The female security officer in ST: TNG was inspired by the butch Latina Space Marine in Aliens. Marina Sirtis was originally considered for the role mainly because of her similar dark coloring, but was cast as Counselor Troi instead after she and Denise Crosby read for the respective parts.
Russ Colombo was a very successful crooner whose reputation matched that of Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee at his peak. Unfortunately, Colombo died young when a friend accidentally shot him while playing with a gun. Colombo didn’t make a lot of recordings, either, being primarily a radio act. His status was shown by being billed in a Loony Toons cartoon.
Peter Falk, who played Colombo, also portrayed Grandpa in The Princess Bride.
In an appendix to The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that Aragorn and Arwen had one son, Eldarion, and at least two - but maybe more - daughters. No one knows for sure how many princesses of Gondor and Arnor there were, or their names.
Redheaded Ariel was the princess daughter of King Neptune in The Little Mermaid.
Egyptian Queen Cleopatra reportedly used henna to dye her hair red.
In ancient Egypt temples of The Goddess, priestesses would conduct sexual rituals for the cleansing of men and the fertility of the property.
Cats were considered sacred in ancient Egypt. There are cat mummies.
The poster for the 1932 film “The Mummy”, starring Boris Karloff, holds the record for the most money paid for a movie poster at auction: more than $453,500.
Rachel Weisz, now married to Daniel “007” Craig, played Brendan Fraser’s sweetheart in the 1999 remake of The Mummy.
A Maine papermaker, Augustus Stanwood, imported mummies to make rag paper from their bandages. These turned out to be too stained to produce anything but brown wrapping paper, which, undaunted, he sold to butchers and grocers. When a cholera epidemic was traced to his mill, the practice came to an end.
There is currently a glut of lobsters on the market in Maine and eastern Canada, causing a precipitous drop in prices, and lobster fishermen fearing the ability to make a living this season.
The proper way to cook a lobster is to boil them alive in salt water. Only then will they turn red; while alive, they’re greenish-brown and black.
Maine is the largest lobster producing state in the USA today.
On “Gilligan’s Island,” the castaways thought the island was sinking because Gilligan kept moving the measuring pole to anchor his lobster traps in deeper water every day.
Dawn Wells was born in Reno, NV. In college she first majored in chemistry, before finally getting a degree in theater arts.
Dawn Wells was Miss Nevada 1959, and represented her home state in the 1960 Miss America pageant. Her middle name is Elberta.
Nevada takes its name from a Spanish word meaning snow-clad.
English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Russian are the six official languages of the United Nations.
French and English are the official languages of the Olympic games.