Muker is a village and civil parish at the western end of Swaledale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England. In the village is Swaledale Woollens, a shop of hand-crafted knitwear.

Jack and Ennis are two sheep herding cowboys in the 1997 short story titled Brokeback Mountain written by Annie Proulx. In the story, set in 1963, they develop an emotional relationship with each other. The story was made into a 2005 movie which received numerous critical acclaims including 3 Academy Awards.

Patrick Stewart played the part of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Although a warp core breach is a catastrophic failure of a starship's warp core, it has colloquial meanings as well, such as a drink with tequila, whiskey, and cinnamon schnapps (among others).

John Cleese wrote and starred in the 1988 heist comedy film A Fish Called Wanda. In the story, Wanda was an angelfish.

Anthony Hopkins starred in the movie The Silence of the Lambs as the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter. In the movie Lecter was a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. One of the 100 favorite movie quotes is his statement I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Angela Lansbury starred as Nellie Lovett in the 1979 Broadway musical Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, written by Stephen Sondheim. In the story, she bakes meat pies from the dead bodies murdered by barber Sweeny Todd. The original Broadway production won 8 Tony awards.

Lady Godiva was an English noblewoman who, according to a legend dating at least to the 13th century, rode naked, covered only in her long hair, through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband imposed on his tenants.

Jerry, Zev, and Gordon in 1971 founded the upscale coffee house Starbucks. Their first store was located in Seattle.

Great Britain's plan to soon join the EU ~ Great Britain made its first application to join the EU in 1961, but it wasn't until about 1971 that membership was fully negotiated, and on 1 January 1973 membership was formalized. Now in 2017, Great Britain is working to sever those ties.

Bagels have been around for a long time. In 1971, before they became popular, I introduced my college roommate to this bread made into a ring. As I remember, I brought to our college apartment an assortment of aromatic garlic, onion, and other varieties. After he asked "what's that smell" and I showed him, he declared "Jewish sole food."