After a massive manhunt, Booth was shot and killed in a tobacco barn by Union cavalry. Mortally wounded, he was taken to the porch of a nearby farmhouse. His last words, as he held up his hands and looked at them, were reported to be, “Useless, useless!”
The crime drama *Manhunt *was a US TV series that ran for 3 years: 1959 - 1961.
There was also a Manhunt series that ran on UPN in the summer of 2001. The purported reality program featured contestants attempting to escape “bounty hunters” who were actually actors. Even the location was falsely advertised – the show was shot not in Hawaii, but in Los Angeles (specifically Griffith Park).
Steve McQueen played a bounty hunter in “The Hunter”, his last film before his 1980 death from mesothelioma.
Led Zeppelin included part of the song “The Hunter” by Albert King into “How Many More Times.” Without credit, of course.
One passenger who made a miraculous escape from death in the crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg in 1937 was a direct descendent of Cotton Mather, name of Margaret Mather. She’d been wearing a heavy overcoat that almost certainly saved her from far serious burns. It was full of holes, a couple of which actually had small bits of metal lodged in them. But it had kept the flames away from her long enough for her to escape with little more than burned hands.
Paul von Hindenburg, a hero of World War I and deeply suspicious of the Nazis, nevertheless felt as President of the Weimar Republic that he had no choice but to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933 after parliamentary elections that year.
Weimar, Germany is the home of the Goethe House.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived in the Goethe House, and while living there he wrote some of his well known works such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and even his interpretation of Faust, a classic German legend.
Among the winners of the Goethe Prize have been Albert Schweitzer (1928), Sigmund Freud (1930), Max Planck (1945), Walter Gropius (1961), and Ingmar Bergman (1976).
Ingmar Bergman first discovered he won his first prize at the Cannes Festival when he read it in a newspaper while in the bathroom.
Sandahl Bergman played Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love in “Conan the Barbarian.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger once explained on Late Night with David Letterman that his last name meant “black plowman” in German.
The allegorical poem Piers Plowman, by Robert Langland, is probably the most famous thing written in English between the Magna Carta and the Canterbury Tales.
In general, the street on which the piers of on the Hudson River side of Manhattan are located by subtracting 40 from the pier number. Pier 88, for instance, is on 48th Street.
The excellent 88mm gun (“eighty-eight”) was a widely-used German antiaircraft and antitank artillery weapon during World War II, and was also mounted as the main armament of the Tiger I tank.
A “French 75” is a cocktail made from champagne, gin, and lemon juice, and has the same kick as the WW1 artillery piece it was named for. It was the invention of French-American fighter ace Raoul Lufbery, who flew with the Escadrille Américaine.
The Champagne region of France is the only place where true champagne can be made, anywhere else it is considered sparkling white wine.
The White Tree was, along with the Seven Stars and the Winged Crown, a recurring symbol of the kingdom of Gondor in Tolkien’s writings. In the last chapters of The Return of the King, Aragorn, with Gandalf’s help, found a seedling which took root and bloomed at the time of his coronation.
Jonathan Ronald Reule Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, was well known for his linguistic talents. In fact his creation of Middle Earth was in an effort to explain the history of languages that he created such as Elvish and Dwarvish.