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agreed to do the scene. Unfortunately the scene took a week to complete and by the end of the week, the 400 gallons of milk had gone sour. • A friend gave writer Dorothy Parker a small alligator. She put it into the bathtub until she could figure out what to do with it, then left for an appointment. When she returned, she found this note from the maid: “I have resigned. I refuse to work in a house where there is an alligator in the bathtub. I would have told you this before, but I did not think the matter would ever come up.” • During the bombing of London in World War II, a young lady was taking a bath when her home was hit by a bomb. The bathtub was thrown in the air and came down upside-down with the girl underneath it. The tub sheltered her from the collapsing rubble. Rescuers were very surprised to find a naked girl unharmed under the bathtub. • Mark Twain often told folks that he was one of a set of identical twins. No one could tell them apart because they were so similar. One day in the bathtub one of the twins drowned, but no one ever knew which twin it was. Twain would continue, “That was the tragedy. Everyone thought I was the one that lived, but I wasn’t. It was my brother who lived. I was the one that was drowned!” • After the movie “Psycho” was released, a man wrote to Alfred Hitchcock and complained that because she had seen the film, his wife refused to bathe or shower. He wanted suggestions as to what he could do. Hitchcock replied, “Sir, have you ever considered sending your wife to the dry cleaner?” • The 1929 German comic opera “Neues vam Tage” (“News of the Day”) by Paul Hindemith included a scene in which a lady sang an aria sitting (apparently) naked in a bathtub, surrounded by cotton soap suds. This scene proved so offensive that chancellor Adolf Hitler left the theater in disgust, while other members of his party referred to the work as an example of “degenerate art” and to its creator as a “cultural bolshevik.”

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• Elmer McCurdy was born in Maine in 1880. As a young adult, he travelled the country picking up odd jobs, working mostly in mining and plumbing. • In 1911, McCurdy decided to rob a train in Oklahoma after hearing that it was carrying a safe containing $4,000. He and two buddies successfully stopped the train and found the safe. Because McCurdy had worked in mining, he had access to nitroglycerin and he used it to blow open the safe. However, he miscalculated the amount needed and ended up destroying not only the safe but also all the paper money inside it. The three men made off with about $450 in silver coins which were largely fused together in the blast. • Next McCurdy and his gang decided to rob a bank in Kansas by tunneling into a wall at night and placing a nitroglycerin charge next to the vault. Once again the blast was badly bungled, destroying the interior of the bank but failing to blow open the vault. The team made off with some loose change before escaping. Undeterred, the three men decided to rob another Oklahoma train carrying a $400,000 payment destined for the Osage Indian Nation. Unfortunately they accidently held up the wrong train, stopping a passenger train by mistake. They made off with $46 robbed from the passengers and some whisky. They retreated to a nearby ranch to hide out and consume the whiskey. • By now there was a price on McCurdy’s head, with a $2000 reward offered for his capture. The local sheriff and his posse tracked McCurdy to the ranch and surrounded it. McCurdy was so drunk that he was unable to put up much of a fight, and died with a single bullet wound to his chest. He was 30 years old when he died in 1911. (contnued on next page)

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THE ICE BALLOON • In 1897, Sweden was falling far behind in the race to explore the North Pole. A man named S. A. Andrée set out to remedy that. Andrée worked as an engineer in Sweden’s patent office and had developed an interest in hydrogen balloons. He proposed that he head up an official expedition to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, mapping and photographing the route, before landing in Russia or Canada. Enthusiasm for the project ran high and the government pledged support and funding. He chose as his travel companions a meteorological researcher, and a physics and chemistry student who was also a photographer. None of the three team members had any training for surviving in extreme conditions. • One of the main problems presented was how to steer a balloon. Andrée devised a series of ropes that would drag on the pack ice, supposedly providing a rudimentary rudder. He failed to do much testing of this theory. A second issue was ensuring that the hydrogen would not escape from the balloon, because there was no way to replenish it once the balloon was launched. Andrée pointed at balloons constructed in Europe that had held their hydrogen for up to a year without deflating, but no hydrogen balloon had ever been tested in Arctic conditions before. • Andrée ordered a specially constructed balloon, built to be able to carry a crew of three plus three tons of supplies, and designed to stay aloft for up to 30 days. The balloon was named “Örnen” meaning “Eagle.” • When it was delivered, it was found to be leakier than expected, with hydrogen escaping through over 8 million stitching holes used to join the fabric together. There was no effective way of sealing holes or seams that would (continued on next)

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