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With 1,077,900,000 movie tickets sold, Crosby is by that measure the third most popular actor of all time, behind Clark Gable and John Wayne.
Bing’s granddaughter Denise Crosby played USS Enterprise (NC-1701D)'s security chief, Tasha Yar, who was given more character development in the two episodes in which she appeared after her death, than in the ones before. She even went on to play Yar’s half-Romulan alternate-timeline daughter.
Denise Crosby also appeared as doomed suburban mom in the disaster flick Deep Impact.
‘Deep Impact’ was a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1. On July 4, 2005, one section of the Deep Impact probe successfully impacted the comet’s nucleus.
Comet brand cleanser was introduced in 1956 by Proctor and Gamble.
The 39-member San Diego-based Heaven’s Gate cult committed mass suicide in March 1997 in the expectation that their souls would be carried off to an alien spacecraft following Comet Hale-Bopp, just in time to escape the destruction of Earth.
Like many songs that achieved extreme popularity, Hanson’s MmmBop experienced a backlash against its once ubiquitous airplay. Delone Catholic High School in McSherrystown, Pennsylvania held a student-created fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina called “Stop the Bop.” The school played the song before classes began in the morning, and between each period over the school PA system. The playing of this song was only stopped when the school raised $3,000 for hurricane relief and the school thereby “stopped the bop.” After the fundraising had concluded, Hanson responded by matching the students’ donation as well as sending a copy of their 2004 album Underneath for every student in the school.
Norman “Hurricane” Smith, an RAF pilot during WW2 and a successful recording engineer, recorded a big hit of his own in 1972: “Oh Babe, What Would You Say.”
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a middleweight boxer arrested for a triple murder in 1966. He was convicted twice but both were overturned. He was immortalized in Bob Dylan’s ballad “Hurricane” released in 1975
Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, despite running tough campaigns against each other in 1976, became good friends after both had left the White House.
A moderate to the end, in his later years Gerald Ford spoke in favor of both abortion and gay rights, and criticized the Bush administration for the war in Iraq.
The Stonewall riots, considered to be the start of the gay liberation movement, took place on June 28, 1969. Only 43 years later, gay marriage is now legal in many states and it’s pretty much a given that the Supreme Court will make it legal for the USA!
Gerald Ford served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II, retiring in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant commander. Before Ford died in 2006, the Navy announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford will be the first of its class of new supercarriers. The warship is expected to be commissioned in 2015.
ETA: Ninja’d! And don’t count your chickens on SCOTUS and gay rights, alas.
A new theory posits that Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was shot by his own troops while returning from a nighttime scouting mission during the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville because he was backlit by a full moon at the time, and they thus couldn’t recognize him.
While living in London, England, John Jackson (father of Stonewall) was convicted of the capital crime of larceny for stealing £170; the judge at the Old Bailey sentenced him to a seven-year indenture in America. Elizabeth, a strong, blonde woman over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, born in London, England was also convicted of larceny in an unrelated case for stealing 19 pieces of silver, jewelry, and fine lace, and received a similar sentence. They both were transported on the prison ship Litchfield, which departed London in May 1749 with 150 convicts. John and Elizabeth met on board and were in love by the time the ship arrived at Annapolis, Maryland. Although they were sent to different locations in Maryland for their indentures, the couple married in July 1755.
John Jackson is the birth name of rapper Fabolous.
[Is the idea here to put some thought and/or orginal research into answers or are we just cutting and pasting Wikipedia entries verbatim? If the latter, I have been trying harder than I’ve needed to.]
The eagle is the symbol of St John the Evangelist.
St Matthew is represented by a winged man or angel; St Mark by a winged lion, and St Luke by a winged bull.
There’s no hard and fast rule. I always try to do the former, but there have been times when I’ve come up blank and resorted to the latter.
St. Mark is the patron saint of lawyers, and of the republic (now city) of Venice, Italy.
Paola Briti, the most significant popular poet of Venice in the 17th century, was known as the Venetian Blindman. (This close!)
Turlough O’Carolan, often just called Carolan, was a blind Irish harper and poet. One of his compositions was “Carolan’s Contention with his Landlady.”