Jason Fox in the comic strip “Fox Trot” has a pet iguana named Quincy.
While filming Seinfeld, Jason Alexander was always fitted with a suit one size too small to make his character look “uncool.”
The Mackenzie River in northern Canada drains into the Arctic Ocean. Although named after Alexander Mackenzie, he wanted to call it the River of Disappointment, because he had hoped it would lead him to the Pacific Ocean.
River Phoenix, dead brother of Joaquin, bought up several hundred acres of rain forest in Costa Rica and Brazil, not to develop them but just to keep them so they would not be cut down.
Alexander Mackenzie later reached the Pacific Coast, by going up the Peace River, crossing the Coast Mountains, and descending the Bella Coola River to the waters of the Pacific. He was the first European to cross North America north of Mexico, and by an odd fluke, just missed meeting Captain Vancouver’s naval expedition, which had explored the Bella Coola only a few weeks before Mackenzie’s arrival.
In 1915, Ernest Shackleton, sent by Winston Churchill, sought out vibranium in the Antarctic. His ship, the Endurance, was lost. Later, Leonard McKenzie, with the telepath Paul Destine as a passenger, attempted to recover the Vibranium. Princess Fen was sent to investigate explosions near the surface by her father, King Thakorr. McKenzie met and impregnated Princess Fen with the child who became Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Soldiers commanded by General Krang attacked McKenzie’s crew. McKenzie himself did not die, though he did not recognize Namor later when he first learned of his son’s rampages in New York.
Ernest Hemingway was married four times and dedicated a book for each wife during the time he was married to them.
Almost exactly 35 years after Ernest Hemingway’s death, on July 1, 1996, Margaux Hemingway committed suicide in Santa Monica, California, making her the fifth person in four generations of her family to commit suicide.
While on location in Mexico filming Vera Cruz (1954), Ernest Borgnine and Charles Bronson found themselves with some extra time on their hands and decided to go to the nearest town to get some cigarettes. Still in full costume – including bandoliers and pistols – they mounted their horses and headed out. Along the way they were spotted by a truckful of Mexican federales (federal police) who mistook them for bandits and held them at gunpoint until their identities could be verified.
It was 1914, and I would suggest that he wasn’t sent by Churchill so much as Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, permitted them to go after WWI broke out. And vibranium…???
You might like this new documentary: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/health/hemingway-film
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Charles Bronson’s wife Jill Ireland appeared as a botanist in the Star Trek episode “This Side of Paradise.” Bronson visited the set and was described by some cast and crew as being very jealous of his wife.
Northern Ireland was the birthplace of the tallest identical twins ever born, the Knipe Brothers from Magherafelt. Born in 1761, they eventually grew to 7’ 2".
Jake Ireland is the head of the officiating team for the Canadian Football League. A former referee, he now runs the “command centre” in Toronto, which reviews all disputed plays that are challenged by a coach, and all scoring plays in the last three minutes of a half.
In the original Star Trek series, Command personnel wore yellow uniform shirts, Science and Medical wore blue, and Engineering, Communications, Security and Operations wore red. The high mortality rates of Security officers led to the rueful term “redshirts.”
My source was Marvel Comics’s own wiki on the Sub-Mariner. History happened slightly differently on Earth-616, and is subject to instantaneous revision through retconning.
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The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white paramilitary groups that were active in the late 19th century after the end of the Reconstruction era of the United States. They first appeared in Mississippi in 1875, when Democratic Party private militia units adopted red shirts to make themselves more visible and threatening to Southern Republicans, both white and freedmen. Similar groups in other states also adopted Red Shirts.
Among the most prominent Red Shirts were the supporters of Democratic Party candidate Wade Hampton during the campaigns for the South Carolina gubernatorial elections of 1876 and 1878. The Red Shirts were one of several paramilitary organizations, such as the White League in Louisiana, arising in the continuing efforts of white Democrats to regain political power in the South in the 1870s. These groups acted as “the military arm of the Democratic Party.”
Cleveland, Ohio hopes to host either the Republican or Democratic national convention in 2016, having added new convention site and many new hotel rooms in the past three years, and having not hosted a major-party convention since the 1930s.
The first event hosted by Cleveland Municipal Stadium was a 1931 heavyweight title bout between Max Schmeling and Young Stribling. Contrary to common belief, the stadium was not built in hopes of hosting the 1932 Olympics, nor was it a WPA project.
Million Dollar Legs was a film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields about the country of Klopstockia and their attempt to win medals at the 1932 Olympics. Fields was president of the country, and a weightlifter.
While Peter Allen’s Broadway show Legs Diamond did not receive any Tony Awards, Hugh Jackman won one for portraying Allen in the marvelous jukebox musical The Boy From Oz. Jackman was so wonderful that, when his contract ran out, the producers closed the show rather than try to replace him.
John Jackman Vodrey, a sophomore from Shaker Heights High School, Shaker Heights, Ohio, won the 2013 National History Day competition in College Park, Md. in the category of Senior Individual Website. His website, “On the Brink of Disunion,” explored the election of 1860.
The Battle of Queenston Heights was the first major battle of the War of 1812 and resulted in a victory for the British, Canadian and Mohawk side, although with the loss in battle of Sir Isaac Brock, the British commander. The battle established that capturing Canada would not be “a mere matter of marching,” as some Americans had predicted.
Push on, brave York Volunteers!