Nova Scotians are nicknamed “Blue-nosers.”
Actually, it’s the other way around – “Welsh rabbit” was first recorded in 1725, “Welsh rarebit” in 1785. “Rarebit” occurs in no other context.
In play: A Nova Scotia-built schooner known as Bluenose became such an icon that it was featured on a Canadian postage stamp in 1929, eight years after its launch.
Nova Scotia, claimed by John Cabot in 1497, was Britain’s only colony named in Latin (New Scotland), by James I of England, VI of Scotland, in 1621.
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Britain’s only colony named in Latin (New Scotland)
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Off-play: other than Australia, of course.
In-play: the Nova Scotia Legislature is the oldest Legislature in North America, still operating under its original constitutional authority, a royal grant by King George II in 1758.
Harumph! Well, Australia was too piddling to count. 
(Changes entry to “Nova Scotia and Australia were the only two …” :smack:)
In play: George Clooney tried out for a position on the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
Dusty Baker is the current manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Baker is a former US Marine, and his birthday is June 15 - two things that he and I both share.
Dusty Springfield was the long-time life partner of the mother of the Barbi Twins.
There have been two major league baseball teams called the Washington Senators. The first team moved to Minnesota and became the Twins, while the second moved to Texas and became the Rangers.
The “Texas Rangers” (officially the Texas Ranger Division) were founded in 1823, 13 years before the fall of the Alamo, when Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas, employed ten men to act as rangers to protect 600 to 700 newly settled families who arrived in Texas following the Mexican War of Independence.
Ranger Smith, the law in Jellystone Park, was the foil of Yogi Bear and his nephew Boo Boo. He first appeared on “The Huckleberry Hound Show”.
McArthur Park is melting in the dark, all the sweet green icing flowing down.
The mysterious Arthur “Boo” Radley kills Bob Ewell and saves the lives of Jem and Scout Finch, at the end Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, is an accomplished amateur pianist.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia sits at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, where West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland come together.
The fire house in which John Brown and his men holed up during their abortive 1859 slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry has been torn down and reassembled several times.
John Brown’s raid was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
Semper Fi
George Brown and Darcy McGee were both Fathers of Confederation; both died violent deaths, from being shot.
Brown was shot by a disgruntled employee at his newspaper. The wound was not serious, but it turned septic, which was fatal.
McGee was shot in the head as he entered his boarding house in Ottawa, by a Fenian. Prime Minister Macdonald was summoned and saw the bloody corpse of his friend and political ally lying dead in the street.
Singer James Brown insisted on using the title Mr. or Ms. for everyone in his band. He felt it was a sign of respect if people called each other by their proper title.
NFL running back Jim Brown did some acting. He appeared in an episode of The A-Team alongside Joe Namath. The episode was titled, “Quarterback Sneak.”
The closing episode of Season 1 of Corner Gas is set with the cast en route to the 2003 Grey Cup in Regina. Brent and Lacey almost kiss, Hank and Oscar find a dead guy, Karen and Davis get arrested for trying to buy tickets from a scalper, and Emma and Wanda get into a fight while buying low-cost jewellry at a dollar store.