Billy Graham uses the title “Dr.” on the basis of his 20 honorary doctorates (he has turned down over 40 more), even though his highest earned degree is a BA. Maya Angelou uses the title as well without having completed even a baccalaureate.
The Watergate tapes revealed the Rev. Billy Graham seeming to agree with President Nixon’s anti-Semitic tirades in the Oval Office; Graham apologized when the tapes were released a few years ago.
The Rev. Sylvester Graham developed the graham cracker in Bound Brook, NJ in 1829. Graham flour was a mixture of coarsely ground whole wheat, wheat germ and finely ground white flour. Over the years the original recipe has been made sweeter, and adapted to include other flavors including cinnamon and chocolate.
Mel Blanc used the same voice for Daffy Duck and Sylvester, just adding a lisp to the latter.
Mel Gibson was born in the U.S. but grew up in Australia; he has always denied that his father took the family there to keep him from having to serve in the Vietnam War, but the rumor persists.
Bob Gibson, best known as a star pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals, also played basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters. To appreciate how inflated sports salaries have become in the last fifty or so years, consider that Gibson concentrated on pitching only after Cardinals general manager Bing Devine offered him $4,000 to quit “moonlighting” with the Trotters during baseball’s off-season.
The Queen created her son Duke of York. Sarah Ferguson herself did not receive a title. She simply became entitled to the style Duchess of York on her marriage to the Duke.
The wars of succession between the Houses of York and Lancaster came to be called “the Wars of the Roses” centuries later because the badge worn by the Yorkists were white roses and the badges of the Lancastrians were red roses, though The Sun in Splendor was a far more important and identifiable symbol for York than the white rose. Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, one of the few people to be of age for all of the major battles, was from the House of Warwick which used the Bear and Ragged Staff which was far more recognized than the roses when Warwick became turncoat.
York Peppermint Patty was introduced in 1940 by the York Cone Company, headquartered in York, Pennsylvania.
The walled city of York, England was founded by the Romans as Eboracum. When they departed, the local Angles called it Eoforwic. Under later Viking rule, the spelling was Scandinavianized as Jorvik. Only when native English rule returned in the 13th century did the name York come into use.
Like its Pennsylvania namesake, York is a candy-making center, as home to Nestle York and the manufacture of Yorkie and Kit Kat bars.
The musical Cabaret tells the story of the performers and denizens of the fictional Berlin nightclub, the Kit Kat Klub during the time of the Nazi rise to power.
Since Cunctator failed to mark his post as a correction, can someone please play off this domino I threw down a few posts back?
One of the Gibson girls (models for commercial artist Charles Dana Gibson) was Evelyn Nesbit, who was the teenaged mistress of middle aged superstar architect Stanford White who was later killed by her insane husband Harry Kendall Thaw (heir to a multimillion dollar fortune); Nesbit briefly became a Broadway star and is a character in the Broadway musical Ragtime.
Hopefully that tied 5466 & 5471 together.
Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester was a snooty Boston Brahmin but talented surgeon who became the comic foil for Hawkeye and B.J. in the later seasons of MASH*. He held the rank of major in the U.S. Army, and was played by David Ogden Stiers, who came out as gay last year.
The Back Bay of Boston, one of its ritziest neighborhoods, is actually built on landfill.
The Boston Lobsters (playing off the lob as well as the arthropod indigenous to New England waters) are a World Team Tennis franchise (I was going to say “were a franchise”, but it turns out the squad which originally existed from 1974 to '78 was relaunched in 2005).
Ben Affleck directed and stars in the critically-acclaimed crime thriller/drama The Town, about Irish-trash bank robbers in Boston; the film is probably now playing in a theater near you.
The nineteenth-century term “Boston marriage” referred to long-term cohabitation by two women for savings and convenience, and in some cases to permit them to pursue careers without subjugation to a husband, but without (necessarily) implying lesbianism. It came into popular use as a result of Henry James’ 1886 book The Bostonians.
No it’s not. 
Boston built the first subway system in the United States, in 1897.
(Sam, I’m pretty sure bootleg DVD’s are easier to get where you are than in the US. 
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The Montreal Metro system, which operates completely underground, uses rubber tires and concrete roadways rather than a traditional steel-wheel and rail system. It was originally built to support Expo '67, a World’s Fair held on Isle Notre-Dame and Isle Sainte-Helene in the St. Lawrence River.