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Pearl is described as being from "the border".
The US-Mexican border passes between the US states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and the Mexican states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon.
Before being hanged Mr. Chauvez tells Pearl she will be with Laura Belle in a weeks, so they should be a few weeks travel from Paradise Flats and Spanish Bit.
At Paradise Flats, Pearl gets off the "Guadalupe coach" coming from or going to Guadalupe.
Guadalupe County, Texas, is near San Antonio. Sequin, the county seat, is at 29°34′28″N 97°57′55″W.
Guadalupe County, New Mexico, is a few hundred miles almost due north of where Spanish Bit should be. Santa Rosa, the county seat, is at 34°56′32″N 104°41′2″W.
Guadalupe, Arizona, is just east of Phoenix, and is at 33°22′0″N 111°57′45″W.
Guadalupe, Chihuahua, Mexico, is at 31°23′23″N 106°06′05″W, a little southeast of El Paso, Texas.
Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, is just east of Monterrey and at 25°40′39″N 100°15′35″W.
El Paso, Texas, is at 31°45′33″N 106°29′19″W.
Other places near the possible location of Paradise Flats, and Spanish Bit are Pecos City, Texas, at 31°24′56″N 103°30′0″W; Dell City, Texas at 31°56′7″N 105°12′1″W, and Plateau, Texas, at 31°06′23″N 104°50′19″W, for example.
Since Paradise Flats is said to be two days ride north of Squaw Head Rock in Texas, it is probably at least 40 miles north of the Rio Grande, it is probably east of a line north and south through Fort Hancock, Texas, which is at 31°17′30″N 105°51′37″W.
Yes it is Pyrford Court, the house in the Omen.
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Did anyone who saw a <i>Kidnapped</I> movie but didn't read the book think that the mansion "The House of Shaws" was called "the House of Shawls" or "the House of Shahs"?
In British English a shaw is a term for:
<blockquote>COPSE, THICKET</blockquote>
<url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shaw</url>
So there was a place in Scotland called Shaws because there were some shaws there. And the Balfours of Shaws were called that because they either came from Shaws or owned a large estate there named Shaws.
I was 17 in 1967. I didn't often watch the fugitive but I was aware that the final episodes were hyped a lot, and I remember watching them with my grandmother. The rest of the family went to our vacation home at the shore for part of the summer, but my grandmother and I stayed home. One thing we did that summer was to paint the hallway with the staircase leading up to the third floor.
The finale aired on 22 August and 29 August. I don't know whether the other family members were back from the shore yet, I just remember watching the finale episodes with my grandmother.
I remember TV Guide magazine had a joke about the finale. The joke said that in the last episode it would be proved that the one armed man did it, and Kimble would be cleared. And after being cleared Kimble would take a vacation at the beach. The last scene would show Kimnble preparing to go swimming, including removing a prosthetic arm!
IMDB has a list for roles for an actor named Stuart Lee.
<url>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498293/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t21</url>
It says that Stuart Lee has an uncredited role as someone named Harold in this movie.
It also lists him as playing "neighbor boy" in the Red Skelton show in 1970, "boy" in Nanny and the Professor in 1970, and Dr, Michael William "Mike" Horton in Days of our Lives in 1973. That seems like a rather inconsistent age range and it is possible that IMDB mixes up two separate actors.
So does anyone remember the character of Harold in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys and can say whether he is an adult or a child character?
As another answer says, William Randolph Hearst (1963-1951) had an estate of 250,000 acres at San Simeon in California.
<blockquote>On Phoebe Hearst's own death in 1919, Hearst inherited the ranch, which had grown to 250,000 acres (1,012 km2)[3] and 14 mi (23 km) of coastline,[25</blockquote>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Castle#History</url>
William Randolph Hearst also owned another vast California estate, Wyntoon.
<blockquote>William Randolph Hearst bought Wyntoon outright from its 99-year lease in 1929,[11] and in 1934 bought all of Wheeler Ranch and The Bend, a combined total of 50,000 acres (20,000 ha).[12]</blockquote>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyntoon</url>
Hearst also owned The Beverly House at 1011 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA, though today the estate has only 3.5 acres and probably never was very large.
<url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-global-properties/2021/09/14/william-randolph-hearsts-grand-la-mansion-sells-at-auction-for-631-million/?sh=6badbf6559a7</url>
Hearst also owned and largely rebuilt St Donat's Castle in Wales, though the estate was only 111 acres.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Donat%27s_Castle</url>
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862-1914) bought over 700 properties to form the Biltmore Estate of 125,000 acres or 195 square miles or 510 square kilometers, in near Ashville, North Carolina. His descendants still own Biltmore House, the largest house ever built in the USA, and 8,000 acres.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Donat%27s_Castle</url>
This list <url>https://www.farmlandriches.com/largest-ranches-usa/ </url> lists the 12 largest ranchs in the USA in 2023.
