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• In 1908, a New Yorker woman named Katie Mulcahey was arrested after she struck a match against a wall in the Bowery district and lit up a cigarette. Katie had violated the recently passed Sullivan Act, a city law sponsored by Alderman Sullivan banning women – and only women – from smoking in public. Sullivan passed the law due to pressure from a Christian anti-smoking lobby that identified tobacco with immorality. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (whose main business was trying to get booze banned) campaigned against women smoking and thought they’d scored a big success with the Sullivan Act. Katie Mulcahey was arrested the day after it passed. Hauled before the district court, Mulcahey was fined five dollars. The Sullivan Act was vetoed by the city’s mayor two weeks later.

JOHN AUDUBON’S BIRDS • John James Audubon is known for being a great artist, depicting myriad bird species in natural settings. Prior to achieving success as an artist, however, he operated a string of general stores on the Kentucky frontier, built a steam mill on the Ohio River, and extensively explored the American wilderness.

• All along the way, Audubon was drawing birds.

Because cameras and binoculars had not yet been invented, it was necessary to shoot the birds in order to draw them. The birds would be skinned, the skins preserved with arsenic, the empty carcass stuffed with rope, and then the specimen were mounted on sticks with wire in order to be drawn.

• Because Audubon was so often in very remote regions where food was scarce, he typically ate the birds that he drew, taking extensive notes on their taste. “The flesh of this bird is tough and unfit for food,” he wrote of the raven. The greenwinged teal, on the other hand, had “delicious” flesh, “probably the best of any of its tribe.”

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• During the Civil War, the Confederates took up what they thought was an impregnable position at the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the Chattanooga Campaign. However, the Union Army led by General Sherman successfully forced the Confederate contingent off of the ridge they occupied. As they fled, the Confederates left behind munitions and supplies. General Sherman was so excited about the victory that he straddled a captured Confederate cannon, whooping it up and urging his men forward. Following suit, General Wood did the same thing with the cannon right next to it. However, he did not realize that his cannon had recently been fired and was red-hot.

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• Rosemary Kennedy was born to Rose and Joseph Kennedy in 1918. It was a difficult birth, and perhaps because of that, Rosemary was never quite normal. She struggled to read and write; she struggled with temper tantrums and seizures; and when she was a teenager, she struggled to adhere to societal norms. Joseph Kennedy had high political ambitions both for himself and for his sons, John, Ted, and Robert Kennedy. When the media began paying attention to Rosemary’s misbehavior, he authorized two surgeons to perform a lobotomy on his 23-year-old daughter.

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• Allan Savory was born on a livestock ranch in Zimbabwe in 1935. He earned a degree in botany in 1955 and then went to work for the game department in Northern Rhodesia. He theorized that the desertification in Africa was caused by thousands of elephants trampling and overgrazing the land. In the 1960s he convinced land managers to work towards killing off the elephants in order to let the grasslands recover. Over 40,000 elephants were slaughtered. Only afterwards did Savory realize that herds of animals moving through a territory are necessary for a healthy ecosystem and that degradation is caused by the animals remaining in one place for too long of a time. He subsequently became the champion of responsible grazing practices and continues his work today, while also working towards the conservation of the elephant herds he worked so hard to remove.

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• In 1834, American physician John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup, which previously consisted of fish or mushrooms. As tomatoes contain a healthy dose of vitamins and antioxidants, Bennet then branded his sauce as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice and rheumatism.

• Japanese high schools often enforce strict conformance when it comes to hair. Half of Tokyo's schools require students whose locks aren't naturally black to prove it with baby pictures, while in 2017, a Japanese student sued her school after being forced to darken her hair with dye.

•`Contrary to what you'd likely expect, this juicy citrus fruit wasn't named for its bright hue. Instead, the word "orange" came to us from a transliteration of the Sanskrit "naranga," which was in turn derived from the Tamil "naru," meaning "fragrant," which describes its blossoms.

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• Much of the filming was done on a semi-remote uninhabited privately owned island in Fiji. It took an hour to "CAST AWAY" • The film “Cast Away” starring Tom Hanks tells the get to the island from the hotel by boat. About 75 to 100 story of a busy FedEx executive (Chuck Noland) different boats traveled to the island every day in order who is stranded on a deserted island for four years. to transport production equipment and crew members.

The film was released in 2000 and became a hit.

• Most of the nighttime scenes on the island (except the • Tom Hanks originally wanted the movie to be a creation of fire scene) were shot during the daytime. The comedy, with the title being “Chuck of the Jungle.” darkness and night sky effects were added in post-proHowever, he was enthusiastic about the final script duction. and said that one of the reasons he wanted to make • Chuck paints a face on a Wilson volleyball using a the film was to reinvent the “stuck on a desert is- bloody hand print, naming it Wilson, talking to it as if land” concept. He felt that up to that point, most it were a companion. Later Chuck is devastated when people's association of the idea was limited to either Wilson floats away in a storm. The iconic movie prop “Robinson Crusoe” or “Gilligan's Island” and that instantly became a piece of popular culture, with one of there was room for a new take, one the original Wilson volleyballs used in rooted in the modern day strugthe film selling for $18,400 in an online gles. auction. The Wilson company cashed in on Wilson's 15 minutes of fame • The film was a challenge because when they started making volleyballs the entire second act of the film with the iconic hand print face on them, features only a single actor alone available for only $19.99. on a deserted island with almost no dialogue as it depicts Chuck’s struggle for survival. • Many people assume that FedEx paid a lot of money in • The first hour and 43 minutes of the film have no product placement fees to the producers of the movie, musical score; the music doesn’t begin until Chuck but they actually did not pay anything; it was just a fortuuses a raft to escape from the island. In spite of this, nate plot device. As a FedEx employee, Chuck has plenty of resources to perform his job but lacks an adequate the score won a Grammy. amount of time to complete tasks and is always in a rush.

