Misc: what piece stands to the left or right of a rook at the start of a chess game?

Questions

The first guided missile launched from nuclear powered submarine is launched from the USS Halibut.?

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna.?

Robert Frost (in San Francisco, CA), poet, born.?

The Eastman Film Company manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.?

Poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey.?