In 1981, Faye Dunaway made two movies based on historical figures: Mommie Dearest where she played Joan Crawford, and Evita Peron, where she played Eva Peron.
Faye Dunaway (Milady) kills Rachel Welch (Constance) in The Four Musketeers (1974).
Raquel, not Rachel
The Babylonian captivity of the Jews is indicated by the passage: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” (Jeremiah 31:15)
Rachel was the matriarch of the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin, and thus is figuratively weeping for the capture and exile of those tribes by the Babylonians.
On January 15, 1865, the Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy. Union Major General **Benjamin **Butler, together with the Expeditionary Corps of the Army of the James, had been selected a month earlier to lead an amphibious mission to capture the fort at Wilmington, North Carolina.
In the SPI game, World War I, the counter for the British Expeditionary Force is the strongest single counter on the Allied side, with a strength of 4/6 (four offensive, six defensive).
“Counterparts” is a story in James Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners. Like a number of the inhabitants of Dublin depicted in the stories, the protagonist of “Counterparts” is a powerless, frustrated failure.
The Dubliners were an Irish folk band whose career spanned 50 years. Their performances of many traditional Irish ballads came to be considered the “definitive” versions. While their lineup incorporated numerous talented musicians over the years, the band officially disbanded in 2012 when the last founding member died.
A forerunner to The Dubliners was an Irish folk group called The Clancy Brothers. Along with singer Tommy Makem, they popularized Irish folk music and drew attention to other Irish folk groups in the 60s, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show in their trademark sweaters. The sales of Aran sweaters went up 700% after the appearance.
On January 24, 1458, Matthias Corvinus became King of Hungary at age 14. He began his rule under his uncle’s guardianship, but he took effective control of government within two weeks. As Matthias the Just, the monarch who wandered among his subjects in disguise, he remains a popular hero of Hungarian **folk **tales.
Gustav II Adolf (better known as Gustavus Adolphus), spent some time wandering Europe in disguise, using the name Captain Gars (Which stood for Gustavus Adolphus Rex Sueciae, Latin for Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden).
The Rex River is in King County, Washington.
The late Timothy Alan Smith was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Rex King and Timothy Well. He wrestled in several promotions, including the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Much of his career was spent wrestling as a tag team with Steve Doll throughout his career. While in WWF, they were known as Well Dunn.
Before India gained its independence, the British monarchs Edward VII, George V and George VI all held the title King-Emperor. Unlike her great-great-grandmother, however, Elizabeth II was never a Queen-Empress.
Timothy Cratchit, better known as Tiny Tim, in British novelist Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, was known by other names in the drafts of the novel. “Little Fred” and “Tiny Mick” can be seen written in the only surviving copy of the manuscript; various sources also say that “Little Larry”, “Small Sam” and “Puny Pete” were also considered.
Tiny Tim (Herbert B. Khaury) was born in Manhattan, New York City on April 12, 1932. His mother was Tillie (née Staff), a garment worker, who was the daughter of a rabbi. She had immigrated from Brest-Litovsk as a teen in 1914. Tiny’s father, Butros Khaury, a textile worker, was from Beirut, Lebanon and his father was a Maronite Christian priest.
Murchison Middle School teacher Wilbur “Rod” Grayson was shot to death with a .22-calibre rifle by 13-year-old student John Daniel Christian on May 18, 1979. Witnesses said Grayson, 29, a first-year English teacher, was sitting on a stool when Christian entered the classroom, raised his father’s rifle and shot Grayson three times. The student, son of** George** Christian, former White House press secretary under Lyndon Johnson, spent 17 months in a psychiatric hospital and recovered his mental faculties to the point that he finished law school at the University of Texas and is currently a lawyer in Austin.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democrat of Texas, has been played recently by actors Tom Wilkinson (Selma), Bryan Cranston (All the Way) and John Carroll Lynch (Jackie).
On October 7, 2003, the governor of California, **Democrat **Gray Davis, was recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The drive for the recall was fueled by funds from the personal fortune of US Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican who originally hoped to replace Davis himself. The recall was the first gubernatorial recall in Californian history and only the second in US history— Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, who was ousted in 1921, was the other.
Total Recall starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a sci-fi setting on Mars.