Jesus Alou was one of three brothers to play Major League baseball, along with Felipe and Matty Alou.
King James I of England was also King James VI of Scotland. His inheritance of the thrones of England and Ireland in 1603 effectively unified the three kingdoms, after which he styled himself as the King of Great Britain. He was succeeded by his son, Charles I, although the current House of Windsor descends from his daughter, Elizabeth of Bohemia.
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia from 921 until his death in 935, is the main patron saint of the Czechs. He is the subject of the Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslas”, for which the spelling of his name was slightly changed.
Freddie Mercury wrote “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Queen’s 1975 album “A Night at the Opera”. It regained popularity due to Mike Myers’ and Dana Carvey’s singalong scene in the film Wayne’s World
Mike Myers voices the titular ogre in the Shrek movies.
The first *Shrek *movie repopularized the song “I’m a Believer”, originally written by Neil Diamond but first recorded by the Monkees. The recording in the film was a cover by Smash Mouth and Eddie Murphy.
When the Cullinan Diamond – at the time, the largest ever found – was shipped from South Africa to England, a special steamer was used, filled with London detectives to protect the stone. This was purely a diversion; the stone aboard was a fake.
The actual diamond was shipped by registered parcel post.
United Parcel Service - UPS - was founded in 1907 by Jim Casey and Claude Ryan as the American Messenger Company in Seattle.
When Nolan Ryan joined the Mets in 1966, he was the second-youngest player in the National League. Just before he retired as a Texas Ranger in 1993, he was the last active Major League Baseball player who had made his debut in the 1960’s.
Rickey Henderson was Nolan Ryan’s 5,000th Strikeout victim.
Nolan Ryan’s career was divided between the New York Mets, the California Angels, the Houston Astros, and the Texas Rangers–MLB’s four original expansion franchises.
The Houston Astros were originally named the Houston Colt .45’s, before Lyndon Johnson got NASA to put Mission Control in his home state (it was originally planned to go into the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, next to MIT in JFK’s home state). The Colt .45’s original ballpark, prior to the Astrodome, was Colt Stadium, which was later disassembled and moved to Gomez Palacio, Mexico.
The Jetson’s dog Astro was found by son Elroy in the fourth episode, “The Coming of Astro”.
King Henry the Fourth of England has much fewer lines in both plays
named after him than do Prince Hal and Sir John Falstaff. Hostess Quickley
also has more lines than HM in Part II.
Both Giuseppe Verdi and Antonio Salieri wrote an opera called Falstaff. Salieri’s premiered in 1799, while Verdi’s first hit the stage in 1893.
John Adams was President of the United States in 1799; he would be defeated in his bid for reelection the next year by his own Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.
Following Anheuser-Busch’s 2008 sale to InBev, Boston Beer Company, brewer of the Sam Adams brands, is the largest American-owned brewery in the United States, although D. G. Yuengling & Son of Pennsylvania, which is also the oldest US brewery, contests the claim. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the Boston Tea Party, was also a brewer.
The Boston Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes; the new tax structure that the Tea Acts proposed actually lowered the price of legally imported tea. The objection was that the tax had been passed without the consent of the colonial legislatures (though it was merely an extension of the existing tax). In addition, many of those involved were tea smugglers, and the lower price threatened to eat into their profits, and tea merchants, who objected to the fact the law granted a monopoly to the East India Company.
The MLB Braves were originally located in Boston,
where they were known successively as the:
Red Stockings 1876-1884
Beaneaters 1883-1906
Doves 1907-1910
Rustlers 1911
…finally settling on the Braves in 1912.
There is no mention in the records of a team having
the word “tea” in its name, although “Braves” may
be inferred from the historical event.
You think so, huh? 
The New England Tea Men, Boston’s second entry in the North American Soccer League, shot across the American sports sky and then fizzled like a firework, played their last season, 1980, in Boston University’s Nickerson Field - which incorporates the remaining sections of Braves Field, the former Boston Braves ballpark. The team name came from its owner, the Lipton Tea Company. The first Boston team in the NASL was the Boston Minutemen, who also played at Nickerson.