Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was a very well loved first lady, typical of Splay Temperament types. She was so loved many of her fans who heard her speak at the 2016 Democratic Convention urged her to run in 2020. She has said she will not, that eight years in the White House was enough. Politics though is fickle and as the Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra would say, everything is possible until “the fat lady sings”. Descendant of a slave Through her mother, Michelle is a direct descendant of a male slave owned by a plantation in Alabama. Nothing is mentioned from…
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Mary Astor was in many film hits in the 1930’s and early 40’s before her alcoholism took its toll, most notably Dodsworth with Walter Huston and then the Maltese Falcon directed by Huston’s son, John Houston. In her youth, as shown by the picture above, the raven haired actress was quite a beauty with her long locks against her porcelain skin thanks to her Irish-Portguese mother while her immigrant father, Oskar, from Berlin contributed her angular features. It was a striking package. Mary Astor was born on May 3, 1906 in Quincy Illinois at 7:30 pm giving her a…
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Robert Pershing Wadlow is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable documented evidence. Because he was born in Alton, Illinois, a town one hundred miles south of the capitol, Springfield, and across the river from St. Louis, Bob got the nickname of “The Alton Giant.” Hyperpituitarism made him grow Robert Wadlow reached 8 feet 11.1 inches (272 cm) in height and weighed 490 pounds (220 kg) at his death. His great size and his continued growth past adolescence and well into adulthood was astonishing. A medical condition called “hypertrophy of the pituitary gland” caused by an…
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A man of many talents Sam Shepard with his down home honesty and American good looks; seemed, like fellow actor Robert Redford to personify the Marlboro Man Mythic. But unlike Redford, Shepard smoked, heavily and like his father, destroyed his life and relationship with his alcoholism. Writing, booze and women His real name was Samuel Shepard Rogers IV. He was born at Fort Sheridan, Illinois on November 5, 1943 because his father was serving in the Army Air Corp during World War II. He is a western bucket highlighting his self-sufficiency with a Moon handle, a not uncommon combination for…










