George Takei graduated from UCLA. His major was Theater Arts with a minor in Latin American Studies. His father said both of those areas of study meant that he would be supporting George for the rest of his life.
George Washington was never hit by enemy fire, despite leading from the front in several battles in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
The GWB, George Washington Bridge, spans the Hudson River and connects Manhattan with New Jersey. As of 2007, the GWB is the world’s busiest motor vehicle bridge in the world, carrying 106 million vehicles per year.
In 1870, the new Dominion of Canada bought Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory (approximately 1.4 million acres) from the Hudson Bay Company for £300,000.
The entire province of Manitoba was once part of Rupert’s Land. Other portions of the one-time territory are now parts of Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and Nunavut. Slices of the current states of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota were also contained within the boundaries of Rupert’s Land.
Singer / songwriter Rupert Holmes is best known for his number one pop hit “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” from 1979, but his first international hit was in 1971 with a group called The Buoys. Holmes played the piano for the group’s hit song “Timothy”, a song about cannibalism.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, after whom Rupert’s Land was named, was the lead character in Poul Anderson’s alternate history fantasy novel, “A Mid-Summer Tempest”.
Rupert Holmes also turned Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel *The Mystery of Edwin Droo**d *into a musical. It had more than one possible ending. Audiences got to choose who the murderer was.
Although Rupert’s Land is no longer a civil territory in Canada, the name survives in the Anglican Church’s ecclesiastical province of Rupert’s Land, by far the largest of the Church’s four provinces, in terms of land area. The name also survives in the Diocese of Rupert’s Land, which covers part of Manitoba.
The American Hockey League’s Winnipeg-based Manitoba Moose moved to Newfoundland and became the St. John’s IceCaps when the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers became the Winnipeg Jets. The IceCaps are now the Jets’ top farm club. When former Manitoba goalie Johan Hedberg joined the Pittsburgh Penguins, he continued to wear his custom-fitted mask with the Moose logo painted across it.
To try to reduce confusion between the two cities for travellers, Saint John, New Brunswick, encourages that “Saint” be spelt in full, to distinguish it from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Travel agents and airline agents tell numerous stories of travellers who went to the wrong province because of the similarity in the names of the two cities.
In 1985, Sacramento college student Michael Lewis returned home from a vacation in Britain via Auckland, New Zealand instead of Oakland, California, when he misheard a boarding announcement in Los Angeles.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote, in 1893.
Wyoming was the first US state to give women the vote, not particularly because of any idea of equality, but in order to attract more women to settle.
I may have used that one myself, but I’m not about to go back and check. 
The largest coal mine in the US is Black Thunder, located near Wright, Wyoming.
The state flag of Wyoming features the outline of a buffalo. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former member of Congress from the state, displayed the flag in his West Wing office.
Wyoming is one of only three states (along with Colorado and Utah) to have borders along only straight latitudinal and longitudinal lines, rather than being defined by natural landmarks.
John Hickenlooper, a Democrat and reform-minded former mayor of Denver, is now Governor of Colorado.
Colorado has the highest mean altitude of all the US states.
The Beatles song “Mean Mr. Mustard” is often misunderstood by American listeners. In the UK, “mean” means “miserly” (which is why he keeps a ten-bob note up his nose), not “nasty.”