The cyberpunk literary genre also refers the Gibson Girl, but it’s after William Gibson, and it’s more like Trinity’s character in The Matrix than a late 19th Century belle.
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson pitched his sole career no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium on August 14, 1971. The Cardinals won by the score of 11-0.
Led Zeppelin gave a concert at Three Rivers Stadium on July 24, 1973. Footage from this show was used in the 1976 film The Song Remains the Same. Little Feat was the opening act.
The three rivers there are the Monongahela and Allegheny joining to form the Ohio River, and the Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence point, the Ohio River is bigger than the Mississippi River.
East Liverpool, Ohio, the largest town in Columbiana County, is on the Ohio River. It is the birthplace of legendary Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz.
Wheeling, West Virginia, was the first city to have a bridge across the Ohio River.
It was a rump legislature in Wheeling that professed loyalty to the Union during the Civil War and eventually voted for the admission of West Virginia to the United States as a new state, splitting off from Virginia. This somewhat unorthodox proceeding (there was still a pro-Confederate state legislature in Richmond) was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court after the war.
The term “wheeling and dealing” *may *have originated in the Billingsgate fish market in London (also known for the high volume of profanity there, making “Billingsgate” a synonym for it). Fish were wheeled in on wagons before being dealt. The fish market has since been relocated to the Canary Wharf area of the Docklands.
The Wheeling Nailers are an East Coast Hockey League team that originated as the Carolina Thunderbirds in 1981.
The USAF Thunderbirds were activated on 25 May 1953 as the 3600th Air Demonstration Team at Luke AFB, just west of Phoenix. The Thunderbirds flew the straight-wing F-84G Thunderjet, their first plane, in 1953 and 1954. In 1955 they flew the F-84F swept-wing Thunderstreak. In June 1956 they changed to the F-100C Super Sabre, which gave the team supersonic capability for the first time. In 1969, the squadron adopted the noisy and huge F-4E Phantom, which it flew until 1973, the only time the Thunderbirds would fly jets similar to those of the Blue Angels, as it was the standard fighter for both services.
A brief history of Thunderbird airplanes:
Republic F-84G Thunderjet: 1953-1954
Republic F-84F Thunderstreak: 1955
North American F-100C Super Sabre: 1956-1963
Republic F-105B Thunderchief: 1964 (6 shows)
North American F-100D Super Sabre: 1964-1968
McDonnell F-4E Phantom II: 1969-1973
Northrop T-38 Talon: 1974-1981
General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon: 1983-1991
General Dynamics F-16C: 1992-present
In June 2005, the Thunderbirds selected Major Nicole Malachowski for the No. 3 position, making her the first female to hold a pilot position in the team’s 53-year history.
Louise McKinney was the first female elected to a Legislature or Parliament in the British Empire when she was elected to the Legislature of the Province of Alberta in 1917.
In 1882 the District of Alberta was created as part of the Northwest Territories, and named for Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and wife of the Marquess of Lorne who served as Governor General of Canada at the time. Alberta became a province along with her sister Saskatchewan on September 1, 1905.
Three of Queen Victoria’s nine children predeceased her: Alice died of diphtheria aged 35 in 1878; Leopold was a hemophiliac and died after a hemorrage, and Alfred died in 1900.
Queen Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the nickname “the grandmother of Europe”.
Comedian/Director Albert Brooks’s real name in Albert Einstein.
Among the roles that Albert Brooks turned down was in Boogie Nights, the role that Burt Reynolds got. “I was in pre-production of my own movie [when I was offered] the part that Burt Reynolds got in Boogie Nights,” Brooks recalls of the biggest one that got away.
Huh. I always thought it was named more directly for her father, Prince Albert, just with a feminine “a” added to the end.
In play:
Heather Graham played Rollergirl in Boogie Nights; it remains one of the biggest roles of her career.
Ruth Sawyer won the 1937 Newbery Award for her novel, Roller Skates. It includes two of what are sometimes called “Death by Newbery”, in which a character close to the protagonist dies.
While “Tom Sawyer” may be Rush’s best-known song, their highest-charting single in the U.S. is actually “New World Man” (#21, Nov. 1982)
In the off-year Congressional elections of 1982, incumbent GOP President Ronald Reagan repeatedly said that American voters should “stay the course.” Republicans took some losses but maintained their Senate majority, and Time magazine’s coverage of the election was headlined, “Stay the course… but trim the sails.”