The great composer of the French Baroque, Jean-Baptiste Lully, died because of a tragic conducting accident.
After Thomas-François Dalibard's near-tragic conducting accident, the centimetre–gram–second system (CGS) unit of electric charge was named after... Ben Franklin.
Sean Pertwee, who plays Alfred Pennyworth on Gotham, is the son of Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor in Doctor Who.
I dance badly, but with enthusiasm.
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The great composer of the French Baroque, Jean-Baptiste Lully, died because of a tragic conducting accident.Please elaborate.
IIRC, he was conducting an orchestra by thumping a staff on the ground, hit himself on the foot and the wound went gangrenous.
in High School my best friend and i drove thru a park and ran over a cop's foot on the way thru..... and were never charged for it!
the cop was super lazy about paperwork and never turned in the report:-P
that would be called a freebie:-)
Today is Rich Little's 76th birthday.
So unfair.....
Maybe its because of how it was prepared...
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{stuffs entire lobster roll in mouth} Lobsters are just dumber cockroaches with the aquatic subtype. Delicious, delicious cockroaches.
Still unfair.
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Today is Rich Little's 76th birthday.Indeed. That is what led me to post my previous factoid. IMDB is very convenient for the "Did you knows....?".
Speaking of IMDB... Actor Malachy Cleary, a.k.a. David Barrodale of the Onion News Network, a.k.a. Warren G. Harding of 'Boardwalk Empire,' is my first cousin once removed.
Still unfair.
{activates telepathy}
I knew it! Alton brown stands between me and cheap lobster! He has earned his place in the top 4 of hate!
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When he decided to have his own cooking show, Alton Brown attended the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1995. Although he claims to have been a poor science student in high school and college, it was during this culinary training that he began to began to understand science because he felt the need to understand the underlying processes of cooking.
Chicago's Andersonville used to be one of the main end destinations for Swedish immigrants to America (in the early 1900s, Chicago had the world's second largest Swedish population).
The Swedish village of Ullared has a population of barely 800, but is visited by 4 000 000 people each year.
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I bought a Tiffany (1987 "I think We're Alone Now") record for 30 cents this weekend. While listening to it I read the wikipedia entry. Turns out she posed for playboy. My memory has just been sold, angel is a centerfold.
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When he decided to have his own cooking show, Alton Brown attended the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1995. Although he claims to have been a poor science student in high school and college, it was during this culinary training that he began to began to understand science because he felt the need to understand the underlying processes of cooking.
Before he even thought about making a TV show that explored food science, Alton did cinematography for music videos, most famously for R.E.M.'s "The One I Love."
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When he decided to have his own cooking show, Alton Brown attended the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1995. Although he claims to have been a poor science student in high school and college, it was during this culinary training that he began to began to understand science because he felt the need to understand the underlying processes of cooking.Before he even thought about making a TV show that explored food science, Alton did cinematography for music videos, most famously for R.E.M.'s "The One I Love."
That is an awesome factoid! In gratitude for sharing it, I make this promise to you: When the zombiepocalypse happens....we'll eat you last.
When he decided to have his own cooking show, Alton Brown attended the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1995. Although he claims to have been a poor science student in high school and college, it was during this culinary training that he began to began to understand science because he felt the need to understand the underlying processes of cooking.Before he even thought about making a TV show that explored food science, Alton did cinematography for music videos, most famously for R.E.M.'s "The One I Love."
I knew there was something shifty about that music video.
"Fart Proudly" is the popular name of a "notorious essay" about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin circa 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in a 1939 coloring book written by Robert L. May and published by the Montgomery Ward department store.
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The "Protein Bistro Box" you can buy at Starbucks in the US has the lowest amount of protein of their three Bistro Box options.
AWG or American Wire Gauge is a system to measure the width of wires. Higher numbers are thinner and is reflective of being pulled through a die more often to stretch it out. It is also used in body piercing jewelry sizes. (Source wiki, I landed on the page because I was researching a practice exam question that I got wrong)
Paul Soles, who was the voice for Hermey, the wannabe dentist elf, in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer also was the voice of Spider-Man (and Peter Parker) in the cartoon from the late 1960s.
armadillos can be housebroken
Transylvania is rich in mineral resources, notably lignite, iron, lead, manganese, gold, copper, natural gas, salt and sulfur.
East Aurora, New York is 90 miles west of Aurora, New York.
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East Aurora, New York is 90 miles west of Aurora, New York.
Having lived in New York State for most of my life, this doesn't surprise me in the least. Nothing makes sense here.
A fun fact about Central New York: whoever named stuff around here really liked those Greeks and Romans. Neighboring cities and towns include Rome, Ithaca, Utica, Verona, Greece, Italy, Cicero, Tully, Camillus, Marcellus, Manlius, Palmyra, and Cincinnatus. And those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
East Aurora, New York is 90 miles west of Aurora, New York.Having lived in New York State for most of my life, this doesn't surprise me in the least. Nothing makes sense here.
A fun fact about Central New York: whoever named stuff around here really liked those Greeks and Romans. Neighboring cities and towns include Rome, Ithaca, Utica, Verona, Greece, Italy, Cicero, Tully, Camillus, Marcellus, Manlius, Palmyra, and Cincinnatus. And those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
Went to HS in Tully. Nothing in the world is from Tully.
Went to HS in Tully. Nothing in the world is from Tully.
The only things I can think of from Syracuse are Tom Cruise and the Cardiff Giant. Oh, yeah, and Bobcat Goldthwait.
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Ever been up around Phoenecia, NY? I stopped for coffee at a place called "Diner." It was next to a building marked "Post Office;" they were the only two public buildings in sight.
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Ever been up around Phoenecia, NY? I stopped for coffee at a place called "Diner." It was next to a building marked "Post Office;" they were the only two public buildings in sight.
The place was a boomtown up until the Romans sacked Carthage.
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The place was a boomtown up until the Romans sacked Carthage.
One of my best friends is from Carthage. It's the only place I know of where a murder defendant had to be tried out of town because none of his peers would convict him.
This year's Nobel Prize fir Literature winner, Patrick Modiano's, father spent the years of Nazi occupation of France as a Black Marketeer with a false identity. (The false identity was kinda important, since he was Jewish.)
And while Modiano has won several literary awards, when a movie he wrote was nominated for an Acsdemy Award as best foreign film, it lost out to Federico Fellini's Amarcord
The place was a boomtown up until the Romans sacked Carthage.One of my best friends is from Carthage. It's the only place I know of where a murder defendant had to be tried out of town because none of his peers would convict him.
woooooooooooow....