Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, third daughter of then-Princess Juliana of the House of Orange-Nassau, was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1943. The Dutch Royal Family had taken refuge in Canada during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Since Dutch law bars dual citizens from the succession to the throne, the Canadian government temporarily disclaimed the hospital room where she was born, so that she did not acquire British citizenship.
The Canadian-Dutch connexion was strengthened in the next two years, when Canadian troops took part in the liberation of the Netherlands. In gratitude, the Dutch Royal Family after the war began to send 10,000 tulip bulbs annually to Ottawa, the beginning of the Canadian Tulip Festival.
Contrary to popular belief, the offical state vegetable of Texas is not George W Bush but rather the 1015 sweet onion, which gets its name from the fact that it must be planted by October 15.
Workingman’s Dead, the fourth studio album by the Grateful Dead, was the first one that Warner Brothers thought had a shot at being a breakout success.
A Hollywood legend claims that Warner Brothers, makers of Casablanca, threatened to sue the Marx Brothers for using the word “Casablanca” in the title of their film A Night in Casablanca. Groucho Marx wrote a letter to Warner Brothers in which he threatened to sue them for using the word “Brothers”: “Professionally, we were brothers before they ever were.” However, film critic Richard Roeper claims (correctly) that the story is fake. In fact, Warner Brothers never threatened to sue but merely inquired about the story of the Marx Brothers’ film to make sure there was no copyright infringement. Groucho used the inquiry as an excuse for a publicity stunt. He wrote a series of comic letters to Warner Brothers. The letters were published in The Saturday Evening Post to publicize the movie.
Sir Arthur Currie was the commander of the Canadian Corps in World War I. He is generally considered to have been one of the best tacticians amongst the Allied commanders, coming up with a variety of tactics that helped the Canadian troops to break through the German lines on several occasions.
As of 2012, German athletes have won a total of 1662 Olympic medals (summer and winter combined from 1896-2012), more than any other country in the world except the US.
The modern burger (on a bun) appeared during World War I. The White Castle restaurant chain was established in 1916 in Wichita, Kansas and by the early 1920s sold hamburgers. Some scholars say the first hamburger served on a bun appeared in 1917 at Drexel’s Pure Food Restaurant in Chicago. By 1920 hamburgers on buns were sold in San Francisco and Cincinnati, and by the mid-1920s, hamburgers were recognizable to most Americans.
I should add that I’m seeing other origin stories too but none others that involve hamburger buns per se. The others are basically steak sandwiches on bread.