To what does the title of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (1926) refer?

The title of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars refers to the banner of the Irish Citizens Army, of which O’Casey was once a member.

The play concerns members of the army before and during the Easter Rising in 1916.

With whom does Charlie Chaplin share a cooked boot in The Gold Rush (1925)? Charlie Chaplin shared a cooked boot in The Gold Rush (1925) with Mack Swain, playing Big Jim McKay.
Why is the head groomsman at a wedding called the best man and why isn’t there a best woman? The phrase best man is of Scottish origin and recalls the days when a bridegroom simply kidnapped the woman he wanted as his bride. To help him in that task, the groom enlisted…
What was the first movie to win all five top Oscars? It Happened One Night (1934), from Harry Cohn's then "Poverty Row" studio, Columbia, was the first movie to win all five top Oscars. In addition to winning the Oscar for Best Picture, the…
What did the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrate? Formally conceived to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago also served to establish Chicago as a cosmopolitan international urban center. To plan the…
How many newspapers did William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) own? The man who had been expelled from Harvard, William Randolph Hearst, bought or started 42 newspapers. Only a handful remained by the time of his death in 1951.
On what novel is George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess (1935) based? George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess is based on Porgy (1925), by Du Bose Heyward. Heyward and his wife, Dorothy, won a Pulitzer prize for their dramatic version of the novel. Porgy is…