Anne Arundel, the namesake of Anne Arundel County, was born in 1605, the daughter of a powerful Catholic nobleman, Thomas, Lord Arundel (often spelled Arundell) of Wardour. She was 13 when she made a politically advantageous marriage to Cecil Calvert, the second Lord of Baltimore. Calvert – who never set foot in Maryland – sought to make the Baltimore colony a prosperous and safe refuge for persecuted Catholics. Anne gave birth to nine children, four of whom lived to adulthood. She died in 1639 at the age of 34.
Erza T. Benson, an early member of the Latter Day Saints practiced plural marriage. On April 27, 1844, Benson married his first plural wife, Adeline Brooks Andrus, the sister of his first wife Pamelia. After moving to Utah, Benson married Adeline Brooks Andrus, Desdemona Fullmer (a widow of Joseph Smith), Eliza Ann Perry, Lucinda West, Elizabeth Gollaher, Olive Mary Knight, and Mary Larsen. Benson had eight wives and 35 children. He also owned a few Paiute slaves.
The two Mormons who’ve sought the Presidency — Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman — are 3rd half-cousins once removed, or such, due to their common ancestor, the prolific Parley Parker Pratt, Apostle of the LDS.
With 12 wives, the Apostle Pratt took polygamy to a new level! He should have stopped at eleven: it was the estranged husband of wife #12 who murdered Pratt.
Back in the 70’s, Justice Estey of the Supreme Court of Canada was appointed to a commission to investigate irregularities at Air Canada, then a federal Crown corporation. His report was critical of the CEO of Air Canada, Yves Pratte.
Shortly after Estey got back to the Court from his commission of inquiry, Pratte was appointed to the Court.
Awk-ward! 
Air Canada Flight 189 was a flight from Ottawa to Vancouver via Toronto and Winnipeg. On June 26, 1978 it crashed on takeoff in Toronto killing two passengers. Although it is customary for airlines to retire a flight number after a major incident, Air Canada continues to use Flight 189 for its Ottawa-Vancouver route.
On July 27, 1921, University of Toronto researchers led by Frederick Banting proved that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar. Banting and John James Rickard Macleod shared the 1923 Nobel Prize (Medicine) for the discovery.
Insulin comes in three main types: short–acting (such as regular insulin), intermediate–acting (such as NPH insulin), and longer-acting (such as insulin glargine).
Starting with base-13 fractions, the mathematician John Horton Conway constructed a counterexample to the converse of the intermediate value theorem, i.e. a function which is continuous nowhere, but satisfies the intermediate value property in every interval.
Marquis Mills Converse opened the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in February 1908 in Malden, Massachusetts. The company was a rubber shoe manufacturer, providing winterized rubber soled footwear for men, women, and children. The company began manufacturing athletic shoes for tennis in 1915, and the Converse All-Star basketball shoe was introduced in 1917.
Dandelion milk contains latex, which exhibits the same quality as the natural rubber from rubber trees. Yet in the wild types of dandelion, latex content is low and varies greatly. In Nazi Germany, research projects tried to use dandelions as a base for rubber production, but failed.
Dress apparel is sometimes made from latex. It is almost impossible to put tight-fitting latex clothing on without a lubricant like talcum powder or baby oil.
Mess Dress is the military term for the formal evening dress worn by military officers in the mess or at other formal occasions. It frequently consists of a mess jacket and trousers worn with a formal shirt and other formal accessories, though the exact form varies depending on the uniform regulations for each service.
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Holy Pentecosts, and Mormons follow very strict and formal dress codes. In all of these churches, men must wear dress shirts, ties and slacks and long hair or facial hair of any kind is forbidden or at the very least considered “worldy”, or heathen. Women must wear long skirts or dresses and cannot wear pants.
The Mormons’ “temple garments” or official underwear, first adopted in 1844 and long a subject of non-Mormon speculation and near-prurient interest, were not publicly revealed by the church until three years ago: Mormons Release a Guide to Temple Garments, Known as Mormon Underwear - The Atlantic
In The Seven Year Itch, the character played by Tom Ewell is disconcerted when the character played by Marilyn Monroe tells him she keeps her underwear in the icebox.
Marilyn Monroe’s debut as a public figure came when, as WW2 war plant worker Norma Jeane Dougherty, she appeared in a publicity photo for her employer, Radioplane. Founded by British expat actor, flyer, and model airplane enthusiast Reginald Denny, the firm made target drones for the US military.
Folk rock singer Sandy Denny has been called Britain’s finest female singer-songwriter. Her song “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” has been recorded by Judy Collins, Nina Simone, 10,000 Maniacs and Cat Power. She died in 1978, aged 31.
The attack on Reginald Denny was an incident that occurred on April 29, 1992 during the Los Angeles riots following the police beating of Rodney King in which Denny, a construction truck driver, was beaten nearly to death by a group of assailants which came to be known as the “L.A. Four”. The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on US national television. Paramedics who attended to Denny said he came very close to death. His skull was fractured in ninety-one places and pushed into the brain. His left eye was so badly dislocated that it would have fallen into his sinus cavity had the surgeons not replaced the crushed bone with a piece of plastic. A permanent crater remains in his head despite efforts to correct it. Denny underwent years of rehabilitative therapy, and his speech and ability to walk were permanently damaged.
On July 26, 811, Bulgarian forces led by Khan Krum defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Pliska, killing most of the army and Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I. This was the final of a series of battles taking place in some of the passes in the eastern part of the Balkans. The Bulgarians used the tactics of ambush and surprise night attacks. After the final battle, Krum encased Nicephorus’s skull in silver, and used it as a cup for wine-drinking— using skulls as cups became a custom in some areas (“skull cups”).
Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang contestant in the Triwizard Tournament, was played by Bulgarian actor Stanislav Ianevski in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.