I guess it is not as bad as Antarctica in April.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotheaded_Naked_Ice_Borer

Holy shit....mind blown.

Hollywood director John Ford personally knew Wyatt Earp. (I vaguely remember visiting Tombstone as a child.)

https://youtu.be/gaqVgKRyiwc?t=55

John Ford is arguably the greatest director of Hollywood Westerns. Orson Welles is on record as saying that most of the "innovations" he got credit for inventing in Citizen Kane were actually stolen from John Ford's Westerns that high brow filmmakers did not pay attention to.

Additionally, just learned that Wyatt Earp ran a brothel in Peoria, Illinois. For those who are unaware, Richard Prior grew up in his grandmother's brothel in Peoria, Illinois.

Winston Churchill dislocated a shoulder after being hit by a car while crossing 5th Avenue in New York City. He apparently had looked the wrong way for traffic before jay walking. (The British rather famously drive on the wrong side of the road)

BTW, has anyone else read The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine?

I hadn't heard that story. But honestly, maybe not on a major avenue, but its pretty easy to look the wrong way in New York City given all the one-way streets.

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There are many countries that drive on the left side of the road, and that's hardly the wrong side, its just not the right side.

The original Sepoy units in British India were organized by Thomas Pitt, the grandfather of Pitt the Elder and great-grandfather of Pitt the Younger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jIE3b-bhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkb9SIe4WWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4

Thomas Pitt accumulated a substantial enough fortune trading on his private account in India while serving as Governor of Madras for the East India Company that he provided the fortune that sustained multiple generations of his family after purchasing a pocket borough that gave his descendants a controlled seat in Parliament until the Great Reform Act of 1832. Two of his descendants became Prime Minister, one married a Prime Minister and one married the sister of a Prime Minister.

Politics, the hipster p2w before games made it mainstream.

"...smeared my opponent, bribed the press to be on my side and threatened to torture the electorate if we lost...fail to see what more a decent politician could have done."

@gopher This reminds me of a situation in the Croatian parliament at the beginning of the 20th century. An argument broke out on the floor and the speaker offended one of the members. The member immediately shot him down.
Threats and assassinations were a real thing until so recently. :d

JohnyD: Who were they?

Croatia had a parliament in the early 20th century?

That reminds me of a situation in the American politics at the beginning of the 19th century. An argument began between the Vice President and the former Treasury Secretary. The Vice President shot him dead. :oP

They wrote some songs about it. Like to hear 'em? Here they go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPSWZUExZ8M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHnP7Rk6wFM

@JECE The assassination of Stjepan Radić, if you want to read more.

@gopher You are right, it was technically the Yugoslavia parliament, but he was a member of one of the Croatian parties in it. (hence why I remember it slightly wrong).

Hahaha, I didn't expect to listen to Hamilton today. Amazing musical <3 :d

I meant to reply earlier.

Thanks for sharing, JohnyD! What a sad episode of Yugoslav history . . .

gopher27: Yes, Croatia had a parliament within the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Within the Austrian half, it seems like the Dalmatian parliament was also dominated by Croats.

The Hungarians allowed the Croats an independent parliament? That doesn't sound like the Hungarians I have known. :oP

I don't think that they had a choice. They agreed to this in the Compromise of 1868, just a year after the Compromise of 1867 reestablished the Hungarian parliament.

My comment was meant very much tongue in cheek.