James O. Mason was the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1989 to '90. He was also a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 to 2000.
Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) was the Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS for the last decade of his life. (He had the same name as his grandfather who was a close aide of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.)
The** National Lampoon High School Yearbook Parody** took place in Ezra Taft Benson High School in Dacron, Ohio.
The Fox musical comedy series “Glee” is set at William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio (pronounced LIE-ma), which has a remarkable number of palm trees and no apparent winter.
Rochester, NY has suburbs named Lima (pronounced LIE-ma) and Chili (pronounced CHIE-lie).
[Nitpick. The name of school was C. Estes Kefauver.]
The lima bean was originally cultivated in Central and South America. Although it is named after the capital city of Peru, the bean is pronounced “lie-mah” and the city is pronounced “lee-mah.”
In the Vietnam era, canned Lima Beans were one of the choices in MRE’s.
The last emperor of Vietnam was Bao Dai, who at various points in his life was a puppet emperor for the French and the Japanese. After his final exile he lived a comfortable life in a chateau near Cannes with his wives and concubines and is buried in the same Parisian cemetery as several exiled minor Romanovs.
Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the Romanovs, was rumored to have survived the murders of the Russian royal family, and to have been smuggled to (various cities in) western Europe where she lived to adulthood. Although various women claimed to be Anastasia over the years, DNA tests have both debunked their claims and suggested that the real Anastasia did indeed die with her family.
The most famous person to claim to be Anastasia was Anna Anderson (probably born Franziska Schanzkowska in Poland) who spent her final years in Albemarle County, Virginia, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. She and her green card husband were members of the Farmington Country Club along with Muhammad Ali, Sissy Spacek, and Robert Duvall (and where my cousin was a waitress who said Anderson smelled bad and was obnoxious:D).
Farmington Country Club was notorious in the late 1960s and early 1970s for its whites-only membership policy. The east wing of it’s clubhouse was designed by Thomas Jefferson.
You’re right. Their rivals were the Benson Bobcats and I misremembered.
Golf club names (now discontinued) included the Brassie, the Spoon, the Baffing Spoon (all woods), the Cleek, the Mid Mashie, the Mashie Iron, the Mashie, the Spade Mashie, the Mashie Niblick, the Pitching Niblick, and the Niblick (all irons).
The nonsensical battle cry of the spoof superhero The Tick was “Spoon!”
According to Terry Pratchett, Mel Gibson’s famous battle cry in Braveheart* wasn’t designed by a clear thinker.
(* “They can ta’k oor lives, but they can never ta’k oor friedum !”)
The Lincoln-Johnson ticket used the recently composed song “Battle Cry of Freedom” (with the pro-Union lyrics, of course, not the Confederacy’s), by George F. Root, as its theme song for the 1864 campaign.
Andrew Johnson developed a reputation for being a drunkard after the showed up at his inauguration noticeably inebriated. But Johnson rarely drank; on this occasion someone suggested he take some alcohol to help with a cold he was suffering and he didn’t know to stop.
Several Christian sects tracing their origins to Scharzenau, Germany are called “Dunkards”, from the German word tunken (to dip), describing the three-times full-immersion baptism technique they favor.
Germany, Norway, Australia, France, Chile, El Salvador and many other countries have Christian Democratic parties.
Fletcher Christian was the first mate who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789. He, several other mutineers, their Tahitian wives, and a few Tahitian men they effectively enslaved then colonized Pitcairn Island, where their descendants live today.
While playing Fletcher Christian Marlon Brando married a Tahitian actress, Tarita, with whom he had two children (Simon and the ill fated Cheyenne). At the time of his death Brando owned twelve small islands in Tahiti.