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What baseball player was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) in both leagues? (answered)
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Captain Zero
(8,137 posts)And I did not look .
I'm an Orioles fan but live 90 miles from Cincy.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,734 posts)He spent only six years of his twenty-one year playing career in Baltimore but what a six years it was!
And his HOF plaque has him wearing an O’s cap.
Liberty Belle
(9,674 posts)The answer will probably surprise most folks.
JoseBalow
(7,948 posts)because of it's size.
My second guess would be someplace in Oklahoma, where I couldn't name a single county.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)we have the 19 Pueblos here, although they'd be scattered around several different counties.
AltairIV
(906 posts)Frank Robinson for the Cincinnati Reds and Baltimore Orioles.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts) Captain Zero
(8,137 posts)Take a guess...
mahatmakanejeeves
(65,648 posts)People drive through it in “Repo Man,” and ants nest there in “Them,” so how navigable could that river be?
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,955 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,734 posts)I think the Rio Grande is narrow and not all that deep in Albuquerque’s vicinity.
susanr516
(1,478 posts)Trinity River
FM123
(10,265 posts)(Hint : it was settled by Europeans in 1565)
rsdsharp
(11,068 posts)And a beautiful city to visit!
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)And one of my fav cities to visit!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)FM123
(10,265 posts)Sure like to visit one day....
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)I do hope you make that visit.
FM123
(10,265 posts)
Harker
(16,592 posts)
efhmc
(15,706 posts)
RazorbackExpat
(513 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)RazorbackExpat
(513 posts)Needles to Lake Havasu City? 
Harker
(16,592 posts)What I was aiming for was the Susquehanna, at 444 miles, is the longest river entirely within the U.S. that has no commercial traffic, while the Colorado no longer has any shipping, but is home to commercial "traffic" in the recreational sense.
My embarrassment is intensified by having lived in Colorado for 50 years, and now crossing the Susquehanna a couple times each week.
brush
(60,608 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 19, 2025, 02:34 PM - Edit history (2)
Harker
(16,592 posts)I should stick to subject areas I know for better questions.
Harker
(16,592 posts)I bundgled the phrasing of the question, which ought to have included, "entirely within the US.", resulting in The Susquehanna River.
Liberty Belle
(9,674 posts)
tornado34jh
(1,495 posts)There are 11 in total.
KitFox
(333 posts)lead (Pb) sodium (Na),; tin ( Sn) Mercury but I can’t remember the symbol. Can’t think of any more. I used to have that chart memorized- dang that was eons ago😁
Wolf Frankula
(3,768 posts)Or it's Freddie. You decide.
Wolf
RazorbackExpat
(513 posts)Tungsten W
Iron Fe
Copper Cu
Antimony Sb
ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)...( K), Antimony (Sb), Iron (Fe), Tungsten (W), Copper (Cu).
Also, the symbol for mercury is Hg.
I spent 43 years working ss a chemist, so shame on me if I didn't know this one.
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VGNonly
(8,193 posts)[link:
Kittycatkat
(1,763 posts)
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)Natrium is the Latin word for sodium. They could have used So if they wanted to use the English name for it, because no other element uses that
Kalium is the Latin word for potassium. Polonium is Po, so that wouldn't work.
Ferrum is the Latin name for iron. Ir is Iridium.
Cuprum is the Latin name for copper. Co is Cobalt.
Stannum is the Latin name for tin. Ti is titanium.
Stibium is the Latin name for antimony. They could have called it An because that's not in use.
Wolfram is several languages' word for tungsten, after the name of its ore Wolframite. Tu isn't in use, so it could have been that.
Aurum is the Latin name for gold. Go was available.
Argentum is the Latin name for silver. Si is silicon.
Hydrargum is the Latin name for mercury. Me was available.
Plumbum is the Latin name for lead. Le was available.
Scientists really like Latin, especially "noli me tangere," so it makes sense they'd give as many elements as they could Latin-derived symbols.
lapfog_1
(31,120 posts)Florine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Yttrium
Oxygen
Uranium
RazorbackExpat
(513 posts)but not officially admitted until 1953?
dweller
(26,848 posts)Alaska
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)in 1959.
Earl_from_PA
(280 posts)...
RazorbackExpat
(513 posts) VGNonly
(8,193 posts)A reconstruction still exists.
applegrove
(126,882 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)Ft . Meigs in Perrysburg OH is said to the largest wooden fort. I grew up there, close enough to the fort site to occasionally find musket balls and other bits of metal.
applegrove
(126,882 posts)it was fully reconstructed. I just assumed the insides were wood.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)I've never been in Nova Scotia, did pass the Quebec/Gaspe and New Brunswick while at Expo 67.
