The motto of the State of Ohio is “With God, all things are possible,” taken from Matt. 19:26.
There is no official motto for the US Navy. Non sibi sed patriae (Not self but country) is often cited as the Navy’s motto, however.
The motto of the US Marine Corps is Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful.
In the Frosty the Snowman animated special, rabbit Hocus Pocus suggests (via pantomime) calling for the Marines or the President of the United States to help freezing child Karen get warm, and Frosty to the North Pole before he melts. Frosty declines those suggestions, saying “they were both swell ideas, but we need to find somebody close by.” Ultimately, Hocus suggests Santa Claus.
The movies ***Babette’s Feast *** and ***Out of Africa ***were based on stories by Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen.
Sir Isaac Newton’s works formed the foundation for classical mechanics describing the main laws of motion, and helped to create the mathematical field of calculus.
The Isaac Asimov-Arthur C. Clarke pact had each one agreeing that the other was the second best SF writer.
Isaac Asimov complained to the production crew when filming of Ghostbusters snarled traffic near his Manhattan apartment.
Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had been married previously to his older brother Arthur, who died before their father, King Henry VII.
Aragon is immediately west of Catalonia, whose largest city is Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain after Madrid.
The away colors of the Real Madrid (“Royal Madrid”) soccer team are blue and green.
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 in the then-Louisiana Territory were centered in what is now southeast Missouri (the Bootheel) and northeast Arkansas. Four major earthquakes hit between December 1811 and February 1812. The magnitude of each is estimated at 7 on the Richter scale. By comparison, the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a 7.9 on the Richter scale.
Comparing rates of fault slippage, the San Andreas fault moves at an average of as much as 37mm per year, while the New Madrid fault system is estimated (based on limited data) at an average of 0.2mm per year.
In the last of the New Madrid earthquakes, the Mississippi River ran backwards for a few hours.
Andreas Vesalius, court physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, wrote the first modern text on human anatomy.
Mike Myers’s Saturday Night Live stereotypical New York Jewish female character Linda Richman (named after his mother-in-law) once paraphrased Voltaire: “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.”
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As a general rule in the Roman Republic, Greeks were perceived as silly, vain, irresponsible, unreliable, sloppy and could never be trusted to tell the truth. And yet, most of the teachers in Rome were Greeks hired by aristocrats educate their children. By the end of the Republic, almost all education in Rome was handled by Greeks.
During a televised interview on ESPN2, Rams’ quarterback Jim Everett knocked over a table and shoved host Jim Rome to the ground, after Rome questioned Everett’s manhood and referred to him as “Chris Evert.”
At age 10, Jim Carrey sent his resume to Carol Burnett.
Carol Burnett first came to prominence in the 1950s, when she recorded a satirical, mock-romantic song about the U.S. Secretary of State: “I Made A Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles.”
Allen Dulles was the first civilian and longest-serving (1953–61) director of Central Intelligence (de facto head of the CIA).