• Two Quakers by the name of Rachel Kirk and Phillip Price got married. (Mr. Price was the 4th Superintendent of Westtown School.) Ms. Kirk was asked how she had ever consented to give up such a wonderful name as Kirk (which means “Church”). She replied, “Oh, I got a good Price for it.”
• Russian bass Feodor Chaliapine knew a military man named General Ernst, who sometimes quarreled with his wife. When the arguments grew especially heated, she would sit at the piano and play the Russian National Anthem, forcing the general to come to attention and stop quarreling.
• When Morrie Turner, creator of the comic strip Wee Pals, wanted to propose to his girlfriend, Letha, he carefully prepared the words he wanted to speak to her, but he was so nervous when the time came to propose that all he could say at first was, “Will you, will you, will you?”
• Many children’s book illustrators put their spouses and children in their artistic creations. Jane Dyer once put her husband in an illustration in which she gave him striped socks and fairy wings. He requested that she not put him in any more illustrations.
• French-American modern artist Marcel Duchamp enjoyed playing chess. In fact, on his honeymoon his wife got so annoyed at his chess playing that she glued all the chess pieces to the playing board. (They were divorced a few months later.)
• Daniel Keyes wrote much of “Flowers for Algernon” on his typewriter at night while his wife, Aurea, was sleeping in the same room. She got so used to his typing that when he stopped she would wake up and ask, “What’s the matter?”
Illness
• Kazuko came from a very traditional Japanese family, but she ended up getting a Fulbright scholarship and moving to New York City. Once, she returned home when both of her parents were ill and in the hospital. Being a dutiful daughter, she spent time with both parents. Because they were on different floors, she would spend time with one parent, then go to a different floor and spend time with the other parent. This, however, was something that the lady who shared a room with her mother did not know. This lady’s daughter was dutiful indeed, spending morning, afternoon, and evening with her. When Kazuko had to return to New York, this lady gave her a gift: a box of seaweed in a bag that had written on it traditional Japanese calligraphy. Kazuko thanked the lady for the gift, then carried it on board a train, where she fell asleep. When she woke up, she deciphered the calligraphy — and was horrified because it said, “Those who betray and do not take care of parents will be punished for not knowing the virtue of filial piety.” While Kazuko had been sleeping, other Japanese people on the train had been able to read the calligraphy and receive the clear message that she was a bad daughter!
• When Quaker humorist Tom Mullen went into a hospital to have his colon removed, he met a nurse who had undergone the same medical procedure and so was able to answer his questions and joke with him about the procedure. For example, with no colon, the patient must wear a bag into which the feces collect. Mr. Mullen asked what he should do if the bag broke, and the nurse replied, “Stand downwind.” The nurse also said that men have an advantage over women in undergoing this procedure: “Both men and women wear bags, but we women have to find shoes to match.”
Language
• Opera singer Helen Traubel was born in St. Louis, Missouri, at a time when the best opera singers were thought to come from Europe. In Seattle, a surprised woman told Ms. Traubel’s husband, “Why, your wife speaks almost perfect English! How long has she been in this country?” Ms. Traubel’s husband replied, “All her life, and if I told you how long that is, she would shoot me first and divorce me later.”
In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece (Greek: Chrysómallo déras) is the fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram, Chrysomallos, which was held in Colchis. The fleece is a symbol of authority and kingship.
It figures in the tale of the hero Jason and his crew of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece by order of King Pelias, in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. Through the help of Medea, they acquire the Golden Fleece. The story is of great antiquity and was current in the time of Homer (eighth century BC). It survives in various forms, among which the details vary.
Nowadays, The heraldic variations of Golden Fleece is featured frequently in the Republic of Georgia, especially for Coats of Arms and Flags associated with Western Georgian (Historical Colchis) municipalities and cities, including the Coats of Arms of City of Kutaisi, ancient capital city of Colchis.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The Golden Fleece.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Golden Fleece
Randall wrote:
the golden fleece
Alan J answered:
The Golden Fleece.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Golden Fleece
zorch responded:
The Golden Fleece.
mj wrote:
There must have been easier ways to get a diploma
But, admittedly, they probably weren't as cool as the sheep skin known
as the Golden Fleece, indicator of rulership.
Cal in Vermont said:
It's Golden Fleece, held to be a symbol of authority and kingship. So naturally everybody wanted it and damn near everybody died trying to get it. Not much has changed since I reckon.
Dave responded:
The Golden Fleece.
