Harmon “Buck” Bokai was (or will be) a star player on the London Kings baseball team, mentioned in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
In 1956, Larry Harmon purchased the rights to the Bozo the Clown character and proceeded to market his new property aggressively. Within a decade, he not only had Bozo shows running in most major U.S. markets, but had exported the clown to such lands as Thailand, Greece, and Brazil.
Before he married then-Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip of Greece gave up all rights and claims to the throne of Greece. He was later named a prince of the United Kingdom and Duke of Edinburgh. More recently, he gave a blood sample to help with the DNA identification of the remains of the murdered Russian royal family, to whom he is related.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker created the Canadian fart-comedy duo of Terence and Philip in response to complaints by critics that the first season of their “South Park” was mostly bad animation and fart jokes. Their chosen retort was to create a show-within-a-show with worse animation and *only *fart jokes. In the film “South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut”, American mothers’ outrage at Terence and Philip’s act leads to war with Canada, and their murder by Sheila Broflovski opens the portal to Hell and unleashes Satan and his boyfriend Saddam Hussein.
Although Trey Waltke had a relatively undistinguished career in professional tennis, he did beat John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in the same year.
President Jimmy Carter appointed Andrew Young, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Young later served as Mayor of Atlanta.
Most of the evidence against Atlanta’s child killer Wayne Williams was scientific–hairs and fibers that matched were found on the victims and in his car. The defense presented him as a soft, mild mannered man who was physically incapable of commiting murder.
On redirect, after the prosecuting attortny had questioned Williams for several hours and worn him down, he moved in and touched him while asking “What was it like when you killed those kids, Wayne? Did you panic?”
Williams said a very soft “no” and then went ballistic in the courtroom, screaming about “FBI goons” trying to make him fit “the profile.” His attorney was on his feet objecting, and the jury members were sitting there dropped jawed as they witnessed a man who very definitely looked capable of murder.
It was the turning point in the trial, and Williams was convicted.
In a long career of public service, William Webster served as a Federal judge and as director of both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.
The TV series Lucas Tanner, which starred David Hartman as a teacher in the title role, was set in the Missouri town of Webster Groves.
Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH was founded in 1965 as the New England Aeronautical Institute, changing its name in 1978 to that of one of history’s most famous New Hampshirites when it expanded into a full-service college. Following its purchase by ITT Educational Services in 2009, for whom it became the company’s first accredited for-profit college, it shut down the School of Aviation Sciences that had been its origin. A recent episode of “Saturday Night Live” showed a Republican candidates’ debate purportedly held in DWC’s main auditorium.
John Greenleaf Whitter, known as the Quaker Poet, wrote a heroic poem, “The Song of the Vermonters,” about Vermont’s desire to be a separate state and not part of New York or New Hampshire. It was published anonymously and was supposedly discovered in an older document. Those of the time attributed it to Ethan Allen, and Allen received the credit until Whitter fessed up fifty years later.
There is no evidence that Ethan Allen ever built a stick of furniture. The company that bears his name was founded in 1932 by two brothers-in-law, Nathan S. Ancell and Theodore Baumritter.
Almonzo Wilder was an accomplished carpenter, and many of his creations are on display at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was the mother of Rose Wilder Lane, whose degree of influence on her mother’s novels is the subject of some debate in literary circles. Among the undisputed facts about Rose are that she wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier (a newspaper primarily by and for black people) and that she is considered one of the founding mothers of the American libertarian movement.
Lois Joanne Lane is a reporter for the *Daily Planet *newspaper in Metropolis. Although she is generally considered to be a better reporter than Clark Kent, she was never able to conclusively prove that Kent was actually Superman.
In “The Way to Eden”, the “space hippie” episode of the original Star Trek series, the original script called for one of the hippies seeking the Eden planet was to be Dr. McCoy’s estranged daughter Joanna, but the character was changed to Chekhov’s former girlfriend Irina. To date McCoy’s daughter has appeared in comic books and novels but not in canonical Star Trek pieces.
According to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Dr. Leonard H. McCoy’s father was named David. According to ST: DS9, Dr. McCoy attended the University of Mississippi, affectionately known as “Ole Miss.” He visited the Enterprise-D not long after Capt. Picard took command.
James Meredith,a Political Science major, integrated Ole Miss.
James Meredith raised major eyebrows in 1990 when he joined the staff of Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), one of the most conservative senators and one who had not only vigorously opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but still defended his position on it decades later.
The Jesse Helms School of Government is located at Liberty University, which was founded by Dr. Jerry Falwell.