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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 Black 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."
According to this <url> https://websiteofahistoricalpolymath.wordpress.com/timelines/time-line-of-the-james-warner-bellahs-westerncavalry-stories/</url> timeline of James Warner Bellah's cavalry stories the movie <i>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</i> should happen in September, 1876.
<blockquote>[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]. Although not canonical to the short stories. Nathan Brittles clearly is said to retire 10 September 1876, and he’s known Flint Cohill for 9 years (1867), Abigail Alshard,</blockquote>
So they claim that Nathan Brittles retires on 10 September 1876.
Nathan's calendar is clearly seen a few times. It has the year 1876 marked, but not the month. Since Fort Starke gets news of Custer's Last Stand the date they get the news must be after June 25, 1876. The first day of each month in 1876 was January - Saturday, February-Tuesday, March-Wednesday, April-Saturday, May-Monday , June-Thursday, July-Saturday, August-Tuesday, September-Friday, October-Sunday, November-Wednesday, and December-Friday.
So if someone looks at the calendar to see which weekday the first of that month is, it should identify which month after June the film happens during. Except that September and December both start on Friday.
So the writer who says that <i>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</i> happens in September 1876 should have more to go on than merely the first day of the month in Brittles's calendar.
There is an episode where the Sioux Indians are found to be using modern rifles shooting metallic cartridges. A trader is accused of being a traitor and selling he cartridges to the Sioux. In the nick of time it is discovered that the Sioux Indians are reloading used cartridges with gunpowder & home made bullets. And the Sioux did discover a way to reload used cartridges. That much of the episode is true.
In another episode Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is visiting the USA and gets stranded in California. He did visit the USA in 1876 and tried out Mr. Bell's new invention at the Centennial Exposition, but I don't know how much of the episode is true.
In an episode of <i>Maverick</i> "The Ghost Soldiers" (November 8, 1859) characters line up dead soldiers on the walls of a fort to scare off attacking Indians. Where did the writer get that idea from? <i>Beau Geste</i>.
An episode of <i> Have Gun Will Travel</i> "Fogg bound" (3 December 1960) has Paladin meet Phileas Fogg travelling <i>Around the World in 80 Days</i>.
One of my favorite tv shows as a child was <i>The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin</i> (1954-1959) about the adventures of a boy and his dog and the cavalry in the old west.
And I remember an episode of <i>Rin Tin Tin</i> where there was some sort of reenactment of a historic battle between the cavalry and some Indians. I don't remember if the reenactment was being filmed in the episode - movies weren't invented until about 20 to 30 years after the 1870s when the show was set. And some of the Indians in the reenactment plotted to use real bullets instead of blanks and turn the mock battle into a real one.
As it happened I was given a copy of Don Russell's <i>The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill</i> as a child. And one part of Buffalo Bill's life it mentions was his involvement a silent movie titled <i>The Indian Wars Refought</i> (and other titles) (1914). It may have been the most accurate Indian Wars movie ever, though since it is a lost film nobody knows.
And according to Russell's biography of Buffalo Bill, during filming there were rumors that the Indian extras were plotting to substitute real bullets for blanks. So I always assumed that the writer of that episode of <i>Rin Tin Tin</i> read about the making of<i>The Indian Wars Refought</i> & got the idea from that rumor.
And of course each of the hundreds of allegedly true <i>Death Valley Days</i> episodes is based on real stories, however accurately or not..
And recently there was an episode where an answer was something like "the person that the Seven Electors elected".
And the question which was accepted as correct was "Who was the Holy Roman Emperor?"
In the early centuries the imperial title in Latin was <i> Imperator Augustus</i> which translates as "emperor" or maybe as "Emperor Emperor".
In later centuries the imperial title in Latin was <i>Imperator Romanorum et semper Augustus</i> which translates roughly as "Emperor of the Romans and always Emperor" though some people translate it as "Emperor of the Romans and always august", treating <i>Augustus</i> as an adjective instead of a noun.
So saying the monarch of the Holy Roman Empire used the title of "Holy Roman Emperor" is not exactly correct.
And in the early morning of February 12 , 2023 MeTV had the episode "The Machines Strike Back" from December 12, 1965. And the opening scene had "1976" superimposed.