Ft. Meigs was constructed during the winter/spring of 1813 in 3 months during The War of 1812. The British General Henry Proctor along with Chief Tecumseh led the attacks. I believe that Canadian militia also took part. Two sieges advanced, both were repulsed. The fort was then taken down. The reconstruction took place in the early 1970s.
applegrove
(126,882 posts)guide told us about a tunnel prisoners had dug to escape. I was beside myself with intrigue. That was in Kingston, Ontario. Been to the Citadel in both Halifax, NS and Quebec City. Redoubt in Halifax. Vibes that we are beyond war at this point.
hedda_foil
(16,780 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)And even if that's not the one you're looking for, I can recommend everyone visit there. At least when I went some -- make that quite a few years ago, they had costumed interpreters there who were amazing.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)applegrove
(126,882 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)48 52 6 S 123 23 6 W
That is the location where satellites and other space objects are crashed at. The International Space Station is planned to be sunk there in 2031.
applegrove
(126,882 posts)It starts with the letter "N".
Harker
(16,592 posts)applegrove
(126,882 posts)brush
(60,608 posts)
EverHopeful
(558 posts)Or is that just a brag. Did you mean the continental US?
ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)Though Brownsville Texas claims the same because they actually on the continent.
There's a hotel in Key West called the "Southernmost". It's around 8 blocks from where my wife's college roommate lived for over 40 years.
greatauntoftriplets
(177,963 posts) ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)Long time ago. They had a key shrimp salad our friend said we had to try.
We also used to hang out at the Green Parrot which is only 6 to 8 blocks away!
Played at a few jam sessions there, too.
greatauntoftriplets
(177,963 posts)Key West is a great place. It has lots of the old Florida left, plus tons to do.
brush
(60,608 posts)However, a point in Hawaii is even closer to the equator.
https://planetofthepaul.com/the-most-southern-point-in-the-us-key-west-vs-hawaii/
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,734 posts)brush
(60,608 posts)You are correct however as a point in Hawaii is closer to the equator.
https://planetofthepaul.com/the-most-southern-point-in-the-us-key-west-vs-hawaii/
brush
(60,608 posts)"The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Toward Justice."
My question : Name the only two people to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel prize .
✌🏻
brush
(60,608 posts)dweller
(26,848 posts)✌🏻
brush
(60,608 posts)dweller
(26,848 posts)Are George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan
Both Nobels in Literature.
Oscars : Shaw for the cinema production of Pygmalion ,
and Dylan for for the song Things Have Changed from the movie Wonder Boys
✌🏻
Didn't Gore win both for his environmental work? I seem to remember that.
Won (shared) a Nobel , never won an Oscar
✌🏻
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)that completed the Northwest Passage?
dweller
(26,848 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)This ship was a fishing boat with a crew of seven. The NW Passage was sailed from 1902-1906 by a well known polar explorer.
I got the earworm out there anyway
✌🏻
justaprogressive
(4,692 posts)now I have to look darn you!
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)The explorer Roald Amundsen.
Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)The Gjøa was beached at the west of Golden Gate park in San Francisco all through my childhood. It was parked there for decades and was deteriorating horribly. I understand it was yanked, restored (arrested decay) and shipped back to Norway in the early seventies. It has since had a full and proper restoration.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)The Fram vessel itself was in 3 expeditions led by Nansen, Sverdrup and Amundsen. Another ship there is The Maude also led Amundsen. The famous Kon-Tiki is in an adjacent museum.
Someday I'll go to Oslo!
Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)
Someday I'm gonna invent a time machine so I can go back and watch them drag the Gjøa out of the ocean.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)Tuesday Weld, Sandra Locke and singer Karen Carpenter were all considered for the lead role in what film? (none were chosen)
Harker
(16,592 posts)Purely a guess.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)Kim Darby was 21 at the time of filming.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)
Angleae
(4,730 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)In the South Atlantic
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)what is the northernmost US state?
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)Fast and durable, they could take a lot of fire from enemy planes and flak. Their only real flaw, slow climbing rates.
What US plane was known as Whistling Death?
Harker
(16,592 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)The US Navy had 112 carriers during WW2. Many were built during the war, some sank. Which 3 carriers served for the duration of the war, from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day?
