Nitpick: the song was “Hernando’s Hideaway.”
England Dan of the pop group England Dan and John Ford Coley was the younger brother of Jim Seals of the pop group Seals and Crofts.
The British royal coat of arms twice shows the three lions of England, as well as the harp of Northern Ireland and the single lion of Scotland. The Principality of Wales, having been absorbed into the Kingdom of England long ago, is not represented.
In II Chronicles 5:12 of the Bible, the Levites, which were the singers, were arrayed in white linen, having cymbals, psalteries and harps.
In Mark Twain’s unfinished novel Captain Stormfield Goes to Heaven (also known by other titles) Stormfield wants his harp as soon as he enters heaven, which identifies him as an annoying newbie to the heavenly employees. Upon getting his harp he plays with it a few minutes and then the thrill is totally gone.
Heaven was a disco in Pittsburgh, Penna. in the 1970s and '80s.
Marine Bar Disco was a disco in Pattaya, Thailand from the 70’s through the present. It has been compared to heaven and hell.
The original insignia of the U.S. Marine Corps was a hunting horn, not an eagle, globe and anchor.
Then: http://4mermarine.com/USMC/dictionary/graphics/CW%20Emblem.gif
Now: http://ptwithnate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Eagle-Globe-and-Anchor-USMC.png
A Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps is nominally the same rank as a Sergeant First Class (Army), a Chief Petty Officer (Navy), or a Master Sergeant (Air Force).
In The Music Man, Professor Harold Hill claims to be a graduate of the Gary, IN, Conservatory of Music, Gold-Medal Class of '05.
Gary Hart’s original name was Gary Warren Hartpence.
When Earl Warren ran for reelection as California Governor in 1946, he was nominated by three different political parties including the Democrats and Republicans (a feat unlikely to be duplicated in our post-rational era).
Can someone post a link to the rulebook?
If we’re not playing Queensberry rules, I retract my claim of Mornington Crescent in eleven.
Earl Warren was named Chief Justice of the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Ike also appointed William J. Brennan to the Supreme Court. Both turned out to be much more liberal than the man who appointed them. When later asked if he’d made any big mistakes as President, Eisenhower supposedly grumped, “Yes, and two of them are on the Supreme Court.”
The Supremes first met and performed as middle school students living in the Brewster-Douglass projects in Detroit. They went by the name Primettes, since they were close friends with the Primes, who later became the Temptations, after Berry Gordy signed both groups for Motown at Smokey Robinson’s urging.
The final song released by the Supremes with Diana Ross, Someday We’ll Be Together, was originally supposed to be a Diana Ross-only song, and had neither Mary Wilson nor Cindy Birdsong singing on it.
There’s a 95-year-old British poet named Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx. She’s the widow of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Winston Churchill, thrown out of office as Prime Minister by British voters in 1945 despite his triumph in World War II, was consoled by his wife, who said, “Perhaps it’s a blessing in disguise, dear.” Churchill grumbled, “It seems to me quite effectively disguised!”
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, was the capital of the US for a day, September 27, 1777, when Congress fled Philadelphia following George Washington’s defeat by the British at the Battle of Brandywine. They stopped here overnight before continuing to York, PA.
The Lancaster bomber, designed by Roy Chadwick, was one of the most important aircraft in World War II. It could carry the largest bombs made, though special modifications (removing most of its armor and guns) were needed to carry the 11-ton Grand Slam bomb. These bombs were used to destroy the railway bridge at Nienburg.
Sir James Chadwick was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron.
Kid TV cartoon star and junior scientist Jimmy Neutron’s robot dog is named Goddard, after Robert Goddard, the American rocketry pioneer.