HAVE I SEEN YOU BEFORE? Most of us are familiar with the faces of Dr. B. H. McKeeby and Nan Wood, but who are they and where have we seen them? They are the farmer and his wife in Grant Wood’s classic painting, American Gothic.
A GREAT MAGAZINE’S FIRST. Lhasa, Tibet was the exotic city that was featured in National Geographic magazine’s first photo story in 1905.
THE GOOD BOOK. In what language was the first complete Bible in America printed? It was that of the Algonquin Indians of Massachusetts. It was translated into their language by the Rev. John Eliot and published in 1663.
WATCH OUT. Before Candid Camera creator Alan Funt began catching people off guard with his hidden camera, he caught them off guard with a hidden microphone on a successful radio show called Hidden Microphone.
A PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS FOR SURE. There were no women among the first 105 colonists to settle in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. The first two women settlers arrived in 1609.
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