Wild Bill Hickok appeared on stage in Niagara Falls in the play “The Daring Buffalo Chasers of the Plains.” By all accounts he was terrible.
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No Miranda, you don’t stand behind a podium. You stand on a podium. The thing you stand behind is a lectern.
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William Penn’s first choice to name his American holdings was New Wales. He changed it to Sylvania after which King Charles II changed it to Pennsylvania in honor of Penn’s father who was instrumental in his restoration.
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The first recorded use of gray as a color name in the English language was in 700 A.D.
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Tomorrow is Jan. 10. What momentous event occurred 116 years ago on that date?
That’s right Anthony, the invention of the flashlight, or at least the approval of its patent. It was by the American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Co. which soon became The American Ever Ready Co., which after its acquisition by National Carbon Co. in 1914, had its products marketed as Everready.
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American Electrical Novelty.
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It was at Disney World where Richard Nixon infamously declared “I’m not a crook”.
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Manayunk is the Lenape word for “place to drink.” So if one is looking for a bar in the Philadelphia area . . .
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William of Newburgh was one of the most esteemed and learned men of the Middle Ages.
While his reputation is based on his histories, he delved into other matters.
Like zombies.
“It would not be easy to believe that the corpses of the dead should sally (I know not by what agency) from their graves,” he wrote. “And should wander about to the terror or destruction of the living, and again return to the tomb, which of its own accord spontaneously opened to receive them, did not frequent examples, occurring in our own times, suffice to establish this fact, to the truth of which there is abundant testimony.”
And the poor people back then didn’t even have shotguns to shoot them in the head.
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Edward Franklin Albee III, the favored playwright of 1960s academics, was the adopted grandson of Edward Franklin Albee II. Albee II ran vaudeville theaters.
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Professional cooks don’t use Teflon pans. They are too fragile. The pros use stainless steel and cast iron.