The Sarum Rite (or Use of Salisbury) was a local variant on Carholic liturgy which developed in Salisbury Cathedral. It was eventually used in much of southern England and influenced the liturgy developed in the Book of Common Prayer.
The connection is: Lennon, of course. 
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The first telephone directory published in England contained 25 names.
Re: Lennon - d’oh! Of course.
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The telephone directory for Nags Head, N.C. in the 1950s was on a single typed, mimeographed sheet of paper (my grandparents had one, and I’ve seen it).
It is not known who was the masked executioner who beheaded King Charles I. However, one possibility was an Irishman named Gunning. There is a plaque in the King’s Head tavern in Galway, asserting that Gunning was in fact the headsman.
Charles Laughton was the first actor to play Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot, in the 1928 play Alibi.
In the movie Spice World, Hercule Poirot (Hugh Laurie [House]) is about to blame a weapons-packing Emma Bunton, but after she flashes him an innocent smile, Poirot instead accuses an innocent man of the crime.
Emma Thompson was a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club while in college, where she worked with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Illinois Gov. James “Big Jim” Thompson attended President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in January 1985.
Big Jim was an action toy produced from 1972 through 1986 by Mattel. He was a secret agent type version of G. I. Joe and had karate chop action.
Jim Broadbent is the only Oscar-winning actor in the Superman films who has won only a single Oscar. Marlon Brando won for On the Waterfront and The Godfather; Gene Hackman for The French Connection and Unforgiven; and Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty. Broadbent has only won for Iris.
Marlon Brando kept his friend Wally Cox’s ( Voice of Underdog) ashes with him for years… sometimes even under his car seat, aainst the wishes of Wally Cox’s widow, who had entrusted the ashes to Marlon Brando to scattering them in the hills Mr. Cox often hiked in.
Once, when Wally Cox was a panelist on Hollywood Squares, Peter Marshall asked him the question: “What does Underdog say?” Wally’s immediate response: “Where’s my royalties?!”
Before he began his collaboration with W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan wrote the one-act comic opera Cox and Box, with F. C. Burnand. It told the story of an unscrupulous landlord who rented the same bed twice, to a boarder who worked days and another who worked nights. When they finally met, hilarity ensued, including the discovery that Cox and Box were longlost brothers.
The word “royalties” is derived from the prerogative right of the English King to a share of all precious metals mined in England. It has gradually evolved to mean an ongoing right to a share of profits, usually under the terms of a contract.
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970’s in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. After Sounds editor Alan Lewis coined the term; journalist Geoff Barton first used it in the May 1979 issue of Sounds magazine as a way of describing a second wave of heavy metal bands that emerged in the late 1970’s during the period of punk rock’s decline and the dominance of New Wave music.
Alan Breck Stewart, the Man with the Silver Buttons, is one of the two protagonists of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, “Kidnapped.” He is portrayed as an accomplished outdoorsman, a bonny fighter, and, most importantly, an excellent piper. However, in an impromptu piping competition with Robin Oig, son of Rob Roy MacGregor, arranged by their mutual host to prevent them from duelling, he admits that Robin Oig is the better piper.
Bonny Doon, California is a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area and nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Nearby and along the Pacific coast is a nudist beach called Bonny Doon Beach. It is at the end of Bonny Doon Road, at Highway 1 (the PCH, or Pacific Coast Highway, although it’s called that name more in Southern California).
Now, that’s good trivia. How’d you figure that out?
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San Francisco, California was first shown as the home of Starfleet Command in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Imdb.com mentioned it. 
Castroville, California is known as the Artichoke Capital of the World. In 1947 a young woman named Norma Jean was crowned Castroville’s first Artichoke Queen. She went on to become actress Marilyn Monroe.