Director M. Night Shyamalan appears in his 1999 Oscar-nominated ghost story The Sixth Sense as an E.R. doctor.
When Queen Elizabeth took the throne and her Royal cipher was placed on post boxes. Scots nationalist objected to “E.R. II” because there had never been a Queen Elizabeth I of Scotland.
On January 25, 1533, King Henry VIII of England secretly married Anne Boleyn. She was the second of his six wives and was then pregnant with future queen Elizabeth.
Ozzie beat me. Working.
In 1888 the American journalist Nellie Bly proposed to beat the “80 days” target set by the popular novel by Jules Verne. Leaving on November 14, 1889, she traveled from New York to Europe and across Asia, returning home 72 days later on January 25, 1890. While bettered by others, her reporting while traveling and interest in her exploits helped make her famous.
King Charles II’s dying command to his brother, James, Duke of York, was to look after his favourite mistress after his death: “Let not poor Nelly starve,” Charles said, referring to Nell Gwynn.
In the United Kingdom, ducal titles which have been given within the royal family include Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, Duke of York, Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Cumberland, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Rothesay, Duke of Albany, Duke of Ross, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Kent, Duke of Sussex, and Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. Following his abdication in 1936 the former King Edward VIII was given the title Duke of Windsor.
In Shakespeare’s King Lear, two of the king’s daughters have English noblemen as their husbands.The eldest, Goneril, is married to the Duke of Albany; Regan, the second, is married to the Duke of Cornwall. Cordelia, the youngest, marries the King of France. The Earl of Kent and the Earl of Gloucester are not part of the royal family, but are nobles devoted to the King.
Critics and experts as to Shakespeare’s canon have paid little or no attention to Merlin’s Prophecy as set out in King Lear; see
http://www.maximumedge.com/shakespeare/index.php?act=III&scene=II&play=kinglear&highlight=Merlin
Act III Scene II, the King’s Fool speaking:
84 I’ll speak a prophecy ere I go:
85 When priests are more in word than matter;
86 When brewers mar their malt with water;
87 When nobles are their tailors’ tutors;
88 No heretics burn’d, but wenches’ suitors;
89 When every case in law is right;
90 No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;
91 When slanders do not live in tongues;
92 Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
93 When usurers tell their gold i’ the field;
94 And bawds and whores do churches build;
95 Then shall the realm of Albion
96 Come to great confusion:
97 Then comes the time, who lives to see’t,
98 That going shall be used with feet.
99 This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time.
The Merlin is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere, with numerous subspecies throughout North America and Eurasia. A bird of prey once known as a pigeon hawk in North America, they are swift fliers and skilled hunters who specialize in preying on small birds in the size range of sparrows to quail.
Dastardley and Muttley in Their Flying Machines features the repeated attempts by Dastardley and Muttley (the dog) to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, who is always carrying secret messages.
The first two bars of “Yankee Doodle” are played in every station break on the Voice of America, as the interval signal on its broadcasts, to enable listeners to recognize the source of the program.
Lorne Green began his career as a news announcer on CBC Radio in Canada, during the early stages of World War II.
His nickname was “The Voice of Doom” because of the combination of his deep voice and the catastrophic news he was relaying.
Coincidentally, Lorne Michaels (nee Lipowitz), is also Canadian, and also began his career as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio.
There was even a lawsuit and some vandalism about it:
In play:
Lorne Michaels has spoofed his own supposedly snooty ways several times on Saturday Night Live. Once, when Steve Martin was hosting the show, Michaels was shown having his portrait painted while he sipped champagne.
In 1952, Mister Peepers first aired on NBC, as one of the first sitcoms that was not a TV adaptation of an existing radio show. The cast was limited almost exclusively to four school teachers, played by Wally Cox, Tony Randall, Pat Benoit and Marion Lorne.
“Benoît” is the French equivalent of “Benedict”. It comes from the Old French term for “blessed”, “benoist”. The loss of the “s” is indicated by the circumflex on the “i”.
The unincorporated town of Benoit (pronounced ben-OIT), WI was named for Antoine Benoit, a pioneer French settler.
On November 14, 1305, Raymond Bertrand de Got became Pope Clement V, succeeding Pope Benedict XI who died one year earlier. Pope Clement V is infamous for suppressing the order of the Knights Templar and as the Pope who moved the Curia from Rome to the French city of Avignon, ushering in the period known as the Avignon Papacy.
Clement V was one of the few Popes who was not a cardinal at the time of his election.