Although Georgia has only about 100 miles of coastline, it contains one third of the East Coasts salt marsh.
Brunswick’s port is the western most port on the East coast.
A straight line from Brunswick north would cross Cincinnati, OH.
In his book, This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV
Spanish Moss, the stringy growth that hangs from trees in the US coastal Southeast, is actually not really a moss but a member of the plant family Bromeliaceae, also known as the pineapple family. Check the links for interesting legends of the origin of this plant.
The authors of Freakonomics relate an interesting story about the KKK after WWII. Wanting to combat the rise of the KKK, activist Stetson Kennedy went undercover and infiltrated the group. In attempt to discredit the organization and expose their covert practices, Kennedy gave the writers of the Superman radio drama detailed information about the workings of the KKK, including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals. The writers produced four episodes of the radio show chronicling the super hero fighting the Klan. The authors contend that the radio show episodes had a negative impact on the Klan and hastened it’s demise.
Lucas, after wrapping up Star Wars, visits Spielberg on the set of Close Encounters. Impressed with the giant set and production and convinced Star Wars would be a flop, Lucas offers to trade 2.5 percent of each directors movies.
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Spielberg on Spielberg documentary, TCM
or just google “spielberg lucas bet”
Neil Armstrong’s moon boots are still siting on the moon along with nine other pairs worn during the Apollo missions. They were jettison to compensate for the additional weight in moon rocks they were bringing back to earth.
Here’s a site of some of that old ascii art. Pictures of celebrities created entirely from ascii characters. I remember in typing class in high school using old fashion typewriters to create ‘type art’ but not quite on the scale as these.
Update: link appears to have died, see an archived page here.
According to authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner in their book Freakonomics
If you both own a gun and have a swimming pool in the backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
Seems I don’t have enough time to write a daily blog like I had hoped. It seems that something of Interest is really just something of interest to me. But that’s what it’s about anyway. This original experiment was to come up with one new and interesting item a day. I’ve failed on that point. If anyone other than me is interested in reading this all the better, hope you’re entertained or at least amused. As with this post I keep adding more to it to make it better, just my perfectionist nature coming out.
A favorite cartoon of my youth, I was surprised to discover that it originally aired in prime time for a single season.
“26 Jonny Quest episodes originally aired in primetime during the 1964-65 season.”
There have been a few resurrections of the series, but none have come close in quality to the original classic 26 episodes.
Fan site:
http://www.classicjq.com/
I own and highly recommend the DVD set.
Jonny Quest First Season
Don’t let “First Season” throw you, there was only one season.