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Old 12-19-2024, 05:17 PM   #3277
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Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War.

Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1843. He served with distinction in the Mexican–American War, but resigned from the army in 1854 and returned to civilian life impoverished. In 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, Grant joined the Union Army and rose to prominence after securing victories in the western theater. In 1863, he led the Vicksburg campaign that gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and dealt a major strategic blow to the Confederacy. President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and command of all Union armies after his victory at Chattanooga. For thirteen months, Grant fought Robert E. Lee during the high-casualty Overland Campaign which ended with the capture of Lee's army at Appomattox, where he formally surrendered to Grant. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army. Later, Grant broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies. A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and then elected president in 1868.

As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, supported congressional Reconstruction and the Fifteenth Amendment, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. Under Grant, the Union was completely restored. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed a bill to create the United States Department of Justice and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission, advancing the civil service more than any prior president. Grant was re-elected in the 1872 presidential election, but was inundated by executive scandals during his second term. His response to the Panic of 1873 was ineffective in halting the Long Depression, which contributed to the Democrats winning the House majority in 1874. Grant's Native American policy was to assimilate Indians into Anglo-American culture. In Grant's foreign policy, the Alabama Claims against Britain were peacefully resolved, but the Senate rejected Grant's annexation of Santo Domingo. In the disputed 1876 presidential election, Grant facilitated the approval by Congress of a peaceful compromise.

Leaving office in 1877, Grant undertook a world tour, becoming the first president to circumnavigate the world. In 1880, he was unsuccessful in obtaining the Republican nomination for a third term. In 1885, impoverished and dying of throat cancer, Grant wrote his memoirs, covering his life through the Civil War, which were posthumously published and became a major critical and financial success. At his death, Grant was the most popular American and was memorialized as a symbol of national unity. Due to the pseudohistorical and negationist mythology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy spread by Confederate sympathizers around the turn of the 20th century, historical assessments and rankings of Grant's presidency suffered considerably before they began recovering in the 21st century. Grant's critics take a negative view of his economic mismanagement and the corruption within his administration, while his admirers emphasize his policy towards Native Americans, vigorous enforcement of civil and voting rights for African Americans, and securing North and South as a single nation within the Union. Modern scholarship has better appreciated Grant's appointments of Cabinet reformers.
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After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers, being compared favorably with the late Marilyn Monroe.

She made her film debut in 1961 as an extra in Barabbas with Anthony Quinn. She next appeared in the British mystery horror film Eye of the Devil (1966). Her first major role was as Jennifer North in the 1967 American drama film Valley of the Dolls, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. The role would help her to become a rising sex symbol of Hollywood, appearing in a Playboy photoshoot by filmmaker Roman Polanski, Tate's future husband. That year, she also performed in the comedy horror film The Fearless Vampire Killers, directed by Roman Polanski. Tate's last completed film, 12+1, was released posthumously in 1969.

On August 9, 1969, Tate and four others were murdered by members of the Manson Family, a cult, in the home she shared with Polanski, while he was away. She was eight-and-a-half months pregnant.
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1916 - 1966 Neel was a Kwakwaka'wakw tribal member of the indigenous people of northwest Canada. Her tribal name was Kakaso'las. She is the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles. She and her husband Ted Neel started an art workshop carving totem poles. Ellen was the artist. Their sons followed them in the business, and her grandson is currently an active artist in Vancouver. Neel died in 1966 after several years of declining health.
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Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie ( September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "the Frenchman", he represented both Philadelphia franchises and the Cleveland Naps, the latter of which he became the namesake of, and from 1905 through 1909, the player-manager.

Lajoie was signed to the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League (NL) in 1896. By the beginning of the 20th century, however, the upstart American League (AL) was looking to rival the supremacy of the NL and in 1901, Lajoie and dozens of former National League players joined the American League. National League clubs contested the legality of contracts signed by players who jumped to the other league, but eventually Lajoie was allowed to play for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. During the season, Lajoie set the all-time American League single-season mark for the highest batting average (.426).  One year later, Lajoie went to the Cleveland Bronchos, where he would play until the 1915 season, when he returned to play for Mack and the Athletics. While with Cleveland, Lajoie's popularity led to locals electing to change the club's team name from Bronchos to Napoleons ("Naps" for short), which remained until after Lajoie departed Cleveland and the name was changed to Indians (the team's name until 2021).

