Conan O’Brien wrote the “Music Man”-based episode of “The Simpsons” in which Springfield gets a monorail.
The Music Man was one of the few Broadway musicals where one person, Meredith Willson, wrote the book, music, and lyrics. Frank Loesser did the same from The Most Happy Fella.
In the 1980 Broadway revival of The Music Man, the role of the young, lisping Winthrop Paroo was played by Christian Slater.
Winthrop Rockefeller was governor of Arkansas from 1967 to '71, while brother Nelson was New York State’s chief executive (1959-73) and nephew Jay governed West Virginia from 1977-85.
Bill Clinton served a single term as attorney general of Arkansas and ran unsuccessfully for Congress before being elected governor of the state. He resigned upon being elected President in 1992.
The theme song for The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox was written by P-Funk leader George Clinton.
King George III told painter Benjamin West that, if George Washington resigned from the Continental Army and returned to his Mount Vernon plantation without seizing power at the end of the American Revolution, “He will be the greatest man in the world!”
Actor Clarence Williams III was named after his grandfather, Clarence Williams, who was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.
Clarence Thomas headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission before becoming a Federal appellate judge, and was named to the U.S. Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush.
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion was a film about a veterinary hospital in East Africa. It served as the “pilot” for the TV series Daktari, in which Marshall Thompson reprised his role as the hospital director.
Ivan Tors, the producer of Daktari had his first big TV hit with Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges. He also produced the long-running Flipper, which combined his favorite motifs – animals and underwater filming.
The de Broglie-Bohm interetation of Qunatum Mecahnics is also known
as the Pilot Wave theory, named for the fundamental physical component
postulated by the theory.
As I understand it Pilot Waves are bridges connecting everything in the
universe with everything else in the universe instantaneously.
Amelia Earhart was a high-profile passenger on several early aircraft trips before she earned her license as a pilot. She endorsed quite a bit of merchandise as a celebrity, thanks to deals worked out by her husband/agent, but also insisted on not endorsing anything that she didn’t personally use and like.
Despite the fact that Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly around the world, a line of luggage bearing her name was sold into the 1990s.
Danny Noonan replaced Al Czervik on the back nine at Bushwood Country Club in his big grudge match against Judge Smales, winning the $40,000 pot with the assistance of a gopher and some explosives.
Gopher was an Internet protocol designed for searching for files and for users e-mail addresses. It was named for the University of Minnesota Gophers, since it was developed there, as well as on a pun on the words “go for.”
The USS Monitor defended the grounded wooden frigate USS Minnesota against the Confederate warship CSS Virginia’s attack on March 9, 1862 at Hampton Roads, Va. It was the world’s first battle between ironclads.
On March 9, 1841, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on the* Amistad *case. SCOTUS ruled that the transportation of slaves was illegal and therefore the transportees were innocent of any crime.
Congress shrank the size of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1865-69 to prevent President Andrew Johnson from making any appointments to it. It was increased in size again during the first term of Ulysses S. Grant, and has remained at nine ever since.
In 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to “pack” the Supreme Court in order to obtain reversals of rulings that various New Deal programs were unconstitutional. The plan was defeated by a combination of factors, among them the death of Senate Majority Leader and FDR ally Joseph Robinson.