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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction- she earned it for The Age of Innocence.
The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was Rudyard Kipling, at age 42 in 1907.
After the New York Jets’ Super Bowl-winning coach Weeb Ewbank retired, he was replaced by his son-in-law, Charlie Winner… who never lived up to his name.
Charlie the Tuna was the advertising mascot for StarKist Tuna since the early 60s.
Bonnie Prince Charlie, the dashing young cavalier and last hope for the Jacobites, died in Rome at age 68.
Prince Philip renounced any claims he had to the thrones of Greece and Denmark when he married Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King George VI, in 1947.
Prince Philip is the name of the hero of the Disney movie* Sleeping Beauty*.
Philip Roth imagined a world in which isolationist anti-semite Charles Lindbergh became President of a fascistic USA, in the idiotic novel The Plot Against America.
After World War II, Charles Lindbergh secretly fathered children by three different German women, a fact not revealed until after his death.
Anne & Charles Lindberg’s youngest daughter Reeve was staying the night at her mother’s house, along with her 17 month old son Jonny. When she went to wake up her son, she found out he had died during the night. of a seizure
After the police and paramedics had come to the house, her mother insisted that they spend some time with the body. Reeve would rather have been anywhere at that moment, but he took her mother’s advice. When they were sitting next to the boy, Anne remarked “I never got to see my son’s body after he died. I never got to ssay goodbye to him”
Reeve suddenly felt, in her unspeakable sorrow, that she could do this for her mother 35 years after her brother’s death.
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the Reeve tells the comical story of a pair of students who take revenge on a dishonest miller by sleeping with his wife and his daughter.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the top cleric of the Church of England. The Queen is the Supreme Governor of the church and Defender of the Faith, both titles which date back to King Henry VIII.
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Two ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy have carried the name HMNZS Canterbury.
The Archbishop of York, surprisingly, is the Primate of England.
However, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the Primate of All England, the result of title inflation in the medieval period.
Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, has the formal title of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury. It was founded in 597 and was completely rebuilt from 1070 to 1077. After a fire in 1174 it was largely rebuilt in the Gothic style. ArchbishopThomas Becket was murdered in the cathedral in 1170. The cathedral forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Playwright Samuel Beckett was born and raised in Ireland, but spent most of his adult life in France, and wrote most of his best-known works (like En Attendant Godot) in French, before translating them into English.
In the Old Testament the prophet Samuel was the son of a barren junior wife, Hannah, who promised God she would let her son be raised in the priesthood if he would allow her to conceive, thus Samuel was raised by the priest Eli.
Daryl Hannah was born on December 3, 1960 in Chicago and grew up in Long Grove, IL. Early in her acting career she turned down many roles, including the one for Emmeline Lestrange in The Blue Lagoon. That role eventually went to Brooke Shields.
Emmeline Pankhurst was named as one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the (20th) Century for her role in the British women’s suffrage movement.