• Hugh Porter went through many girlfriends. One of his long-distance girlfriends, who didn’t know that she had stopped being one of his girlfriends, telegraphed him, “Why don’t you write?” Because Hugh was attending college, he sent back this telegram: “I am married to my Alma Mater.” A few weeks passed, then a package arrived for him. The package contained a set of six silver teaspoons, and a note: “Best wishes to you and Alma for your happiness.”
• Even Hollywood celebrities have boyfriend trouble. Freddie Prinze, Jr., the boyfriend of Sarah Michelle Gellar, with whom he starred in the Scoobie Doo movies, was constantly late to his dates with her because he found it difficult to follow directions. To help solve that problem, she bought him a detailed map of Los Angeles. (By the way, they got married.)
• Eleanor of Aquitaine picked lice from the hair of her lover and put it in a locket that she wore around her neck. Because she was royalty — the wife of King Louis VII of France — the women in her court imitated her and so she started a trend.
• New Yorker cartoonist Alice Harvey loved roller-skating. In fact, when she received a big check from The New Yorker, she ordered built a circular sidewalk in her backyard just so she and her husband could roller-skate.
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• When ballerina Chan Hon Goh was a little girl, she took classes at her parents’ dance school. One day, after class, when she was 13 years old, her parents began to talk about the accomplishments of some of the students in her classes. Feeling ignored, young Chan said, crying, “I was in all of those classes today, too. You never even notice. I don’t know what the other girls have got that I don’t. I try just as hard. How come you never correct me or praise me like you do the others?” Your father was surprised by her outburst, but he promised her, “If you really want to be a dancer, then I will work with you. I will watch you and correct you. Everything I can, I will do. From now on, I will take care of you.” Both Chan and her father kept their word: she worked hard, and he corrected her. The hard work paid off — Chan became a prima ballerina with the National Ballet of Canada.
• When the ballet Rodeo opened, it was a smash hit with the audience applauding for 22 curtain calls. Even the musicians in the orchestra pit were giving a standing ovation — a sure sign of success. Agnes de Mille, who choreographed the ballet and danced the part of the Cowgirl, was responsible for much of the ballet’s success. An unsung hero was her mother, Anna, who supported Agnes through years of struggle. Asked if she was proud of her daughter after Rodeo had opened, Anna replied that she had always been proud of her daughter, including during the times when Agnes could find no one to give her work in dance.
• When Alicia Martinez was attending ballet school in Cuba, the school suffered from a lack of male ballet dancers. Therefore, young Alicia asked her brother to round up a group of his friends and make them dance with her, promising them that she would teach them wonderful new exercises that would make them great athletes. One of the boys her brother rounded up was Fernando Alonso, whom Alicia later married.
The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, was the first machine to be called a "bicycle". It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high speeds (owing to it travelling a large distance for every rotation of the legs) and comfort (the large wheel provides greater shock absorption).
It became obsolete from the late 1880s with the development of modern bicycles, which provided similar speed amplification via chain-driven gear trains and comfort through pneumatic tires, and were marketed in comparison to penny-farthings as "safety bicycles" because of the reduced danger of falling and the reduced height to fall from.
Although the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. Its popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport.
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Billy in Cypress U.S.A. was first, and correct, with:
The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, was the first machine to be called a "bicycle".
Mark. said:
A direct-drive bicycle.
Alan J answered:
A High Wheel Bicycle.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
It is the original bicycle with a big front wheel and a teeny back wheel and pedals that go around no matter what. Treat it like an ill-tempered horse, which is to say be real careful around one, or you will visit the emergency room.
Jacqueline responded:
zorch replied:
A high front wheeled bicycle.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Direct drive bicycle with a big front wheel
Randall wrote:
a bicycle
Deborah, the Master Gardener said:
I know this one: a Penny Farthing is the first machine commonly called a bicycle. The front wheel is very large, making mounting and dismounting trickly. I’ve seen them in parades but never ridden one.
A lovely sunny day to herald spring. I’ll take it.
Adam answered:
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and very small rear wheel.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, was the first machine to be called a "bicycle".
