Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) is the only member of the Fantastic Four who hasn’t also been an Avenger.
Johnny Cash was given the name J.R., because his parents Ray and Carrie Cash couldn’t agree on a name, only on initials. He adopted “John R. Cash” when he joined the Air Force, which did not accept initials.
There was quite an Internet brouhaha when it was announced that (the white, blue-eyed, blond haired) Johnny Storm would be played in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie by African-American actor Michael B. Jordan
Gale Storm was elected honorary mayor of Sherman Oaks, California in January 1953. By coincidence, her My Little Margie co-star Charles Farrell was already fulfilling his third term as mayor of Palm Springs. She served for two terms and was succeeded by Liberace.
Then-Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman disregarded warnings from pickets (watchmen) just outside his lines as to the approach of a large Confederate army, and was subsequently surprised by the enemy onslaught in the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh.
The Christmas hymn Watchman Tell Us of The Night was written by Joseph Bowring , a little known, early 19th century bureaucrat in the British government who traveled the world extensively and claimed to be fluent in over 100 languages!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?) is a Latin phrase traditionally attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal from his Satires.
Roman Polanski was a judge in the Miss Universe pageant in 1976.
Roman Polanski directed The Ghost Writer, a well-reviewed thriller about a writer helping a recently-retired British prime minister (who has plenty of secrets) prepare his memoirs.
The book was better.
In play: Roman Holiday (1953) was the first American film to be made in its entirety in Italy.
Ian Fleming published Casino Royale, his first James Bond novel, in 1953.
In the opening scenes of the film Pulp Fiction, John Travolta informed us all that the McDonald’s restaurants in France call a Quarter-Pounder a Royale.
Quentin Tarantino is an avid collector of vintage TV show board games. During the filming of Pulp Fiction, he and John Travolta were reported to have sat on the floor and played the *Welcome Back, Kotter *board game.
David “Quentin Collins” Selby played the only man, other than her husband, to kiss Olivia Walton during the entire run of The Waltons.
Elizabeth I was the only queen of England and the United Kingdom who did not have a husband.
USAF Col. Rick Husband, after whom the airport in his native Amarillo, TX is named, was the commander of STS-107, the final and catastrophic flight of the space shuttle Columbia. He had been the pilot of *Discovery *on STS-96, the first mission to dock with the International Space Station.
The official Washington State folk song is “Roll On, Columbia, Roll on”.
George Washington was only 22 and a colonel of the Virginia militia when he was assigned to lead an ill-fated expedition to warn the French to leave the Ohio River valley.
George Washington Carver was kidnapped as a tiny infant, along with his mother and sister, in the final full year that slavery was legal. He was recovered by his mother’s owner, but the fate of his mother and sister has never been learned.
When Lord Cornwallis feigned illness to avoid attending the October 1781 surrender ceremony after the siege of Yorktown, Gen. George Washington refused to accept the surrender of Cornwallis’s deputy, but sent him to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, who had earlier been forced to surrender Charleston, S.C. to the British.