Eugene O’Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his last words: “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.” (The building later became the Shelton Hall dormitory at Boston University. There is an urban legend perpetuated by students that O’Neill’s spirit haunts the room and dormitory.)
When in Boston while playing for the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth would usually stay in Suite 818 of the Myles Standish Hotel, which is now Boston University’s Myles Standish Hall dormitory.
George Herman “Babe” Ruth was abandoned by his parents and spent most of his childhood at St. Mary’s Industrial School in Baltimore, where he was trained to be a tailor.
The site of Babe Ruth’s boyhood home is now occupied by the third-base area of Orioles Park at Camden Yards.
An oriole’s nest is a deep woven cup suspended from a branch like a hammock. Two or three eggs are usually laid at a time.
Harrison Ford played Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey, in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42.
The Yankees’ Mariano Rivera, who will retire almost directly into the Hall of Fame after this season, is the last major leaguer who will ever wear number 42. It was retired by every team in 1997 to honor Robinson, but players who already wore it were allowed to keep it for the rest of their careers. The only other number to be retired league-wide by a major North American pro league is Wayne Gretzky’s 99, by the NHL.
According to the novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.
Rule 42 in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “All persons more than a mile high to leave the court”.
The appropriately named Margaret Court won more major tennis tournament than any other player.
The Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench was known as the Court of King’s Bench until the death of King George VI and the accession of Queen Elizabeth II.
A controversy arose in the days after George Harrison’s death, when it turned out his death certificate listed a bogus address. It was revealed he had died at Paul McCartney’s Los Angeles house, whose address they’d wanted to keep secret.
On September 6, 1978, Keith Moon and his girlfriend were invited as guests of Paul McCartney to a premier party for the new film “The Buddy Holly Story”. The next morning, Moon was found dead in the same London flat where Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas And The Papas died in 1974 of heart failure.
“The Holly and the Ivy” is a traditional English Christmas carol.
The Hollies released the song Long, Cool Woman in a Black Dress in April, 1972.
The last original Andrew Lloyd Webber show to play Broadway was Woman in White, which ran from Nov 17, 2005 to Feb 19, 2006
Silent-film star Harold Lloyd was extremely superstitious. His daily routines were dictated by his superstitions – he maintained that certain streets were unlucky and his chauffeurs were instructed to avoid them, would habitually enter and exit rooms from the same doors and would dress and undress in precise reverse order.
Lloyd is pronounced “Thloyd” in Welsh.
The dish Welsh Rabbit does not include rabbit, or any other meat for that matter. The name is a corruption of rarebit. It’s simply melted cheese on toast, with spices to suit.
The croque-monsieur is a hearty French grilled ham and cheese sandwich, usually using Emmental or Gruyère cheese. A variant, the croque-madame, includes a fried or poached egg.