Marty Feldman once bought a pair of Queen Victoria’s large size knickers, a nickname for underwear.
The New York Knicks (Knickerbockers) won the NBA championship in 1970 and in 1973.
The Knicks and NHL Rangers play their home games at Madison Square Garden, the 4th building to bear that name, only the first 2 of which were located at Madison Square. The current building replaced the grand Beaux-Arts above-ground portions of Pennsylvania Station.
The Rangers have won four Stanley Cup Championships, in 1928, 1933, 1940 and 1994.
The Los Angeles Rangers were the first LA police force, founded in 1853. They were a voluntary force that assisted the existing county police force. Shortly thereafter, the Rangers were replaced with the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group of citizens. Neither force was considered to be effective in their task, and the City of Los Angeles became known for gambling, violence and vice.
Former Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty once recorded a solo album under the name of a non-existent band that he called the Blue Ridge Rangers.
Seven Guards regiments form the Household Division of the British Army. Prince William wore his uniform as a colonel of the Irish Guard for his April 29, 2011 wedding to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. None of the units are called Rangers.
Producer Hal Prince holds the record for most Tony awards won in a lifetime.
Wonder Woman was originally Diana, daughter of the Amazon queen Hippolyta. When she left Paradise Island to escort a crashed pilot named Captain Steve Trevor back to the outside world, she adopted the name Diana Prince. She stayed in the world of men as a US Army nurse in WW2, to help fight for justice and liberty.
Wonder Woman, Superman, Superboy, Batman, Green Arrow, and Aquaman were the only comic book superheroes published continuously from the Golden Age of comics in the 1940s to the Silver Age in the 1950s & 60s. Green Arrow and Aquaman did not have books of their own, but were backup features to Superboy.
Superman saves Air Force One when it is struck by lightning and suffers an engine failure in the first Superman movie, starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.
Sarah Clark Kidder became the first female president of a railroad when she took over the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad upon the death of her husband (the founder of the line) in 1901.
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart is the Operating Vice President of Taggart Transcontinental, a giant railroad company originally pioneered by her grandfather. She falls in love with Hank Rearden, inventor of Rearden Metal.
Luke Skywalker’s friend Biggs Darklighter is scheduled to ship out on the starship Rand Ecliptic in a deleted scene from Star Wars IV: A New Hope.
Actor Jason Biggs made his literary debut in 2010 n 2010, by contributing “Scratch-and-Sniff,” a poem about growing up in New Jersey, to the anthology What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey, alongside writers such as Joyce Carole Oates, Tom Perrotta, Robert Pinsky, Gerald Stern, and J. Robert Lennon.
Actor/comic/skateboarder Jason Lee named his firstborn son Pilot Inspektor Lee after hearing the Grandaddy song “He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot”.
Actor DeForest Kelly was named after family friend Lee DeForest, often credited as the inventor of radio.
Inept actor Calvert DeForest followed David Letterman from NBC to CBS, but after the move, he was no longer allowed to use the character name Larry “Bud” Melman.
The only song by The Lettermen to reach #1 was “When I Fall In Love”, but they reached the Top 10 with “Theme from ‘A Summer Place’” and “Put Your Head On My Shoulder”.
Head and Shoulders shampoo was introduced in 1961.