Jack Hamilton is the only pitcher to allow a major league home run to Tommy Aaron without also allowing one to Hank Aaron. In 6 at bats against Hamilton, Tommy had a single and a homer, while Hank managed 4 singles in 19 at bats.
On August 18, 1967, Jack Hamilton threw a pitch that hit Tony Conigliaro on the left cheekbone. The cheekbone was fractured, as was Conigliaro’s eye socket. Conigliaro missed the rest of the season and all of 1968, and was never the same player he had been even after showing early promise in a comeback attempt. Meanwhile, Hamilton’s fear of causing a similar – or worse-- injury made him hesitant to throw inside, and he retired in 1969 after his earned-run average and other pitching stats suffered due to his cautiousness.
Alexander Hamilton served as George Washington’s aide-de-camp during the American Revolution, and later as his (and the first) U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Alexander III, King of Scots, died of a broken neck when his horse went down a steep embankment at night.
George Washington brought several horses from Mt. Vernon for service during the Revolutionary War; two that he mentioned specifically in letters home as being particularly pleased with were named Nelson and Blueskin.
Vernon Dent appeared as a co-star with the Three Stooges more than anyone else, usually playing an authority figure who was the victim of the Stooges’ ineptitude. Though he suffered diabetic blindness in the early 50s, he continued to appear in Stooges shorts through the use of recycled footage and a few head shots and still appeared in recycled footage even after he had formally retired.
The Batman villian Two-Face first appeared in Detective Comics #66 with the name Harvey Kent; later stories changed his name to “Harvey Dent” to avoid confusion with Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent.
Jim Dent was born in Augusta, Georgia, and caddied at Augusta National during his youth. Even after joining the PGA Tour in 1966, however, he never played in the Masters in his home town. Indeed, nobody of his race did until 1975, when Lee Elder became the first African-American competitor in the tournament.
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II, was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia. Her full German name was Auguste Victoria (also spelled Viktoria) Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
Holstein cows produce a nice bit of butter for one’s bread.
In the Mediterranean climate, unclarified butter spoils quickly— unlike cheese, it is not a practical method of preserving the nutrients of milk. The ancient Greeks and Romans seemed to have considered butter a food fit more for the northern barbarians. A play by the Greek comic poet Anaxandrides refers to Thracians as boutyrophagoi (butter-eaters). In Natural History, Pliny the Elder calls butter “the most delicate of food among barbarous nations” and goes on to describe its medicinal properties. Later, the physician Galen also described butter as a medicinal agent only.
The Gilligan’s Island episode “The Friendly Physician” is the only episode in which the castaways leave the island.
Prestley and Curtis Blake started an ice cream shop in Springfield, MA, in 1935. Taking the name “Friendly Ice Cream,” they were a success, so much so that after WWII they started expanding throughout New England.
Castle Rock, Maine is part of Stephen King’s fictional towns of Castle Rock, Jerusalem’s Lot and Derry are all typical small New England towns, nice and sunny on the outside, but underneath there are many dark secrets.
Castle Rock Productions produced and distributed original episodes of Seinfeld.
Sgt. Rock and Easy Company was a 60s comic book series featuring stories set in World War II.
The hero of Robert H. Heinlein’s sf/fantasy adventure novel Glory Road has the nickname “Easy,” a play upon his first and middle names, Evelyn Cyril.
“Easy” was the phonetic word for the letter E in the radio code used by the US military in WW2 and Korea, following Able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog. The British code used “E for Edward”. In 1956, all NATO nations standardized on Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo etc., although the prewar British “R for Roger” has survived as the code for “I have Received and understood your transmission”.
“Roger” is crude British slang for the sex act, as in: “I rogered her up the arse last night.”
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