Photos: Valuable early member of the Argonauts, the demi-god Hercules, killing the Hydra | Jason claims the Golden Fleece after using charm, sorcery and guile to: seduce the king’s daughter, put the dragon to sleep, defeat the fire breathing bulls and trick the army that sprung up from the planted dragon’s teeth into killing each other | Jason and his remaining crew were nearly bewitched by the Sirens but Jason somehow saved the day again
DJ Useo said:
He was searching for the "Golden Fleece". Other quests were for his lost keys, his high school crush, Karen, & a really good sushi bar.
@Marty - Best wishes with your new indoor cooker. Happy Easter to you, & everybody!
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CBS fills the night with LIVE'March Madness', then pads the left coast with local crap.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by 'Dateline', then an old 'SNL'.
NBC opens the night early on the left coast with a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by a LIVE'SNL', then an old 'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Daniel Kaluuya, music by St. Vincent.
ABC starts the night early (and then some) with the movie 'The Ten Commandments'.
The CW offers a couple of old 'Friends', then a couple of old '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Masked Singer', followed by a RERUN'Game Of Talents'.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'Red 2'.
AMC offers the movie 'Moneyball', followed by the movie 'Fast & Furious'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC
[5:00PM - 4:00AM] PLANET EARTH II
[5:00AM] WONDERS OF THE MOON (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'A Bad Moms Christmas', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Easy A', followed by the movie 'We're The Millers'.
FX has the movie 'How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World', followed by the movie 'Peter Rabbit', then the movie 'Despicable Me 3'.
IFC -
[7:15am - 12:45pm] Saved By The Bell
[1:15pm] Wayne's World 2
[3:15pm] Wayne's World
[5:15pm] Back To The Future
[8:00pm] Back To The Future Part II
[10:30pm] Back To The Future Part III
[1:15am] Blues Brothers 2000
[4:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - Carnival Magic (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:30am - 10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am - 3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] grease
[6:30pm] grease
[9:00pm] grease
[11:30pm] grease
[2:00am] sixteen candles
[4:00am] sixteen candles (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Gladiator', followed by the movie 'Robin Hood'.
Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics — including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola — have condemned as being too restrictive.
The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta’s Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.
Kemp has insisted the law’s critics have mischaracterized what it does, yet GOP lawmakers adopted the changes largely in response to false claims of fraud in the 2020 elections by former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) and his supporters. The law includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made the decision to move the All-Star events and the amateur draft from Atlanta after discussions with individual players and the Players Alliance, an organization of Black players formed after the death of George Floyd last year, the commissioner said in a statement. A new ballpark for the events wasn’t immediately revealed.
The Friends reunion special, one of the most high-profile TV casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to finally start shooting.
Sources have confirmed that HBO Max’s unscripted special will begin taping in Los Angeles next week.
It will feature the gang – Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc – returning to the comedy’s original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank.
Ben Winston is set to direct the reunion. The actors will executive produce the reunion with Friends creators Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane exec producing alongside Winston, Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry and Schwimmer. Emma Conway and James Longman are co-executive producers. The special hails from Warner Bros. Unscripted & Alternative Television and Fulwell 73 Productions.
The special is designed to join all 236 episodes of the Emmy-winning 1994-2004 NBC series, revealed last year by WarnerMedia as the top show on the streaming platform.
It’s a cameo that doesn’t last long. But Roger Stone (R-Cialis) relished the role.
The Fort Lauderdale resident and longtime confidant of former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) who has been the subject of years of welcome and unwelcome media attention — and who frequently vilifies the mainstream media — portrays a Washington Post reporter in a movie that hits streaming services on Friday.
He especially welcomed the idea of making the reporter look bad. “I played it like a Washington Post reporter: sleazy, deceptive, dishonest and biased,” Stone said Thursday. “I think I nailed it.”
Many critics have applied many of those descriptions to Stone. And while his description of the Post, which has won 69 Pulitzer Prizes, will be dismissed by some and embraced by others, Stone’s enthusiasm for the part is undeniable.
Stone’s role came about through Nick Loeb, a former South Florida political candidate and businessman. Stone has known Loeb’s father since Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 presidential campaign and advised the younger Loeb in some of his political endeavors.
After months of deal speculation, Scooter Braun has sold his media company, Ithaca Holdings, to South Korea’s HYBE.
Formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment, HYBE is home to K-pop bands like the mega-selling BTS. The deal brings together a range of services including management, label services and publishing for a potent roster of artists. The list includes BTS, TXT, SEVENTEEN, NU’EST, GFRIEND, ENHYPEN, ZICO, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, J Balvin, Demi Lovato, Thomas Rhett and Florida Georgia Line.
