Original plans for the District of Columbia contained three separate cities: Georgetown, Washington, and Alexandria. Virginia ultimately refused to yield Alexandria (though it was used as base of operations for building D.C.) while Georgetown has long since been incorporated into Washington D.C…
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show starred Craig T Nelson as the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department. It was during the show’s run that DC was terrorized by the Beltway sniper attacks which killed 10 people and wounded at least five.
Craig T Nelson is best known for starring in the series Coach, which aired for nine seasons on ABC. He played the football coach for the fictional university, Minnesota State University.
The “school colors” for Minnesota State University in the show were the same as for the Minnesota Vikings.
The top assistant coach for the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles was played by Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick and previously the star of “My Mother the Car”.
Edward Everett Horton played an Indian Chief named Screaming Chicken on “Batman,” just as he’d played the Hekawi tribe’s medicine man, Roaring Chicken, on “F Troop.”
The tribe’s name came from a sanitized version of an old dirty joke about a hopelessly lost Indian tribe wandering around the wilderness. In the joke, the tribe meets a frontiersman, who asks, “What tribe are you?” The exasperated chief answers, “Where the heck are we?” (which sounded like 'We’re the Hekawi.")
In an early Yosemite Sam cartoon he referred to himself as the “the rip-snortin’-est, Edward Everett Horton-est he-man of 'em all”, which was a joke as Horton most often played effete snobs- it would be similar to a cowboy character today saying “I’m the fiercest David Hyde Piercist he-man of 'em all”.
Edward Everett Hale, a descendent of Nathan Hale, anti-slavery advocate and author of Man Without a Country, is sometimes said to be the grandfather of Edward Everett Horton.
Edward Everett Horton narrated the “Fractured Fairy Tales” segments on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. Other favorite features on the show were “Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties”, “Peabody’s Improbable History”, “Aesop and Son”, “Bullwinkle’s Corner”, “Mr. Know It All”, and “The World of Commander McBragg”.
In 1837, the Brothers Grimm joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to protest against the abolition of the liberal constitution of the state of Hanover by King Ernest Augustus I, a reactionary son of King George III. This group came to be known in the German states as Die Göttinger Sieben.
The University of Göttingen has long been a center of mathematical study. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and David Hilbert were all professors there.
Bernhard Langer is the only German who’s ever won golf’s Masters tournament. So far, he’s put on the green jacket twice.
Gene Sarazen, whose double eagle won the 1935 Masters and is one only six golfers to win a career grand slam, invented the sand wedge.
Astronaut Gene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, was the last man to set foot on the moon.
Martin Landau and his then-wife Barbara Bain were the stars of the sci-fi show Space 1999 set on a lunar colony after the moon was cast out of Earth’s orbit. Landau and Bain had previously worked together on Mission Impossible and would later appear together in the instant movie classic The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island (which would probably have won them Oscars had it not been a TV movie, but Martin had to wait for Ed Wood for that).
Space: 1999 was the most notable live-action production of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, who were best known for “Supermarionation” series such as Thunderbirds, Supercar, and Fireball XL5. The genre was revived, for the purposes of mocking it, by South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone in Team America: World Police.
The Thunderbirds is the name of the U.S. Air Force precision flight team, the equivalent of the Navy’s Blue Angels.
The Tracy brothers, on the ***Thunderbirds ***series, were named after American Project Mercuriy astronauts: Scott (as in Carpenter) flew Thunderbird 1, Virgil (as in Grissom) flew Thunderbird 2, Alan (as in Shepard) flew Thunderbird 3, Gordon (as in Cooper) piloted the submarine Thunderbird 4, and John (as in Glenn) worked in the space station called Thunderbird 5.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s film Team America: World Police was primarily inspired by Thunderbirds, though Stone and Parker were not fans of the show.
Drummer Stewart Copeland was the son of a high ranking official in the CIA, America’s secret police. It was his idea to name his most successful band The Police, in his dad’s “honor.”