The stone is an informal unit of measure equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois (about 6.35 kg) used in Great Britain and Ireland for measuring human body weight.
Irish Coffee was actually invented in San Francisco, not Ireland.
Kathy Ireland parlayed a gig as a swimsuit model into a $2 Billion fashion, housewares and real estate empire.
Kathy Bates auditioned for the TV series Three’s Company, for the role that ultimately went to Joyce DeWitt. Bates says she was relieved she didn’t get the part because, after auditioning, she felt she really didn’t want it.
The only Oscar a movie based on a Stephen King work has ever won is Kathy Bates for Best Actress in Misery
The wildebeest stampede in The Lion King (1994) took Disney’s CG department approximately three years to animate.
King Vidor was nominated for Best Director Oscar five times, though his only Oscar was an honorary one in 1979.
The Texas city of Vidor is named for King Vidor’s father, lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor.
The world’s first rodeo was held in Pecos, Texas on July 4, 1883.
The Pecos River is in Texas, east of Big Bend National Park and southeast of Fort Stockton, TX. It empties into the Rio Grande River. In the late 1880s, “West of the Pecos” was a reference to the rugged frontiers of the Wild West.
Former Utah Jazz guard John Stockton is the NBA’s all-time leader in both assists and steals. He and Karl “The Mailman” (he delivered) Malone hold the record for most career games as teammates, although they never won the NBA championship.
Dan Marino, former Miami Dolphins quarterback set more than 30 NFL passing records in his career (9 still stand) though he never won an NFL Championship.
The Canadian Football League was designed by God to have 9 teams. Unfortunately, poor management in Ottawa has frustrated the divine plan, forcing the League to limp along with only 8 teams for most of the past two decades.
Fortunately, in 2014, the Ottawa franchise will revive, with an as-yet-unknown name. The only certainty is that it will not be the Rough Riders, as the Saskatchewan Roughriders believe that resurrecting the old name would dilute their own brand equity.
The Montreal CFL franchise was the Concordes from 1982-87, after the original Alouettes folded. They were replaced when the Baltimore Stallions, the only non-Canadian team to win the Grey Cup, relocated in 1996 and adopted the old Alouettes name.
The folk song “Alouette, gentille aloutte” is about pulling a lark apart, presumably to eat.
James Lipton, dean emeritus of the Actor’s Studio and now a celebrity in his own right, wrote a book entitled An Exaltation of Larks about collective nouns and other quirky obscure words he felt were worth remembering.
Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) is the daughter of music mogul Quincy Jones and actress Peggy (Mod Squad) Lipton.
“Mogul” is ultimately derived from the word “Mongol”, via the Persian and Arabic words “mughal” and “mughul”, used for a particular ruling dynasty in 16th century India.
The largest ethnic group in Iran is Persian, constituting 51% of the population.
Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul. Turner created CNN in 1980. He said: “We won’t be signing off until the world ends. We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we’ll play ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ before we sign off.”
SFC Schwartz