• When Daniel Chester French's gigantic sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial was unveiled, the lighting was not satisfactory. Mr. French had designed the statue to be lit from above, but unfortunately the light illuminating the statue was coming from below, which gave Lincoln's face a surprised look. The statue was still cherished despite the poor lighting, and conditions for viewing it vastly improved in 1926 with the addition of artificial lighting to the ceiling of the Lincoln Memorial.
Mishaps
• Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco created fresco paintings, working with watercolors on wet plaster so that the watercolors soaked into the plaster and created a permanent painting that was part of the wall. In 1932, he arrived at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he demonstrated fresco painting to students. The first day he was scheduled to paint a fresco on a wall whose surface had already been prepared by a mason, several students and professors showed up to watch him. Unfortunately, the surface would not take the watercolors - they simply dripped down the wall and were not absorbed into the plaster. Later, Mr. Orozco questioned the mason and discovered that he had used a special kind of plaster for the wall. The mason told him, "There can't be anything wrong with the plaster - it's guaranteed to be waterproof."
• Al Capp, creator of the comic strip Li'l Abner, lost his leg after falling into the path of a trolley car when he was nine years old, and he was forced to use a wooden leg the rest of his life. He declined to take care of his leg, with the result that it sometimes deserted him when he needed it. One day, while he was walking with boxer Gene Tunney, he suddenly felt a need to grab onto something for balance, so he grabbed onto Mr. Tunney. Together, they looked back and saw the lower part of Mr. Capp's wooden leg. Mr. Capp gathered up the fallen leg, bolts, and nuts, then took his wooden leg to a garage, where the mechanic quickly fixed it. In this case, the mishap was a blessing, as Mr. Capp did not have to hear the boring speech that he and Mr. Tunney had planned to attend.
• When he was a child, African-American painter Horace Pippin entered a contest in which he was asked to draw a funny face. He mailed his drawing to Chicago, and soon his prize arrived in the mail: six colored pencils, two brushes, and a box of paint. Immediately, he began creating works of art. He cut out six circles from muslin fabrics and used the pencils to create scenes from the Bible. Fortunately, an elderly lady bought all the works of art. Unfortunately, soon afterward the elderly lady washed all the circles of muslin fabric, not realizing that the colored-pencil drawings would wash away along with any dirt. The contest became the genesis of a lifetime making art. As an adult artist, Mr. Pippin said, "Pictures just come to my mind, and then I tell my heart to go ahead."
• Early in her career, when she was still a student, artist Edna Hibel was enthusiastically working on a fresco, standing on a big block to reach high up on a wall. Unfortunately, she stepped too far back to view her work with the result that she fell to the floor. Ms. Hibel says, "That's one time my enthusiasm hit bottom!"
What legendary creature has the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet?
Happy Days is an American sitcom television series that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, the series was one of the most successful of the 1970s, an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States, and starred Ron Howard as young Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard and Marion Cunningham. Happy Days became one of the biggest successes in television history and heavily influenced the television style of its time.
Happy Days resulted in seven different spin-off series, including two that were animated: Laverne & Shirley, Blansky's Beauties, Mork & Mindy, Out of the Blue, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (animated) and Laverne & Shirley with The Fonz (animated).
The most successful of these spin-offs, Laverne & Shirley (1976-83) starring Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, respectively, also took place in early/mid-1960s Milwaukee.
Robin Williams made his first appearance as Mork on Happy Days as a last minute cast substitution for the episode "My Favorite Orkan" and proved a sensation with his performance. In his own sitcom, Mork & Mindy (1978-82), his character of Mork, the alien from the planet Ork, landed in 1970s Boulder, Colorado, to study humans and took up residence with Pam Dawber's character of Mindy McConnell. Originally, Mork's appearance was explained as a dream of Richie's, but after the spin-off was established, a new ending was tagged on to the repeat of the Happy Days episode explaining that Mork would return to Earth in 1978.
Out of the Blue (1979) is a spin-off of Happy Days, though a scheduling error had the series airing prior to the main character's introduction on Happy Days.
