James Earl Jones and the Lauderhill, Florida MLK Day Celebration, 2002

In 2002 James Earl Jones was invited by the town of Lauder­hill, Florida to be their fea­tured speaker at their annual Mar­tin Luther King Day cel­e­bra­tion. As appre­ci­a­tion they wanted to pro­vide their guest with some sort of gift, so they turned to a local pro­mo­tions com­pany. The pro­mo­tions com­pany came up with a plaque […]

Charles Manson and the Beach Boys

Den­nis Wil­son, brother of Brian Wil­son and drum­mer for the Beach Boys, was dri­ving through Mal­ibu in 1968 when he noticed a cou­ple of girls hitch­hik­ing on the side of the road. He picked up the girls, Ella Jo Bai­ley and Patri­cia Kren­winkel [1. From Vin­cent Bugliosi’s Hel­ter Skel­ter.] and took them where they asked […]

The First Immortal

On Jan­u­ary 12, 1967, in Glen­dale, CA, Dr. James Bed­ford, a 73-year old retired psy­chol­ogy pro­fes­sor and writer, was the first per­son to undergo cry­onic sus­pen­sion [1. Cry­onic sus­pen­sion, most com­monly, but incor­rectly, called cryo­gen­ics, is the process where a sub­ject is flash frozen to the boil­ing point of liq­uid nitro­gen, or –320.5°F.]. Bed­ford had […]

Hitler’s Nuclear Missile

When the Man­hat­tan Engi­neer­ing Dis­trict, also known as the Man­hat­tan Project, was first con­ceived in 1941 out of the fear that the Allies were in a race with Ger­many to cre­ate the world’s first atomic fis­sion bomb. It went down in his­tory that the efforts of the Amer­i­can team beat out the Ger­man team and, […]

The First Pitch

William Howard Taft started the tra­di­tion of the Pres­i­den­tial “first pitch” of base­ball sea­son. The event took place on April 4, 1910, dur­ing an open­ing day game between the Wash­ing­ton Sen­a­tors and the Philadel­phia Ath­let­ics. Since Taft’s first pitch [1. See Wikipedia for a com­plete list.], every Pres­i­dent but one has opened at least one […]

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