Conan Doyle was knighted not for writing the Holmes stories, but for his services as a doctor during the Boer War.
Concentration camps were invented by the British for use in the Boer War.
British Boer War hero, Boy Scouts founder, and extreme eccentric* Robert Baden-Powell was so obsessed with the play Peter Pan he named his daughter Wendy and his son Peter.
*How weird was he? He didn’t marry until he was 55 but when he did he slept on his wife’s balcony each night regardless of the weather, and we won’t even go into his love of ‘naked boys swimming’.
George Young and Harry Vanda, the leaders of the Sixties pop band the Easybeats (“Friday on My Mind”), later performed together as "Flash ‘n’ the Pan. Young’s brothers Angus and Malcolm founded AC/DC.
Malcolm McDowell made his name as an actor in edgy English films such as *If… *and A Clockwork Orange. He also appeared in sf classics such as Time after Time, in which he played a nebbishy but heroic H.G. Wells, and Star Trek: Generations, in which he played the villain Soran.
David Wells and Don Larsen, who each pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees, both attended Point Loma High School, in San Diego, CA.
David Wells once wore one of Babe Ruth’s Yankee’s caps while pitching.
Nitpick: Rankin was from Montana.
Babe Ruth’s nicknames included “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Bambino”.
The Swat district in Pakistan once had an actual Sultan.
Bangladesh was known as East Pakistan until it became a separate country in 1971.
Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan assassinated in 2007, received her undergraduate degree at Harvard (comparative government) and did graduate study at Oxford (political philosophy and economics).
Known as “Pinkie” at Harvard, Ms. Bhutto was also a reporter for the student-run Harvard Crimson, although she never joined the Lampoon.
Pinkie is the counterpart of the Brain from the cartoon series Animaniacs (Warner 93-98).
On Pinky And The Brain (not “Pinkie”), the character The Brain is based on the look and voice of Orson Welles.
Maurice LaMarche, who performs the voice of The Brain, dubbed the dialogue of Vincent D’Onofrio (now best known for LAW AND ORDER SVU) when he portrayed Orson Welles in the Tim Burton movie ED WOOD; the movie that was giving Welles trouble in that scene was Touch of Evil.
Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens was nicknamed “the Rocket.” When his younger, smaller brother Henri joined the Canadiens, he was nicknamed “the Pocket Rocket.”
The “Pocket Rockit” is a battery-operated “headphone amplifier” for electric guitars, and is about the size of a bar of soap.
In a Google search for “pocket Rocket” the first entry is for a motorized mini-bike. The second entry is for a sex toy.
Charles Rocket was the anchor on “Weekend Update” on the disasastrous 1980-81 season of “Saturday Night Live.”
Charles Rocket died by slitting his throat, an act which in Spanish was once translated loosely as ‘Degüello’, which was the name of a Mexican army bugle tune blown to signal the final assault on the Alamo and was also a name give to a breed of Spanish work dogs now known as Perro de Presa Canario.