The sentient computer which runs the Moon colony’s systems in the Robert Heinlein novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress takes the name Adam Selene when it aids the revolutionaries who are trying to free themselves from Earth’s oppressive governance.
In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or “The Modern Prometheus” Victor Frankenstein’s creature is never named. However, in one reading of the book, Shelley referred to the creature as “Adam.”
The forbidden fruit which Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament is usually translated as an “apple,” but some scholars believe it was rather a tamarind, grape, fig, pomegranite or even wheat.
A Hebrew version of the name Eve is Chava, the diminutive of which is Chaveleh, which is a mournful song sung by Tevye in Act 2 of Fiddler on the Roof when his middle daughter marries Fyedka, a Gentile.
Forbidden Fruit is a beer brewed by the Hoegaarden Brewery in Flanders, Belguim. Okely dokely.
grr … stupid Flanders …
1990’s The Forbidden Dance was a quickie attempt to exploit the brief popularity of the crotch-grinding Lambada, a recent import from Brazil. It includes some yada-yada about saving the rain forest and tribal witchcraft, for socially redeeming value.
The Hebrew verb ya-da translates roughly as “to know” as in “to meet” and is almost always used in that context, though it has taken on sexual connotations from the times that it’s used in such sentences as “and Cain knew his wife and she conceived”. Because the men of Sodom demanded “to know” the two strangers who visited Lot many read the verse as the men wanting to have sex with or rape them, hence the term sodomite for homosexuality even though it is far from clear that the term did not mean the Sodomites were demanding to meet the odd looking strangers visiting their town and the fact in the Book of Ezekiel the sin of Sodom was specifically identified as hubris.
The title of the Stephen King novel 'Salem’s Lot refers to the fictional Maine small town of Jerusalem’s Lot, which is overrun by vampires despite the desperate efforts of a writer, a priest, a doctor and a little boy.
The comic book miniseries “30 Days of Night” by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, and the 2007 film, describes a vampires’ invasion of Barrow, Alaska in midwinter. With no sunrise to interfere with the activities of the bloodsuckers, they are able to feast upon the inhabitants, although slowed by the cold. Only a heroic sheriff who makes himself a vampire prevents a total takeover of the town, the northernmost in the US.
Alaska was the 49th state to join the Union, with a state flag designed in a 1927 competition by a schoolboy: Flag of Alaska - Wikipedia.
If you ever forget in which order Alaska and Hawaii became states, just remember that it was in alphabetical order - Alaska before Hawaii.
Though the 1927 Yankees are often considered the greatest baseball team of all time, they had fewer future hall of famers on that team than the Philadelphia Athletics had that year.
Seven Yankees made the hall from that team: Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Earl Combs, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, Tony Lazzeri, and manager Miller Huggins. However, Philadelphia had eight future hall of famers: Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove, Eddie Collins, Zach Wheat, Ty Cobb, and manager Connie Mack.
Despite that, the Athletics lost by 19 games, partially because Cobb, Collins, and Wheat were at the tail ends of their careers.
The National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Cooperstown, NY - one of the few places known NOT to be the birthplace of the game (it is well documented from dates prior to Abner Doubleday’s birth). The person with the best=documented claim to inventing the game in its modern form, Alexander Cartwright of NYC, is in the Hall but Doubleday is not.
A reason given for building the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH was that disk jockey Alan Freed was credited with popularizing the term “rock and roll” for music in Cleveland in 1951 (though there are many earlier claimants to having coined the term “rock and roll”).
Although the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, most inductions of new members are carried out in New York City. Inductions have been in Cleveland only twice, I believe, since the Rock Hall was established in the mid-Eighties.
And let’s not forget Hawaii 5-0. 
Cleveland boasts the the first electric automatic traffic light, the first public street lighting and the first successful coronary by-pass surgery.
The current mayor of Cleveland is Frank Jackson, formerly president of City Council. He is a Vietnam War veteran. His father was a black man and his mother was an Italian-American woman, quite unusual given social conditions at the time of his birth.
Another product of a union between a woman of Italian ancestry and a black American man was Franco Harris, the Pittsburgh Steelers running back whose fan club was known as “Franco’s Italian Army” (and had precious few members in Cleveland, whose Browns have long had a “no love lost” rivalry with the Steelers).
Andrew Jackson is the only US president to have been a prisoner of war. As lads, during the Revolutionary War, he and his brother got caught by the British army while scouting for the Americans. They were released after a few days or weeks, but I believe the brother eventually died from the ill treatment received at the hands of the godless British.
Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson still appears on the U.S. $20 bill, despite periodic demands that his portrait be removed from it (largely due to his harsh Indian policies, or his unapologetic role as a slaveowner). Jackson is generally regarded by historians as one of the strongest and most capable presidents to serve between Washington and Lincoln. At the time of his assassination, Lincoln had a newspaper clipping in his wallet which approvingly compared him to Jackson.
Slaveowners who appear on currently used U.S. currency include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Clark (who is on the Missouri quarter) and Benjamin Franklin; Franklin and Grant voluntarily freed the slaves they owned and Washington freed his posthumously through his will. At least two people who appear on U.S. currency lived in some form of polygamy*: King Kamehameha (Hawaii quarter) had numerous wives (some of whom had multiple husbands), and Sacagawea whose husband Toussaint Charbonneau had at least one other wife, Otter Woman, at the time of the expedition.
*Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Jackson were not polygamists but both were partners in bigamous unions; Franklin’s common law wife Deborah Reade (Rogers) and Jackson’s wife Rachel Donelson (Robards) had both been abandoned by their first husbands but neither was legally divorced at the time of their remarriage.