Peter Ford bought a copy of Bill Haley and the Comets "Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town). When his father Glen Ford was chosen to star in the movie based on Evan Hunter’s book Blackboard Jungle, the producers needed a “rock and roll song” for the soundtrack. Ford recommended the A-side of his son’s record “Rock Around the Clock.”
And thus rock and roll history was made.
The village of Glens Falls, NY, for many years had an auto dealership called Glen Ford.
In 1981, Bill Haley died at the very young age of 55 in Harlingen, TX. At one time he sang with a group known as the “Down Homers” while they were in Hartford, Connecticut.
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The name Glens Falls was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River.
Galahad Glen was the home of Crusader Rabbit, star of the first made-for-TV animated series. His arch-enemy was Dudley Nightshade and his sidekick Bilious Green, but fortunately he had his own sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger to help.
The tiger is the animal mascot of Princeton University (in part because the orange and black coat of a tiger matches the school colors). It is not unusual for a real caged tiger to be present at major alumni events like the annual “P-rade.”
The highly endangered Siberian Tiger is the largest extant feline in the world.
Cheetahs, the fastest land animal in the world, are also the only felines which cannot retract their claws.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.”, about his late friend Arthur Henry Hallam, is the source of the term “Nature, red in tooth and claw” as well as “'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson also coined the phrases “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die”, “My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure”, “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”, “Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers”, and “The old order changeth, yielding place to new.” He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Tennis great Arthur Ashe served in the US Army and was stationed at West Point, NY.
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Words coined by William Shakespeare include arouse, dwindle, frugal, obscene and eyeball.
The alt-rock band Shakespeare’s Sister took their name from a song by The Smiths, who in turn took the name from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
The Smith Brothers of Poughkeepsie, NY made their first batch of Smith Brothers cough drops in 1852. Production of the cough drops remained in Poughkeepsie until 1972.
During the Pacific Scandal debate of 1873, the respected and influential MP, Donald Smith, cast a decisive vote in favour of non-confidence in John A. Macdonald’s government, which guaranteed that the Macdonald government would fall. An outraged Macdonald is said to have yelled out in the Commons that “I can lick that fellow Smith faster than Hell could scorch a feather!”
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RAF Flight Sergeant Jack Nissenthall, an expert in British radar.
For a fascinating account, see the book Green Beach.
Hell does, in fact, freeze over. Hell, Norway, that is.
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The Great Lakes are 90% frozen over, the greatest freeze over ever recorded: Great Lakes headed for record ice cover; could 100% be in the future?
Glacial Lake Missoula, during the last ice age and held back by an ice dam, suddenly and catastrophically exploded through the ice dam to scour the countryside of Washington and Oregon. The amount of water, larger than the current volume of the Great Lakes, rapidly and suddenly drained to the Pacific Ocean over the course of a few days and violently carved geographical features seen today such as the Grand Coulee, the Columbia River Gorge, and the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington state.
The construction “Lake Ontario” (or any other lake so named) is one of the few instances in English where the modifier comes after the noun in a two-word phrase.
So does Hell, Michigan.
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“River Thames” is another such example.