It was an Australian lionfish, named for one of their producer/directors, David Livingston. This was an "unofficial" name, never spoken in any script.

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And the double DVD set is due out tomorrow in North America.

Jim Henson Productions, and the Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) deny this one to this day. But lots of other interesting stories are recounted in their 30th anniversary book Sesame Street Unpaved

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The first radio station in the US to play a CD 'on the air' was Chicago's WFMT. Unfortunately, the pages that marked the stations 50th anniversary are no longer online, so I can't tell you what piece of music it was.

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The musical was written, in part, by the book's author, L. Frank Baum, and costumes were designed based on the illustrations by WW Denslow. Characters were created for this version that don't appear in any other. Baum eventually moved to California and attempted to have a couple of black and white, silent movies made of his stories and characters before his death in 1919. One b/w feature done after his death starred Stan Laurel. MGM beat out several studios, including Disney, to get the film rights to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (as it was originally titled in 1900. A reprint by a new publisher changed it to The New Wizard of Oz a couple of years later, but it's essentially been known as The Wizard of Oz for most of its 100+ year history).

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I see we're still on track for 2022, even with some misnumbering. Excellent.

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UPN was/is Paramount's second attempt at a network. They were first to make an attempt in 1977, and launch the Paramount Television Service, PTS. A show called "Star Trek Phase II" would have been their flagship series, with most of the cast of the original, except for Leonard Nimoy, who was in the middle of a successful Broadway production and didn't want to leave.
Ironically, when UPN started in 1995, it was led by Star Trek: Voyager.

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No less than four different probe missions will arrive at/around Mars in the next six months (if everything goes according to plan).
The ESA's Mars Express was launched on June 2, 2003, and has an estimated arrival date of December 25, 2003.
The Japanese Nozomi probe was launched in 1998, and should arrive in January 2004.
The US has two rovers en route: Spirit was launched on June 10th, with an estimated arrival of January 4, 2004, and Opportunity was launched on July 7th, with an estimated arrival of January 25, 2004.

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This August 27th, at 2:46 AM Pacific (5:46 Eastern, 9:46 AM UTC) Mars will reach its closest approach to earth in over 50,000 years.

12144 - Cause I said

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Love...the slowest form of suicide.

12,145~Gosh, skip, you sound soooo authoritative.

<----swoons at the thought.

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author

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"It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor and wit - but none to be offended by them." -- Johnny Hart ("BC", cartoonist, 2000)
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it and the frog generally dies as a result." -- E. B. White

12,147~Have I mentioned yet today how much I hate Cartoon Network?

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author

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Thomas Jefferson
1801 --- 1st US president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

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