Harker
(16,592 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)The Ranger was underpowered and lightly armored. She spent almost the entire war in the Atlantic, spending the remainder of the war as a night training carrier in the Pacific. The Saratoga was a sister ship to the Lexington. She was torpedoed in January of 42 needing repairs and modernization. The Lex was lost at The Battle of the Coral Sea. The Yorktown was damaged in the same battle, but was patched up well enough to fight along side the Big E and the Hornet at Midway. The Yorktown then sank at Midway. The Hornet was lost in The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
Harker
(16,592 posts)I grew up with a set of Samuel Eliot Morison's works on navel operations of WWII in the house, but never cracked it.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)An Ensign, later Lt.(jg), he was the engineering officer.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Then invented totally unbelievable tales of his heroism.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)
Historic NY
(39,139 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)Sneederbunk
(16,299 posts)
The Madcap
(1,317 posts)Sneederbunk
(16,299 posts)jmowreader
(52,540 posts)They are Frank Robinson and Shohei Ohtani.
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)The cyanide is so tightly bound to the iron atoms that it's non-toxic.
Not many cyano compounds that aren't toxic. Prussian blue is. It was actually used orally to reduce absorption of radioactive thallium in the gastrointestinal system.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Buzz cook
(2,747 posts)From the Greek for a shade of blue.
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)
LNM
(1,194 posts)jmowreader
(52,540 posts)T-Mobile Park in Seattle is the farthest from any other stadium.
I’ll give you a hint: It has to do with the fences.
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)Incorporated into the left field design?
That, and I understand Petco Park has a lot of dogs allowed days.
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)As to the dogs-allowed days…considering it’s sponsored by a pet store chain, I’m surprised every game isn’t dogs-allowed!
Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)All I know is I could never, EVER take my dog to a game because, faster than you can spit, she’d be out on the field with the ball in her mouth and play a hilarious game of keep away with the umpires and security. I guarantee she would get a standing ovation from the fans.
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)Just a guess, but I'm thinking about 5th Avenue vs the numbered streets there.
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)Streets run east-west, avenues north-south.
ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)I should have guessed that.
Avenues run north/south here, too.
ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)I should have known that Chicago is the same way.
CrispyQ
(39,987 posts)I get lost every time I drive there. No kidding, every time. The streets are all diagonal to N/S & they butt up to areas that are square to N/S. Apparently, back in olden days, part of Denver aligned itself with the Platte River & another part with Cherry Creek & when the two areas grew together it created the mess known as downtown Denver.
Historic NY
(39,139 posts)Wiz Imp
(6,059 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)My 2nd guess would be the Philippines.
Wiz Imp
(6,059 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 29, 2025, 12:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Indonesia is 7th and the Philippines 10th in total number of islands.
However, in terms of inhabited islands, Indonesia does have the most*. So maybe, get a half point for that.
*The unofficial number for the US is actually higher, but that number is considered dubious.
Sweden has an incredible 267,570 islands, but only around 1000 are inhabited.
ProfessorGAC
(73,625 posts)I've been there a few times & when you fly in it looks like hundreds of islands.
Wiz Imp
(6,059 posts)Indonesia has 17,508 total islands, 6,000 of which are inhabited
CanonRay
(15,435 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)CanonRay
(15,435 posts)Good guess though
CanonRay
(15,435 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,071 posts)CanonRay
(15,435 posts)It's Sudan.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)the Fork-Tailed Devil?
Historic NY
(39,139 posts)
Bayard
(26,027 posts)
Harker
(16,592 posts)Bobby pins?
JoseBalow
(7,948 posts)
underpants
(191,517 posts)rsdsharp
(11,068 posts)underpants
(191,517 posts)Staple gun.
Bayard
(26,027 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)among others, and had his own band as well.
My favorite LW song is "My Babe" which was written for him by Willie Dixon.
Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry & Etta James all recorded for Chess Records, which was founded by Phil & Leonard Chess.
Have you seen the movie "Cadillac Records"?
It's one of my favorite movies.
The acting is superb! (Etta James is played by Beyonce' Knowles)
Harker
(16,592 posts)I grew up with blues records being played in the house by my mom, and I'm pretty well versed in it, from the 1930s Delta recordings to Chess, mostly, and beyond.
I was lucky enough to have the honor of taking my mom to see Albert Collins late in her life.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Last edited Wed May 7, 2025, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)
in "Dr. Strangelove"?
jmowreader
(52,540 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)but stayed loyal to the Union? Was known as The Rock of Chickamagua.
