Denzel Washington has a BA in journalism from Fordham University.
Fordham Brewing, founded in 1703, is Maryland’s oldest brewery.
John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor was a novel about Ebeneezer Cooke, who was named poet laureate of Maryland and traveled there around 1700, writing the poem that gave the book its title. There actually was a poet by that name in Maryland at the time, and who wrote a poem of that name (which is extensively quoted by Barth). He was not actually named poet laureate.
“Ebeneezer” means “stone of the help” in Hebrew. It was the name Samuel gave to a stone marker he set up to commemorate a victory by the Israelites against the Philistines.
There’s not an extra “e” in the middle: Ebenezer (given name) - Wikipedia
Samuel Clemens helped the cancer-stricken former general and President Ulysses S. Grant get his memoirs published, which made a huge financial difference for his family after he died.
Picky, picky, picky! 
On-Game:
Denis Lebel is the President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.
In the musical Les Miserables, the waif Gavroche identifies his territory in Paris as stretching “Dom St. Denis to St. Michel”; in the movie of the musical and in the novel he lives in the remains of the plaster elephant near the Bastille.
Brooklyn-born and -raised Dom DeLuise was named “King of Brooklyn” at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 1984.
Don King, long before he became known as a wild-haired boxing promoter, was a petty criminal in Cleveland, Ohio. He once killed a guy, but was pardoned by Gov. Jim Rhodes.
The closest friend Tony Stark (Iron Man) has in the military is Jim Rhodes, who eventually dons his own power suit and goes to battle as War Machine. Terrence Howard and Don Cheadle have played him in the recent Iron Man films.
The closest Saskatchewan provincial election was in 1999, when the New Democratic Party won 29 seats, the Saskatchewan Party won 25 seats, and the Liberals won 4, giving them the balance of power. The NDP retained power by forming a coalition government with the Liberals.
Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada where the people do not have to change their clocks when there is a time change. The province stays on Central Standard Time all year round.
Prosecutions in Canada are not brought in the name of the people, but rather in the name of Her Majesty the Queen. Prosecuting lawyers are termed Crown counsel or Crown prosecutors, and are usually simply referred to in Court as “the Crown.”
My favorite line from Iron Man 3, when Tony asked Jim what he was up to, and Jim nonchalantly replied as he kicked down a door: “Walking and talking. Makin’ friends in Pakistan.”
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American Federal prosecutions are brought in the name of the United States of America. Prosecutions in Ohio are brought, depending upon the charging authority, either in the name of the State of Ohio or of the locality.
The famous Federal Express (FedEx) logo, with the “negative space subiminal arrow” between the E & X, was designed by Lindon Leader in 1994, a Senior Design Director at Landor Associates, San Francisco.
In 1842, six years before the discovery at Sutter’s Mill started the California Gold Rush, Francisco Lopez made a find of his own in the Santa Clarita Valley. Hundreds of prospectors hurried to the Santa Clarita area, and more than 1,000 pounds of gold were mined before the lode ran dry in 1847. (The source for this is the Los Angeles Times, but I’m surprised it’s not better known.)
Whoops! Meant to include a link for that.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, and his predecessor Ahnuld S., both dated (and in Ahnuld’s case married) women who were famous in their own right - pop waif Linda Rondstadt and broadcast journalist Maria Shriver, respectively.
Linda Lovelace’s nickname in high school was Miss Holy Holy, because she kept her dates at a safe distance.
Deep Throat was released in 1972. By 1980, Linda Lovelace (Linda Susan Boreman) had joined the feminist anti-pornography movement.