Jean Christophe, born 1986, and his father are commonly considered by (extremely patient) French monarchists to be the heirs to the Throne of Napoleon.
In 1902, the Cleveland Bluebirds of the American League acquired second baseman Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie from the Philadelphia Athletics. Lajoie was so skilled and popular that the team soon changed its nickname to Naps, and kept the sobriquet until Lajoie was sold back to the A’s in 1915, the twilight of his career.
Although Jan Peerce was an opera singer by trade, his best-selling recording by far was his performance of “Bluebird of Happiness”, written in 1934 by his friend Sandor Harmati, with words by Edward Heyman and additional lyrics by Harry Parr-Davies. It is second only to Enrico Caruso’s recording of George M. Cohan’s “Over There” for sales of a popular song performed by an opera or classical singer.
Despite the fact membership was required, George M. Cohan never joined the Actors Equity, having been vehemently opposed to it during its formation (Cohan was also a producer). Cohen had to apply for a waiver every time he appeared in Broadway.
Cohan or Cohen?
George Washington rose to the rank of colonel in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, but was stymied in his pursuit of a commission in the British Army. He later rose to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army and, by Act of Congress signed by President Gerald R. Ford, was named the senior-most U.S. military officer in perpetuity.
Washington was appointed General of the Armies of the United States by Ford. The only other military officer to hold that title is John J. Pershing, supreme American commander in World War I. The naval equivalent, Admiral of the Navy, was awarded to George Dewey, a veteran of both the Civil and Spanish-American Wars.
When Dewey fought the Battle of Manila, the Spanish defenders knew that the didn’t stand a chance against the US, so they formed their battle line of ships not to give them the best advantage but so that when the ships were sunk the sailors could more easily swim to shore.
George M. was most definitely a Cohan.
The Dewey Decimal Classification, aka the Dewey Decimal System, has undergone 23 major revisions since Melvil Dewey developed it in 1876, most recently this year.
I know. RealityChuck spelled it both ways.
The death of George Armstrong Custer and his men of the 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn a few weeks earlier cast a shadow over the U.S. Centennial celebrations on July 4, 1876.
Ah yes, so he did.
In play: Custer graduated last in his class of 34 cadets at West Point in June 1861.
(BTW: My grandfather – yes, grandfather – was born two months before Custer’s Last Stand. He was in his 50s when he had my father.)
In an episode of Branded, George Custer met Jason McCord, the Coward of Bitter Creek, and gave him as a souvenir a pocket watch that played “Garryowen”.
Darris McCord was a starting Defensive End for the Detroit Lions in their last (1957) NFL Championship.
No coward, McCord played in 168/170 of his team’s regular season games during a 13-year career.
The story goes that Noel Coward, who was gay, was casting an appraising eye over the handsome British soldiers at a Buckingham Palace function and the Queen Mother, a good friend who noticed what he was doing, murmured, “They count them before they put them away, Noel.”
Rufus Wainwright, who is openly gay, covered Noel Coward’s autobiographical song “If Love Were All.”
Loudon Wainwright III wrote a song about his infant son entitled “Rufus is a Tit Man.”
King George III kept Lord North on as prime minister during the American Revolution despite the parliamentarian’s repeated requests to resign. After the American and French victory at Yorktown in Oct. 1781 and the collapse of public support for the King’s war policy, His Majesty finally let him quit.
The main campus of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center is in Yorktown Heights, New York.
The first words ever transmitted by telephone were Alexander Graham Bell’s “Mr. Watson, come here. I need you.”
Taco Bell was named after its founder Glen Bell.
The legendary founder of Rome and the last Roman emperor were both named Romulus.