The Earl of Essex, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, was executed on 25 February 1601. He was the last person to have been beheaded in the Tower of London.
Sha Na Na performed Duke of Earl live at the Woodstock Festival .
Jimi Hendrix’s guitar solo of “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the final performance at Woodstock, with distorted regressions mimicking the rockets and bombs, was voted 52nd on the list of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time by readers of *Guitar World *Magazine. Due to accumulated delays, it was so late Sunday night when Hendrix took the stage that it was actually 8:30 Monday morning.
Brian Jones, Alan Wilson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all died at age 27 died between 1969 and 1971, but was not until the death of Kurt Cobain, about two and a half decades after the last occurred, that the idea of a “27 Club” first surfaced. The only other member of the club that includes all musicians who died at age 27 is Amy Winehouse.
The **club **suit in the deck of cards bears the name, in English, of a blunt instrument, derived from Spanish basto and Italian bastone, but the pattern adopted on English cards is the French trefoil, which means “clover”, the three-leaved plant…
The four-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common, three-leaved clover. According to tradition, such leaves bring good luck to their finders, especially if found accidentally. In addition, each leaf is believed to represent something: the first is for faith, the second is for hope, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck.
It has been estimated that there are approximately 10,000 three-leaf clovers for every four-leaf clover; even so, this probability has not deterred collectors who have reached records as high as 160,000 four-leaf clovers.
In the old Tin Pan Alley song “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover”, the leaves are said to stand for Sunshine, Rain, The Roses That Bloom in the Lane, and Somebody I Adore.
In 1907, Henry Ford introduced the first affordable car, the Model T. In about 1915, the nickname “**Tin **Lizzy” was applied to the earlier models, and the term remained in use for any car from that era into the 1940s.
The Latin word for tin is stannum, giving rise to the chemical symbol Sn.
In former times in Cornwall and Devon the Stannary Courts and Parliaments were legislative and legal institutions that administered tin-miners’ rights and records of the mines.
Devon Cream Tea is a light meal with tea served with scones, clotted cream, and jam.
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, née Deborah Mitford, is the last survivor of the six Mitford sisters whose behaviour entertained, and sometimes scandalised, English society in the 1930s and 40s.
The City of Dowagiac, Michigan, was not named as a derivation from any famous or infamous Dowager, but from the Pottawatomie word for “fishing waters”.
PETA tried to get the town of Fishkill, New York to change it’s name to Fishsave.
Kill is Dutch for ‘stream’.
Fishkill NY is less than 20 miles from Hyde Park NY, which is where the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is located. FDR and Eleanor are buried there.
The Royal Albert Hall is in London, directly opposite Hyde Park, at Kensington Gore.
A gore is a small triangular piece of land.
The court of the British monarch is technically the Court of St. James’s, in London. It is to that court that all foreign diplomats to the United Kingdom are accredited.
A part of Courtship in traditional Hindu Balinese society, girls and boys undergo a ritual tooth filing. Six teeth are filed, one of 13 rituals completed throughout a person’s life, done to help cleanse them of sin.
The Rituale Romanum, or Roman Ritual, contains the details of extra-liturgical ceremonies that are not included in the Missal or Breviary. Examples include:
- baptisms;
- anointing of the sick;
- blessings at meals;
- marriages.
A Jewish religious custom is to say a brachah rishonah (preceding blessing) before eating any food. said. There are six different blessings, each beginning with the same words, BA-RUCH A-TAH A-DO-NOI ELO-HAI-NU ME-LECH HA-O-LAM, Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, and concluding with a few words related to the type of food eaten.
**Brach’**s Candies originated in a local candy store in Chicago in 1904, and pioneered the marketing technique of offering candies in visible glass sales cases to be sold by weight. The original factory is visible in the scenery in the picture “The Dark Knight”.