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What is happiness anyway? (opens the original)
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What is happiness anyway? Gallup’s Ilana Ron-Levey told CBS that social support and feelings of loneliness are widely recognized as influential factors in overall happiness.The Daily Note with James A. Brown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary" type="submit" val
The Beginnings of Superman (opens the original)
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Two Cleveland high school friends struggled through the hardships of the Great Depression. Writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster spent years pitching a bold new character to skeptical newspaper syndicators. Publishers repeatedly rejected the idea.The Daily Note with James A. Brown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tab
Rock around the clock and the Blackboard Jungle (opens the original)
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In 1954, a country singer from Chester, Pennsylvania, named Bill Haley recorded a fast, uptempo song with his band, the Comets. Their record initially sold modestly and faded from the radio quickly.But director Richard Brooks saw something in it. He decided to play the track over the opening credits of his 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, a movie about rebellious teenagers. It worked like a charm. Teenagers across the country stood up in the aisles and danced to the beat, making “Rock Around the Clo
The First Drive In Movie Theater (opens the original)
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A New Jersey sales executive named Richard Hollingshead noticed that his mother struggled to sit comfortably in narrow traditional movie theater seats, and he thought there had to be a better way.So in 1932, he nailed a bed sheet to the trees in his backyard, mounted a projector to the hood of his car, and tested speakers behind the screen. He worked out ramp angles so cars parked in the back could see over vehicles in the front.Thanks for reading The Daily Note with James A. Brown! This post is
The Day Lewis and Clark Stepped into the unknown (opens the original)
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For five freezing months, the 33 explorers of the Corps of Discovery wintered outside the wooden stockade of the Missouri River alongside their hosts. Up to that point, the French fur trappers navigated the waters. Beyond that fort lay thousands of miles of uncharted wilderness that no American had ever mapped.On April 7th, 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark untied six wooden canoes and pushed into the river current. Traveling with two Native Americans and a two-month-old infant, they vent
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