Characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World include Benito Hoover, Bernard Marx, Darwin Bonaparte, Lenina Crowne, George Edzel, Morgana Rothschild, and Polly Trotsky.
Aldous Huxley’s experience in Hollywood was not a success. When he wrote a synopsis of Alice in Wonderland, Walt Disney rejected it on the grounds that “he could only understand every third word”.
Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis and John F. Kennedy all died on Nov. 22, 1963. The President got most of the ink the next day.
Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff was named the president of Huxley College in Horse Feathers.
Patty Wagstaff is the world’s most accomplished female aerobatics pilot, having won the US National Aerobatic Championship 3 times. Her Extra 260 airplane is now in the Smithsonian next to Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega.
The full name of Peppermint Patty, of Peanuts fame, is Patricia Reichardt.
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York, Pennsylvania was the home to the York Cone Co. which introduced York Peppermint Patties to the candy loving world in 1940, and after which Charles Schulz named his Peanuts Character.
York, Penna. was briefly the de facto capital of the United States during the American Revolution, when the British occupied Philadelphia, which had hosted the Continental Congress up to then.
Continental drift was hypothesized by numerous investigators prior to Wegener in 1912.
“The Continental” from 1934’s The Gay Divorcee, won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song to be awarded.
Dashiell Hammett never revealed the real name of the Continental Op, who appeared in 36 of Hammett’s mystery stories.
The sum of the integers 1-36 is the number of the beast (666).
In Pixar’s ***Monsters Inc., ***the most popular restaurant in town is Harryhausen’s, named after Ray Harryhausen, who provided the stop-motion special effects for monster movies like The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the first movie Disney shot in Cinemascope and one of the first Cinemascope movies not produced by 20th Century-Fox. There were so few Cinemascope lenses at the time that Disney had to rent one from 20th Century-Fox and the whole movie was shot with one lens.
The last of the Negro Leagues, the Negro American League, folded in 1958. The last Negro League team, the Indianapolis Clowns, continued to play exhibition games until the 1980s.
On March 31, 1958, Prime Minister Diefenbaker won re-election, with the largest majority in the House of Commons in Canadian history (based on percentage of seats in the Commons).
“The Tragedy of the Commons” refers to the concept that if there is a shared resource, the people who use it will, acting rationally and in their own reasonable self-interest, will end up depleting the resource. It’s often used to describe issues involving natural resources.
Boston Commons was the first park in the US.
There have been two Canadian Prime Ministers who sat in the Senate rather than in the House of Commons: Prime Minister Abbott and Prime Minister Bowell. Neither was a success.