12) Into The Skies, Junior Birdmen!
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something,
perhaps when you are least expecting it.
I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Home Box Office debuted to a handful of subscribers on a single cable system in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania one November night in 1972, and then — …
And then not too much.
There’d been no media coverage at all of the HBO launch, not even from the local press. The one “celebrity” that was supposed to show — the Wilkes-Barre city manager — decided to pass on attending. Time Inc.’s president and chief executive officer, J. Richard Munro, was supposed to attend the opening ceremonies, but he got stuck in a traffic jam on the New York side of the George Washington Bridge and wound up phoning in his regrets from a White Tower burger palace.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something,
perhaps when you are least expecting it.
I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Home Box Office debuted to a handful of subscribers on a single cable system in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania one November night in 1972, and then — …
And then not too much.
There’d been no media coverage at all of the HBO launch, not even from the local press. The one “celebrity” that was supposed to show — the Wilkes-Barre city manager — decided to pass on attending. Time Inc.’s president and chief executive officer, J. Richard Munro, was supposed to attend the opening ceremonies, but he got stuck in a traffic jam on the New York side of the George Washington Bridge and wound up phoning in his regrets from a White Tower burger palace.
- 8/18/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
The mystery of Rosemary Sutcliff's disappearing Roman legion; What be the authentic pirate accent, me hearties?
A new film, Centurion, suggests a Roman legion (the ninth) was wiped out in Scotland in AD117. Did this really happen?
There really was a ninth legion (Roman legions, roughly the equivalent of modern regiments, had numbers and names; this one was the Legio IX Hispana, named after service in Spain in the first century BC).
Roman legions were occasionally annihilated and their numbers cancelled, most famously after Arminius destroyed three legions (Xvii, Xviii, and Xix) in the Teutoberg forest in Germany in AD9. The legend of the "lost" ninth legion draws on such stories to embroider the fact that it seems to disappear from the historical record some time after its service in Britain. After participating in Claudius's invasion of AD43, the legion fought against Boudicca and is attested at Lincoln and...
A new film, Centurion, suggests a Roman legion (the ninth) was wiped out in Scotland in AD117. Did this really happen?
There really was a ninth legion (Roman legions, roughly the equivalent of modern regiments, had numbers and names; this one was the Legio IX Hispana, named after service in Spain in the first century BC).
Roman legions were occasionally annihilated and their numbers cancelled, most famously after Arminius destroyed three legions (Xvii, Xviii, and Xix) in the Teutoberg forest in Germany in AD9. The legend of the "lost" ninth legion draws on such stories to embroider the fact that it seems to disappear from the historical record some time after its service in Britain. After participating in Claudius's invasion of AD43, the legion fought against Boudicca and is attested at Lincoln and...
- 3/17/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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