The murder, by Vatican staff aligned with the Mafia, of a reform-minded Pope very much like John Paul I is an important subplot of the 1990 crime film The Godfather Part III.
A white staff is the symbol of the authority of the Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom. When the monarch dies, the Lord Chamberlain breaks his staff of office over the gravesite.
In the 1961-1962 NBA regular season, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers played all but eight minutes. A regulation NBA game is 48 minutes, but because of 7 overtime games, Chamberlain averaged 48.53 minutes per game.
The Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Great Chamberlain (aka Lord High Chamberlain) are two different officials, the latter purely ceremonial. For many years the N’th Earl of Oxford was also the (N+2)th Lord Great Chamberlain.
Shakespeare’s plays were performed by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, that Lord being Henry Carey, Queen Elizabeth’s putative half-brother. Since the Lord Great Chamberlain was the probable author of those plays, I’ve wondered if the Chamberlain’s sponsorship, and hence the theatrical company’s name, was a sort of inside joke!
Cite for the bolded statement. I thought Shakespeare was the probable author of the Shakespeare plays.
In play: Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch on September 9, 2015 when she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. On February 6, 2017 she became the first British monarch to celebrate a Sapphire Jubilee, commemorating 65 years on the throne.
Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by a man named William Shakespeare, and there is no real evidence to the contrary.
Shakespeare spelled his name several different ways and it continued to be spelled a few different ways long after his death; the current spelling became fixed surprisingly recently, around the beginning of the 20th century. Variant spellings of names were actually a pretty common thing in his day; spelling names and words in the same, consistent way wasn’t really a thing people were super into until the 18th century, when dictionaries became popular.
The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Edward de Vere (probable author of the Shakespeare" works) was very complex, almost a love-hate relationship.
The case for the Oxford authorship is much MUCH stronger than most people realize. In a “debate” here, detractors revealed breath-taking ignorance on the topic. Many had obviously Googled “Help me debunk an Oxford authorship” or such, finding counter-arguments to arguments the “Oxfordians” don’t even make! RickJay’s comment is a good example: the multiple spellings of Shakespeare is almost a trivial point among a huge body of real evidence.
Here’s a challenge for anyone wishing to have a sincere discussion of the topic. Google to find pages supporting an Oxford authorship. (Don’t Google “Help me debunk” :smack: ). Read and study the Google hits — there will be hundreds — until you find something that gives you pause. Start an IMHO thread titled “I still believe Shakespeare was the author but here’s a piece of contrary evidence that is rather disturbing.” If you can’t find any such disturbing evidence, then you’re not trying.
Do that, and I will be delighted to join in discussion! (It’s a fascinating topic.) If you can’t do that much, well … I’m afraid my masochism has limits. 
ETA: Please note: The purpose is not to find an argument and refute it, but to play Devil’s Advocate.
Nancy Drew stories were authored by “Carolyn Keene,” a ghost name used by a plethora of actual writers. From 1930 to 2003, 175 Nancy Drew titles appeared, being published by many different companies. The reason the stories got started was because of the huge success of the Hardy Boy stories. If the Shakespeare model takes hold again, the publishers will arrange for a real person named Carolyn Keene (or something close like Carolin Kean) to get credit for the writing—such arrangement being so effective that in 300 years, only wacko conspiracy theorists will suggest that person was not the writer.
In his book Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain argues that William Shakespeare could not have written the great works attributed to him because he did not have enough formal education to do so.
Samuel Clemons left school in fifth grade.
I often wonder why Shakespearean critics and experts have paid so little attention to Merlin’s Prophecy as set out in King Lear; see
Act III Scene II, the King’s Fool speaking:
I’ll speak a prophecy ere I go:
When priests are more in word than matter;
When brewers mar their malt with water;
When nobles are their tailors’ tutors;
No heretics burn’d, but wenches’ suitors;
When every case in law is right;
No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;
When slanders do not live in tongues;
Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;
When usurers tell their gold i’ the field;
And bawds and whores do churches build;
Then shall the realm of Albion
Come to great confusion:
Then comes the time, who lives to see’t,
That going shall be used with feet.
This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time.
Again, the challenge is not to find the weakest “anti-Stratford” claims, those which are easily debunked. The challenge is to look at the real evidence that intrigues serious scholars.
Please re-read the above paragraph until you see clearly the point it makes.
The case for Oxford and against the man from Stratford is too involved to summarize in just 7 pages, but some have tried. This is one such effort.
Here are three websites which discuss the controversy in much detail:
Note that these are websites, not webpages. You’ll need some clicking to find the best arguments.
If you get bored of clicking without finding anything of interest, that’s fine. As I said, it’s a fascinating topic to discuss, but I will avoid masochism! 
Shakespeare wrote a large number of plays set in Italy, the country which (excepting England) Oxford was most familiar with. Anti-Oxfordians contend that, had Oxford written these plays they would show much more familiarity with these Italian cities. This is a claim particularly interesting to debunk.
Guys, this is a hijack. Get back to trivia.
RickJay
Moderator
Trivia forever!
The Eagle & Child, a pub in Oxford, was nicknamed “The Bird and Baby” by its regulars, who included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. An informal discussion group known as the Inklings, comprising Tolkien, Lewis and friends, used the venue for regular weekly meetings at which works in progress (including the Lord of the Rings saga and the Narnia books) were read and discussed.
The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of “The Vicious Circle”, as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929.
Charter members of the Round Table included:
Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist
Robert Benchley, humorist and actor
Heywood Broun, columnist and sportswriter (married to Ruth Hale)
Marc Connelly, playwright
Ruth Hale, freelance writer who worked for women’s rights
George S. Kaufman, playwright and director
Dorothy Parker, critic, poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter
Brock Pemberton, Broadway producer[4]
Harold Ross, The New Yorker editor
Robert E. Sherwood, author and playwright
John Peter Toohey, Broadway publicist
Alexander Woollcott, critic and journalist
The London-based punk rock band The Sex Pistols were considered to be critical to the formation of the punk rock genre, and were seen as an inspiration to many later musicians, despite the fact that they only recorded one album and four singles.
The Sex Pistols initially consisted of vocalist Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Glen Matlock. Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious (Simon Ritchie) partway through the band’s short original existence.
During the recording of the only studio album produced by the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious was hospitalized for hepatitis. As a result, his bass playing is featured on only one track of the album, which was released in 1977. A year later, his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, died of a stab wound. Vicious was charged with her murder but died of a heroin overdose while on bail in February 1979, before the case went to trial.
Nancy Spungen’s sister Susan is a cookbook author, culinary consultant and food stylist for both print and film. She brought food to life in such major feature films as Julie & Julia, It’s Complicated and Eat, Pray, Love. She was the founding food editor at Martha Stewart Living, where she was responsible for conceiving of, developing and styling recipes for the magazine.
During World War II, Julia Child served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), after discovering that she was too tall to enlist in the WAC or with the WAVES.
While in the OSS, Child developed a shark repellent, for use in keeping sharks away from underwater explosives; the formula is apparently still in use today.
The dwarf lanternshark is the smallest shark known to exist in the world; it is no more than eight inches long. It lives at extreme depths in the Caribbean, at a thousand feet down or more.
There have been six commissioned warships named USS *Shark *to serve in the United States Navy, and one uncommissioned vessel of the same name. Four of them were submarines, the most recent of which was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine decommissioned in 1990 and scrapped six years later.