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Thurston Howell III (mentioned in the opening credits as: "The Millionaire") is a character on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island, which ran from 1964 to 1967, and later in syndication. Portrayal
In the original 2016 edition [4] of Howl's book Bury Me With the Lo On (a second edition was released in 2017), [5] Howl writes: "Every day was a fashion show and a shoplifting spree throughout upstate malls and Manhattan stores." [3] Howl has also stated of the Lo Lifes: “We were like fight club meets the runway.
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, [1] the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, [2] the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis ...
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Thurston once said that in their experience a neighborhood of households worth only a million dollars each was considered a slum area. Although the Howells were portrayed as childless in the original series, their son Thurston Howell IV (portrayed by David Ruprecht) was introduced in the reunion movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.
Eureka, the motto of California on its state seal Nil sine numine, the motto of Colorado on its state seal Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono, the motto of Hawaii on its state quarter Crossroads of America, the motto of Indiana on its state quarter Ad astra per aspera, the motto of Kansas on its state seal Live Free or Die, the motto of New Hampshire on its state quarter Labor omnia vincit ...
The third emblem, A Peak in Darien, refers to the end of John Keats’s sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, in which the poet mentions George Chapman’s translation of the Odyssey. [176] [n 20] In a manner “characteristic of Stevenson’s work,” [173] the emblem invites the reader to be adventurous and scorn the “well-fed slave ...
E pluribus unum included in the Great Seal of the United States, being one of the nation's mottos at the time of the seal's creation. E pluribus unum (/ iː ˈ p l ɜːr ɪ b ə s ˈ uː n ə m / ee PLUR-ib-əs OO-nəm, Classical Latin: [eː ˈpluːrɪbʊs ˈuːnʊ̃], Latin pronunciation: [e ˈpluribus ˈunum]) – Latin for "Out of many, one" [1] [2] (also translated as "One out of many" [3 ...