UnderThisLaw
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red dog 1
(31,457 posts)underpants
(191,517 posts)I think he was the first black player in the ACC.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)I'm looking for the first Black player to sign an NBA contract (without using Google)
underpants
(191,517 posts)Lloyd, Cooper, and Clifton entered the National Basketball Association in 1950 and became pioneers for today’s African-American basketball players. Cooper was the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team. Clifton was the first to sign an NBA contract. And on Oct. 31, 1950, Lloyd, a member of the Washington Capitols, became the first African-American to play in an NBA game when he entered a game against the Rochester Royals.
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underpants
(191,517 posts)Earl Lloyd
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)I'm looking for the first Black player to sign an NBA contract (without using Google) and it wasn't Earl Lloyd
Harker
(16,592 posts)rsdsharp
(11,068 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)Good that you gave it a go!
Harker
(16,592 posts)I'll hold off for further guesses.
Harker
(16,592 posts)VG+PH is the only existing example. I got a good close look at it at the National Air & Space Museum a few weeks ago.
Pierre Clostermann, in "The Big Show" recounted having encountered one in a combat situation. He considered giving chase in his Hawker Tempest Mk. V only briefly, as he had no real hope of overtaking it.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)He had been a department store manager and was a pilot in WW2
underpants
(191,517 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)He was a Navy pilot in WW2.
underpants
(191,517 posts)ON EDIT - I thought had to be a President
and smoked on this matter.
So there are 3 Presidents left (JFK to Reagan) of WWII service age. I have no idea about their military service but they had to have because so much was made of Clinton not serving. B
Nixon doesn’t strike me as much of an outdoorsman.
LBJ was a teacher. Must’ve served in WWII but as a pilot?
Ford was a male model after his football days so there’s a connection there.
I’m…going ….with….LBJ.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)He was hired for the Ripley's Believe It or Not Radio program in 1940 to act as the "live" announcer while he was in a small boat with a guy who was "piloting" the boat down the Colorado rapids.
Goldwater was 6' 2" & weighed 200 lbs.
Ripley didn't choose him, and when he saw Goldwater, (the guy they hired to be the announcer), Ripley said:
"Why didn't they get someone smaller? That guy might sink the boat!"
rsdsharp
(11,068 posts)rsdsharp
(11,068 posts)JoseBalow
(7,948 posts)I know he was shot down as a Navy pilot... He was from Arizona, wasn't he?
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)And yes, McCain was from Arizona too.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)I should have read through the next few answers.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)a unclimbed Canadian summit in 1965? (he had no previous climbing experience)
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)This person was the first ever on this peak as tribute to his deceased brother. The leader of the expedition, Jim Whittaker is still living.
Harker
(16,592 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)snot
(11,207 posts)in which the subjunctive mood is deployed.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Henry V.
I think of "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well/
It were done quickly" (Macbeth I, vii); but that's 1.5 lines.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Your example is a treat. Two weres and a 'twere.
gab13by13
(28,869 posts)how many ears of corn per stalk?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)we lived in the country, had a very large vegetable garden, and grew lots of corn, among other things.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)(No fair using Google)
Harker
(16,592 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)In the movie about this horse, there's a scene when the horse begins to run so fast he gets 10-12 lengths ahead of the other horses and keeps extending his lead, the owner of the other fast horse exclaims "That's impossible!"
Harker
(16,592 posts)I bet I could name no more than half a dozen horses, aside from the few I've known personally.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,002 posts)And yes, in over 50 years now his times have never been beaten, and and probably never will be. In all three races, he ran each quarter faster than the one before, and was still accelerating at the finish.
I already knew what I just wrote, and so here's a link to the three races:
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)from a friendly boxing match with a military aide?
boonecreek
(1,135 posts)The only reason I know that is from watching the movie "The Wind and the Lion" in which he was played by Brian Keith.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)Two passenger steamships were converted to carriers to provide for training during WW2. They were side paddled and coal fired. About 17,000 fliers and landing operations personnel were trained. Lt. jg GWH Bush learned on one of these vessels.
What were the ships names?
Angleae
(4,730 posts)The Wolverine was converted from the steamer Seeandbee, the Sable from the Greater Buffalo. Both were scrapped after the war.
brush
(60,608 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)brush
(60,608 posts)And the trump cabal should be reminded of the 'freedom of assembly and freedom to redress grievances'...re: their horrendous actions in LA recently.
