James Earl Jones is the only actor to win two Emmys * in the same year*, as Best Actor for his role in Gabriel’s Fire and as Best Supporting Actor for his work in Heat Wave in 1991.
Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart are the only actresses with Oscar nominations for the same role in the same film - Rose in Titanic.
Both Idina Menzel (Elphaba) and Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda) were nominated for the Best Actress in a Musical 2004 Tony Award. Indina won, but the show, while considered the heavy favorite for the Best Musical Tony, lost to Avenue Q.
Idina Menzel was invited to perform “Let It Go” (from Frozen, but you knew that) at the 86th Academy Awards in March 2014, where the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. When John Travolta announced her before she sang the song, he introduced her as “Adele Dazeem”. In response to the misnaming, she reportedly printed up satirical playbills that promoted her name as Adele Dazeem, noting her past work in Nert (Rent), Wicked-ly (Wicked) and Farfignugen (a play on the word Fahrvergnügen, referring to Frozen).
John Travolta attended (but did not graduate from) Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey. The school is named after Dwight Morrow, a businessman, politician, and diplomat who lived in Englewood. Morrow was also the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (and father-in-law to Charles Lindbergh). On a personal note, I live one block from the school, and once attended a Career Day there, where Travolta showed up unannounced.
In 1980, Ken Morrow became the first hockey player to win an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup in the same year, with the USA and the New York Islanders.
Ken Dryden is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and a former Canadian politician, a Liberal Party Member of Parliament.
St. Louis Blues hockey player Noel Picard created one of the most iconic images in sports history after he tripped Boston Bruin Bobby Orr, when Orr scored THE GOAL that won the 1970 Stanley Cup for the Bruins in overtime.
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Denmark has a unicameral parliament called the Folketing (“the people’s thing”). The upper house, or Landsting (“land assembly”), was abolished in 1953. No Danish Prime Minister has held office since 1901 without assembling a coalition government.
ETA: That was true in 1970, too.
The next title in Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swenson cozy mysteries is The Raspberry Danish Murder. While most of the books in the series are named after baked goods, this is the first Danish one.
The Danish capital Copenhagen is not at all centrally located, but is rather near the easternmost edge of the country.
On October 30,1863, Prince Vilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein arrived in Athens to become George I, King of Greece. George ruled for 50 years. Originally a Danish prince, George was born in Copenhagen. He was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the Greek National Assembly. The Assembly had deposed unpopular former King Otto.
Before marrying the future Queen Elizabeth II, requiring him to renounce all non-British titles, Prince Philip was a prince of both Greece and Denmark.
Although the title has been proposed for him from time to time, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has never been named Prince Consort. To date, only Prince Albert, beloved husband of Queen Victoria, has held that title in Great Britain.
Prince Albert of Monaco has represented his country in the Winter Olympics in the bobsleigh, leading to the inevitable “Prince Albert in a can” jokes. King Constantine of Greece also competed for his country, in sailing.
On January 23, 1719, Liechtenstein was founded by Emperor Charles VI. It is the only principality still existing from an origin in the Holy Roman Empire— Monaco having its origin in the Republic of Genoa.
Liechtensteiner Polka is one of the most familiar polka tunes, invariably played at every polka concert. Kaiserlich Bömischen - Lichtensteiner Polka - YouTube
Prince Hans-Adam of Lichtenstein’s grandson, Prince Joseph Wenzel, is the first member of the Jacobite family line, descended from the Stuart royal line, to be born in England since 1688. Upon his accession to the throne of Lichtenstein, he will be the first claimant to the throne of England to sit on another country’s throne since Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia.
The coat of arms of the United Kingdom include the arms of England (three lions), Scotland (one lion) and Northern Ireland (a harp), but not Wales (traditionally a dragon), which is for most legal and heraldic purposes considered part of England.
Dragon breeds mentioned in the Harry Potter series include the Norwegian Ridgeback, the Chinese Fireball, the Hungarian Horntail and the Common Welsh Green.