David Niven and Maggie Smith played a Nick and Nora lookalike detective couple in the Neil Simon mystery mashup movie Murder by Death.
The first two Nick and Nora Charles films **The Thin Man **and After the Thin Man were set less than a week apart: The Thin Man took place on Christmas, while After the Thin Man took place on New Years immediately after, in San Francisco instead of New York.
At 300 million years the New River of NC, VA and WV is by far the oldest river in North America, and is the third oldest river on the world, after the Meuse and the Yangtze.
West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States.
Just west across the Ohio River from Wheeling, WV is Martin’s Ferry, OH, the hometown of Boston Celtics basketball legend John Havlicek. Havlicek played 16 seasons with the Celtics and won 8 NBA Championships during that time. Havlicek went to Ohio State in 1959-1962.
Well, it wasn’t just him - he signed an Act of Congress into law: Lincoln signed W.Va. statehood 150 years ago Saturday
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One of Sen. Joe McCarthy’s earliest speeches about the (largely imaginary) Communist subversive menace within the U.S. Government was given in Wheeling, W.Va.
Joe McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. The Republican Party was founded on March 20, 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen last appeared together in film in the Muppet Movie.
Edgar the Peaceful was a 10th century King of the English. He succeeded his elder brother, Eadwig, to the throne.
When Eadwig had been crowned, he is alleged to have left his coronation banquet with a young woman and her mother. Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury, went in search of Eadwig, and found him cavorting sexually with both of the women. Dunstan dragged him back to the banquet, thereby earning the young king’s enmity.
The Abbot Dunstan functions as the patron saint of goldsmiths and silversmiths, as he worked as a blacksmith, painter, and jeweller. His Feast Day is May 19, which is why the date year on English hallmarks runs from May 19 to May 18, and not the calendar year.
Jerry Lewis is the current Abbot of the New York Friar’s Club, whose membership is dominated by comedians but includes other show people. Previous Abbots have included Alan King, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan and George M. Cohan.
In the Cadfael mystery series, the Abbot of Shrewsbury Abbey is originally Abbott Heribert. He falls into royal disfavour and is replaced by Abbott Radulfus, much to the displeasure of Prior Robert, who is passed over, and much to the relief of Brother Cadfael, who dislikes Prior Robert.
Elvis Presley had an identical twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, who died at birth shortly before Elvis was delivered.
In November 1975, Lisa Marie Presley’s father named one of his private aircraft, a converted Convair 880 jet (original passenger capacity: 100), after her. Elvis spent upwards of $1,000,000 refurbishing it to use as his main transport while on tour. The “Lisa Marie” and one of Elvis’ other planes, “Hound Dog II”, are currently on exhibit at the Graceland mansion museum of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee.
Huckleberry Hound was constantly singing “My Darling Clementine.”
The “Shootout at the OK Corral” was a gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona, was one of the best-known events of the Old West, portrayed in movies like John Ford’s My Darling Clementine and Cheyenne Autumn, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp and TV shows like The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. It’s even had science fiction versions in the** Doctor Who** episode “The Gunfighters” and** Star Trek’s **“Spectre of the Gun”
In the “MAS*H” episode “Movie Tonight”, Col. Potter introduces his favorite film, the O.K. Corral epic “My Darling Clementine” with Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, and Walter Brennan, by saying “This movie has the three things that make a movie great: horses, cowboys, and horses.”
IMDB’s list of the Top 50 Best Western Movies has Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1972) at number 1.
The Reform Party was a successful right-wing protest federal party in Western Canada, picking up support under the slogan “The West wants in.”
In 2000, the Reform Party allied (and later merged) with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the Canadiaian Conservative Reform Alliance Party, a name which was quickly changed to Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance when they realized what the acronym was.