Lajoie led the AL in batting average five times in his career and four times recorded the highest number of hits. During several of those years with the Naps, he and Ty Cobb dominated AL hitting categories and traded batting titles with each other, most notably in 1910, when the league's batting champion was not decided until well after the last game of the season and after an investigation by American League President Ban Johnson. Lajoie in 1914 joined Cap Anson and Honus Wagner as the only major league players to record 3,000 career hits. He led the NL or AL in putouts five times in his career and in assists three times. He has been called "the best second baseman in the history of baseball" and "the most outstanding player to wear a Cleveland uniform." Cy Young said, "Lajoie was one of the most rugged players I ever faced. He'd take your leg off with a line drive, turn the third baseman around like a swinging door and powder the hand of the left fielder."  In 1937, Lajoie was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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On 27 November 1871, he was stationed in Cuba with the rank of captain when eight students were executed by the authorities who found them guilty of anti-Spanish activities and of vandalizing some tomb sites. On hearing the news he publicly protested and, for this reason, was expelled from the army but he never apologized or renounced his actions and was always proud of what he did. To this day, on the façade of the Hotel Inglaterra in Havana, Cuba, there is a plaque bearing his name and commemorating his protest.

He participated in the revolution of September 1868 and joined the republican insurrection of 1869 for which he was imprisoned.

He later was elected member of parliament and was appointed minister in the cabinet of Pi y Margall during the First Spanish Republic but with the restoration of the monarchy he went into exile in Paris, France.
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Born 1959 Known as Sam The Cooking Guy, Zien is a Canadian-American cook, who quit his job as an executive at a San Francisco pharmaceutical company to host a television show. His first show was travel related, but when travel was restricted after 9/11, he switched to a cooking show. His Sam The Cooking Guy show was popular in the San Francisco area, and soon led to a new show on the Discovery network called Just Grill This. When Oprah Winfrey bought the network, his show was not renewed, so he moved to YouTube, where he still produces content. In 2018 he started his first restaurant in San Diego, and now has 4 restaurants in that area. He has also written several cookbooks.
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Michael Nesmith (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was best known as a member of the Monkees and co-star of their TV series of the same name (1966–1968). His songwriting credits with the Monkees include "Mary, Mary", "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", "Tapioca Tundra", "Circle Sky" and "Listen to the Band". Additionally, his song "Different Drum" became a hit for the Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt.

After leaving the Monkees in 1970, Nesmith continued his successful songwriting and performing career, first with the seminal country rock group the First National Band, with whom he had a top-40 hit, "Joanne" (1970). As a solo artist, he scored an international hit with the song "Rio" (1977). He often played a custom-built Gretsch 12-string electric guitar with the Monkees and afterwards.

In 1974, Nesmith founded Pacific Arts, a multimedia production and distribution company, through which he helped pioneer the music video format, winning the first Grammy Award for Video of the Year for his hour-long comedy/variety program, Elephant Parts (1981). He created one of the first American television programs dedicated to music videos, PopClips, which aired on Nickelodeon in 1980, and was soon after approached to help develop the MTV network, though he declined. Nesmith was also an executive producer of the film Repo Man (1984).
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Best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the primetime television soap opera Dallas and the astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

When my dad was alive, he sold luxury RV coaches called Blue Bird Wanderlodge. These were busses that were motorhomes and the driver's seat faced a dashboard that had a ton of toggle switches and gauges, you'd think you were piloting an aircraft. They were a total wonder. Anyway, dad was allowed to drive those big coaches out to a prospective customer's house to sell them and one day he took one to a beachfront home in (I think) Laguna Beach to show one to Larry Hagman. This was in the 1980s. Said Hagman was a bit soused the day he drove up and couldn't close the deal.

Any kid back in the late 60s & early 70s envied Hagman who was able to find a cute chick in a bottle.
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That is a very interesting story about your Dad's experience with Hagman!



