Mia Farrow was on the cover of the 1st issue of People magazine.
Science fiction author Zenna Henderson was known for her stories about “The People,” a group of gentle aliens who emigrated to Earth after their home planet was destroyed, and who tried to live unobtrusively despite their special abilities.
Lyle “Skitch” Henderson was the musical director for NBC Television and served for a time as the bandleader on both the Steve Allen and Johnny Carson versions of the Tonight show. He served four months in prison for tax evasion, but came back to found the New York Pops orchestra.
Back in the day. I used to go to Oakland A’s games during Rickey Henderson’s era. Henderson was named the AL’s Most Valuable Player in 1990, and he was the leadoff hitter for two World Series champions: the 1989 Oakland A’s and the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays. A 12-time stolen base champion, Henderson led the league in runs five times. His 25-year career elevated Henderson to the top ten in several other categories, including career at bats, games, and outfield putouts and total chances.
The Blue Jay is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a’ Phrionnsa).
The island was named for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son of King George III and the father of Queen Victoria.
Prince Edward Island is the setting for the famous story Anne of Green Gables. Despite being Canadian in origin, the books is more popular nowhere than it is in Japan, and it common for Japanese tourists to visit the locations where the book takes place.
Though he is a fairly well-known historical figure due to his nickname, Edward, the Black Prince, never ruled. He died several years before his father, Edward III. His son, Richard II, became the heir until deposed by Henry IV.
After it was established that “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” Will Smith’s mother was Viola “Vy” Smith, and her sisters were Vivian Smith Banks, Helen Smith, and Janice Smith, Will’s father showed up in one episode, played by Ben Vereen. His name was Lou Smith, meaning Will’s mother married someone with the same last name as hers.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name was… Roosevelt, owing to being FDR’s distant cousin.
Blackwell’s Island in the East River by Manhattan was purchased by the city in 1828 as a place to put a penitentiary. Later, it was used for hospitals and insane asylums, so much that in 1921, it was renamed “Welfare Island” and was used to warehouse the sick and mentally ill for decades. In 1973, after the hospitals were closed down and the island was developed to have apartments and condominiums, it was renamed “Roosevelt Island.” It has no vehicle access to Manhattan, and people travel to the city via an aerial tramway.
FDR’s train used a hidden from public view platform under Grand Central Station when he visited NYC as president so that nobody but his inner circle could see him being unloaded from his armored train car in his wheelchair. (Picture)
The third photo in that article pretty clearly shows Theodore, and not Franklin, Roosevelt on the back of that train.
Franklin Roosevelt’s armored train car was called the Ferdinand Magellan; Adolf Hitler’s was called Amerika (later renamed Brandenburg).
the Brandenburg Gate, built by Frederick the Great at one of the former medieval entrances to the city of Berlin, stands at the head of the Unter den Linden. a boulevard of linden trees which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was immediately behind the Berlin Wall 1961-1989, having formerly served as one of the checkpoints into East Berlin.
I visited East Berlin during the Cold War (entering through Checkpoint Charlie). The guards would not let anyone near Brandenburg Gate. Except for one young Yugoslav of my acquaintance, whom they allowed to go see it up close since he was from a communist country even if it was outside the Soviet bloc.
But back to the trivia: Interested primarily in music and philosophy and not the arts of war during his youth, Frederick, later “the Great,” unsuccessfully attempted to flee from his authoritarian father, Frederick William I, with childhood friend Hans Hermann von Katte, whose execution he was forced to watch after they had been captured. Military stuff later caught on with him in a big way.
Herman and Katnip, a ripoff of Tom and Jerry, was distributed by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s. Herman (the mouse) always defeated Katnip, often in rather violent ways. It was probably the influence on the National Lampoon’s “Kit and Kaboodle” comic strip, and on “Itchy and Scratchy” on The Simpsons; other cat and mouse cartoons were far less violent.
Marge got “Itchy and Scratchy” temporarily kicked of the air.
For the film Fargo (1996), Joel Coen had Frances McDormand and John Carroll Lynch conceive a back-story for their characters to get the feel of them. They decided that Norm and Marge met while working on the police force, and when they were married they had to choose which one had to quit. Since Marge was a better officer, Norm quit and took up painting.
Famed painter Norman Rockwell received psychiatric treatment from the renowned analyst Erik Erikson, who was said to have told the artist that he painted his happiness, but did not live it
Norman Rockwell often took extensive photographs of local townsfolk and friends before beginning to paint. A book of the photos, as well as the illustrations they inspired, was published by Little, Brown & Co. in 2009.
The Piranha Brothers were finally caught when Dinsdale Piranha, terrified of a giant hedgehog named “Spiny Norman,” tried to kill him by detonating a thermonuclear device at the Luton Airport. After this, even the police took notice of them.