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3 unusual facts about Callahan's Crosstime Saloon


Far darrig

In the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon book series, The Callahan Touch introduces a character, Ernie "The Lucky Duck" Shea, who is the crossbreed son of a far darrig and a pooka.

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comic Old West adventure computer game created by Al Lowe (of Leisure Suit Larry fame) and Josh Mandel (of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon fame) and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993.

Spider Robinson

Lady Sally McGee, from the Callahan's series, is apparently named in honor of Travis McGee, the central character in MacDonald's mystery novels.


.44 Magnum

The .44 Magnum has continued to be associated with Callahan, including the line "Go ahead, make my day" in the 1983 film Sudden Impact.

A Wizard of Mars

Young Wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan become part of an elite team investigating the mysterious, long-sought 'message in the bottle' that holds to the first clues to the long-lost inhabitants of Mars.

Aaron Siskind

Later, Callahan persuaded Siskind to join him as part of the faculty of the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago (founded by László Moholy-Nagy as the New Bauhaus).

Chasing Trouble

Using lesson two, of his correspondence course on graphology, Frankie learns the truth; but, it might be too late for intrepid investigative reporter Callahan (Milburn Stone) and the police to help them, before the bomb they’re supposed to deliver goes off, at an airplane factory.

Chrystal Callahan

Callahan has been compared to Walter Duranty, the British journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of stories written in 1931 on the Soviet Union.

Colleen Callahan

Callahan and her husband Dick Burns live on a farm near Kickapoo, Illinois, between Brimfield, Illinois and Peoria, where they raise purebred Angus cattle.

David Callahan

Callahan has published two books on U.S. foreign policy:Dangerous Capabilities, a biography of Paul Nitze, and Unwinnable Wars, a study of U.S. involvement in such ethnic conflicts as the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Lebanon, and Biafra.

Dennis and Callahan

On June 2, 2005 Callahan upset some listeners during interviews with Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino and relief pitcher Mike Timlin discussing the upcoming visit of Carson Kressley and the cast from Queer Eye at Fenway Park.

Dennis Callahan

The general election winner, Republican John R. Leopold, appointed Callahan chief administrative officer of Anne Arundel County, a position he held at the time of his death.

Fragarach

In Diane Duane's novel A Wizard Abroad (as part of her Young Wizards series), Fragarach is used by Annie Callahan as part of a reenactment of the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh.

I'll Get You for This

It was directed by Joseph M. Newman from an adaptation by George Callahan and William Rose of James Hadley Chase's book of the same name.

James Callahan

Nixey Callahan (1874–1934), real name James Callahan, baseball pitcher and manager

James Yancy Callahan

In 1896, Callahan was nominated for Congressional delegate from Oklahoma Territory, and was elected by a plurality of less than fifteen hundred, running on the Free Silver ticket to the 55th United States Congress.

Jay O'Callahan

O'Callahan has performed and recorded with John Langstaff and appeared several times in the character role of an ethnic storyteller in the Christmas Revels.

John V. Power

After the war, Power's youngest sister, Patricia Power Rose, tended to O'Callahan as a student nurse at Worcester's Saint Vincent Hospital, where he was a patient.

Joseph T. O'Callahan

His service is also recounted in the story "Father Joe" by his nephew, storyteller Jay O'Callahan.

Kenneth Callahan

Their home became a meeting-place for Seattle's arts community, including prominent Japanese-American artists Kenjiro Nomura and Kamekichi Tokita, whose mastery of calligraphy was an important source of the Asian influences in Callahan's artwork.

Make My Day

"Go ahead, make my day", a catchphrase used by the fictional film character Dirty Harry Callahan, portrayed by Clint Eastwood

Moonshake

During his Moonshake years, David Callahan enjoyed brief cameos with contemporaries Stereolab (performing "French Disko" with them on Channel 4's The Word in 1993) and the Stereolab spin-off project Turn On.

Munir Butt

He is regarded as a world expert on Indian and Pakistani affairs, and was a personal advisor in the region to Prime Ministers James Callahan, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, and advised U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Ó hÍceadha

In 1403 Nicholas Ó hÍceadha (with Boulger O'Callahan) wrote a commentary on the Aphorism of Hippocrates, a fragment of which is still preserved in the British Museum, London.

Patrick Callahan

During his career with Seether, Callahan received gold records for the bands successful work on the albums Disclaimer, Disclaimer II, Karma and Effect, The Punisher movie soundtrack, the Daredevil movie soundtrack, and has received a platinum award in Australia for the single, Broken.

Ray Callahan

Joe Walton then called upon Ray Callahan to lead up the defensive line "sack attack" consisting of Barry Bennett, Marty Lyons, Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau, of the New York Jets for the next 7 years.

Red Apple Falls

An early version of "Red Apples" first appeared on Callahan's first EP Floating in 1991, and was later covered by Chan Marshall for her album The Covers Record.

Robert E. Howard Museum

The Robert E. Howard Museum is located at the junction of Texas State Highway 36 and Avenue J in Cross Plains, in the county of Callahan, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Ryan Callahan

Callahan played one year of high school hockey for Hilton High School.

Sheff v. O'Neill

Justice David Borden authored the dissent, with Justices Robert Callahan and Richard Palmer concurring with the dissent.

Sonny Callahan

Callahan was also undoubtedly helped by the presence of Ronald Reagan atop the ticket; Reagan carried the 1st by over 60 percent of the vote.

In 1998, Callahan became somewhat famous after it became known that he was speaking with President Bill Clinton on the phone during one of the President's first sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky.

Steven Callahan

Callahan's story also featured on an episode of British Survival expert Ray Mears Television series Extreme Survival.

William P. Callahan

Bishop Richard Sklba (a Milwaukee auxiliary bishop) and Archbishop John Myers (Archbishop of Newark, who had previously been Bishop of Peoria, where Callahan had served) were the co-consecrators.

Woke on a Whaleheart

The arrangements of labelmate and former Royal Trux vocalist and guitarist Neil Michael Hagerty are featured on the album, and Callahan's band consists of vocalist Deani Pugh-Flemmings, guitarist Pete Denton, violinist Elizabeth Warren, percussionist Thor Harris, bassist Steve Bernal, and keyboard/lap steel player Howard Draper.


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