Rollie Fingers’s jersey #34 has been retired by the Oakland A’s and also the Milwaukee Brewers, making him one of only a few MLB players to have this honor.
In the movie Wayne’s World, Alice Cooper delivers a lecture on the history of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, noting that the city’s name comes from the Algonquin words for “the good land,” and that the city has elected three Socialist mayors.
Indeed…?: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/files/2007/10/churchill-combo.jpg
Bernie Sanders is listed as an Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont, but throughout his career, including as mayor of Burlington, Vt., has described himself as a socialist.
The state of Vermont was once hotly disputed as being part of either New York and New Hampshire. John Greenleaf Whitter wrote a faux folk poem about the issue, “The Song of the Vermonters.”
Ponzi scheme swindler Bernie Madoff received the maximum sentence of 150yrs in federal prison on 29 Jun 2009.
ETA: ninja’d, so, Bernie Madoff was born in Queens, NY.
Young Timothy Allen Dick, who later became a TV star as Tim Allen, spent two years in a federal prison after being caught with a large stash of cocaine at the Kalamazoo, Michigan airprt.
Kalamazoo is where Western Michigan University is located and where Lutheran biblical scholar Paul L. Maier teaches.
The USS Michigan was, for decades, the sole U.S. Navy warship on the Great Lakes. During the Civil War, Confederate agents plotted to hijack it to free imprisoned rebel officers at Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky, Ohio.
Chris Farley’s comedy ***Tommy Boy ***was set in Sandusky, Ohio, where his character’s family operated an auto parts manufacturing company.
Notre Dame football players Gus Dorais and Knute Rockne perfected the forward pass on the beach at Sandusky in the summer of 1913, while working as lifeguards and restaurant staff at the Cedar Point amusement park.
Woodrow Wilson, Democrat of New Jersey, was sworn in as President of the United States on March 4, 1913, having narrowly defeated former President Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive of New York, and incumbent President William Howard Taft, Republican of Ohio, in the November 1912 election.
Since 2008, actress/comedienne Stephanie Courtney of the Groundlings has appeared as perky “Flo” in commercials for Progressive Insurance.
Catcher Clint Courtney hit the first home run in Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium after the St. Louis Browns moved to Maryland and became the Orioles for the 1954 season.
Courtney Love was rejected from the Mickey Mouse Club at age 12 after reading a Sylvia Plath poem for her audition.
Jerry Lewis played The Nutty Professor and his alter ego Buddy Love. Many thought that Love was based upon Dean Martin, but Lewis says the character was based upon his own behavior.
In 1998, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote Dear Socks, Dear Buddy, a collection of children’s letters to the Presidential cat and dog. The book also included pet-care advice and encouragement for children to develop a lifelong habit of letter-writing.
Pat Nixon was the first US First Lady to earn a college degree. Following four years of study at the University of Southern California, she graduated and became a teacher, continuing to teach for the first year of her marriage.
Too late for the window: I screwed that up. Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to earn a graduate degree, of sorts. In 1937, she graduated cum laude from USC with a Bachelor of Science degree in merchandising, together with a certificate to teach at the high-school level, which USC deemed equivalent to a master’s degree.
Pat Nixon was born in Ely, NV which is on US Hwy 50, The Lincoln Highway.
Joe Conforte, then operator of the Mustang Ranch brothel near Sparks, Nevada, played in ACBL tournaments partnered with Mike Lawrence, then world bridge champion.