A brief excerpt from the opening of The Tonight Show can be heard in the Coen Brothers’ movie Fargo, after the kidnappers have had sex in their motel room with two local prostitutes.
The first Coen Brothers film where both Joel and Ethan are given directing and producing credits was The Ladykillers (2004). They have shared these duties on all of their films, but Joel has always been listed as director and Ethan as producer.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ranks at #12 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Foul! Still in play:
The first Coen Brothers film where both Joel and Ethan are given directing and producing credits was The Ladykillers (2004). They have shared these duties on all of their films, but Joel has always been listed as director and Ethan as producer.
Yep, was ninja’d.
Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War leader of the Green Mountain Boys, is buried in the Green Mount Cemetery in Burlington, VT.
Seth Green based the gravelly voice of his Chris Griffin character in Family Guy on Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
The Buffalo Bills are the only team in Super Bowl history to appear in four straight Super Bowls. Further, they lost all four of them (XXV - XXVIII).
Teams appearing in three straight Super Bowls? There’s only one, the Miami Dolphins (VI - VIII). The Dolphins lost in VI, then won VII & VIII to become the second team to win back-to-back Super Bowls.
The Dust Bowl area lies principally west of the 100th meridian on the High Plains, characterized by plains which vary from rolling in the north to flat in the Llano Estacado. The area is semiarid, receiving less than 20 inches of rain annually; this rainfall supports the shortgrass prairie biome originally present in the area. The region is also prone to extended drought, alternating with unusual wetness of equivalent duration.
The United States Soil Conservation Service was created in 1933 as a result of the 1930s Dust Bowl. National Grasslands were established in twelve states, including California and Wyoming, to help prevent a dust bowl recurrence.
The Attorney General of the United States was, for many years, the only member of the Cabinet not to head an executive department. The Department of Justice was not established until 1870.
The Attorney General for England and Wales is a Member of Parliament and supporter of the government, but does not sit in Cabinet.
Possibly the most influential military leader of the 20th Century was General Joseph Gallieni of the French army, who in the early days of WWI commanded the defenses of Paris. He spotted the gap between the German armies, urged commander Joffre to attack, and mobilized Paris taxicabs to take soldiers to the front in what ended up as the Battle of the Marne. The German advance was stopped; if they had taken Paris, the course of history would have been very different.
The same could be said of many other 20th century military leaders, I think.
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U.S. Grant became, in 1864, the first person appointed a lieutenant general of the United States Army since George Washington.
President Fitzgerald Grant, on the ABC television series “Scandal”, takes both his names from predecessors.
Hugh Grant is usually dubbed in the French versions of his films by actor Vincent Cassel even though Grant himself speaks the language fluently.
Quarterback Matt Cassel, now with the Minnesota Vikings, led the New England Patriots to an 11-5 season in 2008 after a season-ending knee injury to Tom Brady. Until then, Cassel had not played a meaningful down since high school, having been relegated to a backup role at USC behind Heisman winners Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart.
Tom Selleck starred in six failed TV pilots before landing his breakthrough role in Magnum, P.I. in 1980.
22/7 was an early approximation of pi.
The Guinness World Records-recognized record for remembered digits of π is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite π to the 67,890th decimal place without an error.
(Did he get one wrong then, was he exhausted, or had he just reached the limit of what he’d memorized?)
There is no “Chinese Navy,” as such - there is a “People’s Liberation Army (Navy).”