The “Peck’s Bad Boy” stories were written by George W. Peck, a newspaper publisher who would eventually become mayor of Milwaukee.
The first practical typewriter was designed in Milwaukee in 1867.
Canada was formed by the union of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on July 1,1867.
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
Jersey and the other Channel islands are the last remnants of the Duchy of Normandy held by the British Crown.
Calvados, an apple brandy, originates in the French region of Lower Normandy.
Saurian brandy is considered a fine alcoholic beverage in the original series of Star Trek.
The University of California’s Saurian Expedition of 1905 found many fine ichthyosaur fossils in northern Nevada, in the West Humboldt Range and the Shoshone Mountains.
Samuel Clemens took the pen name Mark Twain while a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise in Virgina City, Nevada.
Virginia City, NV, is the county seat of Storey County. Its population maxed out at over 15,000 in the latter half of the 1800s. In 2010 its population was 855.
The Cartwright ranch in Bonanza was near Virginia City NV.
Bonanza Creek Gold Mining Company, decided by the Imperial Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, is a leading case on the constitutional aspect of corporation law in Canada
H. L. Gold, who edited Galaxy Science Fiction in the 50s, suffered from agoraphobia during much of that time and never left his apartment. At one point, he steeled up his courage to venture out and was nearly hit by a car.
Joe Gold (1922-2004), founder of Golds’ Gym, has been credited with being the father of the bodybuilding and the fitness craze.
Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church claimed that 2004 Asian tsunami was God’s punishment of the Swedes for their arrest of Pastor Ake Green by Swedish authorities for describing homosexuals as “a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society”. The tsunami killed over 5,000 Swedes, and 225,000 other people.
Fred Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States, was also an occasional poker buddy of President Harry S. Truman.
Deborah Harry worked in New York City’s very first head shop.
Long-time comic strip star Blondie Bumstead’s maiden name was Boopadoop.
According to author Donald H. Wolfe, Arthur Lake, who played Dagwood Bumstead in the long-running Blondie movie franchise of the 1930s and 1940s and the Blondie TV show of 1957, was questioned by investigators regarding the famous Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947, although charges were never filed. Lake had allegedly met Short when she was volunteering at the Hollywood Canteen.
Queen Elizabeth I of England’s principal secretary and spymaster was Sir Francis Walsingham, a cold-blooded and ruthless gentleman by all accounts.