Who's on the Million-Dollar Bill?
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Grover Cleveland, apparently.
(Seems to be borrowed from this.)
Interesting side note from the U.S. Treasury: Bills bearing the image of Santa Claus may be legal tender.
The Who2 Blog November 2007
Wife Wants Fossett Declared Dead
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The wife of adventurer Steve Fossett has asked a court to declare her husband legally dead.
"After nearly three months we feel now that we must accept that Steve did not survive," Peggy Fossett said in a statement.
Belated 60th Congratulations
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We missed it: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last week.
They were married on 20 November 1947, just two years after the end of World War II. The queen is the first English monarch to be married for 60+ years.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Running Mate?
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"Does Civilization Need Religion?" asked theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 80 years ago in the title of one of his many works on church and society.
Is This Man D.B. Cooper?
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New York magazine unmasks the latest candidate for jumpin' skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
(Of course, there have been others.)
It was 36 years ago this weekend. Here's a nifty Cooper timeline.
Kennedy and Sirhan
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Robert F. Kennedy would be 82 years old today. He was only 42 when he was shot to death by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968.
Sirhan has been in jail for almost 40 years, and he's still only 63 years old.
Three people born the same year as Bobby Kennedy: Paul Newman, Barbara Bush and Margaret Thatcher.
The First Lady Who Never Was
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Philosophy & First Ladies editor Paul Hehn has published a new profile of not-quite-First-Lady Anna Harrison.
You may recall that her husband, William Henry Harrison, died 30 days after giving a 100-minute whopper of an inaugural speech, in the snow, without a hat or coat. Anna was still back in Ohio, packing, when he died.
Read More »Wallace Shooter Released
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Arthur Bremer, would-be assassin of George Wallace, released from prison after 35 years.
See The Taxi Driver Connection for notes on Bremer's weird domino effect on Hollywood, Hinckley, and Reagan.
Norman Mailer, 1923-2007
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Norman Mailer has died at age 84.
The cause was reported as renal failure, though he also had lung surgery last month.
The leads from various obituaries:
Read More »The Gunpowder Plot, +402 Years
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Monday is Guy Fawkes Day.
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