Jane Fonda is the mother of Troy Garrity, the ‘ghetto white boy’ from the BARBERSHOP movies though in real life he grew up in a Santa Monica beachfront mansion and in Beverly Hills.
The Beverly Hillbillies aired from 1962 until 1971, much to the embarrassment of anyone from a rural state.
Hey! You said Beverly Hills!
Re-added it- looked it up and Fonda had homes in Santa Monica and in Beverly Hills. We’re copacetic now.
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West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States.
Bob Denver (of Gilligan’s Island fame) spent the last two decades of his life living on a small mountain where he raised goldfish near Princeton, West Virginia.
West Virginia is the home of the New River Gorge Bridge, which is closed one day a year for a BASE jumping festival.
Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center is the stand-in for the exterior shots of Princeton Plainsboro Hospital, home of the fictional Dr. Gregory House.
The Statue of Liberty could fit under the arch of the New River Gorge Bridge.
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Brooke Shields graduated from Princeton University (in New Jersey).
Emma Lazarus wrote the poem “Give us your poor,” etc., on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty.
Damn. Y’all are fast.
That poem is properly titled The New Colossus, and contrasts “Liberty Enlightening the World” with the Colossus of Rhodes.
The smallest state has the longest name: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Rhode Island was chartered by Roger Williams when he was expelled from the Puritan community in Boston.
Roger Williams won a Grammy for “Autumn Leaves”.
Many Slavic languages use the word Listopad, which means “falling leaves”, to refer to the month of November.
The Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions are the two NFL teams that play every Thanksgiving, which is in November in the US.
Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, January 1938
No one has been Time Magazine’s Man of the Year more times than Joseph Stalin.
There was a “Time’s Man of the Year” mirror in The Big Lewbowski.