The smallest is the Howard Mesa Ranch in Arizona, with "only" 58,561 acres of land. The 10 largest ranches each have over 100,000 acres. The largest in the King Ranch in Texas, with 825,00 acres, larger than the state of Rhode Island. Many of those ranches should have ranch houses where the owners reside.
The island of Lanai in Hawaii has an area of 140.5 square miles or 364 square kilometers, or 89,920 acres. The entire island was the largest pineapple plantation in the world for decades. Larry Ellison of Oracle Corporation has owned 98 percent of Lanai, or about 88,121 acres. Ellison sometimes lives on Lanai, though I don't know how much of his part of the island counts as his estate.
It is funny which roles different people might remember
Back in the 1960s when lots of 1950s science fiction movies were on tv, I thought of making a list of child actors to keep them straight - mostly those from the science fiction movies I watched.
My list included the kid actors from <i>The Day the Earth Stood still</i>(1951) Billy Gray (b. 1938), <i>Invaders from Mars</i>(1953) Jimmy Hunt (b.1939), and <i>The Invisible Boy</i>(1957) Richard Eyer (b.1945), and for some reason I never thought about including the kids from <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i>(1956) Bobby Clarke (1944-2021), or <i>Them!</i>(1954) Richard Bellis, Robert Scott Correll (1945-1970) & Sandy Descher (b. 1945).
And I would have included the boy from <i>Tobar The Great</i> - Billy Chapin (1943-2016).
So I remember Billy Chapin from his movie I saw and enjoyed, and not from his most famous roles.
I can contribute one mansion from the series myself. On October 8, 2023 I watched "The Man-eating House".
The episode seems to happen in southeastern Texas.
At the beginning West & Gordon are ordered to Ocala County to escort an escaped prisoner back to prison. West tells Gordon that the prisoner was born in Texas and committed treason against Texas during the Texan War of Independence in 1836, 30 years ago, which seems to put that episode in 1866 which seems earlier than other episodes indicate.
They tell the prisoner they will take them to Beaumont, which is a seaport in the extreme southeastern part of Texas. The sheriff (of Ocala County or of the county that includes Beaumont?) says the prisoner has traveled far to get to the Bayou country, and Gordon says the prisoner has swamp fever. That also indicates southeastern Texas.
Beaumont is the country seat of Jefferson County, Texas. I haven't found an Ocala County anywhere.
Biltmore has been a location for a number of movies.
And I have been wondering about the fictional locations of the various fictional estates which Biltmore has portrayed.
I have read that Richie Rich (1994) is set in Chicago. Though I suppose that the precise fictional location, if mentioned, would be outside the city of Chicago in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin. Was a more exact location than the Chicago area mentioned?
Biltmore has been a location for a number of movies.
And I have been wondering about the fictional locations of the various fictional estates which Biltmore has portrayed.
I have read that Richie Rich (1994) is set in Chicago. Though I suppose that the precise fictional location, if mentioned, would be outside the city of Chicago in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin. Was a more exact location than the Chicago area mentioned?
When people started saying Osama bin Laden was behind 911, my mother asked who he was and I told her bin Laden was the most famous terrorist in the world.
Osama bin Laden was already wanted for an attack on the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, 7 years before 911. Al Queda terrorists used a van filled with explosives in the underground parking garage in an attempt to destroy the twin towers. They hoped on tower would topple and knock the other tower down, killing thousands. But the towers stood, and thousands of people were hurt more or less seriously and six were killed, instead of the thousands dead the terrorists hoped for.
Are any Christian or Jewish characters in the MCU really Christian or Jewish?
Maybe the monotheistic religions in the MCU have adapted to the existence of of Gods, gods, or "gods", with godlike powers. Possibly some sects of various monotheistic religions have a different theology than in our universe, believing that there are lesser Gods, gods, or "gods" infinitely more powerful that mere mortals but infinitely inferior to the creator God of the universe.
That would allow members of those sects of monotheistic religions to believe that Thor, for example, was some sort of God, god, "god", demigod, angel, demon, etc., while still more or less believing that there is one all powerful creator God of the universe.
Whether those Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc. would be considered true believers or heretics by theologians of those religions in our world is unknown.
I note that in our world there are examples of Christian sects which consider other Christian sects to be heretics and Muslim sects which consider other Muslim sects to be heretics.
But members of those sects who are considered heretics and false believers by other sects consider themselves to be true believers. So I don't know whether Kamala Khan and her family would be upset if Muslim theologians from our world called them heretics and disbelievers.
