The Police single Walking on the Moon was originally going to be called 'Walking Round Your Room'
It is impossible, as once demonstrated by Jeremy Clarkson, unless in films to:
a) shoot the padlock off a door
b) shoot at a vehicle's petrol tank and make it explode.
c) for a car to fly off a cliff and blow up
d) shoot out a plane's window and be sucked out-been proved can't be done in a vacuum.
The very first presenter of Blue Peter was Christopher Trace and later joined by ex-beauty queen Leila Williams.
Blue Peter presenter John Noakes was the first civilian man to free fall with a parachute-Janet Ellis was the second Blue Peter presenter to do so later.
The Sky at Night is the world's longest running programme for 45 years and Sir Patrick Moore the longest running presenter of said show.
David Bowie has twice turned down the offer of a Knighthood.
Comedians Tommy Cannon & Bobby Ball became born-again Christians to save their double act.
Tommy Cooper was a very good magician, and actually a member of the Inner Magic Circle despite his tricks going wrong on stage and television.
Little and Large were actually called Eddie McGinnis and Sid Mead and sadly have not spoken to each for years.
Eddie is a huge Man City fan.
British men's magazine Parade started life as BLIGHTY.
Despite what you think you know the thumbs down was never used against Gladiators or other combatants, rather it was thumbs up OR the thumb locked into the fingers held out straight(Source Q.I. Stephen Fry) and Nero never fiddled while Rome burned.
The French Concorde flew for the first time in 1969 but it was 1976 when the British version was the first to fly across the Atlantic carrying another Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd who got had to hurl herself against a side door as it stuck.
She finally made it to bring a live report from the tarmac.
Her Majesty the Queen (gawd bless er!) looks left to right on coins but looks right to left on stamps.
It is impossible to drown in the Dead Sea (unless you are stupid enough turn on your front) as it is full of salt and nothing grows in it.
All telephone numbers in US films started with a non-existent number prefix of 555
Harold Camping predicted the end of the world 4 times, the latest was in March and he got it wrong AGAIN-although he has had a stroke he maintains it will be 21st October 2011!
Barbara Cartland holds the record for the most number of books ever written in one year....23.
The late Labour leader Sir Michael Foot was actually part of a ruthless army of assasins who were trained to kill insurgents during the 2nd World War.
They were called 'Scallywags.'
The Albert R Broccoli James Bond 007 sound stage has burnt down twice 1984 and 2006 both times being rebuilt in time for the next movie.
Vic Armstrong, British stuntman has doubled for some big names including all Indiana Jones films starring Harrison Ford, many Bond films and doubled for Arnold Schwartzenegger in the Terminator films.
He is a skilled horseman and at least 4 of his family have followed him into the business although he is now an advisor or Second-Unit director.
There's no mention of Jesus or the apostles in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest text of the Old Testament dated to the Middle Ages.
Man landed on the Moon
A week later .... the Manson Murders
A week later..... Woodstock
Soon after that there was a massive anti Vietnam War rally
in Washington.
Hitlers father was age 52 when Adolf was born... his mother was 28.
Lord Nelson was 5ft.2"
Charles Manson is 5ft .2"
Alexander Pope.. the poet... was 4ft.6 "
One month after the Balfour declaration, British troops entered Jerusalem.
Laurence of Arabia was with Allenby as he entered the city
on the 11th Dec 1917
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The ancient Babalonions called the sun's path... the Zodiac
During the day the sun passed through 6 houses.
During the night it passed through another 6 houses
In each house there were 3 rooms so in the course of 24 hours the
sun passed through 36 rooms.
If you add 1+2+3 all the way to 36 you reach the number 666
which became the number of the sun.
Frank Churchill wrote all the songs for the movie Snow White
He shot himself age 40.
Unchained Melody Words and music by Alex North
It was in the 1955 movie.... Hyzaret...
Julie Ege became Miss Norway in 1962.
In 1967 she moved to England and began a movie career.
She made 20 movies.
Benny Hill's father as a boy ran away to join the circus.
Benny's uncle died in a high wire accident.
Benny took a lot of trouble over his TV shows and sketches,
the most TV shows he ever made in a year was... 5
Laura Nero died age 49.
Lynn Fredericks was age 22 when she married Peter Sellers.
She inherrited £5 million when he died of a heart attack.
