Despite the damage to his reputation caused by this sex scandal, Henry Ward Beecher was still widely respected. He received two year-long appointments to lecture preaching from Yale University. These courses were gathered and published as in 1874. On March 8, 1887, Henry Ward Beecher passed away. A day of mourning was declared in Brooklyn, NY and many national leaders (including President Grover Cleveland) lamented the passing of this clergyman.
Burt Ward played the role of Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne’s ward, in the 1960’s Batman TV show.
Because of his great success as Batman, Adam West was offered the role of James Bond in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. West declined, saying the role should be played by a British actor. Ironically, George Lazenby, an Australian, got the role.
The voice of the Geico Gecko is provided by British actor Jake Dylan Wood.
The Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC, is the former home of David and Carmen Kreeger and its core collection is from Kreeger’s private acquisitions. Kreeger was head of GEICO Insurance.
The West End production of Blood Brothers starring Petula Clark, David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy was so good that a CD cast recording with the three of them was released.
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In 1980, the Czechoslovakian hockey player of the year, Peter Šťastný, and his brother Anton, defected to Canada. A year later, their brother Marián joined them in Canada. For several years, the three brothers all played on the Québec Nordiques.
The real Hanson brothers were Hartford Whalers. In the 1977 movie, SLAP SHOT, the goon thug Hansen brothers were the Carlson brothers, Steve, Jack and Jeff of the Hartford Whalers.
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The movie Hanson Brothers inspired a Canadian punk band called The Hanson Brothers. It was formed by several members of the great punk band NOMEANSNO.
The Hanson Brothers styled themselves after what they loved, ice hockey and the music of The Ramones.
Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson and Dave Hanson continue to make personal appearances as the ice hockey Hanson Brothers, typically at minor league hockey games as of 2007. The brothers latest appeared at the first Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Alumni Game in Wilkes-Barre, PA on April 4, 2009. The brothers played in a charity game March 23, 2013 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada for the benefit of Autism Kingston and the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
One of the earliest recorded games of hockey, in 1886, between teams from Queen’s and Royal Military College.
Don Rickles, the insult comedian whose catchphrase is calling people hockey pucks, entered show business hoping to be a dramatic actor and only began doing standup when he could not get enough acting jobs to support himself. His most notable dramatic acting role to date is as the manager of the titular CASINO in Scorcese’s film.
Rickles starred alongside Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Donald Sutherland in the 1970 World War II comedy/drame Kelly’s Heroes delaing with a group of American GI’s in France attempting to steal 14,000 bars of Gold from the Germans. He played ‘Crapgame’, a supply sergeant who helped back Kelly’s plan to get to the gold first.
Over the course of a long career, Donald Sutherland has played (among other things) a grieving father, a pod person, a college professor, head of a secret government agency, a ruthless dictator, an Army doctor, a German assassin, an Irish mercenary and an English farmer. The movies? Don’t Look Now, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Animal House, The Puppet Masters, The Hunger Games, MASH, Eye of the Needle, The Eagle Has Landed* and Pride & Prejudice.
The Donald Sutherland comedy Heaven Help Us, about a Catholic high school in 1960’s Brooklyn, was also the film debut of Yeardley Smith, better known as the voice of Lisa Simpson.
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Brooklyn was originally its own separate city. It was not until the turn of the nineteenth century that Brooklyn merged with the City of New York. Many Brooklyn residents called the move “the Great Mistake of 1898.”
Brooklyn has approximately 2.6 million residents, which means if it were to be separated from the rest of New York City, Brooklyn would become the 4th most populous U.S. city behind the rest of NYC, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
In 1898, the Parliament of Canada created Yukon Territory by carving off the most north-westerly portion of the North-West Territories and creating a new territory.
The reason was the Klondike Gold Rush. The federal government thought that a local government with a capital in Whitehorse, Yukon, could respond more quickly to the issues posed by the gold rush than the territorial government of the North-West Territories in the distant capital of Regina, NWT.