The Dalek Supreme is the name generally given to the leader of the Daleks in Doctor Who.
The Taco Bell Doritos® Locos Taco Supreme is a Taco Supreme® made with premium seasoned beef, crisp lettuce, diced juicy red ripe tomatoes, real cheddar cheese and topped with cool reduced-fat sour cream, in a shell made from Nacho Cheese Doritos® Chips.
Nacho Libre was a box-office fail for star Jack Black. The film was partly inspired by Fray Tormenta (“Friar Storm”), aka Rev. Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez - a Mexican priest who became a wrestler to raise money for his parish.
Jack and Jackie Kennedy spent the last night of their lives together in Suite 850 of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth on the night of Nov. 21-22, 1963. According to the Aug. 8, 2013 issue of USA Today, those particular rooms are now gone after extensive renovations of what is now the Hilton Fort Worth, but Standard Room 808 is the approximate location of the former suite, and some guests ask for it.
Jack Paar suffered from tuberculosis as a child and later worked on a railroad gang to build himself up.
In his early days in radio at XERF, Wolfman Jack kept his real name and appearance a secret from the general public. Station director Bob Smith would decline any requests for interviews and refuse to answer questions about Wolfman. It was eventually revealed that Smith was Wolfman Jack; the dual identity was hinted at in the movie American Graffiti
Among many other roles, Nigerian-born British-Australian actor Hugo Weaving played Agent Smith in the Matrix movies, the title role in V for Vendetta, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, and a number of parts - including one in drag - in the (IMHO) unfortunately overlooked historical/sf epic Cloud Atlas.
Author Victor Hugo witnessed a genuine incident in which a young prostitute was to be summarily sentenced to six months’ imprisonment after striking a “gentleman” in self defense. Hugo stepped in and explained the facts to the police, using his fame and position to help free her. This incident inspired the tale of Fantine in Les Miserables.
Hugo once sent a telegram to his agent, asking how one of his novels had been received. The telegram consisted solely of a question mark. The response? “!”
The first telegram in the US was sent by Samuel Morse on January 11, 1838 across two miles of wire at Speedwell Ironworks near Morristown, New Jersey.
144 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in Washington, the world’s final telegram was sent in India on July 14, 2013.
The jury of the Cannes Film Festival was so impressed with Samuel L. Jackson’s performance as Gator in Jungle Fever (1991) that they decided to create the Award for Best Supporting Actor in that year, honoring him with the award. To date, he’s the only actor to receive such honor.
Reggie Jackson is an American former baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball for five different teams (1967–1987). He was nicknamed “Mr. October” for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the Oakland A’s and the New York Yankees.
In the Spanish versions of the Archie comic books, Reggie Mantle’s name is Carlos Marin.
(BTW and off play: Reggie first appeared in 1942. If the gang were indeed in high school, they’d be pushing 90 now. Yikes!)
The Bloods & Crips project was organized by producer Ronnie Phillips, rappers Redrum 781 and Tweedy Bird Loc. Actual gang members, Crips from Compton, Watts and Long Beach, Bloods from Inglewood and Los Angeles auditioned for the group and the best ones were chosen for the album.
Ahem I did say the parenthesized part was off play. But no matter.
Los Angeles has more museums per capita than any other city in the world. 841 museums and art galleries according to Wikipedia.
Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: per (preposition, taking the accusative case, meaning “by, by means of”) and capita (accusative plural of the noun caput, “head”).
ahem I stand corrected.
Latin America is the most urbanized region in the world, with about 80% of its population living in cities.
One rarely used meaning for the word “poll” is the head. It survives in the phrase “poll tax”, meaning a tax charged on each individual in a community, regardless of their personal circumstances. Maggie Thatcher was brought down by her proposal to institute a poll tax on all Britons, regardless whether they lived in cities or rural areas, and regardless of the level of government services they received.
In 1969, future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said there would not be a female British prime minister in her lifetime.