Harker
(16,592 posts)I've been exercising my rights to keep them strong, and my next workout session is on my calendar in ink.
The Madcap
(1,317 posts)But that's not why we're in this particular discussion...
CrispyQ
(39,987 posts)I would argue that their most famous fictional concept fulfills that missing category. 🤖
Fun thread, RD1!
Harker
(16,592 posts)CrispyQ
(39,987 posts)Yes, every category except philosophy and psychology (100s) & I think his Three Laws of Robotics falls under that.
Harker
(16,592 posts)It's difficult to fault him for having an epic ego. CQ!
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)In the film Captain James Lovell was portrayed by Tom Hanks. Who was also considered in the role, based on a stronger resemblance to Lovell than Tom Hanks?
Harker
(16,592 posts)Purely a guess. He's no ringer, either.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)He was about 26 at the time of filming. Lovell was 42 at the time of the accident. Tom Hanks was 39 in the film. The actor in question was only about a year and a half older than Hanks. Lovell recommended him as possibly playing Lovell. The film development team had him in mind.
Harker
(16,592 posts)It's too hot to work outdoors much, so I'll just spend the next few hours staring at pictures of Jim Lovell, and try to avoid further unlikely anachronisms to the best of my questionable abilities.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)
"I once convinced a woman that I was Kevin Costner"- Better Call Saul
Harker
(16,592 posts)I did a little math to see who were the popular stars who would've been about the right age.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)and longest living former astronaut. 
Harker
(16,592 posts)He seems like a real straight shooter and a good man.
is right, VGNonly.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)All of them still exist, only one is in a dry-docked exhibit.
Sundowner
SS Nomadic
Santana
James Caird
Pilar
Western Flyer
Maya
Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)Steinbeck and Ed Rickets collected marine specimens in the Sea of Cortez in the Western Flyer, and Pilar was Ernest Hemingway’s fishing boat/rum runner during his Cuban adventure days
I understand the Western Flyer needed a ton of restoration. Is it dry-docked?
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)The last I read of the Western Flyer, she was total mess, sitting on the hard in a boatyard, but that was decades ago.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)an actor another, the Santana. One was owned by the survivor of marine disaster who survived another heroic wartime epic, the Sundowner. Another ship is associated with the aforementioned disaster SS Nomadic. Another took place in the rescue of an Antarctic expedition, the James Caird.
Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)The Mayan was a drop dead beautiful schooner, a fixture in Sausalito for year, and actually became David Crosby's home when he was asked to leave Mill Valley after a sordid incident involving a handgun. 
I don't know the Maya.
Perhaps we can add Wanderer, owned by writer/actor/sailor/spy, Sterling Hayden, to the list.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)was the vessel of Humphrey Bogart. The Sundowner was the ship of Charles Lightoller, the surviving senior officer on the Titanic. He took it to the evacuation of Dunkirk, crammed over 120 into it, a boat built for 21. The SS Nomandic was a lighter (ferry) boat, transporting Titanic passengers before the fateful voyage. It was designed by Thomas Andrews, the same designer of the Titanic. The Caird was a 6 crew whaleboat, used in the 800+mile open boat journey of Shackleton after the loss of his main ship the Endurance.
Sorry about Maya/Mayan, all this is from memory.
Harker
(16,592 posts)VGNonly
(8,193 posts)It was a 38' Matthews cabin cruiser. The same vessel was used in To Have and To Have Not, renamed the Queen Conch for the film.
Bogarts actual boat was 55', originally a schooner. The rigging was changed several times by different owners before and after Bogart owned it. Apparently Lauren Bacall didn't spend a lot of time on it, she was prone to seasickness.
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)considered living at sea permanently; a floating exile, a man without a country. But where would he get weed, women and booze?
Had a cousin that lived on a houseboat in Sausalito for a number of years. She lives in Healdsburg these days.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)plus some cocaine?
Brother Buzz
(38,977 posts)red dog 1
(31,457 posts)trying to reach the South Pole?
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)by sledge. His ship was the Endurance. He would start from the Weddell Sea side, traverse the South Pole, cross all the way to the Ross Sea side. Another ship would land on the Ross leaving supply depots. The Endurance however got stuck in the sea-ice, and eventually was crushed. Shackleton took the 3 lifeboats north to Elephant Island, an uninhabited chunk of rock and mountain with very few resources (small numbers of penguins and seals). Leaving most of the crew there, they then covered over 800 miles in the open boat James Caird. They reached South Georgia Island, crossed its 9000' mountains reaching a whaling station. The party was saved, no deaths.
