Oliver Cromwell’s skull is buried somewhere in the chapel at his Cambridge college, Sidney Sussex.
Sidney Poitier was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974. Although this is often mistaken to have been an honorary knighthood, it is actually a substantive knighthood, as Poitier is a citizen of the Bahamas, a Commonwealth realm that at the time of his appointment recognized the British Honours System. He is thus entitled to be known as Sir Sidney Poitier but does not himself use this title.
Sir Robert Laird Borden was the last Canadian Prime Minister to be knighted.
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Ted Knight, who played Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was decorated five times for bravery during World War II.
Ted Knight was narrator of most of Filmation studio’s superhero cartoons as well as voice of incidental characters in the Sixties, and narrated the first season of Super Friends.
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Very cool - I did not know that. Adds an interesting perspective to his Ted Baxter portrayal, a blow-hard without much to back it up.
On-game:
Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Byng on Friends, grew up in Ottawa, where his mother was press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Muriel Bing on Friends, appears on the cover of the current issue of People magazine.
Bing Crosby’s real first name was Harry.
“Crosby” is the name of a town on the Isle of Man.
The title “Lord of Mann” is used on the Isle of Man to refer to the island’s Lord Proprietor and head of state, currently Queen Elizabeth II. Although Queen Victoria was generally referred to as the “Lady of Mann,” the present British monarch is not.
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In Canada, just as we have particular spellings for “theatre,” “honour,” and “colour”, we always spell “Bing” as “Byng”, in honour of Viscount Byng of Vimy. 
On-Game: The symbol of Mann is a Triskelion, consisting of three armoured legs joined at the hip, and running to the viewer’s left. The triskelion is an ancient celtic symbol.
After originating the roles of Rum Tug Tugger in CATS and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Terrace Mann took over for Douglas Sills in Scarlet Pimpernel, leading to the quip “Terrace Mann finally gets to play one.” (get it–a man?).
T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was given two musical treatments before A. L. Webber and company. In 1954 the English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon after, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker. At about the same time period another English composer, Humphrey Searle, composed another narrator piece based on the poems, using the flute, piccolo, cello and guitar. This work, Two Practical Cats, consisted of settings of the poems of Macavity and Growltiger.
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At one point Disney tried to get the rights to Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats to turn it into a cartoon, but Valerie Eliot refused them.
Admiral Samuel Eliot Morrison, a Boston Brahmin and a distant cousin of T.S. Eliot, was best known as a highly readable historian on the subjects of maritime and American history, earning him two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
**One of the first roles for actor Samuel Pack “Sam” Elliott was as ‘Card Player #2’ in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Elliott married actress Katharine Ross in 1984. Although Ross starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the two did not meet and begin dating until 1978 when they both starred with Roger Daltrey in The Legacy.
Among many other roles in his long career, Sam Elliott has played a top White House aide (The Contender), a cavalry general (Gettysburg) and a contemplative cowboy (The Big Lebowski).
When El Paso-born Sam Donaldson appeared on Don Imus’s radio show, the Kinky Friedman song “Asshole from El Paso” was played. Donaldson later said he had asked his lawyer about suing for slander, but was told “truth is a defense against slander.”