) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

A reference is made to the song in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off when a bedridden Cameron Frye sings, " When Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron go ".

The Mayflower Compact, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris which was widely reproduced through much of the 20th century

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.

Filming took place at Maine North High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, the same school used for some of the school-based scenes in Hughes's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which was released just a year after The Breakfast Club.

Some of the posters on the walls during filming of The Breakfast Club were still there when Ferris Bueller was filmed.

Michigan Governor Woodbridge Nathan Ferris and Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis shake on a truce over state line markers erected in 1915. Differences of opinion about the exact boundary location continued until a definitive re-survey was performed in 1915.

This idealized depiction of ( left to right ) Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson working on the Declaration ( Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1900 ) was widely reprinted.

The famous Ferris Wheel, which proved to be a major attendance draw and helped save the fair from bankruptcy, was not finished until June, because of waffling by the board of directors the previous year on whether to build it.

It was also used in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the 1987 film Matewan, where it was used by Baldwin-Felts agents just before a violent attack on striking coal miners.

The first spelling of " Rhyncophthirina " by Ferris was a lapse, and in subsequent use of the term he spelled it " Rhynchophthirina " adding the second " h ".

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

This Audiophone machine was wide and bulky, and had eight separate turntables mounted on a rotating Ferris wheel-like device, allowing patrons to select from eight different records.

Construction was slated for the interchange with County Routes 516 and 527 in Old Bridge as there is no way to access either of them without driving through a residential area off Route 18 ( Marlboro Road, Ferris Street, Sadowski & Marsad Drive ).

Released by Paramount Pictures on June 11, 1986, Ferris Bueller's Day Off became one of the top grossing films of the year and was enthusiastically received by critics and audiences alike.

" My part was actually quite small in the script, but what seemed to be the important part to me was that I was the only one who wasn't swept along by Ferris ", recalls Jones.

" Twist and Shout " charted again, 16 years after the Beatles broke up, as a result of its prominent appearance in both this film and Back To School ( where Rodney Dangerfield performs a cover version ) which was released the same weekend as Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

It was gradually revealed that Terry and Bob's full names were Terence Daniel Collier and Robert Andrew Scarborough Ferris (" Scarborough " not revealed until the 1970s colour series ).

* Leslie Ferris ( Bob's dad ) ( Note: It was established in the 1960s series that Bob's father was in fact deceased )

In 1922, Ferris was elected to the United States Senate, supported the establishment of a federal Department of Education and served alongside Republican James Couzens beginning March 4, 1923.

In addition to his role as an educator, Ferris ran for and was elected to the office of Governor of the State of Michigan in 1912.

His overwhelming popularity also got him elected to the office of US Senator in 1922. Woodbridge Ferris died on March 23, 1928, eleven years to the day of Helen Ferris ' death.

Ferris was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2002 general election for the Kerry North constituency, topping the poll and unseating former Tánaiste Dick Spring.

In 1915, Michigan Governor Woodbridge Nathan Ferris and Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis called a ceremonial truce to the border conflict when new state line markers were erected.

Woodbridge N. Ferris, who later became a Michigan Governor, established Ferris Industrial School in 1884 in Big Rapids.

Woodbridge Nathan Ferris ( January 6, 1853March 23, 1928 ) was an educator from New York, Illinois and Michigan, as well as Democratic statesman and the 28th Governor of Michigan ( 1913 – 1917 ).

Six years later on May 17, 1949, Governor G. Mennen Williams signed the bill accepting Ferris Institute as a gift to the State of Michigan, which took over its governance on July 1, 1950.

On March 31, 1928, Governor Fred Green appointed 44-year-old Vandenberg, a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, a Democrat, from pneumonia.

The property was once the summer home of Frederick Ferris Thompson, a prominent banker in New York City, and his wife Mary Clark Thompson, whose father, Myron Holley Clark, was at one time Governor of New York State.

After his term as Governor, Osborn traveled the world and came back for another attempt to become governor again and unseat his successor, Democrat Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, but was unsuccessful.

* Ferris State University, Michigan

Upon completion, the two states ' governors, Woodbridge Nathan Ferris of Michigan and Frank B. Willis of Ohio, shook hands at the border.

The Muskegon River runs through Big Rapids, passing both Ferris State University and the local middle school on its way to Lake Michigan.

Ferris Township is a civil township of Montcalm County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

The Ferris State Bulldogs men's ice hockey | Ferris State Bulldogs on a 5-on-3 power play against the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey | Michigan Wolverines.

Ferris then settled in Big Rapids, Michigan, where in 1884

Ferris State University ( FSU, Ferris ) is an American public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Founded in 1884 as the Big Rapids Industrial School by Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, an educator from Tioga County, New York, who later served as governor of the State of Michigan and finally in the US Senate where he remained until his death in 1928.

Some of Ferris ’ technology programs are one of a kind in Michigan and the nation.

Students who earn satisfactory scores on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program examination and have a satisfactory grade point average may dual enroll at Ferris State University for credit in place of usual high school courses.

Northern Michigan University, returning to the WCHA after leaving in 1997, was the first to make the announcement on July 20, followed by Alaska – Fairbanks, Ferris State and Lake Superior State on August 26 and Bowling Green on October 4.

On August 26, 2011, Alaska-Fairbanks, Ferris State and Lake Superior State accepted their invitations and will join Northern Michigan into the WCHA in 2013.