R.B. Bennett was the only former Canadian Prime Monster to be elevated to the peerage, as Viscount Bennett of Mickleham and Calgary.
In the Star Trek universe, the Prime Directive, guiding the United Federation of Planets, prohibits the Starfleet crew from interfering with the internal development of alien civilizations. Presumably it also forbids interference with Prime Monsters, whatever those may be.
Historically, decorative drawings of heraldic dolphins and sea monsters were frequently used to illustrate maps, such as the Carta marina. This practice died away with the advent of modern cartography. Nevertheless, stories of sea monsters and eyewitness accounts which claim to have seen these beasts persist to this day.
Carta is Latin and Italian for “paper” and is Spanish and Portuguese for “Letter”. In English it takes the form “card” or “chart”.
Many more people speak Portuguese in Brazil than in Portugal itself.
In 1908, the Japanese ship Kasato Maru arrived in Santos Harbor with the first permanent Japanese immigrants to Brazil. More than 250,000 Japanese have since permanently immigrated to Brazil.
The Japanese Peruvian community began in 1899 when some 800 contract workers arrived in Callao Seaport in Lima. Today, there are about 160,000 people of Japanese descent living in Peru, The majority are descendants of pre-war immigrants.
During World War II, Japanese Peruvians were rounded up and shipped to American internment camps, where they were mingled with Japanese American internees.
A noted Peruvian of Japanese descent is Alberto Fujimori, president from 1990-2000. He is credited with defeating the Shining Path insurgency and improving Peru’s economy, but ultimately fled to Japan in disgrace. He was eventually extradited, returned to Peru, and tried and convicted of murder, bodily harm, kidnapping, ordering an illegal search and seizure, human rights violations, embezzlement and bribery. He is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.
The salvage ship Artiglio, the most modern of it’s era, was sent to the island of Belle Île in the northwest of France in 1930 to recover the Florence H, which sank in 1917 while carrying a large quantity of explosives.
During the demolition of the Florence H., it was erroneously assumed that the explosives, submerged for more than 13 years, were not reactive. On 8 December 1930, as a result of a demolition charge, the payload inside the ship also exploded. The Artiglio was destroyed by the explosion and sank in the Bay of Biscay. Twelve crew members died in the accident,[including divers Alberto Gianni, Aristide Franceschi, and Alberto Bargellini and the ship’s commander, Captain Bertolotto di Camogli.
In 1962, Florence Henderson became the first woman to guest host The Tonight Show in the period after Jack Paar left as the show’s host, and before Johnny Carson began his 30 years as the show’s longest serving host in October 1962. She also joined the ranks of what was then called The Today Girl on NBC’s long-running morning show, doing weather and light news, a position also once held by Barbara Walters.
“Henderson” and “McKendric” are cognate Scottish names. Both are variants on “son of Henry”. “Henderson” comes from lowland Scots, while “McKendric” comes from Gaelic.
The Scottish surname MacPherson means “son of a priest”.
In contemporary Episcopal usage, “priest” is used for both male and female clergy of the church. The Episcopal Church is the American offshoot of the Church of England, formed after the U.S. won its independence at the end of the Revolutionary War.
The Anglican Church of Canada (a sister church of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church) considered the issue of same-sex marriage at its General Synod last July.
A measure to allow some-sex marriage was initially declared defeated by one vote, but on a re-count, it was found that there had been a computer error and the measure instead passed by one vote.
Poutine is a Canadian dish, originating in the province of Québec, Canada, made with French fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy. The dish is thought to have originated in rural Québec in the late 1950s, and several provincial communities claim to be the birthplace of poutine.
Cameron MacIntosh’s production of Les Misérables has been translated into 22 different languages (English, Japanese, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, German, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Danish, French, Czech, Castillian, Mauritian Creole, Flemish, Finnish, Argentinian, Portuguese, Estonian, Mexican Spanish and Korean) and played in 44 countries: England, United States of America, Japan, Israel, Hungary, Australia, Iceland, Norway, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Holland, Denmark, New Zealand, France, The Czech Republic, Spain, Northern Ireland, Eire, Scotland, Wales, Bermuda, Malta, Philippines, Mauritius, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa, Belgium, Finland, Argentina, Brazil, Estonia, China, Mexico, Switzerland, Serbia, The Channel Islands, The Dominican Republic, The Canary Islands The Balearic Islands and Canada, including a French production in Québec.
Only Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera has done better.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has said that he disagrees with WC Fields’ maxim never to have anything to do with a show that involved animals or children.
In the program notes for School of Rock, Webber comments that plays involving kids and cats have been very good for him. 
Andrew Lloyd Webber has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music, seven Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
Donald J. Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is repeatedly vandalized.