Leo in Boise replied:
Bicycle
Dave wrote:
The first bicycle. What is now called a high Wheeler. The speed advantage of the large direct drive front wheel was offset by the hazard of the rider being pitched headfirst onto the pavement upon hitting a rock, a hole or even by hard braking. Those “headers” were sometimes fatal and often resulted in severe injuries. That led to the modern ‘safety bicycle’ with equally sized front and rear wheels. The ‘safety bicycle’ was more comfortable with pneumatic tires and potentially even faster with a geared rear wheel driven by a chain, with the cyclist mounted in-between the wheels. That eliminated the difficult mounting and the headers of the obsolete penny-farthing.
Dave in Tucson said:
Farth if I know.
DJ Useo answered:
Nope, it's not a coin, it's a primitive bicycle. I know, because I fell off one once.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
It was an early type of bicycle with a very large front wheel and a small rear wheel.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
High wheeler bicycle
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CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'The Equalizer', then a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', then a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Charmed'.
Faux has a FRESH'Cherries Wild', followed by a FRESH'Bless The Harts', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'The Great North', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS
[6:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - HEAVEN SENT
[7:45AM] DOCTOR WHO - HELL BENT
[9:10AM] DOCTOR WHO - THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
[10:15AM] DOCTOR WHO - BLINK
[11:19AM] DOCTOR WHO - THE ELEVENTH HOUR
[12:21PM] DOCTOR WHO - VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR
[1:26PM] DOCTOR WHO - FUGITIVE OF THE JUDOON
[2:37PM] DOCTOR WHO -REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS
[4:20PM] DOCTOR WHO - THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
[6:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - FURY FROM THE DEEP
[9:00PM] TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
[12:00AM] TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
[3:00AM] MORTAL KOMBAT
[5:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - YOU'RE NO FUN ANYMORE
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - FULL FRONTAL NUDITY
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - THE ANT: AN INTRODUCTION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by another FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', 'Married To Medicine', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Vacation', followed by 'South ParQ Vaccination Special', then hours & hours of 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Deadpool', followed by the movie 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
History has 'The Men Who Built America', 'The Food That Built America', followed by a FRESH'The Food That Built America', then a FRESH'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 11:00am] Three's Company
[11:30am] Three Amigos!
[2:00pm] Back To School
[4:00pm] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
[6:00pm] Another 48 HRS.
[8:15pm] Road Trip
[10:15pm] The Longest Yard
[12:45am] Road Trip
[2:45am] The Longest Yard
[5:15am] The Three Stooges - Three Little Pigskins
[5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:30am] monk - Mr. Monk Is Someone Else
[7:30am] monk - Mr. Monk Takes The Stand
[8:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Critic
[9:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Voodoo Curse
[10:30am] platoon
[1:00pm] a few good men
[4:00pm] halloween 4: the return of michael myers
[6:00pm] halloween 5: the revenge of michael myers
[8:00pm] halloween
[10:00pm] halloween ii
[12:00am] halloween iii: season of the witch
[2:00am] halloween
[4:00am] halloween 5: the revenge of michael myers (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron', followed by the movie 'I, Robot'.
The Mrs. Doubtfire rumors of an NC-17 version have been refuted by the film’s director, Chris Columbus. But he says there is an R-rated cut among three different versions of the film.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Columbus said actor Robin Williams’s penchant for ad-libs resulted in the three different approaches in the shooting of the Mrs. Doubtfire film.
“The reality is that there was a deal between Robin and myself, which was, he’ll do one or two, three scripted takes. And then he would say, ‘Then let me play.’ And we would basically go on anywhere between 15 to 22 takes, I think 22 being the most I remember,” Columbus said.
“He would sometimes go into territory that wouldn’t be appropriate for a PG-13 movie, but certainly appropriate and hilariously funny for an R-rated film. I only [previously] used the phrase NC-17 as a joke. There could be no NC-17 version of the movie.”
Monica Levinson, producer of Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, said the film’s infamous Rudy Giuliani scene was even more harrowing for the filmmakers after the former mayor left the hotel room.
The film features a scene in which Giuliani goes to the hotel bedroom with Maria Bakalova after an interview, appearing to expect sexual relations. Giuliani has denied that’s what he was doing.
