Duck Hunt was published in North America for the Nintendo Video Game System on October 18, 1985. While the game itself was mediocre, its laughing dog became one of the most iconic characters in video game history.
The dish known as “Bombay duck” is actually made from a reptilian-looking fish that’s found in the waters off the coast of India
The common misspelling of “duct tape” as the phonetic “duck tape” is not entirely wrong. The original product was made on a backing of duck, a heavy, tightly-woven cotton cloth, and used for a variety of purposes. The specialty product for wrapping heating duct joints came into being only in the 1950’s, as a development by Johnson & Johnson from their existing medical product, duck-backed adhesive wrapping.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish had only appeared in one bowl game (the 1925 Rose Bowl) before 1970, when they took on the Texas Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns, led by James Street, beat the Irish 21-17, and won the national championship.
On January 1, 1974, Schulz served as the Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade. His “Peanuts” strip that day had Lucy watching the parade and, when Linus asked “Has the Grand Marshal passed by yet?” replying “Yes. But he wasn’t anyone you ever heard of.”
That was the only personal reference Shultz ever made in “Peanuts.”
In the 1960’s, a cartoon feline named King Linus the Lion-Hearted was the mascot for Post’s Crispy Critters cereal.
King Leonardo and his Short Subjects was an animated cartoon of the 1960s, featuring the king and his aide Odie Cologne, a skunk who helped the king thwart the king’s brother Itchy in his attempt to usurp the throne. Itchy Brother worked with Biggy Rat in their plans, which Odie always was able to stop.
Before the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor, General Walter Short made the Japanese attackers’ job a lot easier by ordering that aircraft on the ground be kept close together, to prevent possible sabotage by Japanese-Americans living on Oahu.
Perhaps remembering Gen. Short’s error, President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. warplanes in the southeastern U.S. dispersed and protected during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, but could only chuckle ruefully when later shown aerial surveillance photos indicating that many of the planes were still parked wingtip-to-wingtip. “There’s always somebody who doesn’t get the word,” he joked.
Brogue shoes, originally created in Ireland and Scotland for country wear, are most commonly found in one of four toe cap styles (full or “wingtip”, semi-, quarter and longwing) and four closure styles (oxford, derby, ghillie, and monk).
Derby County and Oxford United have met 10 times in various English Football leagues, with each team winning four and two games ending in draw. They have both scored nine goals in aggregate in those games.
Edward De Vere, the Earl of Oxford, is one of many persons (Chiristopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon, among them) widely proposed as the “real” author of the plays and poems generally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford.
The only two Marlowe plays published during the playwright’s lifetime were Tamburlaine the Great and Tamburlaine the Great, Part II.
Robert B. Parker named his greatest creation Spenser, because his literary idol, Raymond Chandler, had also named his greatest creation, Philip Marlowe, after an Elizabethan poet.
Chandler left behind an unfinished Philip Marlowe novel entitled Poodle Springs, which Parker completed and published in 1989.
Raymond Chandler was a former journalist and oil executive. He first started writing for the pulp magazine Black Mask at the age of 45 and wrote the first of the seven novels that made him famous in 1939, the year he turned 51.
The Chandler Motor Company produced cars from 1913 to '29 in Cleveland. The manufacturer overexpanded, went into debt, and was purchased by the Hupp Motor Company. Hupp kept the factory, but discontinued the Chandler line.
A ship chandler supplies equipment and supplies to boats and ships.
Chandler Muriel Bing was played by Matthew Perry in all ten seasons of the NBC smash sitcom Friends.
Dave Bing, former NBA star and current mayor of Detroit, roomed with Jim Boeheim at Syracuse University in the early Sixties.
Jim Brown is the most famous athletic Syracuse U alum.