Thanks in part to his tremendously popular phonograph records, Italian singer Enrico Caruso, whose career spanned from 1895 to 1920, was one of the most famous personalities of his day and his fame has endured to the present. He is considered one of the first examples of a global media celebrity.
Caruso was in San Francisco, staying at the Palace Hotel the night after performing in Carmen, when the famous 1906 earthquake hit. His account of the disaster was widely published.
The 1906 Chicago Cubs won 116 regular season games, a record that stood alone for almost a century until tied by the Seattle Mariners in 2001. Neither team won the World Series, though.
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Bill Clinton of Arkansas, who left office in 2001, and Barack Obama of Illinois are the only two Democratic Presidents of the United States to be elected to and serve two full terms since Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.
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Musician Al Kooper used the pseudonym “Roosevelt Gook” when performing on other people’s albums (and sometimes his own).
Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist who prefers to remain anonymous. She has said that she was born in 1943 in Naples, the setting of many of her novels. Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.
In her 2018 novel Transcription, author Kate Atkinson’s lead character Juliet Armstrong regrets the closure of a favorite Italian restaurant in London when its owner and staff are interned by His Majesty’s Government at the start of World War II.
**Juliet ** is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 3 January 1986. It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. It is also designated Uranus XI. Juliet belongs to the Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita
Despite President Ronald Reagan’s personal popularity and extensive campaigning for incumbents of his own party, the Republicans lost control of the U.S. Senate in the 1986 election with the defeat of seven incumbent senators by Democratic challengers.
Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s *Assassins’/i] was originally scheduled for 2001 but was postponed to April 22, 2004, because the content was sensitive in light of the events of September 11, 2001.[8][9] After 101 performances at Studio 54, Assassins closed on July 18, 2004. Directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Jonathan Butterell, Neil Patrick Harris starred in the roles of The Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald, with Marc Kudisch in an extended role as The Proprietor., and Alexander Gemignani as John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate Ronadl Reagen… Michael Cerveris played John Wilkes Booth, for which he received a Tony Award.
John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was paralyzed by a shot fired by U.S. Army cavalry trooper Boston Corbett while Booth was hiding in a tobacco barn which had been set afire to force him out. Booth, mortally wounded, was dragged from the barn and carried by cavalrymen to the porch of a nearby farmhouse. His last words, as he looked at his hands, were “Useless! Useless!” The barn and farmhouse no longer stand.
The Oxford Apartments at 924 North 25th Street in Milwaukee where Jeffrey Dahmer had killed 12 of his victims, were demolished in November 1992. The site is now a vacant lot. Alternate plans to convert the site into either a memorial garden, a playground, or to reconstruct new housing have failed to materialize.
The TV shows “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” were set in Milwaukee. In fact, along Milwaukee’s RiverWalk is a “Bronze Fonze” statue depicting Henry Winkler’s character on “Happy Days.”
In May 1991, Milwaukee police were called by 2 women trying to help a young boy who was naked, bleeding and disoriented. Jeffrey Dahmer then showed up and claimed that the boy, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone, was actually his 19 year old lover. The police returned the boy to Dahmer despite the women’s protests; had they run a background check, they might have discovered that Dahmer was a sex offender on parole for molesting Sinthasomphone’s older brother.
The city of Milwaukie, Oregon was founded in the 1840s, and named after Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin city’s name was often spelled “Milwaukie” in that era, before the “Milwaukee” spelling became formally adopted.
Milwaukie, Oregon is the Dogwood City of the West, and is the birthplace of the Bing cherry.
Barack Obama was born the furthest west of any President of the United States; his birthplace was the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Robert Louis Stevenson spent several months in Hawaii from 1889 to 1893, meeting King Kalākaua and Queen Liliuokalani and befriending the young Princess Ka’iulani. He visited Molokai but did not meet Father Damien De Veuster, who had died the previous year. However, he was strongly impressed by eyewitness accounts of Damien’s life, and to address charges that he was “a coarse, dirty man”, who contracted leprosy due to “carelessness” he published Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu. Stevenson’s counterattack on Hyde was so vitriolic that he believed that he might be sued for libel.
The name similarity to The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is coincidental, as the Stevenson novel was published in 1886.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois was the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in both 1952 and 1956, but lost badly to Dwight D. Eisenhower each time. There were many in the party who supported his nomination in 1960, as well, but John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts secured the nomination without too much difficulty. As President, he named Stevenson to the post of US ambassador to the United Nations; Stevenson particularly distinguished himself during the Cuban Missile Crisis, effectively confronting the Soviet ambassador with evidence of Soviet missiles having been covertly placed in Cuba, despite Moscow’s private and public assurances to the contrary.