RObin Zander, Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick played with John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the *** Double Fantasy*** sessions, but their work never appeared on the album that was released.
On May 15, 2007, the New York Mets had three ballplayers named “Carlos” in the starting lineup: Beltran, Delgado, and Gomez. This was the first time had happened in MLB.
Contrary to popular belief the Alou brothers, Felipe, Matty and Jesus, never appeared together in a starting lineup. However, when they all played for the San Francisco Giants in 1963, they appeared in the same game eight times, including three games where they played together in the outfield for at least one inning.
Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption, on the coast of Northern Ireland. Legend has it that the columns are the remains of a causeway built by a giant.
Finn McCool is reputed to have built the Giant’s Causeway. One of Finn’s characteristics was that by sucking on his thumb, he could call on the wisdom of the salmon of all knowledge.
The Columbia River salmon population is now less than 3% of what it was when Lewis and Clark arrived at the river.
A surviving menu shows of the Ten Course dinner in the first class dining room on the Titanic on its final night shows Poached Salmon with Mousseline Sauce as the Third Course.
The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey for the lead in Titanic (1997), but James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.
Most of the bodies which were retrieved from the Titantic wreck area were buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A few, like Astor and Straus, were buried in New York.
Actress Mary Astor converted to Roman Catholicism in 1951 following a suicide attempt.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, both of the leads commit suicide. He drinks poison, and she stabs herself.
Some suicides include:
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[li]Vince Foster (1993) Deputy White House Counsel to Bill Clinton[/li][li]George Eastman (1932), American inventor and philanthropist, gunshot to the heart[/li][li]Helen Palmer Geisel (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children’s author Theodor Geisel, purposefully overdosed on barbituates[/li][li]Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist, shot himself[/li][li]Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot wound to the head[/li][li]Brian Keith (1997), American actor, gunshot[/li][li]Freddie Prinze (1977), American actor and comedian; gunshot[/li][li]Erwin Rommel (1944), German Nazi general, forced by Hitler to commit suicide for treason[/li][li]Junior Seau (2012), American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest[/li][li]Alan Turing (1954), English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide[/li][/ul]
George Foster of the Reds was the only major leaguer to hit 50+ homers in a season during the 1970s.
Foster Brooks was an American comedian, best known for being “the lovable lush,” where he portrayed a drunken character whose confusion and mixed-up words were most of the comedy. Brooks himself rarely drank.
Actress Jodie Foster is the daughter of a USAF Lieutenant Colonel.
Anne, Princess Royal, is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regina Rifles.
Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Supreme Court associate justice, was from Princess Anne, Maryland.
Princess Anne, Maryland is the location of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Maryland’s state song, the flamboyantly pro-secessionist “Maryland, My Maryland”, sung to the tune of “O Tannenbaum”, ends with the memorable lines:
*She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! She burns! She’ll come! She’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland! *
Deaf Smith County, in the Panhandle region of Texas, was named for Erastus “Deaf” (pronounced “deef”) Smith, a hard-of-hearing frontiersman who fought valiantly in the Texas war for independence from Mexico.