Those who gathered to write the United States Constitution in Phildelphia in 1787 were actually expected just to revise the Articles of Confederation, but quickly decided to start anew.
Philadelphia was the capitol of the United States until Washington, D.C. was established in December, 1800.
(Are we comparing the Framers of the Constitution to chimpanzees? 
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Philadelphia, Mississippi is the closest modern town to the Nanih Wayah mound and cave, where Choctaw mythology had the tribe and its cousins, the Chickasaw, emerge from the earth.
Louisiana, Missouri, is on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Across the river is Rockport, Illinois.
Japan officially surrendered to the United States on August, 29, 1945, on board the battleship the USS Missouri.
The USS Missouri was an Iowa class battleship.
“Iowa Stubborn” is a song in The Music Man, where the characters sing about the personality of Iowans. Meredith Willson wrote it in homage to his Iowa boyhood.
Lorenzo Music provided the voice of Rhoda Morganstern’s unseen doorman Carlton, and later provided the voice of Garfield the Cat in cartoons.
Garfield creator Jim Davis and David Letterman knew each other as students at Ball State University.
After divorcing Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball married comedian Gary Morton, and remained with him until her death in 1989.
Dino, Desi, and Billy was a 60s group consisting of the sons of Dean Martin and Desi Arnaz, plus Billy Hinsche, a friend of theirs. The did cover versions of popular songs at the time, to some success but little critical acclaim.
Gail Martin was inducted into the Archery Hall of Fame in 2012.
In Val Kilmer’s movie The Saint, Simon Templar uses the real names of Catholic saints as his aliases, including Martin De Porres, Thomas More, and Oliver Plunkett.
The son of an African slave and her Spanish master, St. Martin de Porres became patron saint of mulattoes was much venerated in some churches in the “Free People of Color” history of New Orleans; that society produced Henriette DeLille, a light skinned free black woman nicknamed “servant to slaves” for her work in antebellum society who is currently in the process of being canonized.
Mulatto Spanish artist, and former slave, Juan de Pareja is best known to history as the subject of a portrait by Diego Velazquez, his former owner and the master of the studio in which he worked. De Pareja’s own most famous work is The Callng of St. Matthew, which hangs in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The 1966 winner of the Newbery Medal for children’s literature was I, Juan de Pareja. The novel was written by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño.
Beverly Cleary, winner of the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw amd Newbery Honors for Ramona and Her Father (1978); and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1982) was born on April 12, 1916 and is still alive (as of this writing).
Alice Cooper appeared briefly in the awful movie Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, playing the role of Father Sun.
The Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, was released in June, 1967. That same month, Muhammed Ali was convicted for refusing his draft orders for induction into the armed forces.
Future stars Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling were all regulars on The Mickey Mouse Club between 1994 and 1996.