From 5/20/1949 to 4/14/1977 is: 334 months, 3 weeks, 4 days
3-3-4
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Dave Thomas (I)
Date of Birth: 20 May 1949
"The Simpsons" .... Bob Hope / ... (2 episodes, 1997-2006)
- Homer vs. the 18th Amendment (1997) TV Episode (voice) .... Rex Banner
From 7/16/1963 to 3/16/1997 is: 33 years, 34 weeks, 5 days
33-34
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Season 8, Episode 18: Homer vs. the 18th Amendment
Original Air Date: 16 March 1997
Bart gets drunk during a St. Patrick's Day Parade, provoking the city government to enforce a two-hundred year old prohibition law. Rex Banner, an Elliot Ness-type character, takes over the police force to help enforce the law, since Wiggum failed to do do. Meanwhile, Homer decides to make money for himself as a bootlegger, calling himself "The Beer Baron."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._The_Eighteenth_Amendment
"Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment" is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons' eighth season, which originally aired March 16, 1997.[2] Prohibition is enacted in Springfield and Homer helps fight it by illegally supplying alcohol to the town. It was written by John Swartzwelder, and directed by Bob Anderson.[2] Guest starring Dave Thomas as Rex Banner and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony
A prohibitionist movement emerges in Springfield after Bart accidentally gets drunk during a St. Patrick's Day celebration. The municipal government discovers alcohol has actually been banned for two centuries, and moves to enforce the law, prompting Moe to disguise what remains a bar as a pet shop. With the town becoming impatient with the police's incompetence, Chief Wiggum is replaced by Rex Banner, an officer of the United States Treasury Department.
In the mean time, Homer figures out a way to keep Moe's bar operating, through bootlegging. One night, he and Bart sneak out to the city dump to reclaim the beer that was disposed of when the Prohibition law began to be enforced. He then sets up shop in his basement pouring the beer into hollow bowling balls. Using an intricate set of pipes under the Bowlerama, he bowls the balls into Moe's. Marge actually thinks it's a great idea once she catches on. The media realizes someone is allowing Springfield's underground alcohol trade to flourish, and they give the still-unknown Homer the nickname "Beer Baron". Rex Banner fails to catch the Baron and resorts to stopping people in the street to question them.
When his supply of beer runs out, Homer begins to brew his own "moonshine". However, his stills started to explode. He is then confronted by a desperate Chief Wiggum. In an attempt to rekindle Wiggum's career, Homer allows the former Police Chief to turn him in. The punishment that awaits him is death by catapult, showing how anachronistic the law really was. In the end, it is Rex Banner who is catapulted, and Wiggum is given his job back. The town scribe then finds out that the Prohibition law was actually repealed a year after it was put in place, and so Homer is released. Within five minutes Fat Tony floods the town with alcohol once more, and Springfield salutes its qualities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier
As "runways at sea," modern aircraft carriers have a flat-top deck design that serves as a flight deck for take-off and landing of aircraft. Aircraft take off to the front, into the wind, and land from the rear. Carriers steam at speed, for example up to 35 knots (65 km/h), into the wind during take-off in order to increase the apparent wind speed, thereby reducing the speed of the aircraft relative to the ship. On some ships, a steam-powered catapult is used to propel the aircraft forward assisting the power of its engines and allowing it to take off in a shorter distance than would otherwise be required, even with the headwind effect of the ship's course. On other carriers, aircraft do not require assistance for take off — the requirement for assistance relates to aircraft design and performance. Conversely, when landing on a carrier, conventional aircraft rely upon a tailhook that catches on arrestor wires stretched across the deck to bring them to a stop in a shorter distance than normal.
