This is the grave (OK, memorial) to Toto the dog. And I don't care that this isn't really a grave. Could I really pass up on this? No! Born in 1933 in Chicago (I am so glad to know what city the dog came from....
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Here is our midseason NFL podcast. I was very, very tired this week so I probably sound terrible. And yes, I am the Josh McDaniels of NFL prognostication so don't.
This is the grave of Clark Gable. Born in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, William Clark Gable had a tough childhood. His mother died when he was a baby and his.
This is the grave of James Slater. Born in 1826 outside of Springfield, Illinois, Slater grew up in Illinois, attended the local public schools, and was not particularly exceptional. He didn't come from huge money or anything so he was like a lot of other...
This is the grave of Louis Howe. Born in 1871 in Indianapolis, Howe grew up very wealthy, at least at first. His father was a big businessman. But Louis was.
On November 13, 1986, the Filipino labor leader Rolando Olalia was assassinated by military officers infuriated by the loss of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and their belief that the labor movement.
This is the grave of John B. Gordon. Born in 1832 in Upson County, Georgia. John Brown Gordon (hilarious name given the future of this awful person) grew up in the slaveholding elite. His father owned 18 slaves in the 1840 census so this might...
Chotiner's interview with Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss tells you all you need to know about the settler movement. And I mean, the level of blindness that Americans--even many American.
On November 11, 1978, President Jimmy Carter vetoed HR 9937, which prohibited US trade negotiators from reducing textile tariffs. This typically terrible decision by the Carter administration on issues of.
This is the grave of Bob Tisch. Born in 1926 in Brooklyn, Preston Robert Tisch (always Bob, who would want to be called Preston except maybe for Preston Sturges) grew up in a Jewish family. By this time, it was his grandparents who had migrated;...
This is the grave of Tim Conway. Born Thomas Conway in 1933 outside of Cleveland, the future Tim was half-Irish, half-Romanian, and thus all Catholic. In fact, he was known.
This is the grave of Adolph Zukor. Born in 1873 in Ricse, in what is today Hungary, Zukor grew up in a middling Jewish family. His father ran a store..