In Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice says that “A star danced when I was born,” referring to her liveliness of wit.
The famous movie quote “You’re going out a youngster, but you’re coming back a star” comes from the movie 42nd Street: The actual quote is “You’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star,” which changes the meaning. In the movie, director Julian Marsh is putting all the pressure on understudy Peggy Sawyer – if she doesn’t come back a star, the show flops and everyone involved is out of work (and Marsh dies penniless).
Buildings and places located on 42nd Street include the United Nations, the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal, New York Public Library, Times Square, Port Authority Bus Terminal, and the Circle Line pier.
Unlike many other subways, which run their tracks in lines ending with terminals, the Glasgow subway is laid out in a rough circle, with no terminals.
The map used by the subway authorities, and the regularity of the trains, have led to its nickname, the “Clockwork Orange.”
Clockwork Orange was also the nickname for the “Total Football” Dutch national side of the early 1970’s, which reached the finals of the 1974 World Cup before losing to West Germany, and again in 1978 before losing to Argentina.
Orange and black are the school colors of Princeton University. The oldest continuously-used campus building is Nassau Hall, named for the royal house of King William III of England, who had the same colors.
Orange and black are the colors of MLB’s San Francisco Giants, winners and world champions of the 2012 and 2010 World Series. The Giants have won seven World Series titles, 22 NL Pennants, eight NL Western Divisions, and one Wild Card berth.
World Series titles (7)
2012 • 2010 • 1954
1933 • 1922 • 1921
1905
NL Pennants (22)
2012 • 2010 • 2002
1989 • 1962 • 1954
1951 • 1937 • 1936
1933 • 1924 • 1923
1922 • 1921 • 1917
1913 • 1912 • 1911
1905 • 1904 • 1889
1888
West Division titles (8)
2012 • 2010 • 2003
2000 • 1997 • 1989
1987 • 1971
Wild card berths (1)
2002
GO GIANTS!!
San Francisco is the setting of the movies Basic Instinct, Pacific Heights, The Game, Vertigo and The Parallax View.
San Francisco is the setting for two different time travel movies: Time After Time and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
While entirely fictional when Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was filmed, “transparent aluminum” was eventually invented in 2009.
Stable aluminium is created when hydrogen fuses with magnesium either in large stars or in supernovae. In the Earth’s crust, aluminium is the most abundant (8.3% by weight) metallic element and the third most abundant of all elements (after oxygen and silicon).
Black Thunder Coal Mine, Wyoming, which has the largest dragline excavator in the world, is a major site for the generation of electricity. Plans call for five 765-kilovolt transmission lines to be sourced by its generators; they will be made out of steel and aluminum since aluminum (as it is usually spelled in North America) has the best conductivity of any metal by weight.
The Indian Paintbrush is Wyoming’s state flower.
Dick Cheney is a former Congressman from Wyoming and, while Vice President from 2001-2009, displayed the state flag in his West Wing office.
Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote.
The detective novelist Ngaio Marsh was from New Zealand.
At 2,185 square miles and an average depth of six inches (15 cm), Southern Florida’s Everglades comprise the world’s largest marsh.
While it is often described as a swamp or forested wetland, the Everglades is actually a very slow-moving river.
The Everglades was an American crime-adventure television series that aired in first-run syndication for one season from 1961–62 and in reruns.