The tournament was the first in which professional players from the National Hockey League (NHL) were allowed to participate, allowing national teams to be constructed using the best possible talent from each country.
Before they left, Cynthia found letters from Yoko Ono to Lennon which indicated he had had contact with her over a period of some time. Lennon denied he was involved with Ono, explaining that she was just some crazy artist who wanted to be sponsored, although Ono kept up a stream of telephone calls and visits to Kenwood.
For these reasons, the chain was dubbed the worst family restaurant in America for 2010 by Men’s Health magazine. The average sandwich at the restaurant contains 1,400 calories. A fictionalized version of The Cheesecake Factory was used as a setting in the U.S. sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Due to cost-cutting measures at the CBC in the early 1990s, local programming on Toronto’s CBLFT and its rebroadcasters, as well as CBLFT semi-satellite CBEFT in Windsor was discontinued in 1991. All Radio-Canada transmitters in Ontario (except the northwest, which was served by CBWFT in Winnipeg) were reclassified as rebroadcasters of CBOFT, under the name Radio-Canada Ontario-Outaouais.
Checkpoints are locations in a video game where a player character respawns after death. Characters generally respawn at the last checkpoint that they have reached. A respawn is most often due to the death of the in-game character, but it can also be caused by the failure to meet an objective required to advance in the game.
For years, Amahl was presented live, but in 1963 it was videotaped by NBC with conductor Herbert Grossman and an all-new cast featuring Kurt Yaghjian as Amahl, Martha King as The Mother, and John McCollum, Willis Patterson, and Richard Cross as the Three Kings.