Iron men in wooden ships!
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)I've read Shackleton's book about it called "South"
I also read Alfred Lansing's "The Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage," which is a much better book, imo.
btw, on the other side of the continent,
"The Ross Sea Party overcame great hardships to fulfill its mission. The Aurora was blown from her moorings during a gale and was unable to return, leaving the shore party stranded.....three people died before the party was eventually rescued." (Wikipedia)
VGNonly
(8,193 posts)is the biography by Roland Huntford, a lengthy nearly 3" thick book. Shackleton's skipper and navigator, Frank Worsley also wrote a worthy account.
The Ross Sea Party was an unorganized affair with divided command (Aeneas Mackintosh and Ernest Joyce) and unclear objectives. Some of the crew refused to eat fresh seal, contacting scurvy leading to death. The depot laying party managed to meet their objectives with some difficulty. Mackintosh and Hayward took a dangerous and risky route over the sea-ice and were never seen again.
One of the survivors 20 year old Dick Richards lived until 1986 age 91, the last man of The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)about Shackleton's expedition.
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(8,193 posts)I'm a polar history geek, all from memory.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)was donated to the city of San Francisco in 1909 and dragged up the beach to the northwest corner of Golden Gate Park, where it stayed until 1972, when it was returned to Norway.
I remember as a kid visiting Playland at the Beach with my friends (as often as we could), crossing Fulton Street and visiting The Gjoa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gjoa
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(8,193 posts)of Little House on the Prairie fame visited San Francisco and stopped to see the Gjoa. She lived until 90, passed in 1957.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)The Big Dipper roller coaster was one of the rides...It opened in 1922 and was demolished in 1955.
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(8,193 posts)It was a 600+ acre site centered around the Marina District/Fort Mason. She saw the Palace Of Fine Arts and the remains of 06 earthquake. (My former wife is a big fan of the Little House books)
I have a good buddy, lives in Ely MN. He is friends of Will Seeger leader and Paul Schurke navigator of the successful 1986 dog sled journey to the North Pole. These days, Will is the founder of Steger Wilderness Center. Paul runs Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge and Wintergreen Northern Wear. Paul lives just across the lake from my friend, at night you hear the huskies howling for chow.
boonecreek
(1,135 posts)but what 70s sitcom was adapted from a Martin Scorsese film?
Harker
(16,592 posts)boonecreek
(1,135 posts)But I hadn't thought of that. Had to go to IMDb to make sure.
Harker
(16,592 posts)JoseBalow
(7,948 posts)
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(8,193 posts)Harker
(16,592 posts)This Japanese Zero crashed after the diversionary attack, part of. the Midway Campaign. The IJN sent a small force to attack Alaska in June 42. The Zero had attacked Dutch Harbor Alaska, either by flak or Catalina PBY attack (there is some discrepancy). Petty officer Koga's plane crashed relatively intact, however he was killed in the crash. After about a month the plane was discovered. It was sent to Seattle, later San Diego, repaired by Sept. Much intelligence was able to be garnered by both physical evidence and tactics.
Harker
(16,592 posts)Dusk, or dark.
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(8,193 posts)during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Lost and with adverse weather, they really thought they were landing on Japanese carriers. US anti-aircraft fire chased them off, it's likely they ditched into the sea, low on fuel.
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(8,193 posts)was another strange tale. Hess took a BF110 fighter-bomber to Scotland in a deranged attempt to convince Great Britain to surrender. He parachuted out his plane and soon captured. Was charged and convicted in the Nuremberg Trials. He was locked up in prison, committed suicide in 1987.
He was trying to get to the estate of a Duke, or Earl, or such that he thought could be made to see "reason."
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(8,193 posts)what was the make, model and year of the Bluesmobile?
How many cubes was the engine?
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(8,193 posts)what is the name of the horse?
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(8,193 posts)Quentin Tarantino plays Jimmie, a bit role as the guy who needs his house cleaned. What was the name of his wife? What was her occupation?
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)JoseBalow
(7,948 posts)Was it Bonnie? For some reason that triggers that name for me.
I remember Aunt Ginny, who gifted them the furniture, but I forget the Uncle's name.
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(8,193 posts)Lots of cream, lots of sugar.
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(8,193 posts)Something that I always thought was kind of weird, Winston Wolf arrives in a tux from a dinner party about 9 AM.
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