• Tom Hanks bulked up prior to the movie so he Once he is stranded on the island, the circumstances are would look more like a pudgy middle-aged execujust the opposite: he has plenty of time but lacks proper tive. Then filming was halted for a full year while resources to function and this challenges how versatile Hanks dropped 50 pounds in order to authentically his character really is. portray a struggling half-starved survivor. During that time he also let his hair and beard grow out. All • Job applications for FedEx went up by 30% after the release of this film. of the hair in the film is his own.

• During this year-long hiatus, director Robert Zem- • Chuck Noland’s name can be abbreviated as “C. Noeckis used the same crew to film “What Lies Be- land” or “see no land” which is clearly fitting given the circumstances and plot of the movie. neath.”

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• On May 20, 1506, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Spain. Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world's size, calculating that East Asia must lie about where North America sits on the globe.

• On May 23, 1701, at London's Execution Dock, British privateer William Kidd, known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for piracy and murder. In 1695, Kidd was commissioned to defend English ships from pirates in the Red Sea. When arrested with a shipload of treasure, Kidd's Whig sponsors failed to back his claims of legitimacy.

• On May 19, 1715, the colony of New York passes a law making it illegal to "gather, rake, take up, or bring to the market, any oysters whatsoever" between the months of May and September. The regulation was intended to help preserve certain species.

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• On May 24, 1844, before members of Congress, American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse dispatches a telegraph message from the U.S. Capitol to a railroad station in Baltimore. The message -- "What Hath God Wrought?" -- was telegraphed back to the Capitol a moment later.

• On May 18, 1917, six weeks after the United States formally entered World War I, Congress passes the Selective Service Act, giving the president the power to draft soldiers. Of the almost 4.8 million Americans who served in the war, some 2.8 million were drafted.

• On May 21, 1901, Connecticut becomes the first state to limit the speed of motor vehicles to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads. As late as 1930, a dozen states had no speed limit, while 28 states did not even require a driver's license.

• On May 22, 1969, actor Paul Newman makes his onscreen racing debut in the film "Winning." Newman played a struggling race car driver who must turn around his fortunes by winning the Indianapolis 500.

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• Admiral Edward Russell was an English Navy commander in charge of the Mediterranean fleet.

In 1694, he was expecting to receive orders to return to England in time for Christmas. Instead, he was angry when he was instructed to over-winter in the Spanish port of Cadiz. To get his revenge upon his higher-ups, he arranged for a truly epic Christmas party.

• In a garden in the middle of the local governor’s estate there was a large tiled fountain. Admiral Russell ordered it drained and cleaned. Then he turned it into the world’s largest punch bowl, filling it with 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, 2,500 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice and 5 pounds of nutmeg.

• Bartenders took turns rowing around the fountain in a tiny boat, using their oars to mix the concoction and filling reveler’s cups with ladles on long poles. When it started to rain, a canopy was raised to avoid dilution.

• The party also included 150 different dishes served by 800 waiters. Russell invited his entire fleet to join the festivities. Over 6,000 people attended the week-long party.

• Obviously, the Royal Navy got stuck with the bill.

Although Admiral Russell was in the doghouse for a while, the presence of his fleet in Cadiz that winter ended up setting the stage for England’s acquisition of Gibraltar during the War of Spanish Succession. Russell went on to serve until retiring in 1717.

• Agostino Chigi was a wealthy banker in Rome in the 1500s. He would hold extravagant dinner parties at his villa overlooking the Tiber River. After each course he instructed his guests to hurl their dirty dishes and silverware into the river. What the guests didn’t know was that prior to each party, the banker had his servants string a net just below the surface of the water so that none of the ...cont'd tableware was lost.

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• In the year AD 64, there was a huge fire that leveled large portions of Rome. Nero, Emperor of Rome, worked to restore order after the fire.

He taxed citizens heavily to come up with the money for reconstruction.

• In the center of the city, Nero claimed several hundred acres of recently burned ground as his own in order to build new palatial residence for himself. Tax money that could have gone to reconstruction of the city was instead routed into Nero’s Golden House.

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• The property included an artificial lake, pastures, manicured groves, and large gardens.

The building in the center featured a large dome with gold-plated exterior walls. The interior walls and floors were stone overlaid with solid marble, trimmed with elephant ivory, and encrusted with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and other precious stones. Surrounding the dome were over 300 rooms.

• Nero commissioned a massive bronze statue of himself, the Colossus Neronis, which stood some 116 ft. tall and was placed just outside the main entrance. The central dining room was set on stone balls that could rotate the whole room with guests dining in it, in time with the changing of the sky’s color. The roof had retractable windows to let in fresh air.

• Nero used the property exclusively to entertain rich friends and political acquaintances, and that led to his downfall. The populace was starving while Nero was partying. The tide turned against Nero, who fled for his life. He committed suicide to avoid being murdered by the people he had once served.

• Today, Nero’s Golden House is buried under centuries of subsequent development and is currently being excavated. New rooms are discovered all the time, with original frescoes and architecture untouched since Nero’s day.

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