Ben & Jerry’s ice cream empire started in a converted gas station near Burlington, Vt. They sold their interests to an international conglomerate a few years ago.
Wallace Stevens wrote a poem about death entitled “The Emperor of Ice Cream.”
George Wallace’s main speechwriter during his first gubernatorial campaign and office was Asa Earl Carter, a KKK member and white supremacist who later wrote The Outlaw Josey Wales and the (fraudulent) memoir The Education of Little Tree (by which time he had changed his name and denied having been in the Klan).
Howard Carter, who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamen, worked for an Earl of Carnaervon married to the illegitimate daughter of Alfred Charles de Rothschild.
Howard Stern and Bill O’Reilly are both 6’5", and both studied broadcasting at Boston University.
Dick Clark studied broadcasting at Syracuse University.
Gen. George Rogers Clark captured the British outposts of Vincennes and Kaskaskia during the American Revolution before he turned 30; his younger brother William rose to fame with Meriwether Lewis.
Clark’s nutcracker is named after explorer William Clark. It’s usual habitat is pine forests abouve 3,000 feet. It is also known as Clark’s Crow and Woodpecker Crow.
George Rogers was the Heisman Trophy winner as the most outstanding player in NCAA football in 1980.
The county high school in Winchester, Ky., is George Rogers Clark High School.
The Boston Brahmin Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester replaced Dr. Frank Burns on the long-running Korean War sitcom MASH*. *He was played by David Ogden Stiers.
MST3K’s Crow T. Robot has been voiced by Trace Beaulieu, Bill Corbett, and Paul Chaplin.
In one of the most demeaning job changes in TV history, Trace Beaulieu went from MST3K to being head “writer” of America’s Funniest Home Videos.
blondebear skipped the three preceding posts. I think the next poster should play off my post about Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester.
Suggestion: Everyone preview their posts before submitting, checking the very last one before the final Submit Reply.
David Emerson was the optical supervisor for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.
ETA: while we’re at it, y’all skipped my post #867 back on page 18. Work that in, dangit! 
King David’s Spaceship is a science-fiction novel set in the same sf universe as Niven and Pournelle’s classic first-contact tale The Mote in God’s Eye.
Check the transistion between posts 967, 968, and 969. Who skipped who?
Johannes Kepler’s 1630 narrative Somnium was considered by Carl Sagan and Issac Asimov to be the first true example of science fiction.
Carl Yastrzemski, the last baseball player to win the Triple Crown, grew up on a potato farm on Long Island.