The book Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland is available for $9.95 on amazon.com.
Raul Julia sang Santa Lucia in the movie Tequila Sunrise.
Tequila Sunrise was a hit by the Eagles from their album Desperado (whose title song is one of Simon Cowell’s favorites).
*Desperado *was a sequel, of sorts, to Robert Rodriguez’s first surprise success, El Mariachi.
There are three major grades of tequila: blanco (bottled shortly after fermentation), reposado (aged between two months and a year in casks before bottling) and añejo (aged more than one year in casks before bottling).
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The group Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán provided backing on Linda Ronstadt’s Canciones de Mi Padre album.
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe was published in 1846.
Edgar Allan Poe married his first cousin when she was 13, struggled with alcohol addiction, and according to one theory died of rabies, yet he was not from Alabama.
The jazz standard “Stars Fell on Alabama,” mentioned on recent printings of the state’s license plate, reference an unusually strong Leonid meteor shower that took place in 1833.
Alabama’s former license plate slogan was Heart of Dixie.
It’s not known where the name Dixie came from, but theories include the French word dix (“ten”) which was the nickname for a ten dollar bill, or from the Mason-Dixon line (named after two astronomers who surveyed the line for extra money).
The term sawbuck (reputedly) came to be applied to a ten-dollar bill because the Roman numeral X on the note resembled a sawhorse.
The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl X.
Mike Ditka went to the University of Pittsburgh, and planned to become a dentist after graduating.
John Henry Holliday of OK Corral fame was called “Doc” Holliday because he was a dentist by training, having obtained his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.
Pennsylvania was the first state to list their web site URL on their license plate.
Richard Dreyfuss pulls a Louisiana license plate out of a tiger shark’s stomach, in “Jaws.”
The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal in France in the late 1800s, which involved a French soldier of Jewish descent.
Dreyfus was sent to Devil’s Island, which is located in French Guiana.