Blansky's Beauties (1977) starred Nancy Walker as former Las Vegas showgirl Nancy Blansky. One week before the show's premiere, the Blansky character appeared on Happy Days as a cousin of Howard Cunningham.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Happy Days.
Randall wrote:
Happy Days
mj said:
The show that also gave us the phrase
"Jumping the shark". Happy Days.
Alan J answered:
Happy Days.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Happy Days
Micki responded:
Happy Days.
Dave wrote:
"Happy Days" (1974-1984)? I only remember "Mork & Mindy" and not the other two, but I thought I remembered that was a spin off of "Happy Days" episode. Supposedly "Happy Days" was a spin off of "Love American Style," but that's bullshit. "Happy Days" was an obvious attempt to capitalize on the success of the 1973 movie "American Graffiti," even casting Graffiti lead actor Ron Howard as the high school lead, and Henry Winkler as Fonzie who was the twenty something "hood" who greatly resembled John Milner's character as played by Paul Le Mat. Ron Howard was finally written out of the series, at his own request, after 7 seasons. But by that time he had outgrown the role and was just a bit player as the writers featured The Fonz.
BTW, most TV critics don't consider either "Blansky's Beauties" (13 episodes) or "Out of the Blue" (4 aired episodes) to be true spin offs of Happy Days. Those characters appearances on "Happy Days" were one offs timed to promote those series that were about to, or had already, debuted on TV.
Kevin in Washington DC , replied:
Sit on it, Ralph
That was Happy Days.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Happy Days
David of Moon Valley wrote:
mmmmm...could be....
would that be Happy Days?…it's Sunday morning and the covfefe hasn't quite kicked in yet….
Cal in Vermont said:
Happy Days!
Dave in Tucson answered:
They were spin-offs of Happy Days. A show that was decent in it's first
season, went downhill each subsequent one.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is "Happy Days." The moral of the story is that some spinoffs work better than others!
Jacqueline responded:
Guessing it's Lavern and Shirley?
Daniel in The City said:
Happy Days, although the only one I remember is Mork & Mindy
zorch wrote:
Happy Days
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
"Happy Days" is the answer. I guess I knew that but had forgotten it, I remembered right away. Hey. I am getting old, I'm lucky I remember to tie my shoes. Most of the time anyway.
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Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a RERUN'All Rise', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 7/16/20) are W. Kamau Bell and the Chicks.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 6/23/20) are Will Ferrell, Billy Porter, and Phoebe Bridgers.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Titan Games', followed by a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Common, Matisse Thybulle, and Rufus Wainwright.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Sean Penn, Jane Curtin, and Thaddeus Dixon.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/26/20) are Beth Behrs and Tichina Arnold.
ABC fills the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/21/20), with guest Host Nikki Glaser, are Paris Hilton and Phoebe Robinson.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1: Lone Star'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Hoarders', followed by a FRESH'Hoarders', then a FRESH'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ferris Buehler's Day Off', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters', then the movie 'Ghostbusters II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Necessary Evil
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Second Sight
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Sanctuary
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rivals
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Alternate
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Armageddon Game
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Whispers
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Paradise
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Shadowplay
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Playing God
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Profit and Loss
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Blood Oath
[6:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[7:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[8:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[9:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[10:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[11:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[12:00AM] LAW & ORDER
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Family
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Brothers
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Suddenly Human
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Remember Me
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Legacy (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', then another FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', again.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'Another Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Pop Goes the Easel
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Nutty But Nice
[7:00A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods
[7:15A] The Three Stooges - Wee Wee Monsieur
[7:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[9:45A] Pitch Black
[12:00P] The Matrix Reloaded
[3:00P] The Matrix Revolutions
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] The Matrix Reloaded
[4:00A] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] hogan's heroes
[6:30am] hogan's heroes
[7:00am] hogan's heroes
[7:30am] hogan's heroes
[8:00am] hogan's heroes
[8:30am] hogan's heroes
[9:00am] hogan's heroes
[9:30am] hogan's heroes
[10:00am] hogan's heroes
[10:30am] hogan's heroes
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] marauders
[2:30pm] the bank job
[5:00pm] carlito's way
[8:00pm] boyz n the hood
[10:30pm] boyz n the hood
[1:00am] boyz n the hood
[3:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[4:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[4:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Twister', followed by the movie 'Lake Placid', then the movie 'Lake Placid 2'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 4/27/20) is Martin Short.
