Post a true but little known fact about someone famous, living or dead.....Part 5

[red dog 1]

Link to Part 4 + link to Parts 1, 2 and 3
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181081401

[dameatball]

1. Paul Revere was almost court-martialed.

[YessirAtsaFact]

2. Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly

Creator of “Shoe” cartoon played the banjo

[Heartstrings]

3. Tom Cruise's daughter, Suri

was loosely named after his birthplace, Syracuse, NY.....

[red dog 1]

4. Harlan Ellison has published more than 1,700 short stories

[TlalocW]

5. Vincent Price met one of his wives in a cemetery

Appropriate.

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[TexasBushwhacker]

46. He was also a serious art collector

and felt that all people should be able to own original art. Sears worked with him to create the Vincent Price Collection. Original works cost $10 to $3000 and could be purched on an installment plan.

https://www.artistsnetwork.com/artist-life/vincent-price-sells-gallery-paintings-sears/

[TlalocW]

47. He was also a gourmet chef

The guy was pretty classy.

TlalocW

[Sticky]

6. Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order)

Is the daughter of 1950's sex symbol Jane Mansfield. She was asleep in the back seat of the car the night of the horrific car crash that killed her mother.

I didn't read all the postings so I hope this isn't a repeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariska_Hargitay

[red dog 1]

11. Thanks for that

She and her brothers are lucky to be alive after that terrible car crash.

I knew about her being the daughter of Jayne Mansfield, and I liked her on "Law and Order"

I didn't know about her swimming with the dolphins incident, or the Joyful Heart Foundation...

Very interesting!

[jalan48]

21. In keeping with the theme Jane Mansfield's IQ was purported to be 149 or genius level.

[Totally Tunsie]

70. Her father was Mickey Hargitay...

Mr. Universe 1955 and an actor also. Handsome dude.

[First Speaker]

7. Al Jolson wanted to play Porgy in the original production of "Porgy and Bess"

[Snellius]

8. Thoreau was narcoleptic

"He inherited his mother’s family’s illness of narcolepsy. Thoreau called narcolepsy “the demon that is said to haunt the Jones family, hovering over their eyelids with wings steeped in the juice of poppies.” Though Thoreau complained he was troubled mainly while reading and writing, he also put the illness to use in recovering his dreams."

http://www.tarcherbooks.net/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-henry-david-thoreau/

[zanana1]

14. I didn't know that about Thoreau...

He lived in the era before automobiles, but those horses must have been confused.

[TlalocW]

48. Thoreau wasn't quite the independent guy living out in the wilderness

Every Sunday he headed back to town so his mom could do his laundry and cook him Sunday dinner.

TlalocW

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

53. Thoreau could afford to live the simple life

His family owned the largest pencil factory in the US, and were millionaires (in 1840 dollars).

[gladium et scutum]

9. Union General George H. Thomas

aka "The Rock of Chickamauga" purchased a slave woman as a housekeeper in 1858, while stationed in Texas. The woman remained a slave in the Thomas household until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. She continued to work for the Thomas family, this time for wages, for several years afterward.

[Aristus]

10. Voltaire's last words.

French writer and humanist Voltaire was a life-long atheist in a time when being an atheist could get you executed. He lived a long life, and during his final illness, his family stationed a priest at his bedside, hoping for a last minute conversion.

As the hour of Voltaire's death approach, the priest thundered at him: "Do you renounce Satan?"

Voltaire replied: "There, there, dear boy. This is no time for making enemies."

[red dog 1]

12. Harlan Ellison may be the most underrated American writer of the 20th century

[First Speaker]

17. Agreed. He's up there with Poe or Hemingway...

...as far as I'm concerned. I remember reading Dangerous Visions when I was 14, and thinking that he was either God or Satan...or maybe both...

[red dog 1]

13. Jay Leno is dyslexic

[phylny]

64. As is Patrick Dempsey. He has said it made auditioning horrible for him

as he had to memorize everything, and couldn't handle an impromptu script read.

[red dog 1]

15. Before becoming an actor, Dennis Farina spent 19 years as a Chicago cop

[LeftInTX]

16. Kris Kristofferson is a Rhodes Scholar

[red dog 1]

18. Rep. Joe Kennedy lll (D-MA) is the grandson of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy

and at age 37, he is serving his third term as Congressman for Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District, the same seat Barney Frank had for many years.

Fluent in speaking Spanish, Joe served in the Peace Corps for 2 years in the Puerto Plata province of Dominican Republic and helped create a union for the workers in the 27 Charcos reserve in the Rio Damajagua Park, among other activities while in the Peace Corps, including working as a Research Analyst for the United Nations Development Program.

He would make an excellent choice as a possible Vice-Presidential nominee in the 2020 Presidential election.

[Wolf Frankula]

19. While at Harvard Franklin D. Roosevelt

helped run a relief fund for Boer women and children in British concentration camps.

Wolf

[red dog 1]

20. Art Bell died of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

He was 72

[jalan48]

22. Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham drank 40 shots of vodka the night he died.

