The last battle of the English Civil War was fought just outside of Annapolis. The Battle of the Severn was fought on March 25, 1655 when pro-Royalist forces from Virginia unsuccessfully tried to unseat the pro-Parliamentary government in Maryland.
The two institutions of higher learning in Annapolis are the US Naval Academy and the adjacent St. Johns College. Their teams face each other each year in a doubtlessly bitterly-fought match of croquet. St. Johns, which has another campus in Santa Fe, NM, follows the idiosyncratic Great Books curriculum originally developed by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler at the U. of Chicago.
Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche played inside-trading tycoon brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke in the movie Trading Places and again in Coming to America. Bellamy’s most famous roles included FDR in Sunrise at Campobello which he reprised for the miniseries Winds of War & War and Remembrance; Ameche’s other major roles included Alexander Graham Bell and later a leading role in Coccoon/
Campobello Island, where Roosevelt vacationed, is in New Brunswick, Canada. Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, lived in Canada for three years.
The Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick are a group of sandstone formations that have been carved by the tides of the Bay of Fundy into spectacular shapes. R. B. Bennet, prime minister of Canada in the 1930s, was born nearby and kicked off his challenge for the office with a press conference at the rocks.
Robert “Budd” Dwyer, State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, committed suicide by shooting himself during a televised press conference on Jan. 22, 1987 after being convicted on Federal charges of bribery.
John Philbin, external affairs director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), lost his job in 2007 after it was discovered he had staged a televised press conference in which no actual reporters were present and all questions were asked by FEMA staff members.
Another John Philbin is an American surfer who has appeared in television and film, including Children of the Corn, Grandview, U.S.A., North Shore, Point Break, Tombstone, Return of the Living Dead and Dillinger. Philbin also trained Kate Bosworth to surf for the film Blue Crush.
Regis Philbin is now considered to have the record for most hours on television in his career, beating out Hugh Downs. He first came to prominence as Joey Bishop’s talk-show sidekick, and is currently employed full-time hosting another with former soap queen Kelly Ripa, who replaced Kathie Lee Gifford, who I’d rather not discuss.
And did you know he went to Notre Dame? 
Regis Philbin is a friend of Lou Holtz, longtime and revered football coach of Notre Dame. Holtz is a native of East Liverpool, Ohio, and brought Philbin along with him to headline the opening of a local hall of fame there a few years ago.
Holtz coached the New York Jets for one season, going 3-10 and quitting before the season ended to return to coaching college ball.
The Winnipeg Jets were among the most successful franchises in the World Hockey Association, and made a big splash in that league’s early days by signing NHL star Bobby Hull away from the Chicago Blackhawks. The Jets were absorbed into the NHL when the WHA folded in 1979, but suffered financially during the 1990s. The franchise was eventualy moved to Phoenix (becoming the Coyotes) in 1996.
Bobby and Brett Hull are the only father and son in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Brett played for the St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars (formerly the Minnesota North Stars) before joining the Detroit Red Wings for their dynasty of the early 2000’s.
The St. Louis Blues took their name from a song by William Christopher (W.C.) Handy. In a 1940 recording of the song, Earl “Fatha” Hines can be heard saying “Aw, play it till 1954” – a reference to the year in which the copyright was then set to expire.
If the eldest son of the Prince of Wales uses his first name as his regnal name when and if he takes the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he would be King William V.
British monarchs from 1876 to 1948, including Victoria, Edward VII, George V, and George VI also used the title “Empress (or Emperor) of India”, a term that had not been used since the end of the Moghul Dynasty. Those monarchs were properly titled “Queen-Empress” or “King-Emperor”. Queen Elizabeth II was also “Queen of Pakistan” as late as 1956.
The Treaty of Troyes in 1420 arranged for the marriage of Henry V (who had just dealt several major military blows to the French) to Catherine of Valois (daughter of King Charles VI of France) and the succession of Henry V to the throne of France upon his father-in-law’s death. The succession never happened due to Joan of Arc and other factors, but the English monarchs counted King of France as one of their titles for more than two hundred years (on and off) even though none actually ruled there. The claims to the title ended permanently upon the coronation of King Charles II, a first cousin of Louis XIV who had been his patron while he was in exile under Cromwell, in 1661.
According to Wiki, British kings didn’t drop their claims to the French throne until 1801, under George III. The British royal coat of arms displayed the fleur-de-lys of France until then, too: George III - Wikipedia
In late 19th century France, there were three groups of pretenders to the French throne: Ligitimists, who traced back to the Bourbons; Orleanists, a branch of the Bourbons who had held power with Louis Philippe; and the Bonapartists.
In the 19th century novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck and the runaway slave Jim meet a pair of con men, one of whom claims to be the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and the rightful heir to the throne of France.