If you have more than half of any torn piece of U.S. paper currency, the Treasury will give you a crisp new piece of cash to replace it.
The department store chain founded by James Cash Penney just had what market analysts are calling the worst quarter any retailer of any kind has ever suffered.
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Matsuzakaya Department Store in Tokyo celebrates 402 years in business this year.
Though Iva Toguri D’Aquino was the most famous, there were numerous women broadcasting anti-American propaganda via radio under the name “Tokyo Rose.”
William of Baskerville, the protagonist of Umberto Eco’s 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, is described in such a way that he strongly resembles Sherlock Holmes. One of Holmes’s most celebrated cases, of course, was “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
Actor William Shatner studied American Kenpo karate together with Steve McQueen and Elvis Presley.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are both Jewish.
Paula Abdul, Melissa Gilbert, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ally Sheedy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mandy Patinkin, James Caan, Harrison Ford, and Yaphet Kotto are also Jewish actors.
The Argonauts, who followed Jason in pursuit of the Golden Fleece, included Hercules, the musician Orpheus, the swift-footed maiden Atalanta, the Gorgon slayer Perseus, the twins Castor and Pollux, and Athens’ founder Theseus.
In the book Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama says that his mother’s favorite film was the 1959 Brazilian production Black Orpheus.
In one episode of The Cosby Show, Cliff says that he loved Black Orpheus.
The first TV sitcom broadcast on US television was Mary Kay and Johnny. The show appeared on the Dumont Network in November 1947.
Groucho Marx sometimes referred to frequent co-star Margaret Dumont as “the Fifth Marx Brother.”
“Dumont” is a French name meaning “from the mountain.”
The Speaker of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly is Dan Dautremont. His name is another French name, meaning “from the other mountain.”
In 2004, a nationwide survey conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named Tommy Douglas, former Premier of Sakatachewan, as The Greatest Canadian of all time, largely for his role in creating Canada’s national healthcare program.
William O. Douglas, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was a notorious womanizer who once kept a prospective law clerk waiting for a job interview while he made love to a secretary.
According to tradition, one U.S. Cabinet Secretary is chosen NOT to attend each Presidential State of the Union address, to insure that, in the event of a disaster or terrorist attack, at least one Cabinet member would survive to be sworn in as the new President.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden will both briefly be out of the country this evening simultaneously, with the President departing for a Middle East trip and the Vice President returning from Pope Francis’s inaugural mass in Rome.
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Former New York Yankee shortstop Gene “The Stick” Michael recorded 5 career put-outs using every kid’s favorite play, The Hidden Ball Trick.