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[dixiehack]

The program was a new take on Ask Mister Anthony, which had aired on a local New York station in 1932, "dedicated to helping the sufferers from an antiquated and outmoded domestic relations code." Anthony, whose real name was Lester Kroll, brought a wealth of relevant experience to his work—he had once been jailed for failing to make alimony payments.

 

[Songbird]

Her father is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an author, who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years. Her mother, a high-fashion model, was born in Mexico City to a German nobleman and a Swedish model.

 

[HeinekenMan]

That's a Wes Anderson character origin story if I've ever heard one.

 

[dixiehack]

It was home to Percilla the Monkey Girl, the Anatomical Wonder, and the Lobster Boy. Siamese twin sisters ran a fruit stand here. At one time, it was the only post office with a counter for dwarfs.

 

[dixiehack]

A fireman by day, he performed at night. Miller said that as a fireman, he saw only two fires, one in a "chicken coop" and another he "slept through", after which the department "suggested that...[he] seek other employment."

 

[dixiehack]

**** throwing was a popular pastime with people of all classes, especially with children

 

[Slacker]

In the early 1980s, Alworth founded All-Aboard Mini Storage, with self-storage facilities throughout California. He sold the company to Extra Space Storage in 2013 for $196 million.

 

[Songbird]

This fair town has begun preparations for the 250th celebration of the turning point of the American Revolution by lining light posts with banners paying homage to monumental figures of the past. The fellow in this banner is Timothy Matlack.

His wiki starts:

Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was an American politician, military officer and businessman who was chosen in 1776 to inscribe the original United States Declaration of Independence on vellum.[1]​

I never saw Jon Matlack pitch but had plenty of his cards.

Every time I walk past the Timothy Matlack banner I wonder if Jon Matlack might be from the same lineage.

Went to Jon Matlack's Wiki page and didn't find an answer but was drawn in by the entire entry.

Had no idea Matlack was such a consequential pitcher.

I was only going to post this graf because of the Seaver blown save:

... made his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of a July 11 doubleheader, and was on the line for the victory when he departed after seven innings. However, the Mets bullpen (including a blown save by Tom Seaver) was unable to secure the victory, and Matlack got a no decision in his major league debut.

But the paragraphs got better and better ...

Matlack made the team out of spring training in 1972, and got off to a 6–0 start with a 1.95 earned run average in the first two months of the season. He ended the season at 15–10 with a 2.32 ERA to win the National League Rookie of the Year award. On September 30, Matlack gave up Roberto Clemente's 3000th, and final, career hit.

And that's amazing because it gives me a bookend to something I started writing about the '72 season in 2012.

And then this ...

On May 8, 1973, a vicious line drive off the bat of Marty Perez of the Atlanta Braves struck Matlack's head so hard that the ball rebounded into the dugout. He suffered a hairline fracture of his skull, but recovered quickly enough to return and pitch six shutout innings at Pittsburgh on May 19. He ended up winning fourteen games for the National League champion Mets.

I had so many of that card.

Anyway, Timothy Matlack and Jon Matlack both made names for themselves based on their bovine skills. (And no, vellum and cowhide are not the same thing, although they are both derived from animal skin.)

 

[Slacker]

Following Gifford's death in 2015, his wife, Kathie Lee Gifford, said her late husband grew up in a poverty-stricken home and that he and his family sometimes ate dog food. She said they lived in 29 places before Gifford attended high school, because his father could not find work during the Depression.

 

[Slacker]

This fair town has begun preparations for the 250th celebration of the turning point of the American Revolution by lining light posts with banners paying homage to monumental figures of the past. The fellow in this banner is Timothy Matlack.

His wiki starts:

Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was an American politician, military officer and businessman who was chosen in 1776 to inscribe the original United States Declaration of Independence on vellum.[1]​

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I never saw Jon Matlack pitch but had plenty of his cards.

Every time I walk past the Timothy Matlack banner I wonder if Jon Matlack might be from the same lineage.

Went to Jon Matlack's Wiki page and didn't find an answer but was drawn in by the entire entry.

Had no idea Matlack was such a consequential pitcher.

I was only going to post this graf because of the Seaver blown save:

... made his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of a July 11 doubleheader, and was on the line for the victory when he departed after seven innings. However, the Mets bullpen (including a blown save by Tom Seaver) was unable to secure the victory, and Matlack got a no decision in his major league debut.

But the paragraphs got better and better ...

Matlack made the team out of spring training in 1972, and got off to a 6–0 start with a 1.95 earned run average in the first two months of the season. He ended the season at 15–10 with a 2.32 ERA to win the National League Rookie of the Year award. On September 30, Matlack gave up Roberto Clemente's 3000th, and final, career hit.

And that's amazing because it gives me a bookend to something I started writing about the '72 season in 2012.

And then this ...

On May 8, 1973, a vicious line drive off the bat of Marty Perez of the Atlanta Braves struck Matlack's head so hard that the ball rebounded into the dugout. He suffered a hairline fracture of his skull, but recovered quickly enough to return and pitch six shutout innings at Pittsburgh on May 19. He ended up winning fourteen games for the National League champion Mets.

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I had so many of that card.

Anyway, Timothy Matlack and Jon Matlack both made names for themselves based on their bovine skills. (And no, vellum and cowhide are not the same thing, although they are both derived from animal skin.)

This goes in the Wikipedia & Add Context thread.

 

[Songbird]

Left just enough to the imagination …

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Hugo writes that Javert is composed of two "simple" sentiments, which are "respect for authority" and "hatred of rebellion". In Javert's eyes, "murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion".[3]​ He also "(envelops) in a blind and profound faith everyone who had a function in the state, from the prime minister to the rural policeman".[3]​ Reflective thought is "an uncommon thing for him, and singularly painful" because thought inevitably contains "a certain amount of internal rebellion".[4]​

 

[Slacker]

In 1953, the Rockwell family moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. ... His Stockbridge studio was located on the second floor of a row of buildings. Directly underneath Rockwell's studio was, for a time in 1966, the Back Room Rest, better known as the famous "Alice's Restaurant."

 

[dixiehack]

In 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested equipment from France that could be used to evaluate the metric system within the United States, Joseph Dombey returned from France with a standard kilogram. Before reaching the United States, Dombey's ship was blown off course by a storm and captured by pirates, and he died in captivity on Montserrat.

 

[dixiehack]

The four-station, 5.5-mile (8.9 km) line between Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center and Portland International Airport station opened on September 10, 2001.

 

[Slacker]

James S. Rickards High School is a public high school
in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a part of
Leon County Schools. The first graduating class was
in 1966 and the first class president was Hugh Paul Corley, Jr.
The first Miss Rickards to be crowned was Betty Screws in 1966.

 

[dixiehack]

In 1929, the newspaper became one of the first in the world to be delivered regularly by air: for several months its airplane, named the Newsboy, flew a daily route, dropping bundles of newspapers to carriers in outlying towns.

 

[Slacker]

[Willard] Scott was the creator and original performer
of McDonald's mascot clown Ronald McDonald.

 

[dixiehack]

By the late 1820s, some social reformers opposed barbecues, arguing that they encouraged "political debasement" or that the presence of alcohol and merrymaking was a moral concern. However, these anti-barbecue efforts were unsuccessful.

 

[dixiehack]

There are only between 150 and 200 Amish converts in the United States out of a population around 200,000. The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Amish have had only one successful convert in over 100 years.