Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright was reportedly offered the ceremonial position of President of the Czech Republic, the nation of her birth (then Czechoslovakia).
Gale Storm portrayed Marge Albright’s adventures in the radio and early TV series, My Little Margie.
Gail Force, born Heidi Lynn Beeson in 1966, is an American porn actress. Her debut was in B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Body), in 1984, and billed herself as Cristy Brian.
John Force and his daughter Ashley are both famous for competing in the Funny Car division of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Drag Racing Series.
In Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy Arnold’s drag names include Virginia Hamm, Fonda Boys, Claire Voyant, and Bang Bang LaDesh.
The song Bang Bang (my baby shot me down) was written by Sonny Bono. It was recorded by Nancy Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and the Beau Brummels, among others. However, the most successful version was by Bono’s then-wife Cher. Her version reached number 3 in the UK and number 2 in the US. It would prove to be Cher’s most successful release as a single artist until she recorded the Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) more than two decades later.
Ellsworth “Sonny” Wisecarver gained notoriety as the “Woo-Woo Kid” in the 1940s after he had affairs with married women, starting when he was 14. The second affair had the woman being sent to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor; Wisecarver ended up in juvenile institutions.
Ellsworth Vines was considered one of the top, if not the best of the, male tennis players of the 1930’s.
Edmund Lovell Ellsworth, a businessman and important figure in the history of the Mormon move to Utah, was married to Brigham Young’s oldest child, Elizabeth, the mother of 8 of his 42 children. His three junior wives were all named Mary Ann.
In The New Bob Newhart Show, the character Larry had two brothers named Daryl.
Bob Dole, Republican of Kansas, was President Gerald Ford’s running mate in 1976, and ran for the Presidency himself in 1980, 1988 and 1996. He lost the GOP nomination to Ronald Reagan in 1980, and to George H.W. Bush in 1988 (after snarling at Bush in a joint TV interview after the New Hampshire primary to “Stop lying about my record!”). He won the Republican nomination in 1996, only to lose that November to President Bill Clinton, who was seeking reelection.
Bob Dole fought in the Italian campaign of World War II. He was shot in battle and lost the use of his right arm. While undergoing rehab, he met Daniel Inoye, who had lost his right arm during the Italian campaign, and also Phillip Hart, who had been injured during the D-Day invasion. All three later were elected to the Senate.
In 1922, James Dole bought the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai to use for his company’s pineapple plantations.
The Conservative backbenchers of the British House of Commons meet in what is still called the 1922 Committee, after a great Tory electoral win that year. The 1922 Committee chooses, by secret ballot, the leader of the Conservative (or “Tory”) Party in the Commons, who, if the party is in power at the time, virtually automatically becomes Prime Minister.
Arthur Wellesley, better known as the Duke of Wellington, was the Tory Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1828 to '30, and then again for a month in 1834.
Wellesley first gained success in the Peninsular War in Spain as he fought Napoleon’s forces. He was greatly helped by the fact that General George Scoville had broken the “unbreakable” French codes and was able to read intercepted messages.
One of the first famous “screw and tell” memoirs was by Harriette Wilson, a British courtesan whose lovers included Wellesley/Wellington, the Prince Regent (later King George IV), and numerous British nobles. In a famous exchange she offered to remove Wellington from her memoirs (she gave him decidedly less than glowing reviews as a lover) in return for payment and he replied “Publish, and be damned”, refusing to be blackmailed.
“Push and Be Damned Rapids” is the evocative name for rapids on the Southwest Miramichi River, one of the many tributaries of the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada, near the village of Juniper.
The name refers to the difficulty of “poling”, or pushing a canoe upstream with a pole, on these particular rapids.
New/Nouveau Brunswick, not Quebec, is the only officially bilingual province in Canada.
George IV, King of England, and his queen, Caroline of Brunswick had one of the unhappiest of any royal marriages and rarely saw each other- she preferred her dwarves and dogs and he preferred his mistress (who, unlike Caroline, bathed). When Napoleon died a courier relayed the news to G4 as “Majesty, your greatest enemy has expired” to which he replied “Everybody, the queen is dead!” (He knew she was ill and she in fact did die a few weeks later.)