[Ever hear a kid read lines from a script? If he’s memorized them, there’s half a chance they’ll sound natural, but reading straight off the page? No.]
On-Game:
In Old English, Gēola (“Yule”) referred to the period corresponding to January and December; the cognate Old Norse Jól was later the name of a pagan Scandinavian holiday which merged with Christmas around 1000.
Actor Yul Brynner, a Swiss citizen, was naturalized as a US citizen, but in June 1965, he renounced his US citizenship at the US Embassy in Berne, Switzerland for tax reasons. He had lost his tax exemption as an American resident abroad by working too long in the US and would have been bankrupted by his tax and penalty debt.
The first 1040 tax form was only four pages long, including instructions.
D’oh! :smack: See? I knew it had to be there. But I went word by word and still spaced it out.
In play: The first income tax was in England in 1404.
England Air Force Base was actually near Alexandria, Louisiana. It was named for WW2 fighter ace Lt. Col. John B. England, who died in the Cold War in France steering his F-86 away from a school building instead of bailing out.
Louisiana still refers to the Napoleonic Code in its state law.
Louisiana designated mahaw jelly and Louisiana sugar cane jelly as official state jellies in 2003.
Singapore law provides for caning as a punishment only to males under 50. When used by schools as a disciplinary measure, only boys may receive it, while girls get extended detention instead. A rattan cane four feet long and half an inch thick is used for prison and judicial canings. It is at about twice as thick as the canes used in the school and military contexts. The cane is soaked in water beforehand to make it more flexible and prevent it from splitting during use.
I love Wiki … 
Huey Long, governor of and then U.S. senator from Louisiana, was once sitting next to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a meal at Hyde Park. The President’s mother, who had a strong personality and no hesitation in sharing her opinions, asked in a stage whisper, “Who is that awful man?”
Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, was a Royalist during the English Civil War, supporting Charles I and Charles II, who appointed Hyde as Lord Chancellor upon the Restoration. He was the grandfather of two queens, Mary II and Anne.
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan’s Island was a former Miss Nevada, whose competition for that honor included Raquel Welch.
Cinematic sexbomb Raquel Welch got two shoutouts on Monty Python’s Flying Circus. A government official said, “I’d like to tax Raquel Welch… and I suspect she’d tax me,” and a schoolboy told a smarmy interviewer, “I’d like to have Raquel Welch dropped on top of me.”
Raquel Welch played “Lust” (of the Seven Deadly Sins) in Peter Cook & Dudley Moore’s film Bedazzled.
Harris Milstead, better known as Divine, played the co-lead along with Tab Hunter in Lust in the Dust. Half of the treasure map was tattooed on the ass of each one. Despite Divine and the style of the film, John Waters was not involved with it.
Pink Floyd members Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason met while attending the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture.
The Mason’s Apron is a pipe tune, associated with Irish Protestants. It is not advisable to play it in sectarian settings.
An avowed pacifist, English actor James Mason refused to perform military service during World War II, a stance that caused his family to break with him for many years.
I remember seeing that a few years ago! A very early role for her IIRC.
James Mason played a vampire’s familar in the Seventies TV movie based on Stephen King’s novel 'Salem’s Lot.
Brooklyn-born and -raised Larry King was named “King of Brooklyn” at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 1995.
George Washington wore a mason’s apron when he laid the cornerstone for the US Capitol. The unfinished pyramid on the back of the Great Seal of the United States is similarly a masonic symbol.