'Orienting' a map, and the practice of 'orienteering' comes from the fact that East, or the Orient, was placed at the top of some early maps. Many medieval European maps pointed towards Jerusalem.
Why do we use ‘o’clock’ when telling the time? When mechanical clocks were first introduced in the 14th Century, the most common way to tell time was using a sundial - which often showed a different time than the mechanical clock. Saying ‘of the clock’ (later shortened to ‘o’clock’) let someone know which time you meant.
As a native German speaker, it's natural that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to lend his voice to the German language version of The Terminator. However, the studio refused. Germans and Austrians consider Arnold's native accent very ‘rural’. So it'd be difficult to suspend disbelief to hear an all-powerful death machine from the future who sounds like a hillbilly.