The six counties of Northern Ireland are Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone.
Scots Irish, aka Ulster Scots, aka Scotch Irish is a reference (mostly American) to people who descend from Scots who settled in northern Ireland (the geographic region, not a reference to the political region of Northern Ireland) under King James I & VI; presidents with Scots Irish ancestry include Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon.
The “King James Bible” is so-called because it was commissioned by King James I in 1604. A number of translators worked from the original Greek and Hebrew to produce the King James Bible.
Hebrew National hot dogs are now made by the ConAgra foods conglomerate.
Damn.
A Chicago-style hot dog is topped with mustard, onion, sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices or wedges, pickled sport peppers, a dash of celery salt, and no ketchup.
The Hebrew Star of David is an identifying tattoo of the Black Gangster Disciples street gang.
ETA:…who are based out of Chicago. save!
ConAgra, originally known as Nebrakska Consolidated Mills, was founded in Grand Island before moving to Omaha.
ETA: Damn AGAIN!
ConAgra has a very large milling operation in Alton, IL on the banks of the Mississippi River. The recently-retired GM of the plant, Oren Cummins, began working with the company in his teens after his father died in WW2. Mr. Cummins never graduated high school and began his career there as a janitor.
The Yeakel Brewery of Alton, Il was driven out of buisness by prohibition, ultimately profiting Chicago gangster Al Capone.
Al Capone was eventually nailed by the Treasury Department for tax evasion, and did time on Alcatraz.
In 1974, the 60 year-old Jack LaLanne swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf, wearing handcuffs and towing a 1000-pound boat.
In Spanish, to handcuff somebody is sometimes humorously referred to as “putting the wife on them.”
The suspense and mystery movie Deathtrap (based on the Ira Levin play of the same name) starred Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve and had a plot that featured a pair of handcuffs that once belonged to Houdini.
Houdini’s original name was Erik Weisz, which was later altered to Ehrich Weiss before the magician took his stage name as a tribute to French conjurer Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.
Although Houdini regularly defined death in escapes from such devices as the Milk Can and the Chinese Water Torture Cell, his own death was caused by peritonitis, which was itself caused by a ruptured appendix. The ruptured appendix may have been caused by a punch to Houdini’s stomach, although Houdini had already been suffering from appendicitis prior to the punching.
Murderer Gary Gilmore, executed by firing squad in Utah and the subject of Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, claimed to be the illegitimate grandson of Houdini through his grandmother who had once worked the same Vaudeville circuit. (There is no evidence and to my knowledge no biographer of either man takes the claim seriously.)
Norman Mailer also wrote an homage to Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn Monroe appeared in the Marx Brothers’ final film, Love Happy
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