Russell Hantz, one of the contestants on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains was recently arrested for shoving an 18 year old woman to the ground. He was famous for finding Hidden Immunity Idols in his first *Survivor *season w/o any clues.
Bill Russell was the name of a former Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop and manager as well as that of a Hall of Fame basketball center for the Boston Celtics, who was also the first black head coach in the NBA. He and KC Jones were teammates at the U of San Francisco and the US Olympic team as well as the Celtics.
There, all fixed. 
Larry Doby was both the second black player in MLB after Jackie Robinson broke the color line, but also the second black manager after Frank Robinson. Doby is in the Hall of Fame.
Frank Robinson won the Triple Crown in 1966, after being traded from the Reds to the Orioles for Milt Pappas (Who? Exactly). He was also the last player-manager in the majors, with Cleveland.
Robinson was a basketball teammate of the aforementioned Bill Russell at McClymonds HS in Oakland. Their baseball outfield consisted of Robinson, Vada Pinson, and Curt Flood, all of whom became standout major leaguers, all beginning with the Reds.
Cleveland, Ohio was established in 1796. Bob Hope, who was born in England, lived in the city for a time as a child. Other famous people from the city or nearby are Debra Winger, Drew Carrey, Paul Newman and LeBron James.
Drew Carey served six years in the Marines. He still wears the Birth Control Goggles (i.e. the ugly ass military issues eye glasses).
Hugh Carey, while governor of New York, once offered to drink a glass of PCBs to prove they were harmless after PCBs leaked into state office building in Binghamton. The building was sealed up in what was called at the time “the world’s biggest indoor environmental disaster.”
David Paterson is the incumbent Governor of New York. He has pledged not to run for reelection after a series of scandals, and has an extremely low approval rating at the moment. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, son of former Governor Mario Cuomo, is currently riding high in the polls and is thought likely to succeed Paterson.
William Paterson, a signer of the Constitution, was the first attorney general and second governor of New Jersey after independence, one of its first senators, and a Supreme Court justice. The city of Paterson, NJ, named for him, at the Great Falls of the Passaic River, became an industrial center as the result of an investment plan created by Alexander Hamilton and was laid out by Pierre L’Enfant.
Alexander Hamilton had an affair with a married woman while he was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and was then blackmailed for awhile by her husband. (It is still unclear as to whether or not the woman and her husband purposefully set him up from the beginning). Hamilton finally had enough of it and refused to pay any more hush money, at which which point they exposed him. He then wrote a political pamphlet explaining his side of the story, but even his closest allies believed he had done himself far more harm than good in doing so.
A con known as the badger game consists of a woman persuading a man (usually from out of town) and enticing him into a compromising position. The victim is usually then presented with some sort of evidence by an accomplice and is threatened with exposure unless blackmail money is paid. It can be documented back to the early 19th century, but probably was around earlier.
Those most people regard them as comical “weiner dogs,” the dachshund was bred by hunters to drive burrowing animals out of their tunnels. “Dachshund” comes from the German words for “badger hound.”
The Animals were one of the major British Invasion groups. Led by Eric Burdon, they’re best known today for their hit “The House of the Rising Sun,” but they also had successes with “We Got to Get Out of This Place,” “It’s My Life” (Not the same song as the Bon Jovi one), “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” and “Sky Pilot.”
After leaving The Animals, Eric Burdon collaborated for a time with the funk-rock band War, a collaboration which produced the hit single “Spill the Wine”, a song in which Burdon refers to himself as an “overfed long-haired leaping gnome”.
In Disney’s 1967 “The Gnome-Mobile”, Walter Brennan played a dual role as the kindly old rich grandfather and the grouch, 943-year-old gnome Knobby. Karen Dotrice and Michael Garber, who played the children in “Mary Poppins”, did so again (apparently they were under contract). The Rolls-Royce of the title was original to the film, however. The film was a precursor to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” in that a portion of the setting, a forest in this film, was reserved for the magic people in the end.
Of liberal jurists William Brennan and Earl Warren, Dwight Eisenhower often said, “I only made two miistakes as President, and they’re both still sitting on the Supreme Court.”
A Republican, Warren was extremely popular and effective as both attorney general and governor of California. He supported the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but as Chief Justice was blasted as a pro-criminal liberal by his critics. He had earlier been GOP nominee Thomas Dewey of New York’s running mate in the 1948 presidential campaign, but they were defeated by the Democrats, incumbent President Harry Truman of Missouri, and Alben Barkley of Kentucky.
In the 1938 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Alben Barkley defeated incumbent Happy Chandler, who would later serve as Commissioner of Baseball.
After Ford Frick replaced Chandler as Commissioner, the next man was retired USAF General William “Spike” Eckert, who got the job on Curtis LeMay’s recommendation. Not having seen a game himself in over 10 years, he was so obscure a compromise choice, and so ineffective in the job, that he was nicknamed “The Unknown Soldier”.
The U.S. Air Force became a separate branch of the U.S. military in 1947; prior to then, it was part of the Army.