Under the deal, HYBE subsidiary HYBE America is taking full control of Ithaca and its properties which include SB Projects and Big Machine Label Group. HYBE will invest $950 million into its U.S. unit, which will then pay just north of $1 billion to bondholders and other investors in order to complete the deal, per a regulatory filing. The Carlyle Group is also selling its minority stake in Ithaca Holdings, which dates to 2017.
Braun will join the board of HYBE and Scott Borchetta will remain CEO of Big Machine Label Group. Artists of both companies will participate in the capital increase of HYBE, according to the official deal announcement.
The founder of far-right group the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, his lieutenant, and three members of the militia who guarded Donald Trump ally Roger Stone swapped numerous phone calls in a three-hour period on 6 January when the Capitol was attacked by a mob, prosecutors said Thursday.
These exchanges coincided with the initial assault on police barricades outside Congress, and continued into when the three guards breached the US Capitol building, according to the Washington Post.
Prosecutors made this claim in a new indictment, which added two of these guards – Joshua James and Roberto Minuta – to an ongoing Oath Keepers conspiracy case. James and Minuta were both previously charged.
Rhodes has previously denied there was a plan to breach Congress and insisted that authorities were trying to establish a bogus conspiracy. “I may go to jail soon, not for anything I actually did, but for made-up crimes,” he remarked to Texas Republicans during a recent rally in Laredo.
Rhodes also implored ex-president Trump’s supporters to “not cower in fear”, maintaining that federal authorities were “trying to get rid of us so they can get to you”. Rhodes also reportedly said: “If we actually intended to take over the Capitol, we’d have taken it, and we’d have brought guns.”
A Republican congressional candidate in Texas said this week that she didn't want Chinese immigrants to come to the U.S., blaming them for the spread of coronavirus.
Sery Kim, who worked in the Small Business Administration during the Trump administration, made the comments earlier this week during a forum for candidates running for an open seat in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth.
Kim, who is Korean American, said of Chinese immigrants, "I don’t want them here at all," while speaking at the forum on Wednesday. "They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don’t hold themselves accountable.”
The candidate drew laughs and applause from the crowd with her comments as she added: "And quite frankly, I can say that because I’m Korean."
Kim is running for the open 6th Congressional District seat formerly held by the late Ron Wright. The lawmaker died earlier this year from Covid-19 complications.
Ice sheet melting at the end of the last ice age may have caused sea levels to rise at 10 times the current rate, a study published Thursday by a team led by scientists from Britain's Durham University said.
Based on geological records, the researchers estimate that oceans worldwide rose 3.6 meters (11.8 feet) per century over a 500-year period some 14,600 years ago.
The findings raise a red flag about the potential today for rapid sea-level rise that could swamp coastal cities and densely populated deltas around the world.
The team found that the approximately 18-meter sea level rising event may have originated primarily from melting ice sheets in the northern hemisphere and not Antarctica as previously thought.
Current models used by many climate scientists estimate global sea levels could rise by between 1 and 2 meters by the end of this century.
A baby in Iraq was born with three penises, says International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. It's the first ever recorded instance. According to the report, the extra penises were removed and the baby is doing fine.
A 3-month-old child presented because of left side hydrocele. There were evidence of two supernumerary penises in the perineum, the first one was about 2 cm in length with a glans and was attached to the root of the penis, and the third one was about 1 cm and was below the scrotum. Hydrocelectomy was performed. The two supernumerary penises were extending to perineal region and were attached to original penis, both had corpora cavernosum and spongiosum with no urethra inside. Both supernumerary penises were excised and both corpora were sutured with a fine slowly absorbable suture material. The patient was discharged with no postoperative events and follow up was done for one years with no reported adverse events.
One out of 5–6 million babies are born with "supernumerary penises," and until now "supernumerary" has meant two.
In 2013 a man with two functioning penises did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit and included links to photographs. He also wrote a book entitled Double Header: My Life with Two Penises.
Diamonds may be the strongest known natural material, but researchers have just created some stiff competition.
By firing a dime-sized graphite disk at a wall at 15,000 mph (24,100 km/h), scientists momentarily created a hexagonal diamond that is both stiffer and stronger than the natural, cubic kind.
Hexagonal diamonds, also known as Lonsdaleite diamonds, are a special type of diamond with carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Formed when graphite is exposed to extreme heat and stress, such as at meteor impact sites, the rare material has long been theorized to be stronger than ordinary cubic diamonds.
However, as the hexagonal diamonds found in impact craters contain too many impurities, scientists have never accurately measured their properties.
Now, researchers have not only forged the hexagonal diamonds but also measured their stiffness — the ability to resist changing shape when squashed or stretched — with a combination of sound waves and laser light.
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