The part went to newcomer Peter O'Toole, who had not done a major film before. O'Toole's performance catapulted him to international fame. Nolan Bushnell and Atari engineer Al Alcorn placed a prototype of their game in Andy Capp's Tavern, a Sunnyvale, California bar. Alcorn began work a home version of Pong. Several months later, Atari released Home Pong.
Bricks are the oldest manufactured building material still in use.
Egyptians used them 7,000 years ago. Rembrandt's last name was van Rijn. The name was used in a short story Doyle wrote in 1886. Holme's sidekick in the story was called Ormond Sacker soon to be renamed Thomas Watson. In 1992, a yo-yo was brought into space by astronaut Jeffry Hoffman on the space shuttle Atlantis.