Thanks. Good to know.
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Benedict Arnold served as military governor of Philadelphia after the Continental Army recaptured the city in 1778, and was reprimanded for minor misconduct there. This helped embitter him against the American cause and was probably a factor in moving him towards his eventual betrayal of it.
Benedict Arnold was the Commanding Officer of West Point.
From #11412 in the thread:
If duplicated trivia is allowed, I’ll just repeat my #22777:
The third episode of second season of the Simpsons was originally known as “The Simpsons Halloween Special.” It featured a telling of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, with Bart’s line: You know what would have been scary than nothing. ANYTHING!
On May 27, 1827, Edgar Allen Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private. Using the name “Edgar A. Perry,” he claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18. He first served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month. That same year, he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, attributed with the byline “by a Bostonian.” Only 50 copies were printed, and the book received virtually no attention at the time.
An early manuscript of Poe’s “Eulalie” is in the Koester Collection at the University of Texas. Koester acquired it in 1938 when William Randolph Heart was in financial difficulty and auctioned this and other items.
William Randolph Hearst commissioned the now-famous California landmark Hearst Castle, because he got tired of going up there and sleeping in a tent, and wanted something a little more comfortable.
Among William Randolph Hearst’s A-list guests at Hearst Castle were Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, the Marx Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Bob Hope, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (the latter two, never at the same time).
Tiny Glen Dale, West Virginia (pop. 1,500), has two claims to fame. Baseball Hall of Fame’s George Brett was born there, and the very polpular O-gauge electric trains were made by the Louis Marx toy company there since 1933.
Groucho Marx exchanged letters with a certain Thomas Stearns Eliot, famous for his essay, “From Poe to Valéry,” about Edgar Allan Poe.
George Eliot was a woman. So was George Sand. George Brett was not.
Kim Campbell was the first, and to date, only woman to serve as Prime Minister of Canada.
Her reputation was tarnished by the fact that in the 1993 federal election, she led her Progressive Conservatives from a majority in the House of Commons to 2 seats, total. She lost her seat. It’s the worst electoral drubbing of any government in the Commonwealth.
More than one-fifth of all Koreans have the surname Kim. Along with Park, Lee and Choi, those four names account for more than half of all Koreans.
Ens. Harry Kim did not receive a promotion during the entire seven-year run of Star Trek: Voyager, although he was shown as captain of his own starship, the USS Rhode Island, during the series finale, partly set in the show’s future.
Garrett Wang, the Chinese-American actor who played Ensign Harry Kim, was born in Riverside, California and he graduated high school in Memphis, Tennessee. Wang, a sci-fi fan as a child, considers the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode titled “Code of Honor” to be the worst episode of Star Trek ever produced. All writers of Star Trek episodes also agree with him.
Memphis, Tennessee had a population of 653,450 in 2013, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, the largest city on the Mississippi River, the third largest in the greater Southeastern United States, and the 23rd largest in the United States.
Memphis, Tennessee; Cairo, Illinois; and Thebes, Illinois, all lying on the Mississippi River, were named in reference to great cities of the classical era on another great river, the Nile.
In 1980, Stereo Review named two albums the best of the year: “London Calling” by the Clash, and “Willie Nile” by Willie Nile. Due to legal issues, Nile’s career stalled with one album in 1981 and then ten years before his next.
Puppeteer Kevin Clash, a longtime Jim Henson Productions employee before his departure following statutory rape allegations, provided the motions and voice of Elmo, and of Baby Sinclair on “Dinosaurs”.
Avenue Q’s cast consists of three human characters and eleven puppet characters who interact as if human, animated and voiced by actor/puppeteers who are present, unconcealed, onstage, but remain “invisible” relative to the storyline. That is, the puppets and human characters completely ignore the puppeteers, and the audience is expected to do so as well. This can be a challenge, as puppeteering mechanics are at times complex: The same puppet may be operated by different puppeteers in different scenes, and the actor voicing the puppet may not be the one animating it. ) One puppeteer sometimes voices two or more puppets simultaneously. Conversely, the so-called “live-hands” puppets require two puppeteers — again, in full view of the audience. The most amazing part is the puppeteers who are voicing the characters move their mouths just like the puppets do.
The first time I saw the show, I was amazed it was done at all, and flabbergasted that it was done so well.