“He claimed we were trying to extort him at the time, which we didn’t ask for anything,” Levinson said at a Producers Guild of America panel on Saturday. “He called all of his New York City cops and said extortion, which was a federal crime. Very smart to bring that up.”
Levinson said the hotel locked the Borat crew out of the suite where they had filmed the Giuliani scene. Fortunately, they had already transferred the footage out of the room.
“We actually had to rent new equipment,” Levinson said. “It was a really stressful time that evening because the hotel wouldn’t let us take anything out of the rooms.”
Fresh air can be a rare commodity in the world of late-night talk, a realm that often seems dominated by funny white guys named Jimmy doing their best to resolutely walk the line between “inoffensive” and “inessential.” Which is just one of the reasons that Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show has been such a consistent refreshment over the last six months. Arriving every Friday night on the NBC-affiliated streaming network, the series showcases Ruffin’s welcome combination of high-energy comedy and deft political savvy, refusing to shy away from the most terrifying national issues of the day—often, it must be said, in the form of a catchy song.
Which is why it’s so nice to see that Peacock is embracing Ruffin’s role as part of its late-night ecosystem, renewing The Amber Ruffin Show for another six months on the streaming network. (Still no call up to the NBC major leagues, as was potentially hinted at by her brief substitute stint on the network earlier this year, but, hey: We’ll take it.) Ruffin produces, hosts, and co-writes the show, in addition to her continuing duties on Late Night With Seth Meyers, but if she’s willing to keep quadrupling up her schedule like this for another half-year, we’re happy to accept the benefits of the hard work that she—and the show’s other writers, including head writer Jenny Hagel, plus Ian Morgan, Ashley Nicole Black, Michael Harriot, internet favorite Demi Adejuyigbe, Shantira Jackson, and Dewayne Perkins—have been putting into the series.
When French diver Henri Cosquer stumbled upon the world's only prehistoric cave paintings reached from under the sea in 1991 off Marseille, some Parisian experts laughed off his claims of caveman penguin art as Provence hyperbole.
Those claims turned out to be entirely true and saw the Cosquer Cave - whose entrance lies 37 metres (120ft) under the waves - hailed France’s “undersea Lascaux”.
Experts around France are putting the finishing touches to a perfect facsimile of the Cosquer Cave - the only one in the world with an entrance below present-day sea level where cave art has been preserved from the flooding that occurred when the seas rose after the end of the last Ice Age.
The original contains a bestiary of 500 drawings of 11 different species, including horses, bison, aurochs, ibex, chamois, saiga antelope, red and megaloceros deer and a cave lion.
However, unique to the cave are sea animals including penguins, auks, seals and jellyfish-like creatures. The cave also contains a depiction of what some have dubbed the first prehistoric murder, showing a human with a seal's head shot through by a spear.
The mood is so bad at the U.S. Capitol that a Democratic congressman recently let an elevator pass him by rather than ride with Republican colleagues who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election.
Republicans say it’s Democrats who just need to get over it — move on from the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, end the COVID-19 restrictions and make an effort to reach across the aisle toward bipartisanship.
Not yet 100 days into the new Congress, the legislative branch has become an increasingly toxic and unsettled place, with lawmakers frustrated by the work-from-home limits imposed by the virus and suspicious of each other after the horrific riot over Trump’s presidency.
Particularly in the House, which remains partly shuttered by the pandemic and where lawmakers heard gunshots ring out during the siege, trust is low, settled facts about the Jan. 6 riot are apparently up for debate and wary, exhausted lawmakers are unsure how or when the “People’s House” will return to normal.
The first months of the year have laid bare the toxic scars from the historic, unprecedented events. The fallout extends far beyond the broken windows and gouged walls of the iconic Capitol building to the loss that comes from the absence of usual routines and visitors that were the daily hum of democracy. With virtual meetings and socially distanced votes, lawmakers have fewer opportunities to talk to each other, share ideas and ease fears in the aftermath of the riot.
Authorities have arrested two organizers for the far-right group the Proud Boys, charging them with conspiracy in a new criminal indictment unsealed Friday. Prosecutors say the men used paramilitary gear, handheld radios and encrypted messaging applications to coordinate with other Proud Boys before and during the attack.
