bauer clothing line.
The Boston Bruins’ “Kraut Line”, with Milt Schmidt centering Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer, all came from Kitchener, Ontario, and shared a room in Boston. In the 1939-40 NHL season, they were the top three scorers in the league. In their last game in February 1942, before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force together, they combined for 11 points against Montreal. All are members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
After her husband’s 1968 assassination, Ethel Kennedy asked a photographer not to publish a light-hearted photo of Bobby Kennedy perched on the shoulders of football great and campaign supporter Rosie Grier at a party.
In Archie Comics, Jughead is constantly being chased by the lovestruck Big Ethel, in whom he has no romantic interest whatsoever.
Jughead’s full name is Forsythe Pendleton Jones III. He has a sister, Forsythia, who is nicknamed Jellybean.