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Created The Thinker

Auguste Rodin

http://www.knpb.org/artbeat/rodin/aboutrodin.asp

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll:

http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/life.html

Shoot Out at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona:

http://www.lawbuzz.com/famous_trials/wyatt_earp/wyatt_earp_ch1.htm#preface

Sound Bite:

Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett)

Margaritaville

Call of the Wild

Jack London

http://london.sonoma.edu/

 

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

 

George Bernard Shaw:

http://www.shawsociety.org.uk/shaw_bio.htm

The Boston Tea Party:   http://www.boston-tea-party.org/

Black Beauty Anna Sewell: http://www.online-literature.com/anna-sewell/

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan:

http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bbunyan4.html

 

 

A Unique Small Town Website:

http://www.villageofarcade.org/index.htm

Lord Jim

The Secret Agent

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad:

http://www.online-literature.com/conrad/

Noumea, New Caledonia,  lagoon webcam: http://www.photos-nouvelle-caledonie.com/webcam/webcam/lagoon.php

Tender is the Night

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html

Sound Bite:

Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)

  Brown Eyed Girl

 

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess:

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/html/brief.htm

http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/movie_sounds/sounds_files_20071107_9308167/citizen_kane/rosebud.wav

Edward Everett Hale

A Man Without A Country

Edward Hale:

http://www.nndb.com/people/145/000048001/

 

Ulysses

James Joyce:

http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/james-joyce-book-book/rob-tocalino

John Whistler's Falling Rocket painting

    In 1877, critic John Ruskin said painter James Whistler's The Falling Rocket painting was akin to "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." James Whistler then sued John Ruskin.

The John Ruskin-James Whistler Libel Trial:

http://iupjournals.org/victorian/vic42-4.html

 

Considered by many to have been the greatest saxophonist of all time.

Charles "Bird" Parker:

http://www.cmgww.com/music/parker/about/biography.html

Music Video:

Fortunate Son (CCR)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X90T5sY5c2o&feature=related

The Lincoln Highway:

http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/info/

Margaret Gorman was the very first Miss America Pageant winner          

Early days of the Miss America Scholarship Pageant:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/peopleevents/e_first.html

Carl Graham Fisher

Helped create the Indy 500, the Dixie Highway, the Lincoln Highway and Miami Beach

Carl Fisher:

http://www.lostindiana.net/html/crown_hill__fisher.html

 

Innovative automobile designer

Preston Tucker:

http://www.automotivehistoryonline.com/tucker.htm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SkSvqhGk__0

Sound Bite:

It Never Rains in Southern California (Albert Hammond)

Listen

The ACME Mail Order Company has been providing unusual products for cartoon characters for decades, often delivering them in the middle of nowhere. Below is their catalog link:

http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html