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unusual facts about Stars & Stripes


Champion Racing

In fact, this livery was used on all Champion Racing entered cars, except for the special Stars & Stripes variation, using the blue and read colors of the American flag only, as tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks.


1988 America's Cup

The San Diego Yacht Club responded by building two catamarans, one with a conventional soft sail (Stars & Stripes S1), and the second with a Scaled Composites -built wing mast (Stars & Stripes H3).

Blondfire

The EP's single, "L-L-Love" became an iTunes Free Single of the Week and the band embarked on a national tour with Ivy, Robbers on High Street, and Stars.

Citizen Cup

The 1995 Citizen Cup regatta was won by Stars & Stripes, however, the defending San Diego Yacht Club opted to race the second-place boat Young America, sailed by the winning Stars & Stripes crew, in the succeeding America's Cup races as it was thought that this would give them the best chance of beating Black Magic of New Zealand.

David Vanole

Here he gained worldwide attention, as he at the bench during the matches wore a cap with a Stars & Stripes-flag.

Donkey Heart

The band began performing around Montreal on a regular basis, performing with bands such as The Dears, Bad Flirt, Rance Mulnix, Beaver, The Alex Chow Symphony Orchestra, Telefauna, Rocket v. Robot, Raw Madonna, Stars, The Diskettes, Pony Up!, Dead Bush, and many others.

Indianapolis Clowns

The 1976 movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, and Richard Pryor, is loosely based on the barnstorming of the Indianapolis Clowns.

Leon Wagner

After his playing career ended, Wagner appeared in small acting roles, prominently in John Cassavetes' 1974 film A Woman under the Influence and as a member of a Depression-era barnstorming team in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976).

Mabel King

Her performance in The Wiz brought her much attention and soon after she received roles in the films The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, with Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones and the movie Scott Joplin also with Billy Dee Williams and Clifton Davis.

My Excuse

They successfully performed in a number of historic venues, including the Stars & Stripes Festival in Lake Michigan.

Noah Mintz

He works as a mastering engineer at the Toronto studio Lacquer Channel, where he has worked on albums by The Constantines, Sarah Harmer, Arkells, Broken Social Scene, Death from Above 1979, Dual, The Marble Index, Danko Jones, Rheostatics, The Dears, Len, Hayden, This Rigid Empire, Uncle Seth and Stars.

Ricky Fenson

He appeared with the band in 1962 and 1963 with fellow Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages and Cyril Davies' All Stars band members Carlo Little and Nicky Hopkins, including a gig at Sidcup Art College, Bexley, which Keith Richards had attended.

The R3-30

Other artists to have reached #1 with more than one song include Stars, Tokyo Police Club, Handsome Furs, Great Lake Swimmers, Julie Doiron, Joel Plaskett and Chad VanGaalen.


see also

1995 Citizen Cup

Judging that the yacht Young America was the fastest of the regatta, however, the Team Dennis Conner syndicate petitioned and was granted the right to sail Young America in place of Stars & Stripes in an unsuccessful attempt to defend the succeeding 1995 America's Cup against New Zealand's Black Magic.

Samuel Chester Reid

Reid sketched three flag designs, one for general use which featured the twenty stars arranged in the shape of a larger star, one for use on government vessels and buildings which featured an eagle on the canton instead of stars, and one for use on ceremonial occasions which featured a different element (stars, stripes, the Great Seal, and the Goddess of Liberty) on each of the flag's four quarters.