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• Sammy Davis, Jr. sang Baretta’s theme song, “Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow.” In later years, Robert Blake was charged with the murder of his wife, but was later acquitted.

• For seven seasons, four older women known as The Golden Girls shared a home in Miami, Florida. Rose, Blanche, Dorothy, and Sophia lived in Blanche’s home, after the other three answered an ad on the bulletin board at the grocery store. Southern belle Blanche worked at the local art museum and Brooklyn-born Dorothy was a substitute teacher. Somewhat of a dingbat, Norwegian Rose hailed from St. Olaf, Minnesota.

Dorothy’s mother Sophia, born in Sicily, rounded out the quartet. Estelle Getty, who played the mother was actually over a year younger than Bea Arthur (Dorothy). It took about three hours to transform the younger woman into Sophia, with heavy make-up, thick glasses, and a white wig. At the start of the series in 1985, Getty was 62, playing an 80-year-old. All four of the Golden Girls actresses won Emmy Awards for their roles, with the show earning 68 total nominations during its 180 episodes.

• From 1984 to 1989, one of NBC’s most popular programs was Miami Vice, starring Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Rico Tubbs, undercover detectives in Miami. The series was loosely based on actual Miami crimes.

The network executives hesitated giving Johnson the role because his four previous pilots had all failed. Character Sonny Crockett had played football for the University of Florida Gators and served in the Army Special Forces prior to taking the undercover job with the Metro-Dade Police.

He lived on a sailboat named St. Vitus’ Dance, (which carried a price tag of $120,000 in 1986), guarded by his pet alligator. Rico was a former NYPD detective who moved to Miami to hunt ...continued down his brother’s killer.

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• Miami Vice pretty much invented the men’s fashion statement of a T-shirt under an Armani sport coat, with white linen pants, and loafers with no socks.

• From 1982 to 1993, the regulars at the Boston bar “Cheers” interacted and shared life at the bar “where everybody knows your name.” The week that the sitcom premiered, it landed in last place in the Nielsen ratings. Things definitely improved as it rose to first place over the years. It’s the only sitcom in history to have been both first and last place in the ratings. When Ted Danson announced he was leaving the series, it was cancelled, and a spin-off, Frasier, was announced, featuring Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane, a psychiatrist who moves to his hometown Seattle after his marriage ends to become a radio advice show host. Grammer had already played Frasier for nine seasons on Cheers, following by 11 seasons on the spin-off. When the role was first created, the writers had chosen Nigh as the last name of Frasier. Kelsey Grammer suggested the name change. Frasier and its cast accumulated 37 Emmy Awards over the 11 seasons.

• At the height of its popularity, one-third of American households were watching Family Ties every week. Michael J. Fox was 21 years old when he took the role of Alex P. Keaton, a conservative young Republican living with his liberal, ex-hippie parents. He was the producers’ second choice for the part, having already chosen Matthew Broderick, who had to bow out when his father became terminally ill. The sitcom aired for seven seasons, beginning in 1982, and firmly cemented Fox’s popularity, earning him three Emmy Awards. Fox filmed Back to the Future during Family Ties’ third season, working on the series by day, and on the movie set all night and weekends. Fox met his wife Tracy Pollan on the set of Family Ties, when she was cast to play Alex’s girlfriend. The series was President Ronald Reagan’s favorite show. ...cont'd Find healing and freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups and habits.

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• In 1968, two pilot episodes of Columbo were aired, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled, seemingly inept LAPD homicide detective. In 1971, the program became a regular, and went on to win 13 Emmys. Falk himself won four Emmy Awards. Falk has the distinction of being the first actor to be nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy Award in the same year, a feat he achieved twice. Dressed in his shabby beige raincoat, Columbo was depicted as a fumbling, bungling detective, frequently chewing on a cigar, pestering suspects until he extracted convicting evidence. Columbo’s signature raincoat was actually Falk’s own personal coat. The role of Columbo was offered first to “White Christmas” crooner Bing Crosby, who turned it down in order to concentrate more on golf and retirement.

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• While working as a surgeon in Glasgow, Scotland, Lister realized that half of amputation patients died from infection following the surgery. Surgeons were not required to wash their hands and there were no facilities for cleansing a patient’s wounds in the operating theater. Doctors considered the stains on their unwashed operating gowns as a badge of honor of their experience.

• In 1865, while studying the work of French scientist Louis Pasteur, the father of pasteurization, Lister learned of the Frenchman’s discovery that microorganisms could cause infection. Lister began conducting experiments using diluted carbolic acid, a coal-tar by-product that was used to kill the parasites found in sewage. He sprayed surgical instruments, the patients’ incisions, and the bandages with the solution, as well as spraying the air within the operating room. All surgeons in his hospital were instructed to wear clean gloves and wash their hands with a carbolic acid solution before and after each procedure.

• The new of Lister’s techniques spread and in 1871, he was called upon by Queen Victoria to make a house call to her Scottish Highlands estate to treat an orangesized abscess in Her Majesty’s armpit. His carbolic acid formula prevented infection, and Lister became the royal family’s friend for life. The queen later made him a baron.