Like poet Dylan Thomas he choked to death on his own vomit.

[red dog 1]

23. Jimi Hendrix also choked to death on his own vomit, after consuming copious amounts of wine

and sleeping pills.

AC/DC lead vocalist Bon Scott supposedly died the same way.
["Many claim, as with Bonham, Scott died choking on his own vomit]

[red dog 1]

24. John Bonham decided to have 16 shots of vodka for BREAKFAST , and went on drinking the rest of

the day [Sept. 24, 1980]

[jalan48]

27. Pretty rough way to go

[red dog 1]

25. Mama Cass died of heart failure

The urban rumor that she choked to death on a ham sandwich is false.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

26. Charles Lindberg was from Little Falls, Minnesota......

[red dog 1]

28. Wasn't Bullwinkle Moose from Frostbite Falls?

[riverwalker]

51. And Lindbergh is buried in Maui

His request. In a little church yard on the road to Hana.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

52. Will have to stop and visit while there.

[red dog 1]

29. Although Keith Moon was known for kicking over his drums, he did so very carefully, and the drum

kit rarely needed repairs; but stands and foot pedals frequently had to be replaced.

[Adrahil]

30. Star Trek's Scotty.... actor Jame Doohan....

Had only 9 fingers. He lost the 10th on D-day to machine gun fire. He was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces.

[red dog 1]

31. Thom Hartmann has published more than 20 books

He now lives in Portland, Oregon

[red dog 1]

32. Abby Elliott, a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 2008-2012, was the first SNL

cast member to be a child of a past cast member - her father, Chris Elliott (son of Bob Elliott), who became an SNL cast member in 1994.

[red dog 1]

33. Ted Williams served as a pilot in World War ll ..and in the Korean War as well

He received his gold Naval Aviator wings and his commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 2, 1944.
He served as a flight instructor at the Naval Air Station Pensacola teaching young pilots how to fly the complicated F4U Corsair fighter plane

During the Korean War, on Feb 16, 1953, Williams was flying as the "wingman" for John Glenn as part of a 35-plane raid against a tank and infantry training school just south of Pyongyang, North Korea.
During the mission, a piece of flak knocked out his hydraulics and electrical systems, causing Williams to "limp" back to K-13, a U.S. Air Force airfield close to the front lines.
The plane burst into flames soon after he landed.
For his actions of this day, he was awarded the Air Medal with Gold Stars.

Ted Williams likely would have exceeded Babe Ruth's Home Run Record if he had not served in the military.

John Glenn described Williams as one of the best pilots he ever knew, while his wife Annie described him as the most profane man she ever met.

[red dog 1]

34. Noam Chomsky once wrote an introduction to a "No Holocaust" book (written by Faurisson)

And according to progressive author and historian Michael Parenti, Chomsky claims that anyone who doesn't believe the Warren Commission Report's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of JFK is merely a "deluded believer in Camelot"

[gratuitous]

35. Floyd Crosby, director of photography on the 1952 movie "High Noon"

Floyd is the father of David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash.

[red dog 1]

36. There is a place called the "Isle of Muck"

It's the smallest island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland - population, 27.

[Nuclear Pyle]

37. Bluesman Hound Dog Taylor

had six fingers on his left hand. Dunno if it helped his chording or not.

[NNadir]

38. Barbara Bush's maiden name, Pierce, derives from her relation to President Franklin Pierce.

Before her son, he, Franklin Pierce, was considered one of the worst Presidents in US history, falling only behind James Buchanan, under whom the country came apart.

It appears that James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce and George W. Bush are about to move up the ladder from "worst," which is terrifying.

[red dog 1]

39. Crappy Republican actor James Woods tweeted a violent lie yesterday about Maxine Waters

(I never liked the bastard anyway).

Yesterday, June 24, he tweeted:

"Now that a United States Congresswoman has called for harassment against Republicans and the inevitable violence that will come of it, I urge all of you to a) get armed, and b) vote..Your life literally depends on it"

Rep. Waters didn't call for "harassment against Republicans"....Woods and his fuhrer, Trump, are both Republican liars.
And his call to "get armed" is as violent as you can get (unlike Maxine's call to peaceful protest)
Rep. Waters called for people to peacefully protest against members of Shitler's cabinet if they see them in public.
Unlike Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer and that asshole David Axelrod, I SUPPORT Maxine Waters' call for peaceful protest of Trump cabinet members if they go out in public, which they rarely do anyway.

[NNadir]

41. Robert F. Kennedy Worked for Grand Inquisitor Joe McCarthy and Chose Him for Godfather...

...For His Daughter.

His brother, John F. Kennedy, was the only Democratic Senator to not vote to censure McCarthy in 1954 for his red scare baiting, ostensibly because he had back trouble and missed the vote.

McCarthy dated two of JFK's and RFK's sisters.

