Our word “arcade” comes from the Latin “arcus” meaning “arc”. He called his pinball game Ballyhoo, and eventually named his company Bally, a brand name well known in the gambling industry to this day. One distributor of the coin-operated pinball machines started manufacturing them himself as he couldn’t source new games fast enough. From there, manufacturers developed coin-operated versions of pinball, which became popular during the depression as they provided a little entertainment for a few pennies.
He modified the game of bagatelle, adding a coiled spring and a plunger to introduce balls at the end of the table, a device that is still in use today. The first pinball machine was made by a British inventor who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Our modern game of pinball evolved from an earlier table game called bagatelle that used balls, pins and holes (and I remember playing bagatelle as a boy in a pub in Ireland). Yalta was also in the news at the end of WWII, as it was the site of the 1945 Yalta Conference between the leaders of the three main Allies. Crimea is very much in the news in recent years as ownership of the territory is in dispute between Russia and the Ukraine. Yalta is a resort city on the Black Sea on the Crimean Peninsula. In Italian, “otto” (eight) lies between “sette” (seven) and “nove” (nine). The term “fogey”(sometimes “fogy”) comes to us from the Scottish “foggie”, which back in the late 1700s described an army pensioner or veteran. 33 Old fogy : DOTARDĪ dotard is a person who is in his or her dotage, someone who has become senile.Īn old fogey is someone with old-fashioned ideas, and is usually more advanced in years. Bill didn’t formally adopt the Clinton name until he was fourteen years old, although he used it as he was growing up. His mother remarried a few years later, to Roger Clinton. Bill’s father was killed in a car accident just three months before he was born. President Bill Clinton was born not as a Clinton, but as William Jefferson Blythe. In a vasectomy, the vasa deferentia are cut and the ends tied to prevent sperm from reaching the urethra. The vasa deferentia are the ducts that carry sperm into the urethra during ejaculation. 25 _ Noël : PEREĪ central figure on Christmas Day is Santa Claus, aka “Father Christmas”, and “Père Noël” in French. “Cad” took on its current meaning in the 1830s. “Cad” was first used for a servant, and then students at British universities used “cad” as a term for a boy from the local town. Our word “cad”, meaning “person lacking in finer feelings”, is a shortening of the word “cadet”. Having said that, there is an organization called the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) that was originally intended to operate across the country, but really it now focuses its efforts in New York City.
Instead there are independent organizations set up all over the nation using the name SPCA. Unlike most developed countries, the US has no umbrella organization with the goal of preventing cruelty to animals. Peter shot himself in the stomach when he was just 11-years-old, and very nearly died. He was one of the many children who have been victims of shooting accidents. Peter nearly didn’t make it to the stage.
Peter Fonda is the son of actor Henry, brother of actress Jane, and father of actress Bridget. So if you see Peter Fonda in “Ulee’s Gold” you’re witnessing some characteristics that Peter saw in his father. It is a favorite role for Peter Fonda and he has shared that playing Ulee brought to mind his father Henry Fonda, who himself kept a couple of hives. Ulee’s “gold” is the honey that Ulysses “Ulee” Jackson produces. “Ulee’s Gold” is a highly respected film from 1997 in which Peter Fonda plays the title role of Ulee. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ5 1997 title role for Peter Fonda : ULEE
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