The Love Bug (1968) starring Dean Jones and Michelle Lee, was based on the 1961 book Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford.
Buddy Hackett, who was also in The Love Bug, grew up in Brooklyn next door to future baseball great Sandy Koufax.
Poking fun at the stereotypical local accent, the *Brooklyn Eagle *once ran a headline about an injury to Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Waite Hoyt: “Hurt’s Hoyt”.
Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton, IL is Illinois’s largest state park and is home to one of the largest American Bald Eagle winter nesting sites in the lower 48 states. Scott Isringhausen, distant cousin to MLB pitcher Jason Isringhausen, hosts “Bald Eagle Days” during he winter months and leads tours to the popular eagle aeries, or nests.
A highlight of the 1998 Calgary Winter Olympics, along with the debut of the Jamaican bobsled team, was the appearance of Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, the first Briton to compete in ski jumping - though game, he finished last in both 70 and 90 meter events. Tightened eligibility requirements would keep his like from future appearances in the Games.
Although the band’s name is Eagles, they are commonly miscalled The Eagles.
The eagles perform a deus ex machina role in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Dith Pran, the New York Times stringer who later was the subject of the film The Killing Fields, worked as a translator with the crew of the 1965 Peter O’Toole film Lord Jim during the Cambodian shoots.
Although not part of the Wimsey canon, Dorothy L. Sayers indicate that she assumes Lord St. George dies in combat during the war, and Lord Peter succeeds to the Denver dukedom as a result.
Actress Dorothy Lamour was Miss New Orleans 1931.
There have been five warships named USS New Orleans to serve in the U.S. Navy. The current one is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock commissioned in 2007.
The Saint Charles streetcar line in New Orleans and the San Francisco, California cable cars are the US’s only mobile national monuments.
The Duke of Orléans was a member of the French royal family who favoured a more liberal approach to a constitutional monarchy than the more conservative line of the Bourbons. Although the Duke was unsuccessful, and died on the guillotine, his son, Louis Phillippe, did eventually succeed to the throne, become the last King of France.
Umberto II, the May King, was the last king of Italy, reigning for just over a month from May 9 through June 12, 1946. After the abolition of monarchy in Italy, he was exiled to Portugal, where he remained for the rest of this life.
Pizza Margherita was invented by a chef in Naples to celebrate a visit to that city by the king and queen of Italy. (Margherita was the queen.) The colors of the pizza matched the colors (red, white, and green) of the Italian flag.
Margherita Sarfatti was an Italian journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, a prominent propaganda adviser of the National Fascist Party, and one of Benito Mussolini’s mistresses. And, oh yes she was Jewish!
The former King Carol II, exiled monarch of Romania, married Magda Lupescu, his Jewish (by ancestry- her parents had converted) mistress for 25 years, in a hotel room in Rio de Janeiro in 1947; their marriage appears on the same front page of the Roswell Daily Record as the captured UFO headline.
Jolie Gabor was the mother of the three Gabor sisters – Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva. They all moved to the US after World War II, where they became actresses, known primarily for their talent in attracting rich husbands.
In one episode of “Green Acres”, Eva Gabor, as Lisa Douglas, laments to Eddie Albert, as Oliver Wendell Douglas, that her only talent is her Zsa Zsa Gabor impersonation.
Oliver Stone shares the exact same birthday as good friend and star of some his films Tommy Lee Jones. Both were born on September 15, 1946.