The person who has won the Oscar the most times is Walt Disney, with 22 competitive wins (out of 59 nominations), and four honorary wins. Disney routinely got multiple nominations each year for his short subjects and cartoons, with a high of six in 1953.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican of New York, was inaugurated President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1953. As part of the inaugural parade, he good-naturedly allowed himself to be lassoed by a cowboy.
Two future U.S. Presidents served as presidents of Ivy League colleges: Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton and Dwight Eisenhower was president of Columbia.
President Obama is the eighth left-handed US president. The other seven were Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton
The Latin for “right” is dexter, from which we get the word dexterity. Dexterity is a good trait. The Latin for “left” is sinister.
Simon bar Sinister was the principal villain on the Underdog TV show.
The Underdog TV cartoon series debuted in 1964. Underdog was the heroic alter-ego of Shoeshine Boy.
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No Notre Dame quarterback has won the Heisman Trophy since 1964, when it went to John Huarte.
In 1956, Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung (who moved to halfback as a Green Bay Packer) became the only Heisman winner ever to come from a team with a losing record - the Irish were only 2-8. He, O.J Simpson, and Earl Campbell are the only people to have won the Heisman Trophy, been selected as first overall National Football League draft picks, and been inducted into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.
After the American Revolution, John Paul Jones, captain of the Bonhomme Richard, accepted a commission from Catherine the Great as an admiral in the Russian Navy.
John Paul Jones has been the bassist, keyboardist, and sometimes songwriter for Led Zeppelin since its 1967 inception as The New Yardbirds. He is accomplished on numerous other instruments, including guitar, koto, lap steel guitars, mandolin, autoharp, violin, ukulele, sitar, cello, continuum and the three over-dubbed recorder parts heard on “Stairway to Heaven”.
American Revolution naval hero John Paul Jones died nearly penniless in Paris, and was bured in an unmarked grave. Many years later, the U.S. ambassador to France found the grave after considerable research; Jones was exhumed and his remains were ceremonially transferred to a new tomb at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. President Theodore Roosevelt, a great proponent of naval power, gave a speech honoring Jones.
Annapolis Royal was the capital of the French colony of Acadia and (following Acadia’s takeover by the British) the capital of the Nova Scotia colony. The town has been militarily attacked thirteen times, more than any other community in North America.
Winchester, Va. had a very bumpy ride during the Civil War, but I don’t think it was “militarily attacked” more than 13 times: http://www.omg-facts.com/History/The-Town-Of-Winchester-Virginia-Changed/24969
Shaun and his slacker pal Ed take their friends and loved ones to the Winchester Pub for safety, in the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead.
The New Vaudeville Band was a group of session musicians who had a hit single with their 30s-tinged “Winchester Cathedral.” After the song caught on, songwriter Geoff Stephens had to create a touring band, asking the Bonzo Dog Band, whose music included similar styles (and many others) to perform. The Bonzos declined, though one former member, Bob Kerr, took the opportunity.
Bedtime for Bonzo was a chimp comedy in which future U.S. President Ronald Reagan starred: http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/reagan_bonzo.jpg
The girlfriend of “Lance Link, Secret Chimp” on the TV series was Mata Hairi. Link worked for A.P.E., the Agency to Prevent Evil, in an ongoing conflict with the evil organization C.H.U.M.P., the Criminal Headquarters for the Underworld’s Master Plan. Their respective chiefs were Commander Darwin and Baron von Butcher. Periodically, chimp TV host “Ed Simian” would introduce a musical number by an all-chimp band, “The Evolution Revolution.”
There are an estimated 400 chimpanzees kept as pets in the United States.