In "The Game of Life" August 4, 2023 it was claimed that Theodore Snickering was walking toward the manhole and the cover was slid off as a trap for him. But Theodore saw the danger and turned away. Then Frankie came along texting and fell into the manhole before the cover could be replaced.
So it seems that Frankie was killed by G.R. and her group in an attempt to kill Theodore.
In "The Game of Life" August 4, 2023 it is seen that G.R. is subordinate to an Underworld Council.
I don't remember much about similarites between Octapussy and Temple of Doom.
What I mostly remember is a scene with the Taj Mahal in the foreground and Bond's airliner landing in the background. Thus that scene is in Agra.
Bond gets a taxi at the airport and after riding a few minutes they are in Udaipur.
The distance between Agra and Udaipur by air is 517 kilometers, and by road it is 656 kilometers taking about 11 hours. Centuries ago a trip between the two places took many times as long, and yet the distance might have seem too close in times of war between the Maharanas and the Mughal Padishahs.
At the present time with present highways the driving time from San Diego to Las Vegas is 5 hours 53 minutes on I-15 North.
At the present time with present highways the driving time from San Diego to Phoenix, Arizona is 5 hours 44 minutes on I-8 East.
And those trips seem too long and too far.
So he should have been headed to someplace closer, and across the desert. Los Angeles seems out, as well as places beyond Los Angeles, because most of the trip would have been along the coast.
So maybe he was headed for Celexico, California or Mexicali, Mexico. Maybe Yuma, Arizona. Maybe some place near Palm Springs.
If he is seen driving in downtown San Diego, near the start of the journey, maybe someone familiar with the city could say whether he was headed north, south, or east, or what main roads he was using.
<i>Duel</i> was filmed in Acton, Aqua Dulce, Canyon Country, Lancaster, and Palmdale, California, according to IMDB. <url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/locations/?ref_=ttrel_sa_4</url> They are all in northern Los Angeles County along the Antelope Valley Freeway or Highway 14.
So maybe he drove through Los Angles to the desert, headed for some place like Mojave. The trip to Mojave would take 4 hours and 28 minutes along I-215 N and I-15 N, or 4 hours and 42 minutes along I-5 N and CA-14 N. The second route would take it though the filming locations.
Of course it is possible that all of the desert locations in Southern California look very similar to the filming locations and the filming locations aren't a good clue to the fictional locations of the movie.
So you think that you should know how long it takes for godzillas to become fully grown?
Back in the 19thy century, whalers and maybe scientists believed that sperm whales took a century to mature. A century later around 1950 marine biologists believed that sperm whales only lived for 10 years. And both beliefs seem to have been unfounded according to present knowledge.
The correct answer to the Harrison question was not "Harrison" but "William Henry Harrison". President William Henry Harrison's grandson Benjamin Harrison was President of the USA from 1889 to 1893.
It was inaccurate of you to say that "there was only one President Harrison so there was nothing to clarify".
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison</url>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison </url>
Maybe Black Cloud was horrified by the sight of one of his personal friends being killed. Or maybe Black Cloud was horrified by the sight of Quanah declaring war on Black Cloud by killing lack Cloud's man, thus making Black Cloud trapped between two enemies and doomed.
The location of Fort Starke is rather vague.
In <i>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</i> Fort Starke seems to be located near the Kiowa reservation, & thus in Oklahoma or a neighboring territory or state - Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, or Missouri.
The Fort Starke in <i> Rio Grande</i> might be an entirely different fort with the same name as the first one, founded in the years between the fictional dates of 1876 and 1879-80 of those movies.
In <i> Rio Grande</i> people come from Texas to Fort Starke from Texas, showing that Fort Starke is not in Texas. But people also cross the Rio Grande river into Mexico after travelling a few days from Fort Starke. Thus Fort Starke should be in the southeastern section of New Mexico, a few days ride south across the westernmost part of Texas to the Rio Grande and Mexico.
And that should be hundreds of miles from the Kiowa reservation and the other Fort Starke.
Here is a link to a discussion of the location of Fort Starke in the stories of James Warner Bellah and not in the movies.
<url>https://websiteofahistoricalpolymath.wordpress.com/timelines/time-line-of-the-james-warner-bellahs-westerncavalry-stories/comment-page-1/?unapproved=1783&moderation-hash=4481ec1c3f1d820df62ae3faa91f9de7#comment-1783</url>
"These stories are about an unidentified Cavalry regiment posted at Fort Starke. The location of Fort Stark is never exactly identified, although hints, often conflicting, are given. Also, the tribes that are mentioned and the locations further obscure the possibilities, which makes sense as these stories are really an encapsulation of the myth and legend of the Cavalry during the period of the Indian wars. That being said, most of the stories seem to be situated in the western Kansas/eastern Colorado area, although some stretch as far south as the Texas and across the Rio Grande, and Arizona."