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Born 1957 Navarro is a horror genre author, and has written several novels set in the Buffyverse, the literary universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writer's Association. She also has several other novels tied into media franchises including Aliens, Supernatural, Elektra, Species, and Hellboy.
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In 1852, Otis worked at the Maize & Burns bedstead factory installing machinery. The factory needed a hoist to lift heavy equipment to the upper floor, but this posed serious safety issues. In response, Otis invented the safety elevator, which automatically comes to a halt if the hoisting rope breaks. The following year he left the factory and started his own company, the Otis Elevator Company. After giving a public demonstration of his new invention at the New York Crystal Palace in 1854, demand for the safety elevator began to rise. He installed the first safety elevator for passenger service at the E. V. Haughwout Building in New York City in 1857.

An Otis Elevator Company worker coined the term "escalator" to refer to continuous loop moving staircases that could either ascend or descend. The company was acquired by United Technologies in 1976. In April 2020, Otis Elevators Company was spun off from United technology to be an independent elevator company.

In his spare time, he designed and experimented with his old designs of bread-baking ovens and train brakes, and patented a steam plow in 1857, a rotary oven in 1858, and, with Charles, the oscillating steam engine in 1860. The plough was not commercially successful.

Otis contracted diphtheria and died on April 8, 1861, aged 49. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers, New York.
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I guess his career had it's ups and downs.


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1644 - 1737 Stradivai was an Italian craftsman who made a variety of stringed instruments. The Latinized version of his name, Stradivarius, refers to his instruments. During his career he made 1,116 instruments, of which 960 are violins. Around 650 of them still exist, and are considered some of the finest ever made. At the age of around 12 to 14, he began an apprenticeship with master luthier Nicola Amati. In 1667 he married Francesca Ferraboschi, and they had 6 children together. Francesca died in 1698. In 1699 he married again, to Antonia Zambelli, and they had 5 children together. He died in 1737 at age 93. During his 75 years of crafting instruments, he acquired a good deal of wealth.
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Wait, so he marries, has 6 kids, she dies 30 years later and he does it all over again. And he retires with a ton of money. He could have written a book. Most guys doing this would be dead or broke or both.

OlgA IvinskayA (Soviet poet and writer)

Worked as an editor at various literary magazines. She was an admirer of Pasternak since her adolescence, attending literary gatherings to listen to his poetry. She married twice: the first time to Ivan Emelianov in 1936, who hanged himself in 1939, having one daughter, Irina Emelianova; the second time in 1941 to Alexander Vinogradov (later killed in the war), producing one son, Dmitry Vinogradov.

She is best-known as friend and lover of Nobel Prize-winning writer Boris Pasternak during the last 13 years of his life and the inspiration for the character of Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957).
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1896 - 1981 Born as Adele Austerlitz, as a child she showed an early propensity for dancing. Her parents enrolled her in a dancing school, and she was soon performing at local recitals and parties. Her younger brother was a frail child, so her parents also enrolled him in dance school to help build his strength. When Adele was nine, and her younger brother Fred was six, they began performing in vaudeville. They changed their last name to Astaire to make it sound more American. In 1917, the siblings landed parts in their first Broadway show. In 1922 they headlined as the stars in a Broadway show. They then went on the road to Europe, and became friends with the Prince of Wales, and his brother the Duke of York. Their final Broadway show was The Band Wagon in 1931, which ran for 260 performances. After that run, Adele was married to Lord Charles Cavendish, son of the Duke of Devonshire, and she retired from show business. Her brother went on to a successful screen career. In 1944, her husband died from alcohol poisoning, and she turned down Irving Berlin's offer to return to the stage in the play Annie Get Your Gun. In 1947 she remarried to Kingman Douglass, who was a former assistant director of the CIA. She got permission from her first husband's family to continue use of the Lismore Castle in England for three months each year. She and her husband split their time between there and their home in Jamaica. Her second husband died in 1971 from a brain hemorrhage, and Adele moved to Phoenix, AZ. She remained close to her brother until her death at age 85 following a stroke.
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Henry Enrique Estrada is an American actor and police officer. He is known for his co-starring lead role as California Highway Patrol officer Francis (Frank) Llewelyn "Ponch" Poncherello in the police drama television series CHiPs, which ran from 1977 to 1983. He later became known for his work in Spanish-language telenovelas, his appearances in reality television shows and infomercials and as a regular voice on the Adult Swim series Sealab 2021.

Interesting (to me) trivia: When filming the show CHiPs, the crew creating the introduction to the show appeared at my brother's CHP office and he (Tom, my big bro) was volunteered to let them record his motorcycle to use as the sound for the show's intro.
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