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he character of George Jefferson was as opinionated and bigoted as Archie Bunker - and certainly as vocal - but he was also much smarter and more ambitious. George had always been a savvy businessman. As a child, he earned money shining shoes, and business boomed when he paid a friend to push pe...

  Terry Bradshaw parlayed a career as one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history into a second, even longer career as a television commentator and some-time actor. He is the only former NFL player to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.     As a strong-armed quarterback at Louisiana Te...

The Star of India is the world's oldest seafaring ship and one of many boat attractions in San Diego. Built in 1863 at Ramsey Shipyard in the Isle of Man, it was an experimental design utilizing iron instead of wood.  Launched as Euterpe, a full-rigged ship named after the Greek goddess of music...

Eight facts about the Purple Heart: 1) Until 1931, the Purple Heart was known as the Badge of Military Merit. 2) The three words inscribed on the reverse side of the Purple Heart are “For Military Merit.” 3) Per surviving records, Sergeant Elijah Churchill Sergeant William Brown and Sergeant Dan...

A rainbow is composed of the entire spectrum of colors of visible light, from the longest wavelength, red, to the shortest wavelength, violet. The order of colors in a rainbow is easiest to remember by the following mnemonic (a formula that helps one remember something): ROY G. BIV. R=red, O=ora...

Star Trek was originally produced by Desilu, the studio owned by I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball — who personally approved the show and played a big role in keeping it alive after the first pilot was rejected. But in July 1967, Desilu was bought by Gulf+Western, which had just purchased Paramount ...

  Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the US-based Allen and Ginter tobacco company. These are considered to be some of the first cigarette cards. Other tobacco companies such as Goodwin & Co. soon followed suit. They first emer...

  The Iron Door Saloon is located in Groveland, California, about twenty-five miles from the entrance of Yosemite National Park. According to its proprietors, it is the oldest continuously operating saloon in California. It remains a popular tourist stop on the main road between The Bay Area and ...

   Truman survived an assassination attempt. Two Puerto Rico nationalists tried to kill Truman in 1950 when he was staying at Blair House while the White House was under renovation. A White House guard died as he killed one attacker. The other attacker was captured. Truman heard the gun fight fro...

The average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows. There is one piece of silk for each kernel. A bushel of corn contains about 27,000 kernels. Each tassel on a corn plant releases as many as 5 million grains of pollen.  Corn is an ingredient in more than 3,000 grocery products. One bu...