Authorities indicted Zach Rehl, 35, of Pennsylvania and Charles Donohoe, 33, of North Carolina, and say both men are presidents of their local Proud Boys chapters. They were named as co-conspirators in a new criminal indictment that also charges two other Proud Boys leaders: Joseph Biggs, an Army veteran and self-described Proud Boys organizer who was arrested in January, and Ethan Nordean, a member of a Proud Boys leadership group known as the Elders, and also a president of his local chapter. Nordean was indicted earlier this month.
Prosecutors said the four defendants participated in an encrypted chat with at least 60 other people during the attack, and some used programmed handheld radios to communicate in real time.
The Proud Boys, a nationalist group self-described as "Western Chauvinists," have vocally supported former President Trump (R-Lock Him Up), and law enforcement and former members have said Mr. Trump emboldened their actions after he told the group to "stand back and stand by" in a September presidential debate.
Court documents show that the men began to plan for travel to Washington, and started crowdfunding pages to pay for expenses like "protective gear and communications" and "Travel Expenses for upcoming Patriot Events." A campaign for travel expenses raised over $5,500 donations between December 30 and January 4.
A former Florida state Republican senator was charged Thursday with three criminal counts involving a sham candidate intended to siphon votes away from a Democratic incumbent.
An arrest warrant says Frank Artiles, the former senator from the Miami area, gave more than $44,000 to the fake candidate in the 2020 election. That candidate, Alex Rodriguez, has the same last name as the then-Democratic incumbent, Jose Javier Rodriguez.
He ran as an independent in a three-way race state Senate race, which was won by Republican Ileana Garcia by just 32 votes. She is not implicated in the scheme, State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said at a news conference.
The current Senate president, Republican Wilton Simpson, said Thursday in Tallahassee that there are often third-party candidates in elections.
Alex Rodriguez was also charged Thursday with election law violations. His lawyer, William Barzee, said Rodriguez was led into the scam by Artiles and is cooperating with investigators.
The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to research. The tiny body with its strange features – a pointed head, elongated bones – had been the subject of fierce debate over whether a UFO might have left it behind. The scientists gained access to the body, which is now in a private collection, and their DNA testing proved the remains are those of a human fetus. The undeveloped girl suffered from a bone disease and was the child of an unknown local Atacama woman.
This study was supposed to end the mummy’s controversy. Instead, it ignited another one.
Authorities in Chile have denounced the research. They believe a looter plundered the girl from her grave and illegally took her from the country. The Chilean Society of Biological Anthropology issued a damning statement. It asked, “Could you imagine the same study carried out using the corpse of someone’s miscarried baby in Europe or America?”
We have seen a rush for human remains before. More than a century ago, anthropologists were eager to assemble collections of skeletons. They were building a science of humanity and needed samples of skulls and bones to determine evolutionary history and define the characteristics of human races.
Researchers emptied cemeteries and excavated ancient tombs. They took skulls from massacre sites. “It is most unpleasant work to steal bones from a grave,” the father of anthropology, Franz Boas, once grumbled, “but what is the use, someone has to do it.”
After years of cracking and crumbling, a humongous iceberg finally broke away from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf last month and began drifting out to sea. Like a retractable skylight, the event gave us a rare glimpse at a previously unreachable seafloor absolutely teeming with life.
For five decades, the ocean below this massive chunk of ice – roughly two times the size of Chicago – has been kept in the shadows. Now, the first rays of sunlight are penetrating the deep, roughly 30 kilometers down (18 miles). A German research vessel that happened to be nearby had a front-row seat.
For several weeks, the icebreaker Polarstern has been waiting for the gale-force winds and dangerous waves to die down so it can circumnavigate this monstrous iceberg. This week, the vessel finally got its chance.
Despite being cloaked in darkness for half a century, the seafloor turned out to be home to a surprising diversity of life in its silty landscape. Towing a camera platform below the ship with a long cable, researchers found many filter feeders and stationary species, including sponges, anemones, sea cucumbers, sea stars, soft corals, mollusks, fish, and squid.
The presence of filterers is particularly interesting. Phytoplankton are what creatures like this usually filter from the water to eat, but these tiny organisms are thought to rely on sunlight; they aren't usually found in the ocean deep.
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