A hand-written letter by Rosa Parks honouring Martin Luther King has been put up for sale.
Priced at $54,000 (£41,273), the letter was written by Ms Parks 13 years after he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Then a 42-year-old seamstress, Ms Parks was the first person to challenge the state's segregation laws. After being released on bail, she was fined $10 and ordered to pay $4 court costs.
Her arrest became a cause célèbre among black residents. Led by a local clergyman, Martin Luther King, they organised a boycott of the local bus system.
Reflecting on the incident in later years, Ms Parks wrote: "I had been pushed around all my life, and felt at this moment that I couldn't take it anymore."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has doubled down on her accusations against White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx' credibility, saying the virus expert is helping Donald Trump (R-Failure) spread misinformation about Covid-19.
"I think the president has been spreading disinformation about the virus and she is his appointee, so I don't have confidence there, no," Ms Pelosi said on Sunday in an interview with ABC News.
The speaker was responding to a question from ABC's Martha Raddatz about a Politico report that she had raised concerns about Ms Birx's credibility on the coronavirus pandemic in talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
"Deborah Birx is the worst. Wow, what horrible hands you're in," Ms Pelosi reportedly told Mr Mnuchin and Mr Meadows.
Ms Pelosi contrasted Ms Birx's public statements about the pandemic to those of Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of Health who has earned the ire of Mr Trump for speaking more gravely about the virus that has killed more than 157,000 Americans than other top White House health advisers.
It appears Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson is following in the footsteps of Meghan Markle by venturing into the entertainment industry.
The Duchess of York, 60, reportedly shot a pilot for Fox's all-new TV show, Dancing with Horses. (Think Dancing with the Stars…but instead of celebrities pairing up with professional dancers, they team up with horses.)
Ferguson will serve on a panel of judges, who are tasked with critiquing each performance. According to producer Claudia Rosencrantz (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Hell's Kitchen), Ferguson brought a royally positive energy to the set.
The pilot was shot in the U.K., which allowed for producers to enlist highly trained horses from Britain and France. Dancing with Horses will feature celebrities learning choreographed dances and then performing the moves alongside their four-legged partner. Although the show hasn't been picked up for more episodes, it sounds like something we'd feel obligated to watch. (Whether we like it or not.)
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ordered the immediate release of a 15-year-old Black girl who was detained in May for not doing her schoolwork. The teen's case, first reported by ProPublica, gained national attention and drew condemnation from education and juvenile justice advocates. "The emergency motion for immediate release is GRANTED, and the juvenile respondent is ordered immediately released from detention to the custody of her mother pending appeal or further order of this Court," Judge Deborah A. Servitto wrote in the Friday order.
In April of this year, "Grace" - the name given to the teen by ProPublica - was facing larceny and assault charges stemming from physical altercations with her mother and a theft at school, the outlet reported.
During a hearing on April 21, Oakland County Judge Mary Ellen Brennan allowed Grace to stay out of detention, citing the coronavirus pandemic. But Brennan warned her that she was under "intensive probation" that required her, among other responsibilities, to complete her schoolwork.
After remote schooling began, Grace - who has ADHD and a mood disorder - struggled to keep up with her schoolwork, according to ProPublica. When Grace's case worker reported she was violating her probation, Brennan sent her to detention.
Grace's case has drawn national condemnation from advocates who said it's unfair to incarcerate a teen who, like many other students, is struggling with school during unprecedented times. Advocates also cited the risk of incarcerating her during a global pandemic, especially after "the state gave clear directives that children, and all people, unless it was a dire emergency, were to be kept out of detention," Kristen Staley, co-director of the Midwest Juvenile Defender Center, told ProPublica.
