The three Olympic-class ocean liners of the White Star Line were the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic. The Olympic is the only one of the three that wasn’t sunk.
Violet Jessup, a nurse, served on both the Titanic and Britannic when they sunk. In addition, she served on the Olympic when it collided wit the HMS Hawke. She later went on to serve on other cruise ships, including the Belgenland, Westernland and Alcantara.
Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals and track and field immortality at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, was born in Alabama but raised in Ohio, and attended Ohio State University.
Steve Owens of the Oklahoma Sooners won the 1969 Heisman Trophy and left school as the all-time NCAA Division I rushing leader. He later became the first Detroit Lion to gain 1000 yards as a runner in a single season.
The Oklahoma Kid was a Warner Brothers western starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, looking very out of place in ten-gallon hats.
James Cagney’s first job as an entertainer was as a female dancer in a chorus line.
James Tiberius Kirk served for two and half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations before resuming command of the USS Enterprise during the V’Ger Incident, as shown in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Luther termed the Epistle of James the “Epistle of Straw” because he disliked its support for salvation through works.
A straw man arugment is based on deliberately substituting a superficially similar misrepresentation of an opponent, then attacking the false statement. In Great Britain it’s sometimes refered to as an “Aunt Sally,” named after a traditional game.
Last year, Elizabeth II was the first monarch of Great Britain to visit the Republic of Ireland since her grandfather George V, a century earlier.
Muhummad Ali has admitted that his outrageous comments both in and out of the boxing ring were influenced by wrestler Gorgeous George, who became one of the biggest draws in the sport by being flamboyant and outrageous.
Shia Islam seeks a Caliph descended from Fatima and Ali, daughter and son-in-law of Muhammed the Prophet. Fatimid and Shia power took a deep decline after the machinations of al-Malik al-Afdal ibn Badr al-Jamali Shahanshah (1066 – 1121), vizier of Egypt but son of an Armenian convert.
William III was both the nephew of James II, and the son-in-law of James II.
The oldest national anthem in the world is the Netherlands’ Wilhelmus van Nassouwe (translated in English as “William of Nassau”), which dates to 1574, although it was not officially adopted as the Dutch anthem until 1932.
Nassau Hall is the oldest building still in use on the Princeton University campus, and the school’s colors are those of King William III, black and orange.
Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed. It was played in predynastic and ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3100 BC.
The “big five” game animals are the lion, rhinoceros (either black or white, though black is preferred), African elephant, Cape buffalo, and leopard. They are considered the most difficult animals to track and kill (prior to restrictions on hunting them, of course). Four of the five are various degrees of endangered; only the Cape buffalo has no restrictions.
The saying “a leopard can’t change his spots” originated in the biblical book of Jeremiah.
Twins Jeremiah and Jedidiah Duggar were the 10th and 11th of the 19 children born so far to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and featured on the reality TV series originally titled 17 Kids and Counting before the number was updated to 18 following the 2008 birth of Jordyn-Grace, then 19 after Josie Brooklyn came along in 2009.
Jedediah Slason Carvell was the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1889 until his death in 1894.