[canetoad]

42. Here's a twofer

During the 1902 season of La Boheme at Covent Garden, up-and-coming tenor, Enrico Caruso, during “Che gelida manina, se la lasci riscaldar” (Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it here in mine) pressed a hot italian sausage into the hand of Dame Nellie Melba.

Melba threw it across the stage and hissed, "You filthy dago."

[red dog 1]

43. Caruso was staying at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on April 18, 1906,

which was the morning of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Afterwards, Caruso vowed to "never again set foot in San Francisco"

[red dog 1]

44. In 1965, Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett joined a band known as the "Tea Set"

(sometimes spelled T-Set)

When they found themselves playing a concert with another band of the same name, Barrett came up with "The Pink Floyd Sound"..also known as "The Pink Floyd Blues Band"
and later "The Pink Floyd"

Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett on January 6, 1946, and died on July 7, 2006.
The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.

[ProfessorGAC]

45. The Drummer In Smashing Pumpkins. . .

. . .joined my band as the first band he was ever in. I knew he was going to be stud.

[TlalocW]

49. Chico Marx's Italian accent

Was born of necessity. He had to use it (and other accents) to safely get to his piano lessons as a kid, as he crossed many different ethnic neighborhoods who weren't too welcoming of outsiders.

TlalocW

[red dog 1]

50. Interesting!

Many people pronounce his name "Cheeco"..which is incorrect.
It's "Chick-O" and he got that name because he was a "ladies man" who liked "chicks"

[Mendocino]

54. Charles Dierkop

were in the only two films that both Paul Newman and Robert Redford co-starred in. He was Flat Nose Curry in Butch/Sundance. In The Sting he was Floyd, a right hand man of Doyle Lonnegan.

[red dog 1]

55. "The Sting" was a great movie!

[red dog 1]

56. In October, 1980, White House CIA officer Donald Gregg stole President Carter's briefing papers

for his second debate with Ronald Reagan.
Gregg copied the briefing notes, then gave them to Reagan's campaign manager William Casey, who gave them to George Will who used them to coach Reagan before the second presidential debate.
During the first presidential debate Reagan looked lost and confused, with no teleprompter in front of him telling him what to say, so President Carter clearly won that debate.
However, using President Carter's stolen briefing papers for the 2nd debate, George Will was able to "coach" Reagan, so Ronnie knew IN ADVANCE what President Carter was going to say, before Carter even said it. ["Well, there you go again!"]
This was how Reagan "won" that 2nd presidential debate in October, 2018, and he went on to defeat Carter 2 weeks later in a very close election.

Donald Gregg, William Casey, Ronald Reagan and George Will all should have been arrested and tried for Conspiracy to Commit Treason.
Stealing top secret presidential papers is treason!

[red dog 1]

57. Bill Murray's first starring role was in "Meatballs"

[MountCleaners]

58. Hootie and the Blowfish got those names from real people

My brother's friend was roommates with Darius Rucker in college. People think he's the "Hootie" in Hootie and the Blowfish. In reality, the friends used to have nicknames for everyone, and two people were called Hootie and "the Blowfish" respectively. My brother met Darius Rucker before he was famous, but he heard his voice and thought it was beautiful. He met "Hootie", too.

[red dog 1]

59. Mickey Hart started playing drums at an early age, and his father owned Hart Music store in

San Carlos, CA.
The Grateful Dead bought their original amps & equipment there.
When walking into the small music store, one couldn't help but notice that the upper shelf was full of trophies won by Hart from various drum competitions.
Mickey gave drum lessons there until early 1966, when he began hanging out with the Grateful Dead, who then lived in a large rented house in the woods of La Honda, CA...just west of Redwood City.
Soon after, they moved to a large house in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco

[nolabear]

60. Bill Nighy suffers from Dupuytren's contracture and can't open his hands.

The last two fingers are always folded. It’s gotten worse over the years and he’s such a good actor he hides it well, until you notice.

[red dog 1]

61. John Wesley Hardin knew the man he shot because he was snoring

[red dog 1]

62. Legendary record producer Leonard Chess' was born Lejzor Czyz, while his brother Phil Chess

was born Fiszel Czyz.
Together they co-founded Chess Records.

Both were born in Motal, Poland [now in Belarus]

[red dog 1]

63. The Bryan Adams backing band is sometimes referred to as "The Dudes of Leisure"

[red dog 1]

65. John Cleese has been married four times

His first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in "Fawlty Towers"

[red dog 1]

66. Jerry Garcia played steel guitar on the Brewer & Shipley song, "One Toke Over the Line"

[JCMach1]

67. Christopher Lee made a heavy metal album

And should have a movie made about his life...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee

[red dog 1]

68. While serving in the United States Marine Corps, Steve McQueen saved the lives of five other

Marines during an Arctic exercise, pulling them from a tank before it broke through ice into the sea.

[Totally Tunsie]

69. Carrie Fisher will appear in Star Wars IX as Princess Leah.

Special permission was received from her daughter for the use of previously unused footage from SW VIII.