My Buddy Nick
Nickelodeon, a television network known for its children shows and reruns of classic TV, gets its name from indoor spaces common from 1905 to 1915 which cheaply offered this new type of media to audiences.
What are movies/motion pictures/films?
Notable as game publisher Valve's first foray into VR and named after main character Alyx, this franchise's entry incorporated elements of survival horror, puzzles, and combat into a helmet-based experience.
What is Half-Life?
Las Cruces was, for 34 years, home to the Whole Enchilada Festival, which was certified as cooking and serving the world's largest flat rolled enchilada according to this record keeping organization.
What is Guinness World Records?
In traditional engagements, men are expected to genuflect while making their proposal, an act often derived from Alexander the Great's court as a sign of etiquette and respect for others.
What is kneeling?
While cats are well known to have been honored in Egyptian culture, historians now believe they were originally domesticated by this continent's cultures around 7500 BC.
What is Asia?
St. Nick's Pub is one of the oldest continuously operating jazz clubs in the United States, located in this historically Black neighborhood of New York City and famous for hosting artists like Duke Ellington and Donald Byrd in its storied history.
What is Harlem?
Alex is the name of a playable character in this long running fighting video game series, with looks based upon an extremely young Hulk Hogan.
What is Street Fighter?
Who was Billy the Kid?
Perhaps owing to how rare each are in comparison to other events, women are traditionally thought to propose only on this calendar day to men in Scottish, Irish, and English culture.
What is Feb 29th/leap day?
Before male cats were known as toms or tomcats starting in the 18th century, they were frequently referred to by this name shared with a male sheep.
What is a ram?
This famous Nic, with 73 movies to his name according to IMDb, has most famously starred in National Treasure, Con Air, Ghost Rider, and The Rock over his long career.
Alex Morgan co-captained this team with Carli Loyd and Megan Rapinoe from 2018-2020, making impressive showings at the 2019 Women's World Cup along the way.
What is the US Women's Soccer Team?
Owing to the popularity and prominence of this spicy berry-fruit grown in and around the state, Las Cruces drops a giant version of it rather than New York's Ball or Atlanta's peach on New Years Eve.
What is a chili pepper/chili?
In medieval Europe, vows were traditionally exchanged in this verb tense during a betrothal or engagement, due to the fact that marriage only was recognized once consummated by the bride and groom.
What is future tense?
A ongoing problem in physics involving cats is how they go about moving when doing this, often focusing on conservation of angular momentum and rotational angle.
What is falling?
While "Old Nick" is a common nickname for Satan, many historians actually attribute its origin to this ruthless Italian writer and politician of the 16th century most famous for his work, The Prince.
Who is Machiavelli?
Alex Tripolski, himself an Olympic athlete in sport shooting, is better known today for heading the Israeli organization dedicated to playing and competing in this winter Olympic sport where players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area.
What is curling?
Just north of Las Cruces is the White Sands missile range, perhaps most famous for being the home to the Trinity site where this type of explosive was first tested on 7/16/45.
What is an atomic bomb/nuclear bomb?
What is the nose?
Cats have relatively few of these sensory receptors in the heads compared to humans and other animals (about 470 for a cat compared to 9,000 of these in a human [and 175,000 for a catfish!]).
What are taste buds?
A "nick" is a name for a discontinuity in this sort of nucleic acid, often needing to be repaired by ligases once detected by the organism.
What is DNA?
Perhaps the most famous animal Alex, this type of curious, smart bird was the subject of thirty years of experiments into animal intelligence, which began in a lab at our own U of A.
What is a parrot/grey parrot?
With large tax breaks for film companies, Las Cruces featured prominently in the 2018 film, The Mule, starring this famous actor known for Dirty Harry, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Who is Clint Eastwood?
In an effort to spur population growth, Shinzo Abe, prime minister of this country, called for the equivalent of 22 million dollars to be spent on omiai and konkatsu matchmaking efforts for prospective couples.
What is Japan?
Mostly known for wreaking havoc on local bird populations, one feral cat in New Zealand made news for killing 102 of these other airborne animals in just seven days.
What are bats?