Dashiell Hammett never revealed the real name of the Continental Op in any of the 36 detective stories about him.
In the Seventies, Jason Robards received two consecutive Oscars as Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of Ben Bradlee in ***All the President’ Men ***and for his performance as Dashiell Hammett in Julia.
Dashiell “Dash” Parr is the extremely fast elder son of Bob and Helen Parr in the 2004 Disney/Pixar superhero family hit The Incredibles.
Helen Thomas, long given a seat of honor at White House press conferences, was blackballed within the journalism community after declaring that Jews have no right to live in Israel and should return to Poland or Russia.
(Only if you think Israel includes Palestine - she was objecting to Israel’s occupation of it).
Doubting Thomas, dubbed by some theologians Thomas the Believer for his acceptance of Christ’s resurrection upon seeing the physical evidence, was dubbed by atheist Richard Dawkins “The Patron Saint of Scientists”.
Saints Albert the Great and Dominic de Guzman are called patron saints of scientists by the Catholic Church.
Saint Thomas the Apostle is the patron saint of construction workers, architects, and cooks.
Isidore of Seville, a sixth-century Spanish monk credited with writing an encyclopedia of all available human knowledge, is now officially the patron saint of the Internet. It may or may not be a coincidence that he shares a first name with the fictional Saint Leibowitz.
In National Lampoon’s Animal House, Eric “Otter” Stratton talks his way into a sorority house at all-girls Dickinson College by pretending to be the fiance of student Fawn Leibowitz, who had been killed days earlier in a tragic kiln explosion.
Actor Fred “Herman Munster” Gwynne graduated from Harvard and was president of and cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon
Munster is the southernmost province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford.
Fred Gwynne played the stern Alabama judge in the Joe Pesci comedy My Cousin Vinny.
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John Forbes Kerry, U.S. senator and President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of State, was born in a military hospital in Colorado.
In Ireland, the stories that Americans think of as “Polish jokes” are often told about people from County Kerry.
By far the worst driver in Ireland, according to citation counts, is a visitor from Poland named Prawo Jazdy, whose name was copied from his driving license onto all those tickets by Irish policemen. The name translates as “driving license”. 
In Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, Pere Ubu is described as coming from “Poland – that is, nowhere.” The description was a different sort of joke when the play was written in 1898; Poland had been swallowed up by Russia. Austria-Hungary, and Germany and didn’t exist as a separate nation.
Austria-Hungary had a coastline on the Adriatic, and thus had a navy. The fleet’s home port was Pola (now Pula, Croatia), and other bases were at Trieste (now in Italy) and Cattaro (presently Kotor, Montenegro).
Austria borders the German state of Bavaria, home of many castles. One of the most famous castles there is Neuschwanstein. During the summer tourist season, up to 6,000 tourists a day tour the castle’s rooms which were intended for a single inhabitant, King Ludwig II. Seven weeks after the death of King Ludwig II in 1886, Neuschwanstein was opened to the public. The shy king had built the castle in order to withdraw from public life.
The Dachau concentration camp was built next to the Munich aircraft-engine factory of BMW (Bayerische Motorenwerke, Bavarian Motor Works) to provide convenient slave labor, as well as to deter Allied bombing attacks on the plant.
The Bavarian Reinheitsgebot (beer purity law) is the oldest consumer protection law still in existence today.
The Bavarian government owns the copyright to Mein Kampf. To prevent it from falling into the public domain in 1995, the lobbied the Berne Convention to increase copyright protection from life + 50 years of creation to life + 70 years. This became the international standard term.
George Washington of Virginia was chosen as president of the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787. His public support of the new U.S. Constitution was cited as a key factor in its later ratification by the states.