St. Georges is also the patron saint of Catalonia, Aragon, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal and Russia. Busy guy.
The Russian legislature is called the Duma; the Japanese and Indian, the Diet; and the Icelandic, the Althing.
The Diet of Worms, named for the town in present-day Germany in which the assembly met, declared Martin Luther a heretic and banned his writings from being read or possessed by Catholics.
Excorcist II: The Heretic was the runner up to Plan 9 From Outer Space in the Medved Brothers’ Golden Turkey Awards, chosen by readers of the earlier book The 50 Worst Films of All Time.
Decades before becoming a conservative movie critic, Michael Medved was a liberal student at Yale Law School. He counted classmate Hillary Rodham (yes, THAT Hillary!) as one of his closest friends, and still tells his largely conservative radio audience that she was the most delightful person he ever knew.
Of course, Hillary’s Goldwater Girl days were not so far behind her.
Michael Medved co-wrote What Really Happened to the Class of '65? with David Wallechinsky, and contributed heavily to the Wallechinsky/Wallace family project The People’s Almanac.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the third female U.S. Secretary of State, after Madeleine Albright and Condi Rice.
George Clinton, creator of Parliament-Funkadelic, the seminal funk band of the 70’s, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 along with fifteen of his former bandmates.
George Clinton was the first Governor of New York after independence and also the 4th Vice President of the US.
Iowa’s Clinton County, its county seat (also called Clinton), and its town of DeWitt are all named after DeWitt Clinton. He was New York’s seventh governor, and a nephew of Governor George Clinton.
Gov. DeWitt Clinton led the effort to build the Erie Canal across his state, opening up an easy trade route to the other side of the Appalachians, and eventually leading to NYC overtaking Philadelphia as the largest city in the US.
The Erie Triangle was claimed by New York, Pennsylavania, Massachusettes and Connecticut. The federal government eventually persuaded all four states to relinquish their claims, then sold the Triangle to Pennsylvania to establish a port.
In their early days, King Crimson regularly performed Holst’s “Mars, the Bringer of War” in concert. They later recorded it and included it on the ***In the Wake of ****Poseidon *album under the alternate title “The Devil’s Triangle.”
Elessar was succeeded as High King of Gondor and Arnor by his son, Eldarion. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, never told us who came after that, although Elessar (the former Aragorn) and his wife Arwen had at least two daughters, as well.
Stuart Townsend was originally cast as Aragorn, but after filming began Peter Jackson realized he needed someone older for the part & cast Viggo Mortensen instead.
Viggo Mortensen was born in the US, but when he was young, his family moved to Venezuela, Denmark, and Argentinian where he learned Spanish.
The three cardinals in Monty Python’s “Spanish Inquisition” sketch (actual several sketches that appeared throughout the show) are Cardinal Ximenez, Cardinal Biggles, and Cardinal Fang.
Phyllis Diller’s stand-up comedy routines usually included vignettes from her life with her husband, “Fang”. She was a close friend of Bob Hope and frequently cappeared with him in movies and TV specials, and in USO shows…
Bob Hope was British by birth. A member of the Churchill family was a candidate in every British parliamentary election of the twentieth century but two (1964 and 1997).
Winston Churchill’s mother, Jenny Jerome, was American. He and Lafayette are the only two people to have been given honorary US citizenship by Congress.