March 1965 ...... The Avengers... opened on USA TV
(bit of a change from Jed Clampett )
Marie Antoinette was a wife at age 15,
A Queen at age 19
She climbed the scaffold to the guillotine age 37
She did nt know that the Bavarian Illuminati had got
evil designs on the French monarchy and schemed to bring it down.
Doris Day's 4th husband... Barry Camden... was 12 years her junior.
The movie ... Grease.... cost $ 6 million to make
and has since grossed over $ 400 million !
Catherine the Great of Russia had 80 lovers and was a keen voyeur.
In the 1988 Olympic Games, tiny East Germany won more medals than the USA.
So many famous writers and artists were born in the 1770s
Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Jane Austin,
Joseph Turner, and John Constable .... to name a few !
The New Testament has 27 books.... nearly 3/4 of the New Testament is composed
in the form of letters. ( ie Epistles )
Lord Lytton was associated with occult interests and he used some of his novels...
for eg "Zanoni " as vehicles for his occult theories.
The first sections of the Great Wall of China were built around 600 BC
The wall grew to become 3000 miles in length.
Paul of Tarsus.......
amazingly Paul's writings pre-date the Gospels by 20 or so years !
Tarsus was a famous centre of the mystery religions.
Paul melded the mystery religions into his writing, especially Attis... who died and rose
again and also had a bread and wine ceremony as part of his rituals.
According to the scholar Hyam Maccoby, Paul fused the historical story of Jesus' crucifixion with elements of contemporary mystery religions and Gnosticism, developing such new non-Judaic mythic ideas as the Trinity and the Last Supper.
Paul also made an attempt to find prophetic justification for his newly created myth in the Old Testament.
Paul came to present Jesus as a dying and rising savior deity similar to those from the Hellenistic mystery cults, fused with the historical pedigree of Judaism, thus giving birth to a powerful new myth whose preaching gained him a large following.
As the Jerusalem group of the original disciples of Jesus gradually became aware of Paul's teachings, bitter hostility ensued between them.
Elvis named Dorothy Squires as his favourite female singer.
Dorothy wrote many of her own songs and in 1953 she married Roger Moore.
Steve McQueen was a mate of hairdresser Jan Sebring.
Steve was invited to go to Sharon Tates party but went out on a one night stand instead.
He was shocked when he heard of the murders that night and even more paranoid
when he learned that his name was on Charles Manson's death list.
By 1989 Bertelsman of Germany was the world's biggest media corporation.
Then in 1989 Time Magazine merged with Warner to form Time Warner
and overtake it ( Bertelsman started as a publisher of Hymns )
The Victorian poet....... Algernon Swinburne was a pioneer in the rediscovery of Jacobean and Caroline drama.
He was also a voracious reader and declaimer of Charles Dickens works.
He read Dickens novels in the course of 3 years and then started reading them all over again.
Catherine Medici was born in April 1519 and within 2 weeks of her birth, both her
parents were dead.
She went on to marry Prince Henry who became Henry 2nd of France.
She bore him 10 children.
Chris Wood wrote a novel for a bet.......... it was published as... Confessions of a Window Cleaner
and led to a series of Confessions movies.
I can Hear Music.......... an architypal Beach Boys song... one of their classics
but in fact Brian Wilson did nt write it, it was written by Spector/Barry/Greenwich
John Cleese......... 6ft. 5"
Schubert................5ft. 2"
Charlotte Bronte....4ft. 9"
Queen Victoria ..... 5ft.2"
In AD 68 as the Romans closed in on Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden.
4th April 1986 Julie Tullis reaches the summit of K2 in the Himalayas.
K2 is the second highest mountain on earth.
1986 was a year of tragedy on K2... 13 people died that year, including Julie.
Miracles Still Happen.... a movie about a true story of a jet liner that crashed in the Amazon Jungle
with 93 on board in Dec 1971 .
The only survivor of the crash was a 17 year old girl who eventually
found a stream in the jungle and began walking downstream.
After 9 days and nights wandering in the Amazon jungle she was eventually found
and rescued.
The actress Susan Penhaligan played the role of the 17 year old girl.
City of Night... by John Rechy Pub in 1963 It was this sleazy novel that evoked LA for the young
artist... David Hockney.
The secret of painting....... dont mix colours.......... if you want say a purple, paint in
ultramarine then paint a red over it.
The Muddy Waters tour of Britain in 1958 must have been a bit special, it inspired a
generation of young Brits to get into the Blues......... including John Mayal. |
