Tim Curry won the 1991 Outstnading Performance in a Children’s SeriesDaytime Emmy Award for voicing Captain Hook in the animated series. Peter Pan and the Pirates.
Real-life outlaw Harvey Logan, who went by the alias “Kid Curry,” was one of the two lead characters on the TV Western ***Alias Smith and Jones. ***
Not surprisingly, the real Kid Curry was far more evil and far less handsome than the guy on the show!
Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, a hero of the American Civil War, has statues both at Vicksburg and in Washington, D.C. (at the heart of Logan Circle).
Ohio has a Logan County (whose seat is Bellefontaine, pronounced “bell fountain”) and a city called Logan (the seat of Hocking County).
According to Leslie West and Mountain, the Mississippi Queen was a Cajun lady who lived down around Vicksburg.
The USS Vicksburg is a Ticonderoga-class AEGIS guided missile cruiser. Most of the ships in her class are named after noteworthy battles in American history.
The first female rural mail carrier in the US was Mrs Mamie Thomas. She delivered mail by buggy to the area southeast of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1914.
Vicksburg, MS is connected to the invention of the Teddy Bear. As President, Theodore Roosevelt made two speeches in Vicksburg, one in 1902, the other in 1907. He had come to go bear hunting in the Louisiana and Mississippi Deltas, and when he refused to shoot a restrained bear cub in 1902 in Issaquena County (just north of Vicksburg), toy manufacturers began calling their stuffed bear toys, Teddy Bears.
The classic Sesame Street mini-feature film about the manufacture of peanut butter, accompanied by the song “It Takes A Lot of Little Nuts”, was filmed at the Teddie Peanut Butter factory in Everett, Massachusetts, near Boston.
Edward Everett Horton was a busy character actor in 1930s Hollywood, appearing in films with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, among many others. After role diminished, Horton became the voice of “Fractured Fairy Tales.”
Edward Everett Horton got tossed out of Oberlin College for faking his own public death. He climbed to the roof of an administration building and threw a dummy over the side much to the consternation of the crowd that had gathered below. He went on to attend Columbia without apparent incident.
Marlowe’s play, Edward II, is one of the first Elizabethan history plays.
The future King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, visited the U.S. before the Civil War and encountered almost frenzied public interest - although a regiment of Irish-American militia refused to parade for him in New York City.
The name, Wales, derived from the Germanic root word meaning Romanized foreigner.
The main attraction of Lake Wales, Florida is the “Singing Tower”, with its carillon bells that resound over Bok Tower Gardens. The combination botanical garden and bird sanctuary was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. for Edward Bok, publisher of Ladies Home Journal.
Bok Choy is the chinensis subspecies of Brassica rapa. Another well known subspecies of Brassica rapa is the rapa subspecies which is better known as the white turnip.
Le Choy Chinese foods were first manufactured and sold in Detroit, Michigan. Its original products were developed by Wally Smith and Dr. Ilhan New (who was Korean).
The Governor of Michigan is now considering a state takeover of the city government of Detroit, in light of its huge budget deficit, poor services, high crime and shrinking population.
Detroit’s current mayor, Dave Bing, spent 12 years in the NBA as a guard for the Detroit Pistons, Washington Bullets and Boston Celtics.
As head coach and general manager of the Boston Celtics, Red Auerbach, a throwback to an earlier time when basketball’s ethnic stereotype was not African-American but Jewish, was responsible for drafting the NBA’s first black player (Chuck Cooper), putting the NBA’s first all-black starting lineup on the floor (Bill Russell, Tom Sanders, Sam Jones, K.C. Jones, and Willie Naulls), and choosing as his successor the NBA’s first black head coach (Russell). That didn’t keep the franchise from developing a racist image in the 1980’s, as the team won the title three times with as many as four white starters.