Tabitha Spruce & Stephen King were married on January 7, 1971. Their union has survived severe poverty, sudden fame and fortune, Stephen’s alcoholism and drug use and his horrific accident which nearly killed him.
Porn actress Tabitha Stevens, a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, took her stage name from the child of Samantha and Darren Stephens on “Bewitched”. She is a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s satellite-radio talk show, usually discussing her numerous plastic-surgery procedures.
Howard Stern’s first large-market job was in 1979 in Hartford, CT on WCCC “The Rock 106.9.”
Among the veterans of the CCC, the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps, were Admiral Hyman Rickover, Raymond Burr, Chuck Yeager, Robert Mitchum, Stan Musial, and Walter Matthau.
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” is a song by Paul and Linda McCartney from the album Ram. Released in the United States as a single on 2 August 1971, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1971.
Paul McCartney won a Grammy Award for this song.
Linda McCartney’s singing could make dogs howl and human ears bleed, as her isolated vocalsfrom backing up “Hey Jude” demonstrate.
(Ouch - that is painful to listen to!)
The original title to *“Hey Jude”*was “Hey Jules,” and it was intended to comfort Julian Lennon from the stress of his parents’ divorce.
(I hope Julian never heard Linda McCartney sing, for he would find no comfort in it.)
Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat.
Frank Borman was selected to be an astronaut with NASA’s Astronaut Group 2, also known as “The New Nine,” on September 17, 1962. Borman was the Commander of Apollo 8, the first lunar orbital mission. In Astronaut Group 2, the ones to walk on the moon were Neil Armstrong, Pete Conrad, and John Young.
The moonwalk is a dance technique that presents the illusion of the dancer being pulled backwards while attempting to walk forward. A popping move, it became popular around the world after Michael Jackson executed the dance move during a performance of “Billie Jean” on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever on March 25, 1983. It subsequently became his signature move, and is now one of the best-known dance techniques in the world.
Six First Nations men convicted of crimes related to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 were the last people executed in public in Canada, at Battleford, NWT.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world’s largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties, and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 19 properties throughout North America consisting of theme parks, thrill parks, water parks, and family entertainment centers. In 2009, Six Flags properties hosted 23.9 million guests.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is headquartered in Grand Prairie, TX. The company name refers to the six nations which have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the USA. The company’s first property was called Six Flags Over Texas.
On “The Big Bang Theory”, Sheldon and Amy produce regular episodes of a video titled “Fun With Flags”, exploring the fascinating world of vexillology.
One of the oldest national flags still in use is the Senyera of Catalonia. The artists Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí were both Catalan.
I don’t get the connection.
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The Senyera’s colors of red and gold are the same as those of Oberlin College, the University of Southern California, and Hogwarts’s Gryffindor House.
Let me 'splain: Game of Thrones ==> Brett Voss ==> Brett Favre
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The official flag of the US Marine Corps is predominantly scarlet in color, with the Marine Corps emblem Eagle, Globe and Anchor in gray and gold. The flag was formally adopted on 18 January 1939.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, used ‘w’ in his surname to hide that his great-great-grandfather was John Hathorne, infamous judge at the Salem Witch Trials.
I thought the connection was that Elendil’s Heir trivium had Thrones and yours had two throwns.
The trivium was the first stage of a medieval university education, consisting of grammar, logic and rhetoric.