Starring Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who eyewitnesses notable events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler, the 2013 movie The Butler, an American historical fiction drama film directed by Lee Daniels
Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
After twice fleeing civil unrest in Nigeria, Amina Mama moved to South Africa, where she became director of the African Gender Institute and founding editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Feminist Africa.
Leopold Bloom is the protagonist in the novel Ulysses written by James Joyce which was published by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris.
Rogue is a fictional character appearing in most of the Marvel Comics X-Men and was played by Canadian-born New Zealand actress Anna Paquin in the X-Men movie franchise.
The acronym RSVP stands for a French phrase, "répondez, s'il vous plaît," which means "please reply."
The Lindsay pamphlet scandal occurred just before 2007 Australian Federal Election in which Liberal Party volunteers distributed fake election pamphlets, claiming to be from an Islamic organisation that was later found not to exist claiming the Labor Party candidate would support clemency for convicted terrorists and the construction of a mosque in the local area.
There are mermen on the pulpit of St James' Church, Cardington, in Shropshire, England.
Running from 1984 to 1989, Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series shot entirely in California and starring Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent down to earth "on probation", and his human companion Mark Gordon, played by Victor French, are given "assignments" by "The Boss" (God) where they are required to use their humanity, and sometimes a little bit of Divine intervention to help various troubled souls overcome their problems.
Scottish suffragette Jessie Stephen led the first of the "Scottish Outrages" involving attacks on pillar boxes in Glasgow in February 1913.
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