Post a true but little-known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- (Part 4)

[red dog 1]

Part 3 + links to Parts 1 and 2
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181072311

[jberryhill]

1. Pat Nixon had a tattoo

[red dog 1]

2. John Dean's first wife, Karla Ann Hennings, was the daughter of a Democratic senator,

Sen. Thomas Hennings (D-Missouri)
Dean never met Hennings, because He died before Dean married his daughter.
Dean and Karla Hennings were married in 1962 and divorced in 1970.
They had one child, John Wesley Dean lV

[Lochloosa]

3. Dolph Lundgren received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT

Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of 3rd dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980-81. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston.

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

[dhol82]

31. Wow, did not know that.

Thought he was just dumb muscle.

[red dog 1]

4. Jon Ritter was Tex Ritter's son

[elleng]

5. Hedy Lamarr was an inventor.

At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.[5] Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology, and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.[6][7][8] This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

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

[red dog 1]

6. Wow!

Very interesting!

[elleng]

8. REALLY!

Saw a documentary about her this week, and happy to share here.

[samnsara]

29. yep... i remember reading that!

[red dog 1]

7. NASA has engaged in a cover-up regarding "The Face On Mars"

Source:
Collective Evolution.com
July 26, 2017

EX NASA SCIENTISTS SHARE CONCEALED INFORMATION ABOUT THE FACE & PYRAMID ON MARS


In 1976, the United States sent a pair of space probes, known as Viking 1 and Viking 2, to Mars.
Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975, and Viking 2 was launched in September of the same year.

Both probes photographed the surface of Mars from orbit, and one studied the planet from the surface.

The first one touched down on the surface of Mars on July 20, 1976, and the second a couple of months later.

The main objectives of the mission were to obtain high-resolution images of Mars, to look for any evidence of life, and to learn more about the structure and composition of the atmosphere.

More + photos,
Google:
"Ex NASA Scientists Share Concealed Information About The Face & Pyramid Found On Mars"

[Aristus]

9. De-bunked. In 2003-2004, NASA obtained much higher resolution pics of the site.

Revealing that the 'face' is just a big rock:

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

17. I bet you you

are the type that tells kids there's no Santa Claus too. Tsk tsk. If you haven't made some determination about life on Mars by now, you aren't paying attention. I've seen way too many questionable photos to ALL be coincidences. dt is the president, and you think it's unquestionably possible that the govt didn't want us to see the face on Mars? Just sayin. I've seen far more that looks more convincing. When it comes to space and other planets, everything is suspect.

[red dog 1]

10. At age 13, noted author Harlan Ellison ran away from home & joined a traveling circus..

..called a "Gilly"..which featured freak shows and phony "games of chance"

He later wrote a short story about it called "Gopher in the Gilly"

[red dog 1]

11. Henry Winkler's first TV work was appearing in TV commercials - one year he did more than 30.

By supporting himself doing the TV commercials, he was able to do theater work for free at Manhattan Theater Club.

[Leith]

12. Football Player Alex Karras

did a golf charity event for cystic fibrosis in Flint, MI.

The family across the street from me met him at the event.

[red dog 1]

13. Singer Mimi Farina is Joan Baez's sister

Her husband was writer and musician Richard Farina

[samnsara]

28. and joan wrote Sweet Sir Galahad in his memory.....

...love that song...

[red dog 1]

14. While in high school, Bob Dylan dated a girl named Echo

[red dog 1]

15. Jerry Garcia attended 10th grade at Balboa High School in San Francisco, where he often got into

trouble for skipping classes and fighting.
Consequently, in 1959, his mother moved the family to get Garcia to stay out of trouble, to Cazadero, a small town near the Russian River, 90 miles north of San Francisco, in Sonoma County.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

16. I personally

am watching Paleface W Bob Hope. I also have Son of Paleface ready to go after. Comedy Cowboy Classics. That's a fact nobody knows about me and I'm famous....ahem.

[red dog 1]

18. John Dean ruled out Assistant FBI Director Mark Felt as possibly being "Deep Throat" from the

Watergate scandal.
At first, he thought Deep Throat was a "made-up amalgam" of different sources that Bob Wodward had created; then he changed his mind, and thought it was a real source inside the White House.

[Collimator]

19. William the Conqueror

Exploded at his own funeral.

Once, while on the campaign trail on behalf of another Democratic candidate, Ted Kennedy had a reporter throw up on his shoes.

[red dog 1]

20. Bryan Adams has been nominated 5 times for Golden Globe Awards and 3 times for Academy

Awards for his songwriting for films.

