Stewie does not like New Brian. Stewie wants the first Brian to come back. Brian does not want to until New Brian is not there. Stewie goes to New Brian and tells him that he does not like him. New Brian says that he raped Rupert (Stewie's teddy bear). Stewie kills New Brian, puts him in a trash can, and writes a suicide note that looks like New Brian wrote it. The first Brian comes back to the family. Stewie is traumatized and washes Rupert in a shower.
The episode was written by John Viener. Dominic Bianchi is the director of the episode. The design of New Brian is from a drawing made by Seth MacFarlane (the creator of "Family Guy"). New Brian was first going to be a Golden Retriever. He was made gray so that he would not be the same color of the kitchen.
The episode was first put on DVD on June 16, 2009. Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty are guest stars for the episode. Viener is the voice actor for New Brian.
Ahsan Haque of IGN thought that the episode has some "unfunny (not funny) ideas" but that it "succeeds for the most part". He said that there was a better balance of humor and story. Genevieve Koski of "The A.V. Club" did not like how the episode started with "Jackass", but he thought that the rest of the story is "far superior". Robin Pierson from The TV Critic did not like how the jokes were put together. He said that the episode has "no point to it."
Mamie Till
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist. She took part in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the mother of Emmett Till, who was killed at the age of 14 years old after allegedly offending a white woman.
Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is a former American businesswoman. She was the founder and CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company.
In 2015, "Forbes" had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America.
After revelations of potential fraud in Theranos' claims, in 2016 "Forbes" revised its estimate of Holmes' net worth to zero. "Fortune" named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".
1988–89 North American drought
The 1988–89 North American drought was a weather problem that lasted two years. The drought began in 1988 in the Midwestern United States, High Plains and the Northeastern United States. A number of high pressure areas set themselves up over certain parts of these areas, stopping thunderstorms from developing.
During the spring of 1988, Milwaukee, Wisconsin had 55 days straight without any precipitation. In the summer, two record-setting heat waves developed, similar to 1934, 1936 and 1983. The constant heat waves led to as many as 17,000 deaths in the United States.
During the summer of 1988, the drought led to a number of wildfires in western North America. That included the Yellowstone fires of 1988.
At its peak, the drought covered 45% of the United States in 1988 alone. That's less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States. But the Drought of 1988 caused $60 billion in damage. That not only is the most expensive drought in the history of the United States, it was the costliest natural disaster before Hurricane Katrina seventeen years later.
The drought destroyed crops nationwide. Lawns went brown. A number of cities ordered water restrictions.
More than four inches of helpful rain came to the Midwest through Hurricane Gilbert. The storm crossed Texas and Oklahoma as a tropical depression. It spread rain as far as the Great Lakes. Other locations, however, were at -6 or lower on the Palmer Drought Severity Index by early autumn 1988.
Dry conditions continued into 1989 and 1990, affecting Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.
The 1988–89 drought caused damage comparable to Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
Menoetius (moon)
Menoetius is the only moon of the asteroid Trojan 617 Patroclus.
In 2001, scientists found that Patroclus is a binary system, made up of two asteroids of about the same size. It is one of 18 binary Trojan asteroids known to exist. In 2006, good measurements of the orbit from the Keck Laser guide star adaptive optics system were reported.
It was estimated that the two components orbit around their center of mass in days at a distance of in a roughly circular orbit. Combining these observations with thermal measurements taken in 2000, the sizes of the components of the system were estimated at 106 km and 98 km, with an equivalent whole-system diameter of 145 km, refined by later measurements from the Keck Observatory to approximately 122 km and 112 km for each partner, and a co-orbital period of hours ( days).
On 21 October 2013, both bodies occulted a magnitude 8.8 star as observed by a team of 41 observers stationed across the USA. Observation data put the orbital distance of 664.6 km, and give a size for the slightly larger component, which retains the name Patroclus with overall volume equivalent to a 113 km sphere, with the smaller component now named Menoetius with a volume equivalent to a 104 km diameter sphere.
Robert Woodson
Robert L. Woodson Sr. (born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center. He is known for his works to help low-income communities through housing.
In February 2020, Woodson launched the Center's 1776 Unites campaign.
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is a controversial project in the United States created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from "The New York Times", and "The New York Times Magazine". It is meant to change the country's history by talking about the effects of slavery. The project said that the United States was actually founded in 1619 when the first slaves arrived to the country.
The project was first published in August 2019 for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony.
The project was very controversial and had negative comments from many historians.
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American journalist. She is known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for "The New York Times." In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on "The 1619 Project".
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Atlanta, United States. It is part of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA.
It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. The funerals of both Dr. King and congressman John Lewis where held here.
It is the church for which United States Senator-elect Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. It is located in the historic area, now called the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
Diamond, Missouri
Diamond is a city in Newton County, Missouri, United States. It is in the southeast of Joplin. 902 people lived here at the 2010 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the birthplace of George Washington Carver.
Warrenton, North Carolina
Warrenton is a town in and the county seat of Warren County, North Carolina, United States. 862 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Plumpy'nut
Plumpy'Nut is a peanut-based paste wrapped in plastic, used to treat severe malnutrition. It's manufactured by Nutriset, a French company. The paste removes the need for hospitalization, and the 92-gram (3¼ oz) packages of it can be eaten at home and allows larger numbers of people to be treated.
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