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July 29

Eisenhower's farewell address

Why was Eisenhower's farewell address taken in very low quality black and white video? He was the first U.S. president on color TV on May 22, 1958! -- Toytoy (talk) 06:06, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You say "very low quality" black and white, but it was probably the standard quality at the time; color (see Professional video camera) was at that date still new, and (I'm fairly sure) significantly poorer in general definition than B&W. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.67.235 (talk) 14:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Everyday Readers

Is there anywhere I can watch the 1998 film Everyday Readers starring Peter Sallis. The only website that I've found out about this movie is on the BFI. 2A00:23C8:9DEE:900:FD51:C289:48F0:AA3 (talk) 09:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Brazilian soccer player Sócrates had a medical degree

The Brazilian soccer player Sócrates had a medical degree. His article mentions that and gives a source. But he's not in the List of athletes with advanced degrees. Just letting you know. I'd add him myself but I'm not sure how to add the source of the first article to the second article. 178.51.2.117 (talk) 18:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article says he has a bachelor's degree, which is not an advanced degree according to the definition on that list page ("PhDs and other degrees at that academic level"). So maybe that's why. Although saying that, the definition of what level a medical degree is seems complicated according to Doctor of Medicine. --Viennese Waltz 20:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball: error in a perfect game

Error (baseball) presents an unusual situation:

If a batted ball were hit on the fly into foul territory, with the batting team having no runners on base, and a fielder misplayed such ball for an error, it is possible for a team on the winning side of a perfect game to commit at least one error, yet still qualify as a perfect game.

Whether at the major league level or elsewhere, is there any record of a perfect game in which the winning team committed such an error? Nyttend (talk) 23:14, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For MLB, there are not very many perfect games. You can check the box scores yourself if any had an error: List_of_Major_League_Baseball_perfect_games RudolfRed (talk) 05:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not a no-hitter, but in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series, Giants catcher Hank Gowdy dropped a foul pop which extended the at-bat of Senators player Muddy Ruel, who then got on base and eventually scored the winning run.[1] The point being that if a foul-pop error happened in a perfect game, it would probably be noted in the play-by-play. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:22, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]