[red dog 1]

21. Roseanne Barr wasn't born, she was hatched

In early November, 1952, Helen and Jerome Barr were looking for pine cones near an Ostrich farm outside Salt lake City when they saw an unattended ostrich egg, which they immediately picked up and took home.

After they returned home, Helen and Jerome (Jerry) took turns sitting on the egg until it hatched

To their surprise, a human-like "ostrich-girl" emerged from the egg demanding to be fed.

The rest is history.

[red dog 1]

22. In 2015, Alyssa Milano endorsed Bernie Sanders for POTUS

Also, she has dyslexia

[red dog 1]

23. John Dean concluded that "Deep Throat" was Alexander Haig

after many months of investigation.

[NNadir]

24. The Six Half Brothers and Sisters of a major BMW executive Were Murdered by His Mother...

...and Step Father.

This was the Nazi Harald Quandt, pictured with his mother and step father, Joseph Goebbels.

Here's the "happy" family pictured:



Herbert's the one in the Nazi uniform.

The woman, Joanna Magda (Quandt) Goebbels, murdered, with the assistance her husband, Joseph Goebbels, all of the children in this picture on May 1, 1945, (except Harald Quandt) and then went up to the garden from the bunker in which they were living whereupon "Dr." and Mrs Goebbels killed themselves.

Her only survivor was her son by her first marriage, Harald, who went on with other family members (his father's family) to salvage the wreck of BMW and build it into a major corporation, beloved by wealthy people today.

A 2007 documentary uncovered the Nazi past of the entire Quandt family and their use of concentration camp slaves during World War II.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

58. Actually, that's a Luftwaffe sergeant's uniform n/t

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

59. I only just noticed, but Goebbels had a quite genuine PhD in German literature. n/t

[red dog 1]

25. In the early 1970s, Tom Waits toured with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention as a support act,

but found the Zappa audiences hostile.
While on stage he was jeered at and pelted with fruit.
Although he liked the Mothers of Invention band members, he found Zappa himself intimidating.

[dameatball]

26. Fredick Douglass and Billie Jean King won the seniors tennis championship.

[samnsara]

27. charles manson was a songwriter and wrote a song for the Beach boys

...i just found that out this morning!

[red dog 1]

32. That's true - The song was called "Cease to Exist," was recorded by the Beach Boys & renamed

"Never Learn Not to Love"
It was released as a B-sided single in 1968 without Manson's credit.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

30. Actress Karen Black was extremely nearsighted.

I met her at an event once, and it was clear she couldn't see anything more than two feet away from her.

[SonofDonald]

33. Eddie Albert the Actor was awarded the Bronze Star

For Valor during WWII

He was a Navy Coxswain during the battle for Tarawa island in the South Pacific, he delivered marines to the beach under heavy enemy fire and WENT BACK numerous times during the battle to evacuate wounded men, not once or twice but many times.

That man had courage that could be measured in gross tonnage.

Then there's Jimmy Stewart who became a Brigadier General in the strategic air command and flew B17's to the Supersonic B58 Hustler.

The greatest generation.

[cyclonefence]

35. My father was a tail gunner on a B-17

and Jimmy Stewart made a publicity visit to his base in England. Somebody brought a bunch of boy scouts into the cockpit; Stewart growled "Get those goddam kids out of here."

Two degrees of separation, baby.

[SonofDonald]

36. When men were men and had a mission

True that.

Nothing wrong with our service members today but those were serious guys.

[NNadir]

60. Jimmy Stewart retired from the Air Force reserve as a Brigadier General.

[cyclonefence]

34. Jack Palance wrote poetry

http://jackpalanceart.com/you-dont-know-jack-painterpoet/

[red dog 1]

37. Interesting! Thanks for that link

He also was an accomplished painter, as is mentioned in the link.

In the late 1930s, he became a boxer.
Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, he reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories, with 12 knockouts.

[red dog 1]

38. The early 1990s sit-com, "Get a Life," starring Chris Elliott, is now considered a "cult classic"

The show was canceled in it's second season, despite being the highest-rated new comedy on Fox it's first season.

[smirkymonkey]

48. I actually loved that show!

I would love to find re-runs of it somewhere.

Also, have you ever seen "Cabin Boy" w/ Chris Elliot? Another cult classic. So ridiculous, but hilarious.

[red dog 1]

49. Haven't seen "Cabin Boy"..but it's going on my wish list

Meanwhile, Amazon.com has all 35 episodes of Get a Lfe on 5 DVDs for $37.12

[smirkymonkey]

53. Hmmm, tempting!

I found Cabin Boy on Amazon and can rent for $3.99. I think I'll have to watch it again.

[red dog 1]

50. Forgot to ask you, since you're also a fan of "Get a Life"

Do you have a favorite episode?

