There are fifteen places called Bath in the United States, including two (a town and a village) in New York.
Raymond Loewy, also known as the designer of the curved Coca Cola bottle, redesigned Air Force One for President John F. Kennedy, selecting its blue, white and silver livery and the words “United States of America” along both sides of the fuselage.
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Force 10 from Navarone by Alistair MacLean is a sequel to his novel, The Guns of Navarone. However, in Force 10, MacLean chose to follow the continuity from the movie which was made from the first book, meaning the bridge parts into Force 10 are a bit confusing if you’ve only read the first novel and not seen the movie made from it.
Masterpiece Theater’s Alistair Cooke sat on a BBC committee headed by George Bernard Shaw for correct pronunciation.
The Committee of Public Safety was established by the National Convention as an executive body to guide and protect the French Revolution, but it resulted in the Reign of Terror. Two Presidents of the Committee, Danton and Robespierre, ultimately died on the guillotine themselves.
In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln was the first of the Presidents of the United States to be assassinated. He had received threats against his life even before taking office, and kept a file in his desk for such letters and documents. He was occasionally guarded by soldiers, the Washington, D.C. police and by his old friend, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon, but was not under guard that fateful night at Ford’s Theatre.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, Simon Cameron, was forced to resign after allegations of corruption. So notorious was Cameron’s corruption that Sen. Thaddeus Stevens would remark, “I don’t think that he would steal a red-hot stove,” when discussing Cameron’s honesty with Lincoln. When Cameron asked for Stevens to retract the statement, Steven’s replied, “I believe I told you he would not steal a red-hot stove. I will now take that back."
Ronan Farrow, son of actress Mia Farrow and her ex-husband, singer Frank Sinatra, entered Bard College at Simon’s Rock, the branch campus of the NYC school in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, at age 11, the youngest student in the alternative school’s history.
Stevens (played by Tommy Lee Jones in the recent movie Lincoln) was a member of the House, not the Senate.
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When Dean Martin learned that his buddy Frank Sinatra was marrying the much younger Farrow, he joked, “I’ve got Scotch that’s older than Mia Farrow.”
There are some people who believe Roamn Polanski sacrificed his wife and unborn son to the Devil (in the form of Charles Manson) in order to direct Rosemary’s Baby, the movie starring Mia Farrow as a wife who is sacrificed to the Devil to bear his child in exchange for her husband’s success as an actor.
Creepy as that sounds, the coincidences are very strange.
Polanski directed and starred in the film The Tenant, which makes some clear parallels to Rosemary’s Baby and assumes that the audience is familiar with it – to set up a “gotcha” moment.
Tenants Harbor Light, also known as Southern Island Light, is a lighthouse at the mouth of Tenants Harbor, St. George, Maine, United States. It appears in paintings by Andrew Wyeth and his son Jamie Wyeth, who have owned the light house since 1978. The studio is said to be a scaled down replica of one of Lord Horatio Nelson’s cabins on H.M.S. Victory.
St. George is the patron saint of both England and the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
St George and St Michael the Archangel are both said to have killed dragons.
Archangel, or Arkhangelsk, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River where it empties into the White Sea arm of the Arctic Ocean, was Russia’s primary seaport until Peter the Great’s conquest of the less-icy future site of St. Petersburg in 1701. The city and region are named for the Archangel Michael Monastery.
Pierre Antoine Motteux’s English translation of the novel Don Quixote was first published in 1701. Motteux published it under the name “Peter Motteux”. While popular among readers, it will eventually come to be known as one of the worst translations of the novel, totally betraying the spirit of Miguel de Cervantes’s masterpiece.
Cervantes of Spain and Shakespeare of England were contemporaries but never met, as far as is known.
Both Shakespeare and Cervantes died in 1616.
When Chester Alan Arthur became president, one political cartoonist portrayed him as Henry V, facing Roscoe Conklin (a political boss) as Falstaff and saying, “I do not know thee, old man.” The hope was that Arthur would repudiate Conklin, and the artist knew that his audience would understand the reference, since Shakespeare was the most popular playwright in the US at that time.
Chester Alan Arthur was considered one of the best salmon fishermen in the country.