President Franklin D. Roosevelt - 4097 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538 - Franklin grew up here in the family home, returned to raise his own children, and is buried here with his wife Eleanor, under a simple monument in the rose garden. It is now the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site.
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Amelia Earhart's birthplace and early childhood home, 223 North Terrace Street, Atchison, Kansas 66002, is located on a bluff overlooking the Missouri, River. The Gothic Revival building was built by her maternal grandfather, Judge Alfred G. Otis in the early 1860s. To see more photos of Earhart’s childhood home and now museum dedicated to her life, please visit: www.kansastravel.org/ameliaearhartmuseum.htm
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Rocky Balboa - 1818 East Tusculum Street, Kensington, North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - The Kennedy Compound or Hyannis Port Historic District, the name given to six acres waterfront property on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, MA.
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In 1898, this small and modest building on Bagley Street, in the heart of Detroit MI, is where Henry Ford would make his initial attempt into the automobile industry. From this humble beginning, Ford Motor Company would go on to make some of the most exquisite and progressive vehicles the world has ever seen.
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Martin Scorsese - “There it is, that cream-colored one, 253 Elizabeth Street,'' he said. ''We were in the front, on the third floor. It was three and a half rooms; me, my brother, and my mother and father. Sometimes, in the summer, when it was really hot, my brother and I would sleep out on the fire escape.'' This excerpt was taken from a 1998 New York Times interview with Martin Scorsese about his early childhood in Queens, New York. Below you can see Catherine, Martin's mother, who was always was nearby on the set, and sometimes found herself in the film itself. If you would like to learn more about the impact that Martin's family and neigborhood had on his life and career, I would recommend the following documentary that you can view at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tzKAlLb4iM
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Sherlock Holmes - 221 b Baker street London England
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James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown - born on St. Simons Island, GA 31522 in coastal Georgia on the 17th of February 1936. Among the fact that Jim Brown is considered one of the greatest football players in the history of the National Football League, Jim was also widely regarded as one of the best lacrosse players in the country during his collegiate years at the University of Syracuse.
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John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, CA on Feb. 27, 1902 at 132 Central Ave and Stone Street, would grow up to become one of America’s greatest writers. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952), Of Mice and Men (1937), and one my personal favorites, Cannery Row (1945). You can learn about Steinbeck’s life at The Center for Steinbeck Studies at http://as.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/index.jsp
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Elvis Aaron Presley - 306 Elvis Presley Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley. He was born in a two-room house built by his father, grandfather and uncle.
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Rachel Carson - was born at 613 Marion Avenue, Springdale, PA 15144 and would go on to write the 1962 book Silent Spring which would launch the modern environmental movement.
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Yankee Stadium - located on East 161st Street & River Avenue in the Bronx, New York City hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history.
Yankee Stadium officially opened on Wednesday, April 18, 1923, with the Yankees' first home game, against the Boston Red Sox. According to the New York Evening Telegram, "everything smelled of ... fresh paint, fresh plaster and fresh grass." The photo on the right shows Ruth's jersey being retired and on the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium.
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Rowan Atkinson - (Mr. Bean) - c/o Thames Television International - Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock - Middlesex, TW11 9NT, U.K.
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CBGB - 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street, New York, NY. Founded in 1973, CBGB (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and punk-influenced bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the Patti Smith Group, Blondie, and Talking Heads.
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James Earl Jones – Our favorite movie voice was born in Arkabulta, MS on Jan. 17, 1931. Mr. Jones can still be contacted through the US Mail at James Earl Jones, c/o Horatio Productions Inc., PO Box 610, Pawling, NY 12564. But to reach his alter ego Darth Vader, one would have to travel at light speed to the outer reaches of the universe to the desert planet of Tatoonie. Where cinemas greatest and most tortured villain, was born a meek, yet very talented, Anakin Skywalker, who would one day rule the universe. "May the force be with you."
