Above and just to the left of Paul’s head?: http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lglp0597+abbey-road-album-cover-the-beatles-poster.jpg
Alan Parsons, later to go on to greater fame as leader of The Alan Parsons Project, was an 18-year-old assistant producer at Abbey Road Studios when the Beatles recorded Abbey Road, and was credited for his work on the album.
Brother Cadfael entered Shrewsbury Abbey after an eventful life as a crusader. However, he was a monk, not a parson.
Cadfael was played on TV by Derek Jacobi, who has played a Roman emperor (I, Claudius), a hammy sf actor (Frasier), a killer (Dead Again) and an archbishop (The King’s Speech).
Actor Scott Jacoby had a recurring role as Michael Zbornak, Dorthy’s musician son, on The Golden Girls. At the age of 23, he gets his 40 year old black girlfriend Lorraine pregnant and marries her, but she later leaves him.
James Doohan, who played Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, lost part of his finger in a friendly-fire incident while serving with Canadian forces on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Here is a highlighted view in which John is the visible Beatle.
For play: The role of D-Day in Animal House was played by Bruce McGill. The character’s full name was Daniel Simpson Day.
The first D-Day was not June 6, 1944. The earliest use of the term by the US Army that the United States Army Center of Military History has been able to find was during World War I. In Field Order Number 9, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, dated September 7, 1918: “The First Army will attack at H hour on D day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel Salient.”
In the Battle of Mont Sorrel, the Canadian Corps pushed the XIII (Royal Württemberg) Corps and the 117th Infantry Division out of a portion of the Ypres Salient.
The Belgian comic book series XIII was turned into a video game, a TV miniseries a regular TV series
Aristotle was not Belgian. And, if legend is correct, he was a bugger for the bottle.
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Hercule Poirot, the skilled if persnickety detective in many Agatha Christie stories including Murder on the Orient Express, from time to time had to explain to people that he was not French, but Belgian.
Murder on the Orient Express was originally titled Murder on the Calais Coach when the book was published in the USA. The objective was to avoid confusion with Graham Greene’s novel Orient Express, which had been titled Stamboul Train for the UK market.
Mozart’s opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, about the rescue of enslaved women from the Pasha’s harem in Constantinople’s Topkapi Palace, is currently on tour in the US in a co-production of Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Minnesota Opera and Opera Pacific. Director James Robinson’s major innovation was to relocate the story from the palace to the Orient Express in the 1920’s, with the rescuer hero Belmonte still resorting to a ladder made of knotted sheets to get his lover Costanze out of the Pasha’s private car (“But it’s in the libretto!”, I heard the cast ad-lib when wifey and I saw it 
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Sam Houston, President of the Texas Republic and then Governor of the State of Texas, was deposed by the legislature in 1861 when he refused to approve plans to secede at the outbreak of the Civil War. He correctly predicted the Confederacy’s defeat by the United States.
The Dan Rather Communication Building at Sam Houston State University is named for the CBS newsman who is arguably the school’s most famous alumnus.
W.C. Fields composed an epitaph for a magazine that ran, “on the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.” However, it was merely a joke and does not appear on his tombstone.
A tombstone inscribed with the words “I told you I was sick” belonging to one B. P. Roberts can be found in the cemetary in Old Town Key West, Florida.
The epitaph of a husband for his late wife, “Forty years with a tongue so sharp / O angels, give her a harp!” appears on a tombstone in Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool, Ohio.
The harp is the national emblem of the Republic of Ireland.
It has been said that Guinness uses the harp of Brian Boru as its trademark. However there are differences between the logo and the Brian Boru harp. That harp, dating from the 14th or 15th century and which is on view at Trinity College, Dublin, has been a symbol of Ireland since the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. Guinness adopted the harp as a logo in 1862, but it faces right instead of left so can be distinguished from the Irish coat of arms.
