There have been 6 Queens régnant of England/Britain/UK, but only 5 consort-husbands: Phillip of Spain (Mary I); William III (Mary II); George of Denmark (Anne); Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha (Victoria) and Philip Mountbatten (Elizabeth II).
The exception was of course Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is related to Her Majesty the Queen other than through marriage. They are third cousins through Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark.
Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha and Queen Victoria were first cousins, born within three months of each other and both their births attended by Charlotte von Siebold, who was a qualified doctor as well as a skilled midwife.
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, the brother of Queen Victoria’s mother (also named Victoria), had previously been the husband of Princess Charlotte, the heir to George IV, who died in childbirth. Leopold was eventually chosen as the first King of the Belgians.
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is the younger child and only daughter of William and Katherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. She was born on May 2, 2015. The next year, American fashion designer Marc Jacobs debuted the lipstick “Charlotte,” which was named after her.
Joseph Jacobs was a 19th century scholar and collector of folklore. His work popularized the best known versions of English fairy tales including “Jack and the Beanstalk”, “Goldilocks and the three bears”, “The Three Little Pigs”, “Jack the Giant Killer” and “The History of Tom Thumb”. He also published fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian folktales.
President John F. Kennedy was called “Jack” by his parents, family and many friends, “Johnny” by his brother Bobby in particularly serious moments, and “Bunny” by his wife Jacqueline.
Jane Jacobs’ book, Dark Age Ahead, appeared in 2004. The book suggests that North American" civilization likely is in a spiral decline ala Edward Gibbon’s Roman Empire.
ETA: She didn’t know Jack.
Every year in May, volunteers across North America lead “Jane’s Walks” around their city, commenting on different aspects of urban architecture and city planning. The walks are named for Jane Jacobs, whose insightful critiques of North American urban planning resonate to this day.
Pierre (or Peter) L’Enfant, was a Frenchman who left school in France to enlist in the American Revolutionary War. A military engineer, he became one of America’s first urban planners, and is remembered for his plan of Washington, DC. However, he disagreed with the city Commissioners, was dismissed by George Washington and died in poverty in 1825.
In 1909, the French Ambassador to the United States moved for a recognition of L’Enfant. His remains were exhumed from their burial site in Maryland and placed in a metal-lined casket. After lying in state at the Capitol rotunda, L’Enfant was re-interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. His re-burial site overlooks the Potomac River and the portion of Washington, D.C., that he had originally designed.
L’Enfant Plaza is a commercial development in Washington, DC. It was created as part of city development in the 1950s.
On 9/11, after the attacks had already begun, the last aircraft hijacked by al-Qaida terrorists was United Airlines Flight 93. But to this day, the ultimate target of the terrorists on this aircraft has never been confirmed. The 9/11 Commission concluded the target was probably the Capital Building or the White House in Washington DC.
The “Miss Macao”, a Catalina seaplane owned by Cathay Pacific and operated by a subsidiary, was the victim of the first hijacking of a commercial aircraft, over the Pearl River Delta on 16 July 1948. Piracy for robbery and ransom was the motive; a gang of 4 pirates intended to kidnap the wealthy passengers. The crew resisted and the pilot was shot; the lone survivor was a hijacker who jumped out the emergency exit just before the plane hit the water.
Lyricist and librettist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schonberg, after the success of their musicals Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, flopped with Martin Guerre and again with The Pirate Queen (2006), wjocj was based on the life and adventures of the 16th century Irish chieftain and pirate Gráinne O’Malley, who was one of the last Irish clan leaders to resist the English conquest of Gaelic Ireland.
Alain Boublil was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Tunisia and moved to Paris at age 18 to pursue a university degree in Economics. The history of the Jews in Tunisia goes back to Roman times. The Jewish population was estimated at about 100,000 individuals in 1948, but as of 2011, only 700 Jews were living in Tunis and 1,000 on the island of Djerba. Another notable Tunisian Jew is Max Azria, designer and founder of clothing brand BCBGMAXAZRIA.
Tataouine is a city in southern Tunisia and is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate. The below-ground “cave dwellings” of the native Berber population, designed for coolness and protection, render the city and the area around it a tourist and film makers’ attraction. When Star Wars was filmed there, George Lucas barely even changed the name.
As of May 2017, the You-Tube channel “Lucas” (created by Lucas Cruikshank in 2005) has over 2,555,000 subscribers.
The two songs whose videos have reached two billion views on YouTube are Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again”.
The late U.S. Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen, Republican of Illinois, is said to have quipped, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money!”
Senator Dirksen won a Grammy Award for Best Documentary Recording in 1968. Collaborating with Charles Osgood and composer John Cacavas, he produced a single, “Gallant Men” (1966), released by Capitol Records, speaking his own poem. On January 7, 1967, Dirksen at 71 years 3 days old became the oldest person to reach the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40 when the single reached #33; two weeks later it reached #29. That distinction passed to Moms Mabley with her recording of “Abraham, Martin and John” peaking at #35 on 19 July 1969 when she was 75 years 4 months old. Gordon Sinclair, at the even older age than Dirksen of 73 years 8 months 6 days, eclipsed Dirksen’s peak when Sinclair’s version of “The Americans” peaked at #24 on 9 February 1974.