• Lister did more than just revolutionize how surgeries were performed. He also engaged in the study of the action of muscles in the skin and the eye, and published 15 papers about that, along with his research into the coagulation of blood, and the reaction of blood vessels during an infection’s early stages. Lister also pioneered a method of repairing kneecaps with metal wire, as well as an aortic tourniquet. He was also the first surgeon to use catgut sutures.

• So what did Joseph Lister have to do with the invention of Listerine mouthwash? Nothing, actually.

In 1879, a St. Louis, Missouri doctor named Joseph Lawrence developed an alcohol-based formula for a surgical antiseptic. Lawrence named his formula Listerine in honor of Joseph Lister’s efforts in reducing post-surgical infection. Although we think of Listerine as a mouthwash, in its early days, it was also marketed as a dandruff cure, hair tonic, deodorant, a cure for the common cold, a remedy for diphtheria, dysentery, and small pox, and as a floor cleaner.

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• Joseph Lister got an early start in the world of medicine. His father, a wine merchant, was also an amateur scientist, who developed a microscope. Joseph spent his childhood years peering at a variety of specimens through the microscope, as well as dissecting creatures, studying their skeletons, and drawing them.

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• Lister noticed the difference almost immediately. He treated the wound of a young boy with a compound fracture of his leg with the antiseptic solution, and no infection developed. By the following year, Lister’s surgical ward was reporting that there had not been a single instance of blood poisoning, gangrene, or infection for nine months. Within four years, the mortality rate in his ward had been reduced to 15%.

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• On June 9, 1772, colonists, angered by the British Parliament's passing of the Townshend Acts restricting colonial trade, board and set ablaze the HMS Gaspee, an armed British customs schooner that had run aground. British officials found no one willing to identify those involved, and the inquiry closed without result.

• On June 4, 1919, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, giving it the two-thirds majority necessary to make it the law of the land.

• On June 3, 1937, the duke of Windsor -- formerly King Edward VIII -- marries Wallis Warfield Simpson, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne in 1936.

• On June 5, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues a stern statement warning Japan to stop using poison gas in its war on China. Japan continued its use of these weapons until the end of the war, managing to keep its activities secret.

• On June 8, 1966, the rival National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) announce that they will merge. The first Super Bowl between the two leagues took place at the end of the 1966 season.

• On June 6, 1971, "The Ed Sullivan Show" airs for the last time, 23 years after its 1948 premiere. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests.

• On June 7, 2002, Michael Skakel is convicted in the 1975 murder of his former neighbor, 15-year-old Martha Moxley, with a golf club.

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• The word "conspire" means, literally, "to breathe together," meaning to be in harmony.

• Even though he was arrested and put on trial numerous times, famed 19th-century outlaw Frank James was never convicted of anything and never went to prison. He died in 1915, at the age of 72, of natural causes.

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• The 20th century’s longest-running primetime series, Gunsmoke, premiered in 1955 and ran for 635 episodes until 1975. By its second season, it was the most popular series in the U.S., a rank it maintained until 1961. John Wayne, who introduced the program’s first episode, strongly promoted his good friend James Arness as the best man for the role of Matt Dillon, marshall of Dodge City, Kansas. Several actors got their start on the show, including Burt Reynolds, who played deputy Quint Asper from 1962 to 1965. Harrison Ford appeared in two episodes, and Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy was in four episodes. Although a romantic connection was always hinted at between Matt Dillon and saloon owner Miss Kitty, in all 20 seasons, Matt kissed just one woman – Michael Learned, who later played Olivia Walton, mother of the Walton brood – in 1973.

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• James Arness wasn’t the only member of his family to gain fame in television. His younger brother, Peter Graves, starred as Jim Phelps, director of the Impossible Mission Force on the series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973, and again from 1988 to 1990. His starting salary in 1967 was $7,500 per episode. Following his Mission fame, he went on to star in the 1980 spoof Airplane!, although after first reading the script, he said it was “the worst piece of junk” he had ever seen. ...continued

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• During his 30 years as the host of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson delivered 4,531 monologues. Dell.

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A the cartoon strip character • The Show has distinction of airing named Barney was very popular. Milton chose the nation’slast last cigarette after the Barney’s name for thecommercial, number.

Public Health Cigarette Act banned cigarette • Kasner announced the new name for the big advertising on television and radio. The last number in his next book, altering the spelling. commercial aired at 11:59 PM on January 1, • Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin 1971, advertising Virginia Slims cigarettes. developed a new internet search engine. Other searchenough, enginesthe searched webpage and • Oddly names each of Johnny Carson’s ranked according to Joanne, how many a first threethem wives were Joan, andtimes Joanna. specific term appeared on them, but Page and • ABrin lab experiment gone wrong resulted in a gifted designed their search engine to search for scientist zapping with tooout much the specific termhimself and then find howgamma many radiation, morphing Incredible links thereand were that led into backThe to that page, which resulted in better search engine. stress.

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The storyline was that scientist COMPUTER FACTSDavid Banner had no memory of what he did as the Hulk, so • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory on the set, Bixby would watch Ferrigno perought to be enough for not anybody.” forming, and Ferrigno did the same with Bix• Moore’s Law states that computer performance by’s scenes.

Ferrigno spent much ofever his day doubles every 18 to 24 months, and sincein a 1971, refrigerated home to keep the heat and this hasmotor been true. his sweating from melting his green makeup.

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