Stories from history's dust bin
Subtitle: a book of unusual or forgotten facts, and more, in the lives of the famous, the infamous, and the obscure
By: Wayne Winterton ; introduction by Eduardo Pagán
Contributors: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón, 1960- writer of introduction
Publisher: XLIBRIS
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Phoenix, Arizona]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781514419946; 9781514419939; 9781514419922; 9781514419953; 9781514419779; 9781514419762; 9781514419809; 9781514419793; 9781514419786
Subjects: Biography; Celebrities; Anecdotes; History; Miscellanea
Description: Is history made by great invidividuals or by ordinary women and men? Wayne Winterton's aim is not so grand as to try to settle the debate. Instead, he has assembled a delightful collection of stories that feature those who were great and those who were ordinary, those who were noble and ignoble, and those common and not so common. Each left their mark in their own unique way. Here in this collection are stories of how people lived their lives, how they struggled with the issues that confronted them and tried to do what they thought was right, or at least necessary, and in some cases, how they wronged society and paid for their misdeeds. These are stores that help explain, in part, why some things in the present are the way they are. Indeed, these are stories that remind us that those who lived before were not all that different from those of us in the present. In aligning these stories with the calendar year, so you can read what happened on any given day of the year, Winterton reminds us in a subtle way that the past never quite leaves us. In some ways, the past is always present. But consider for a moemnt, after reading a story for a given day, how many other stories there are to be discovered and told!
Notes: "2016 Arizona Book of the Year."
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. January. Betsy Ross. Dick Powell. Dorothy Arzner. Louis Braille. King C. Gillette. Carl Sandburg. Sandford Fleming. Joshua A. Norton. Richard Halliburton. Johnnie Ray. Alice Paul. Ira Hayes. Ernie Kovacs. Mary Ann Butchell. Goodman Ace. Margaret Corbin & Sarah Wakeman. Sir Francis Galton. Daniel H. Williams. Edgar Allan Poe. George Burns. Horace Wells. Timothy Dexter. Walter F. Morrison. Albert Erskine. Charles Curtis. David R. Atchison. Last Great Race on Earth. Collette. Victor Mature. John Bigg. Andre-Jacques Garnerin; title: February. Frank Buckles. Farrah Fawcett. Charles Follis. Franz Reichelt. Daisy & Violet Hilton. Isadur & Ida Straus. Thomas Andrews. Thomas E. Selfridge. Bill Veeck, Jr. St. Scholastica Riot. Max Baer. Abraham Lincoln. Antoine Louis. Saint Valentine. Jeremy Bentham. James Baskett. George E. Dixon. Lavinia Fisher. Homer Hickam. Ken Olsen. Marty Toft. George Washington. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. The Battle of Los Angeles. Ida Lewis. Levi Strauss. Elizabeth Taylor. Zero Mostel. Dinah Shore; title: March. Edwin H. Land. Moe Berg. Charles Ponzi. Jack Sheppard. Ruth Belville. Pete Gray. Joseph N. Niepce. Millard Fillmore. Eddie Foy, Sr. John Gunby. Philo T. Farnsworth. Ion Perdicaris. Susan B. Anthony. J. Fred Muggs. John Snow. St. Urho. Saint Patrick. Rudolf Diesel. Richard Francis Burton. B.F. Skinner. The Collyer Brothers. David Lunt. Desmond Doss. The Leatherman. Robert Cobb Kennedy. Old Abe. Yuri Gagarin. Marine M. Raskova. Edwin L. Drake. Rosa & Josefa Blazek. Jack Johnson; title: April. April Fools' Day. Buddy Ebsen. Eddie Robinson. William Henry Harrison. Howard Hughes. Evan O'Neill Kane. Haym Salomon. Georgia Ann Broadwick. Carl Perkins. Joseph Pulitzer. Annie Dodge Wauneka. Henry Darger. Krum the Horrible. Four dead in five seconds. Edward Gorey. Isaac Burns Murphy. Adrian "Cap" Anson. Albert Einstein. Israel Bissell. Henry Nasiff, Jr. Evolution of the calendar. Margaret J. Winkler. Herve Villechaize. Benjamin Briggs. Nicolas Jacques Pelletier. Gypsy Rose Lee. Ulysses S. Grant. Joseph Dunninger. Tad Dorgan. Eva Braun.; title: Volume 2. May. John B. Armstrong. John André. Daniel E Sickles. Alice P. Liddell. Becky Cotton. L. Frank Baum. Lillian Asplund. Ludger Sylbaris. Belle Boyd. George Welch. Jacqueline Cochran. Roy J. Plunkett. Society of the Cincinnati. Charles Peace. Williamina Fleming. H.H. Holmes. Bartholomew Roberts. Andrew Kehoe. Ogden Nash. Stephen Girard. Phineas P. Gage. Arthur Conan Doyle. Franz Anton Mesmer. Jonathan Wild. Bojangles Robinson. Moondog. Robert LeRoy Ripley. The Cherry Sisters. Ebenezer Butterick. Steve Prefontaine. Franz Joseph Haydn; title: June. Charlie Wilson. Nannie Doss. Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Frank Hayes. O. Henry. William Quantrill. Edwin Thomas Booth. Missile Mail. Fred Waring. Ruth Blay. Peeping Tom. Patrick Gass. Jean Robert-Houdin. William Orton. The Pig War. Stan Laurel. Clement Vallandigham. George Mikan. Charles C. Boycott. Howard Johnson. Leland Stanford. "Pistol" Pete Marovich. Alan Mathison Turing. Ambrose Bierce. George A. Custer. Abner Doubleday. James Smithson. Eugene B. Fluckey. Lana Turner. Willie Sutton.; title: July. Henry Rathbone. Sir Robert Peel. James I. Waddell. Calvin Coolidge. William Thomas Stead. Pat Paulsen. Otto Rohwedder. John Pemberton. Timp Roberts. Nikola Tesla. Thomas Bowdler. Charles Stewart Rolls. Nathan B. Forrest. Matthew Lyon. Tom Thumb. Kitty Wells. Dizzy Dean. Red Skelton. Percy LeBaron Spencer. Laura Keene. Don Knotts. Hannah Beswick. Pee Wee Reese. Charles K. Johnson. Emmett Till. Gracie Allen. Anthony "Slim" Randles. Margaret Ringenberg. Irwin Corey. Joe Shuster. Flo Hyman; title: August. Francis Gary Powers. Paul Mantz. Josephine G. Cochrane. Glenn Cunningham. Joseph Merrick. William Kemmler. Elizabeth Bathory. Ronald A. Biggs. Betty Boop. William Jordan Flake. Edith Wharton. Ian Fleming. Lucy Stone. David Farragut. Eugene Schieffelin. Margaret Mitchell. Ray Chapman. Virginia Dare. Ferdinand Cheval. Edgar A. Guest. Ernest Thayer. Raymonde de Laroche. Rudolph Valentino. Henry J. Kaiser. The Great Moon Hoax. H.A. Rey. Elfago Baca. Francis Bellamy. William A. Spooner. Nancy Wake. Paul E. Garber.; title: Volume 3. September. Mel Ignatow. Margaret Dickson. Battle of Cooch's Bridge. Paul Harvey. Sarah Emma Edmonds. Horatio Greenough. Daniel Inouye. Patsy Cline. Delilah Beasley. Walter J. Swan. Hawley Crippen. Richard J. Gatling. Sam Wilson. Clayton Moore. Isambard K. Brunel. Peter Falk. Jospeh Kyselak. Samuel Johnson. Giles Corey. Paul Erdos. Walter Brennan. Ellen Church. William McGuffey. Richard Ira Bong. Jason Fairbanks. Johnny Appleseed. Alison Steele. Max Schmeling. Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis; title: - October. Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Francis Hopkinson. Samuel J. Browne. Rutherford B. Hayes. Steve Jobs. Larry Walters. Elmer McCurdy. Eddie Rickenbacker. Joseph Glidden. Cassie Chadwick. Lewis "Chesty" Puller. Jake Garn. E.C. Segar. Lillian Gish. Duncan Macdougall. Noah Webster. Dangerfield Newby. Gwen Verdon. The War of Jenkins' Ear. H. Tracy Hall. Alfred Nobel. Annette Funicello. John Heisman. Annie Edson Taylor. Roger Miller. Igor Sikorsky. Alain Bombard. Jack Soo. Girard Van Barkaloo Hale. Edward Vernon. Joseph Hooker; title: November. Antonio Canova. Soapy Smith. Annie Oakley. Andy Rooney. Sidney Reilly. Annette Kellerman. Billy the Kid. Peggy Eaton. Hedy Lamarr. Baldassare Forestiere. Kim Peek. Jacques Chalres. John Paul Stapp. Ralph L. Mott. Claus von Stauffenberg. James Allen. Michael Rockefeller. William Tell. James A. Garfield. Edward Freeman. Annie Abbott. Wilbur "Bub" Meeks. Elbridge Gerry. James J. Kilroy. Upton Sinclair. John Browning. The Berners' Street Hoax. Washington Irving. Antonio Egas Moniz. Mark Twain; title: December. Micah Jenkins. Harrison Ford. Richard Pearse. William H. Clayton. Mary Fields. Wally Cox. Delphine LaLaurie. Flip Wilson. Margaret Hamilton. Ada Lovelace. Sam Cooke. David Sarnoff. Alice Marble. Joseph Lane. Charles Duryea. Boston Tea Party. Joseph Henry. Edwin H. Armstrong. Herb Stempel. Samuel A. Mudd. Ferdinand Waldo Demara. Cyrus Reed Teed. Wilson A. Bentley. West Point Eggnog Riot. Christmas Day Truce Charles Babbage. Oscar Levant. William Corby. Charles Goodyear. Pearl Taylor Hart. Jaime Escalante.