Mine is the one where Bob Elliott takes Chris & his married friend camping with him, then proceeds to deliberately lose them.
They look for Chris' dad with no luck and eat psychedelic berries, which makes them both hallucinate.

The other one I remember was when Chris buys a "waterproof" watch that turns out not to be waterproof, so he goes back to the store for a refund.

[smirkymonkey]

52. Yes, I liked the one where he became a male model and named himself "Sparkles" and

he had this rival called "Sapphire". They make him model with his shirt off as the "fat" model, while Sapphire is the "after" model and he gets all indignant and says he is not a "prostitute model". Dejected, he leaves but is still determined to become a runway model and comes back and forces himself back onto the runway. Everyone is appalled and he is just a disaster. Security comes in to drag him off but he thinks that everyone in the audience adores him and that it is his best work ever and that security is dragging him away to protect him from his crazed fans.

He was such an idiot, it was so funny! I wonder what he has been up to lately?

[red dog 1]

54. According to Wikipedia, he is currently starring as Roland Schitt in CBC Television's Schitt's Creek

He's also written three books, "spoofing history or pseudo-history"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Elliott

[red dog 1]

39. "All in the Family" was the most watched TV show in the country for 5 seasons (1971-1976)

[red dog 1]

40. Jim Garrison got a subpoena for Edgar Eugene Bradley, but CA Gov Ronald Reagan refused to

extradite him to New Orleans, LA
Garrison wanted to interview Bradley, who was part of the ex-CIA group that included Clay Shaw, Gordon Novel and others who knew Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Rustynaerduwell]

55. On his deathbed Garrison called for a priest and for his ex-wife, who was penniless.

He re-married her before he died so she could collect on his pension. She had left him years before for another man who took all of her money when he left her.

[red dog 1]

41. On Dec. 1, 1967, pop singer Jimmie Rogers suffered traumatic head injuries after the car he was

driving was stopped by an off-duty police officer near the San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles.
He had a fractured skull and required several surgeries.
Rogers had no specific memory of how he had been injured, remembering only that he had seen blindingly bright lights from a car pulling up behind him.
A few days later, the Los Angeles Police Department stated that off-duty LAPD officer Michael Duffy (later identified in the press as Richard Duffy) had stopped him for erratic driving, and that Rogers stumbled, fallen and hit his head.
In 1973, the Los Angeles City Council offered him a $200,000 settlement, which Rogers accepted

[ashling]

42. Approximately 2/3 of celebrities that I thought were dead

are not ... dead, that is ... though some may not even be actual "celebrities" ...

that is, their status as celebrities may be in question ... but they are still dead .. or not ... depending

[red dog 1]

43. It was because Paul McCartney knew the chords & words to "Twenty Flight Rock" that he became

a member of the Beatles.
John Lennon was so impressed that he invited McCartney to join his band The Quarrymen
("Twenty Flight Rock" was written by Eddie Cochran)

[red dog 1]

44. Harlan Ellison did not like Frank Sinatra, and the feeling was mutual.

For a truly great short story, Google:
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"

[red dog 1]

45. George McGovern flew 35 missions as a B-24 bomber pilot in WW ll,

[red dog 1]

46. Mary Anne Trump, mother of the billionaire who conspired with Putin to become president,

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did a lot of charitable work, including helping victims of cerebral palsy and other diseases, as well as being active in such groups as the Lighthouse for the Blind, the Salvation Army and other charities, and played an active role in the Women's Auxiliary of Jamaica Hospital and likewise at the Jamaica Day Nursery.

Too bad her obvious empathy for others wasn't passed down to her evil, narcissistic, selfish, racist, misogynistic, stupid son.

[red dog 1]

47. During The Sopranos' six seasons, cast members included 27 actors from Martin Scorsese's 1990

gangster film, "Goodfellas," ..including main cast members Loraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, and Tony Sirico, [who played Paulie Walnuts]

[kimbutgar]

51. Winston Churchill wanted to use biological weapons against the Nazi's but ended up slaughtering

the sheep they used as experimental subjects on an island of Gruinard off the west coast of Scotland. The efficacy of the chemicals stunned the Scientists, who told Churchill the chemical vollum 14578 would cause underrepresented deaths in Germany. The island of Gruniard is still uninhabitable to this day.

[lame54]

56. Stephen Malkmus is playing in Petaluma on July 17th...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181095292

[CTyankee]

57. Meryl Streep and John Cazale (who played Fredo in "The Godfather') were deeply in love, and when

he was diagnosed with terminal cancer she stayed with him constantly as his nurse until he died.
The last thing that poor man saw was her lovely face as she tended to him.