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Mechanical engineer Richard James invented the Slinky by accident
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This car was a star aka ‘grease lightning’ from the movie grease.
Speeds reached up to 95 mph.
The 1940 ford convertible had no rear side windows, the only side windows being in the doors. -
Roosevelt's mother and first wife died on the same day He won the nobel peace prize A boxing accident left him virtually blind in one eye.
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With the start of the war and a strict rationing on fabric, dresses in the 1940s became shorter. Whereas the 1940s featured dresses down to mid-calf, the 1940s brought them up to knee length.
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The 1940 tax drafts major goal was to reverse the traditional goal of assimilation of Indians into American society and to strengthen, encourage and perpetuate the tribes and their historic traditions and culture.
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James Horner(my heart will go on)this song was from the titanic
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the first machine known as the typewriter was patented on 23rd June 1868, by printer and journalist Christopher Latham Sholes of Wisconsin
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In the original book that Disney based the movie Pinocchio on by Carlo Collodi (born Carlo Lorenzini) the “Oak” Fairy and the cricket both call Pinocchio a boy of oak. In the Disney version Jiminy Cricket calls him a boy of oak. But, the "Blue" Fairy calls him a boy of pine
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Actress Gene Tierney had a rocky start in Hollywood, but is best known for her role as a memorable murder victim in the 1944 film Laura
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The Lone Ranger is the central character of an American animated television series that ran 26 episodes on CBS from September 10, 1966, to September 6, 1969
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robert William Andrew Feller, nicknamed "The Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians.
