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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 Broadcasting owns a 49% share in Italian Network Boing while Mediaset owns the other 51%. 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.”
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One of Jesus’ sayings on the cross is reported to have been: “Eli Eli lama sabachthani?” which is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
“My God, why have you forsaken me” is also the start of the 22nd Psalm, which, in some commentators viewpoint, Jesus was quoting. The Psalm begins in despair and ends in hope and praise.
Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane just before he was arrested and after The Last Supper on Maundy Thursday. He knew what was about to happen. He was likely nervous and scared, so much so that he reportedly sweat blood. He accepted his fate, was arrested that night, then crucified the next day, Good Friday. We Christians believe he rose from the dead on the third day, the first Easter Sunday.
Jesus Alou and his brothers Matty and Felipe played baseball in the Major Leagues at the same time. On September 15, 1963 all three brothers started in the outfield for the San Francisco Giants.
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John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died on November 22, 1963.
Groucho Marx played Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, who was named president of Huxley College in the movie Horse Feathers. Swordfish.
The nearsighted Mr. Quincy Magoo had a Chinese house servant named Charlie.
Thieves tried to steal the body of Charlie Chaplin after his death, a crime that was spoofed on Saturday Night Live.
Charlie Chaplin married four women. He had children with three of his wives, but with Paulette Goddard, during a six year marriage, he had none.
One of Charlie Chaplin’s wives was Oona O’Neill, the daughter of the playwright Eugene O’Neill.
Before Oona O’Neill dated and married Charlie Chaplin, she dated Jerry Salinger a/k/a J.D. Salinger.
After John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, police found J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye among half a dozen other books in his hotel room.
Moe Berg, a journeyman catcher for five different MLB teams in the 1930s was a graduate of Princeton and spoke several languages, including Japanese. When he toured Japan on a exhibition team in 1934, he used his ability to spy for the U.S. government. After his retirement, he worked for the OSS (precursor of the CIA), including parachuting behind German lines to meet with Yugoslavian partisans. He later worked on monitoring the Soviet nuclear program.
Composer Alban Berg died, apparently from an infected insect bite, before completing*** Lulu***, the opera for which he is best known.
Shortly after his Millilieum trilogy was accepted for publication, author Stieg Larsson died on November 9, 2004 in Stockholm at the age of 50 of a heart attack after climbing seven flights of stairs to his office because the elevator was not working (and it is so sad he did not see the success of his books).
Young Paul McCartney played Eddie Cochran’s “20 Flight Rock” for young John Lennon, who was impressed enough to ask Paul to join his skiffle/rock band, the Quarrymen.
Michael McGear (younger brother of Paul McCartney) was a member of a British band/comedy troup named The Scaffold, which had a Christmas #1 hit in the UK with Lily the Pink, and composed their next hit Thank U Very Much.