Scientists and environmental groups have expressed alarm after new data revealed there were 28 percent more fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest this July compared with the same time last year.
Satellite images released by Brazil's space research agency INPE on Saturday revealed 6,803 fires in the Amazon last month. There were 5,318 in July 2019.
And a report released by IPAM last fall found that deforestation - and not drought - was the primary driver behind the record fires in 2019.
However, Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change skeptic, has urged for more development and economic opportunities in the Amazon region, which is often referred to as the "lungs of the planet."
Researchers at NASA also warned earlier this month that conditions are "ripe" for an active fire season in the Amazon, saying warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have elevated the risk of fires in the southern Amazon.
Not all volcanoes are suddenly explosive. Some spew steady rivers of gloppy, slow-moving lava for millennia on end, like those in the Hawaiian or Galápagos islands.
These are what volcanologist Michael Stock from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland calls the 'boring' volcanoes - yet underneath their monotonous exterior, lurks a bombshell that Stock and his colleagues have just discovered.
Analysing microscopic crystals in the basalt and ejected material of two volcanoes in the Galápagos, the researchers discovered hidden systems of magma that are not so simple or predictable after all.
Even though the Wolf and Fernandina volcanoes in the Galápagos have seemingly spewed the same basaltic lava for their entire existence, the new findings suggest they are sitting on a chemically diverse system of molten rocks, some of which have the potential to set into motion explosive activity.
Just because these volcanoes appear boring on the surface doesn't mean the monotony will continue forever, the researchers say.
Dating is hard enough when you have ample choice, but imagine drifting through a dark nothingness, half-formed and hopeless, starved for nutrients and love.
So goes the life of a bachelor anglerfish, and when there aren't plenty of fish in the deep sea, you can't blame them for being a little clingy when they do find one.
Still, some anglerfish take that neediness to the extreme. When certain species sniff out a giant female in the dark, they will whip out their sharp teeth and bite their date by the belly.
Once they have a firm grasp, these tiny males, sometimes no bigger than a centimetre, will release an enzyme that dissolves the surrounding skin, melding his and her tissues, and establishing a common circulation of blood.
In this gruesome way, these fish become nothing more than loyal and loving appendages with testes. Or, more accurately, sexual parasites.
Good news, everyone! Astronomers have pinpointed the best location on Earth for studying the stars. But if you're an amateur astronomer hoping to take advantage of this astronomical sweet spot, you'll have to bundle up, as it's in the heart of Antarctica, one of the coldest places on the planet.
Dome A-the highest ice dome in the Antarctic Plateau-allows for the clearest views of the starry sky at night, according to new research published this week in Nature. Ice domes are the uppermost portions of ice sheets, rising high above the frozen terrain. Antarctica's Dome A, while an ideal spot for stargazing, is one of the coldest places on Earth, featuring temperatures as low as -130 degrees Fahrenheit (-90 degrees Celsius). That's akin to nighttime on Mars.
So while the new paper proposes an optimal location for doing astronomy, the remote location of Dome A, also known as Dome Argus, presents some considerable challenges. Scientists hoping to set up camp in this location will, in addition to dealing with the extreme cold, have to travel 740 miles (1,200 kilometers) into the interior of the Antarctic continent.
Light pollution poses a problem for both professional and amateur astronomers, but there's more to a clear view of the night sky than avoiding street lights and skyscrapers. Atmospheric turbulence, while giving stars their characteristic twinkle-twinkle, can hinder clear views into space. Telescopes at mid-latitudes and high elevations, such as those in Hawai'i and Chile, are ideal in this respect, as these observatories take advantage of the weaker turbulence found at these locations.
Astronomers have a metric, called the seeing number, to denote the quality of the night sky view, which they measure in arcseconds. The lower the number, the lower the turbulence, and thus a better view of stars, galaxies, nebulae, and whatever else astronomers are hoping to see. In Hawai'i and Chile, the seeing number is around 0.6 to 0.8 arcseconds.
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