Hussey Brothers in Santa Clara, CA fixed my furnace a few years back.
(I have no connection with the company whatsoever, other than being a satisfied customer and remembering the name from the previous entry.)
The soccer careers of Jess and Jules (Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley) in Bend It Like Beckham culminate with their both receiving scholarships to Santa Clara University.
Santa Anna’s prosthetic cork leg was captured during the Mexican-American war. It is on display at the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield despite the Mexican government’s repeated request for its return.
Emilio Carranza, “The Lindbergh of Mexico”, crashed his Ryan NYP in a storm in the New Jersey Pine Barrens on his return flight from New York, where he had flown from Mexico City as a goodwill gesture. A monument at the crash site, featuring a falling eagle of Aztec design, is the location of an annual memorial service presided over by American Legion Mount Holly Post 11, accompanied by an entourage from the Mexican consulates in New York City and Philadelphia.
The three original members of the Legion of Super Heroes were Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad, appearing in Adventures Comics. Originally planned to be a single story, it was so popular that the group added members and became a long-running feature.
The Saturn Corporation sold cars from 1990 to 2009.
Sadly, the Saskatchewan Roughriders lost the 2009 Grey Cup due to an inability to count the number of men on the field. Time ran out with the Riders in the lead, but with the penalty the Als had one last play with 0:00 on the clock, kicked a field goal, and won the Cup.
The first bird sanctuary in North America was established in 1887 at Last Mountain Lake in Saskatchewan and now forms the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area.
Regina Beach on Last Mountain Lake was a major resort for Reginans during the teens and twenties. One of the tourist attractions was a piper who regularly played his pipes on the main pier at sunset.
Piper Aircraft was founded as the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company in September 1927 by Clarence Gilbert Taylor and Gordon A. Taylor in Rochester, New York. It was renamed after Bill Piper, who bought the company out of bankruptcy, after he decided he had to fire Clarence Taylor for attempting to fire Walter Jamouneau, who had done a major redesign of the Taylor Cub. Taylor went on to found Taylorcraft, which was almost as successful as Piper for a time.
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson of Jack Benny fame overstrained his vocal cords as a 12-year-old newsboy hawking papers in his home town, which explains his inimitable rasp.
Eddie Robinson is the winningest coach in American college football having compiled a record of 408-165-15 over the span of 57 years from 1941 - 1997 at Grambling State University.
Robinson holds the Division I record. John Gagliardi of Division III St. John’s (Minnesota) recently retired after compiling 489 victories in a career that began at Carroll College of Montana in 1949.
Montana is home to seven Indian reservations.
The five battleships of the USS Montana class were cancelled in July 1942 after the Battle of Midway, when it became obvious that aircraft carriers would form the core of the U.S. Navy thereafter.
Predecessor to the Montana class battleships, the Iowa class battleships included the USS Missouri (BB-63) on which the Japanese signed their unconditional surrender to end WWII.
Groundskeeper Willie from “The Simpsons” refers to the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Among those who auditioned to be members of The Monkees were Paul Williams (who later wrote “Someday Man” for the group) and Stephen Stills, who was almost cast but pulled out when he learned Columbia Pictures would demand the publishing rights to his songs. It was Stills who suggested his then-roommate, Peter Tork, audition for the group, and Tork was cast.
The Feast of St. Stephen is on Dec. 26, the day after Christmas, which is also celebrated as Boxing Day in the United Kingdom and some former British colonies.
The song “Good King Wenceslas” takes place “on the feast of Stephen”.