No Christopher, it was not Sean Connery who was the first James Bond but American Barry Nelson. He did it in 1954 in a television adaption of Casino Royale in which Bond was occasionally called Jimmy. Nelson died in 2007 at the age of 89 while traveling through Bucks County.
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Who was George Atzerodt? He was the guy who was supposed to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson while John Wilkes Booth was killing Lincoln. He got drunk instead. He was still hung for the conspiracy anyway.
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Narcissus papyraceus is a flower named for paper. It’s color is “paper white“. It is the birth flower for December.
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Happy anniversary. The Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was sunk on Nov. 29, 1944 by the U.S. submarine Archerfish 10 days after it was commissioned. It took four years to build the carrier.
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The Chrysanthemum is Japan’s national flower.
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Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen inoculated himself against smallpox while living in Salisbury, Ct. He was fined by the town as legal permission for inoculations was then required.
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Yes Anthony, the Lincoln Highway, which was the first coast-to-coast paved highway, opened in 1913. Mull that the next time you’re motoring on Route 30.
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No Miranda, Macy’s did not have the first Thanksgiving Day parade. The first one was by Gimbels in Philadelphia in 1920 four years before Macy’s. Gimbels was a department store too, but before your time.

