Macdonald, Meighen, and Trudeau all became Prime Minister of Canada twice. Mackenzie King became PM thrice.
The two songs My Heart Will Go On and Think Twice made Celine Dion the only female artist in the UK to have two singles to sell more than a million copies.
Cassius Dio was a Roman Consul and historian who wrote in Greek. His History of Rome ran to 80 volumes.
A consul in modern legal parlance is a minor diplomatic official. Many consuls are not citizens of the country which they represent, typically in a large city but not the national capital, but may have some personal, ethnic or national connection to the other country, and agree by contract to look after its interests in their city or region.
Josephus, or Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Roman / Jewish scholar and historian. He was born in the city of Jerusalem in the region of Roman Judea in the year 37 A.D., and his writings give independent (non-Christian) accounts of Jesus Christ and John the Baptist.
Titus Flavius Vespasianus captured Rome and sacked the Second Temple on the command of his father, the Emperor Vespasian. He succeeded Vespasian on the latter’s death, and was in turn succeeded by his younger brother, Domitian, the last of the Flavian dynasty.
Lawrence “Titus” Oates was a member of Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole. During the polar trek he became afflicted with frostbite and gangrene. Realising that he was endangering his companions’ chance of survival, he heroically sacrificed his life by walking out of the tent into a blizzard. His legendary last words are said to have been “I am just going outside and may be some time”.
Lawrence “L.T.” Taylor played his entire 12 year professional career as a linebacker for the New York Giants (1981–1993) in the National Football League (NFL).
In the 1993 federal election, Prime Minister Kim Campbell led her government to the worst defeat in Canada’s history, and possibly the worst in parliamentary history world-wide: from a comfortable majority in the Commons, to two (2) seats. Campbell lost her own seat and retired to the obscurity of the Canadian consulate in Los Angeles.
There actually is a recipe named after Kim Carnes’s big hit song Bette Davis Eyes
Peter Gabriel’s song “In Your Eyes” was featured in the film Say Anything, in which lovelorn teen John Cusack plays it from a boombox held over his head outside Ione Skye’s window.
Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped from the debacle of the '45 by fleeing to the Island of Skye in the Hebrides, leading to the iconic song and pipe tune, “The Skye Boat Song.”
The highly acclaimed 1945 British romantic film I Know Where I’m Going sees the heroine attempting to reach the fictional island of Kiloran in the Hebrides.
The largest of the Hebrides islands, of either the Inner or Outer Hebrides, is Lewis and Harris. A major industry on the island is the production of Harris tweed fabric, which is handmade on the island; by law only fabric produced in the Outer Hebrides can be called Harris tweed. Lewis and Harris is about the same size as Tenerife, or Maui, although it is slightly larger than either.
Lewis and Clark stopped by the Federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Va. to outfit their Corps of Discovery before its great westward trek. Decades later, John Brown’s abortive raid there would presage the Civil War.
“The Shoreline of Lewis” is a haunting bagpipe tune by pipe-major Donald MacLeod OBE. He has said that to play it properly, the piper should imagine themselves standing on the banks of a body of water, listening to the waves slap on the shore.
John Brown was one of the favourite personal servants of Queen Victoria. He apparently filled the need in her life for a strong male presence that had been missing since the death of her husband Prince Albert. There has been speculation about the nature of their relationship. However little credence is given to the report, found in the diaries of the 1st Viscount Harcourt, that the Queen and Brown were married by one of the royal chaplains, Rev. Norman Macleod.
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The MacCrimmons were one of the most famous piping families of the Highlands, hereditary pipers to the MacLeod of Macleod, at Dunvegan Castle, Skye.
The MacCrimmons are credited with composing many famous piobaireachd, or (cèol mòr, literally “great (or big) music”) tunes, but at this distance in time such authorship cannot be proven.
One of the better-known tunes attributed to the MacCrimmons is “MacCrimmon shall never return,” composeed out of foreboding that the last MacCrimmon would not return from a particular battle. It turned out to be true, as the piping family died out.
The piping shrike is an emblem of South Australia. It appears on the state’s flag and coat of arms.