Sorry, correct title is “The Silly Song.”
The comedy team of Allen and Rossi were a regular on TV in the early 60s, especially on The Ed Sullivan Show, where they appeared on three of the four shows featuring the Beatles.
The Italian vintner Martini & Rossi owns both the Italian Martini and French Noilly Prat brand vermouths. However it had nothing to do with the creation of the martini cocktail.
Dean Martin, who was born Dino Crocetti, chose “Dino Martini” as his first stage name. It later morphed into the monicker we know him by today.
Dean Martin, born in Steubenville, Ohio (which still fondly claims him), died on Christmas Day 1995.
Dean Martin once pissed off the good people of his hometown by telling Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show that even after his divorce from his first wife Jeanne, he’d “still have enough money to go back and take care of all the hookers in Steubenville.”
Kit Carson is believed to be the highest ranking general in the US Army who could not read or write.
The role of Ginger in the pilot for “Gilligan’s Island” was played by an actress named Kit Smythe. She was a sharp-tongued secretary on vacation, not a touring movie star.
The standard ingredients in ordinary Thai curry sauce are chilli peppers, salt (or shrimp paste), onions, garlic, lemon grass, coriander root, kaffir lime rind, and galangal. Lemon grass is a medicinal grass; coriander root is sharper than coriander leaves; kaffir lime is sourer than ordinary lime; and galangal (blue ginger) is related to ordinary ginger but is sharper in taste.
The spices in curry (and in other hot dishes as well) inhibit the growth of bacteria, allowing such foods to be stored for relatively long periods with minimal refrigeration (but you still get the runs anyway).
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that approximately 10 million international travelers each year will develop "traveler’s diarrhea, the Mexican and Central American varieties of which are nicknamed “Montezuma’s Revenge”.
The “Halls of Montezuma” in the Marine Corps Hymn refers to Chapultepec Castle, the capture of which was a key victory during the Mexican War.
During a state visit to Mexico, President Harry Truman took part in a ceremony at Chapultepec Castle, honoring those who died defending it. The gesture was thought to improve U.S.-Mexican relations at the time.
Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, owns Herstmonceux Castle in England, which it uses for overseas learning programs for Queen’s students.
Cha Gheil!
Konopiste Castle, near the 900-year-old town of Benesov u Prahy, in the Czech Republic, has a huge collection of mediaeval armor.
The 900-year-old preserved heart of St. Laurence O’Toole was taken from the iron cage where it is normally kept in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, sometime between Friday evening March 3 and Saturday noon Marh 4, 2012.
Peter O’Toole, holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (8). O’Toole has birth certificates showing that he was born in both Connemara, Ireland and Leeds, England - he does not which is accurate.
The original LP version of the Who’s Live at Leeds came with a bunch of memorabilia for the group, including posters, letters, bills, and a copy of their contract to perform at Woodstock.
While The Who were performing at Woodstock, Abbie Hoffman jumped on stage and grabbed a microphone. Hoffman tried to protest the imprisonment of John Sinclair (leader of the White Panther Party and manager of the left-wing hard-rock band MC5. Pete Townshend threw Hoffman off the stage and continued to play.
Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman were roomies in New York City in the Fifties when both were struggling young actors.