The Comics Code forced E.C. to shut down most of their profitable war and horror comic books. The zany, satirical “Mad” was among the few titles that survived. Publisher William Gaines turned it into a magazine so that it wouldn’t be subject to the Comics Code. And as long as he ran it, Mad had no advertisements.
The USAF fighter squadron in which Robert Wagner and Robert Mitchum served in 1958’s formulaic The Hunters also used “George” to mean “OK”. The movie used F-84F’s to simulate Chinese MiG-15’s, but the F-86’s used by the “good guys” were real.
Robert Wagner (not the actor mentioned above) represented New York as a United States Senator from 1927 to '49.
I’ve read a lot about the President and Mrs. Lincoln over the years, and have never heard that.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the first set of rules for the U.S. Senate when he was Vice President during John Adams’s administration.
The oldest functioning constitution in the world is that of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was originally written, almost single-handed, by John Adams.
Four U.S. states are technically commonwealths: Massachusetts, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are also commonwealths, but not in the same legal sense, as they are non-state U.S. territories.
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams has no permanent collection of art. All exhibits are temporary and are removed for newer ones (though they just added one that will be there for several years).
The former North Adams State College is now the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA).
John Quincy Adams was the only US President to serve in Congress following his term in executive office.
John Quincy Adams is also the only former President to appear as appellate counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court, when he argued - successfully - for the freeing of the rebellious slaves of the Amistad.
Quincy Jones wrote and performed a number called The Streetbeater in the early 1970s that is far better known as the Sanford and Son Theme. (It was not written for the series but chosen to be the theme later.)
Sanford Ballard Dole served as President of the Republic of Hawaii, then was the first territorial governor of the island grouping that eventually became the USA’s fiftieth state.
SC Governor Terry Sanford, now divorced, is free to visit his girlfriend in Argentina openly now.
Argentina still refers to the islands which it invaded in 1982 as the Malvinas; Great Britain, which recaptured them, still refers to them as the Falklands.
The Falklands War featured the only time that a nuclear submarine has sunk an enemy ship - the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack under its former name USS Phoenix, sunk by HMS Conqueror.
Though many people think of penguins as Antarctic birds, they are also found in Southern Africa, South America, and several parts of Oceania. The Falkland Islands are home to one of the world’s largest colonies of rockhopper penguins.
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, Sister Mary Stigmata (played by Kathleen Freeman) was referred to as “The Penguin.”
The Youngstown State University athletic teams are nicknamed Penguins.
Youngstown is in eastern Ohio. Ohio was the 17th state to join the Union, and is now led by Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democratic former Congressman first elected in 2006 and now seeing reelection.
Jim Tressel coached Youngstown State to two Division 1-AA national championships before moving up to Ohio State.