The Horsehead Nebula is located in the constellation Orion, near Alnitak, the leftmost star on Orion’s “belt”.
The Nebula awards are given out yearly by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the best SF stories of the previous year (though “year” has not always meant “calendar year”).
Starfleet’s Nebula-class cruisers were slightly smaller than its Galaxy-class ships like the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, and first appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Wounded,” with the USS Phoenix.
A pair of hippies named John and Arlyn Bottom gave their oldest son the unfortunate name of “River Bottom.” They later changed their family’s last name to Phoenix. (You may have seen the kid in a movie or two.)
The city of Phoenix, Arizona was so named because it was built on the site of an abandoned Ho-Ho-Kam Indian village.
Dick Celeste, after serving as governor of Ohio in the 1980s, was named U.S. ambassador to India by President Bill Clinton.
“Mama Celeste”, of Celeste brand frozen pizzas, was a real person: Celeste Lizio, who founded the company with her husband, Anthony, in Chicago.
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The brigantine Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic in 1872, in good weather, with no crew aboard and all their personal effects apparently present.[/del]
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee was also a real person, a cook from Cleveland named Hector Boiardi.
Director Garry Marshall considers Hector Elizondo his “good luck charm,” and he has appeared in 12 of Garry’s movies, including Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride.
Similarly, actor Earl Billings has a cameo in all the Aflac commercials. He’s the only one who notices the duck.
Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in each film he directed, usually in crowd scenes.
Anthony Newley co-wrote and co-starred in the 1965 Broadway musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd.
Anthony Newley was married to Joan Collins who was recently in the news due to a feud with, of all people, Charlotte Rae, the star of Diff’rent Strokes and Facts of Life.
Strokes can be caused by thrombosis or embolism or due to a hemorrhage.
The first studio album released by the Strokes is 2001’s Is This It.
“2001: A Space Odyssey” was loosely based on Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. Clarke also wrote the novelization of the movie and its sequels.
There is no dialog in the first 25 minutes of “2001: A Space Odyssey”, nor is there any dialog in the final 23 minutes.
In The Illuminatus Trilogy there is occult numerological significance attached to the number 23, something the writer Robert Anton Wilson borrowed from William S. Burroughs.
The number 42 has major significance in the plot of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln both courted pretty young Mary Todd. She married Lincoln, whom Douglas later defeated in a race for the U.S. Senate in 1858. Lincoln beat Davis for the Presidency two years later.