A set of spiral tunnels take the Canadian Pacific Railway across Kicking Horse Pass in the Rockies, between Lake Louise, Alberta and Field, British Columbia. They replaced “The Big Hill”, which was the steepest stretch of mainline railroad in the world and a frequent cause of runaways and derailments. Publicity photos of the grades leading into the spiral tunnels show trains crossing over themselves.
Tina Louise made her Broadway debut in “Li’l Abner”. She shared her dressing room with another actress making her Broadway debut in the same play, Julie Newmar.
Julie Newmar made her own Catwoman costume in the Batman TV series.
(She also played Stupefyin’ Jones in the L’il Abner movie.)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones was a judge, a prosecutor and a U.S. Congresswoman (Democrat of Ohio) before her untimely death in August 2008.
John Mercer Langston is believed to have been the first African American elected to public office, as clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio in 1854.
Bobby Murcer was only 62 years old when he died in 2008. In 1975 Murcer was traded to the San Francisco Giants for Bobby Bonds in baseball’s first-ever even swap of $100,000 superstar players.
Mercerizing cotton, by immersing it in sodium hydroxide, swells the outer cells, giving the fabric a softer feel and more lustrous appearance. The structure of the fiber inter-converts from alpha-cellulose to a thermodynamically more favorable beta-cellulose polymorph.
Fabric softener works by coating the fibers with a very flammable substance. It should not be used on any clothing advertised as “non-flammable.”
Flammable and inflammable both mean capable of burning. The word “inflammable” came from the Latin inflammāre = “to set fire to,” where the prefix “in-” means “in” as in “indoctrinate”, rather than “not” as in “invisible” and “ineligible”.
Flatus ignition, pyroflatulence or fart lighting is the practice of igniting the gases produced by human flatulence, often producing a flame of a blue hue, hence the act being known colloquially as a “blue angel”, “blue dart”, or in Australia, a “blue flame”
In Canada, the traditional colours for the federal political parties are royal blue for the Conservatives; red for the Liberals, orange for the NDP, and light blue for the Bloq québécois.
How do we go from farts to Canada?
Never mind. 
In play:
Marines running PT will sing a cadence. One that is color-based (as opposed to colour-based) is based on these words:
*My Marine Corps Color is green
It shows the world that we are mean
My Marine Corps Color is red
It shows the world the blood we shed
My Marine Corps Color is gold
It show the world that we are bold
My Marine Corps color is blue
It shows the world that we are true
My Marine Corps color is black
It shows the world we’re coming back
My Marine Corps Color is brown
It shows the world that we’re around
My Marine Corps Color is white
It shows the world that we fight for right*
Regards,
echo7tango: Not as Lean, Not as Mean, but Still a Marine
In 17th century England, “marine” was slang for an empty wine bottle.
On one occasion, during a late-night drinking and gaming session, King Charles II told a servant to “clear away all these dead marines,” meaning to gather up the empties. His brother, the Duke of York and commander of the Marines, took umbrage and asked him why he called them marines.
Charles is reputed to have defused the situation by replying that they had done their duty for their King, and were being gathered up to stand ready for further duty.
Patty Duke made guest appearances on both the old and the new Hawaii Five-O series.
Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control
An accomplished tennis player in her youth, Cathy Lee Crosby played Wimbledon twice and at one time was ranked #7 in singles and #4 in doubles in the US.
Joe Theismann (“THEEZ-man”) changed the pronunciation of his name to rhyme with the trophy he wanted to win, but he lost out to Jim Plunkett of Stanford. Theismann’s career ended on November 18, 1985 when he suffered a comminuted compound fracture of his leg while being sacked by New York Giants linebackers Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson during a Monday Night Football game telecast at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The injury was voted the NFL’s “Most Shocking Moment in History” by viewers in an ESPN poll, and the tackle was dubbed “The Hit That No One Who Saw It Can Ever Forget” by The Washington Post.
Theismann, the bum, tried suing Cathy Lee Crosby for half her assets when they ended their relationship.
Personal note: I saw that play live on MNF. ABC kept playing it over and over, not realizing what happened to Theismann’s leg until they finally saw what was seen in plain sight by the viewers.
I’ll never forget it.
The Thanksgiving ritual of two children making a wish while holding opposite sides of a V-shaped turkey bone and breaking the bone apart may be rooted in ancient history. The name ‘wishbone’ is believed to have come from the ancient Romans who removed the birds entrails and read the future in them.
The wishbone formation, in which the offensive backs form a Y shape so that a slow fullback can reach the line faster in a triple option offense, became prominent when U. of Texas assistant coach Emory Bellard introduced it to Coach Darrell Royal’s Longhorns. The wishbone is often thought to have reached its pinnacle at Oklahoma under Barry Switzer and QB Jack Mildren.
Anne, Princess Royal, is the Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regina Rifles.