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Benjamin Franklin - 36 Craven Street, London, England. This is the only surviving former residence of Mr. Franklin. The house dates back to 1730, where Franklin lived and worked for sixteen years. The house is now a museum commemorated to his life. To learn more about one of the most progressive minds of our country’s early years, please visit www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org
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A Christmas Story House, located at 3159 West 11th Street, Cleveland, OH 44109, has now been restored to its movie splendor. It is open year round to the public for tours. Directly across the street from the house is the official A Christmas Story House Museum, which features original props, costumes and memorabilia from the film, as well as hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes photos. Please visit www.achristmasstoryhouse.com to learn more about the house and the movie that has enriched so many of our holidays for decades. And yes, while you are there, you can buy a leg lamp!
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Jimmy Carter - (Former President of the United States) - Carter Center - #1 Copenhill Ave. N.E. - Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz | I Love Lucy - 623 East 68th Street Apt 3D., New York, NY
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Nikola Tesla was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Nikola lived in rooms 3327 and 3328 at the Hotel New Yorker from 1933 to 1943. Below is a photo of Tesla's Wardenclyffe plant on Long Island in 1904. From this facility, Tesla hoped to demonstrate wireless transmission of electrical energy across the Atlantic. To learn more about one of the most fascinating, talented, and intriguing minds the world has ever seen, please visit: www.teslasociety.com/index.html
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The First McDonald's is located at 1398 N. "E" Street, San Bernardino, CA 92405
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British television period drama Downton Abbey - Highclere Castle is a country house in the Jacobethan style. The 5,000-acre estate is in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Newbury, Berkshire. It is the country seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, a branch of the Anglo-Welsh Herbert family.
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Glenn Close - (Award Winning Actress) - c/o Creative Artists Agency - 2000 Avenue of the Stars - Los Angeles, CA 90067
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Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner would live and work at their New York apartment/studio at 11 West 53rd Street, until Lee decided in 1945, that country living would be better for Jackson’s sometimes frail and sensitive psyche. This quaint cottage and barn, located at 830 Springs Fireplace Rd, Long Island, NY, is where Jackson would discover a new art form and help make New York City the center of the art world. To see famous footage of Jackson at work, please visit the following link: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/250
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Babe Ruth George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat" lived on 2107-2109 Broadway, 73th St. New York, NY
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Everyone’s favorite Mad Man, Donald T. Draper, played by the very talented Jon Hamm, calls 104 Waverly Place, Apt #38, New York, NY, home. You can always change the conversation, but never the apartment!
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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone - born January 17, 1899, was an American gangster who led the crime syndicate known as the “Chicago Outfit”, whose main source of revenue was smuggling and bootlegging liquor in Chicago throughout the 1920s. “Al” would reside here at his not so palatial home on 7244 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. To see and learn more of one of America’s most interesting, yet dangerous criminals, we recommend the following site that we found very interesting. www.myalcaponemuseum.com/index.htm
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Andrew Warhola (Andy Warhol) - Andy's modest childhood home was located at 3252 Dawson Street in the South Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. Andy lived on Dawson Street from 1934 until he left for New York City in 1949.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill - born on 30 November 1874, two months prematurely, in a bedroom in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Despite having a lisp that continued throughout his career, where Churchill would describe it in terms as 'severe' or 'agonizing', he would go on to be one of the greatest speakers of all times and one the great leaders of the Twentieth Century.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay - (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs.
Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass, and the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine, and then start down!
Edna St. Vincent Millay home 1923–24 at 75½ Bedford St Greenwich Village, New York, NY
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Arnold Schwarzenegger - Thal, some 140 miles south of Vienna, Austria. Former Governor Schwarzenegger has turned his childhood home into a museum commemorating himself.
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John Winston Ono Lennon - John lived most of his childhood and adolescence with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and Geroge Smith, who had no children of their own, at Medips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton, England. John would later live, as many of New York's wealthy and famous residents did, at "The Dakota", 1 west 72nd St. New York, NY.
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Marion Mitchell Morrison, better known by his stage name "John Wayne", was an American film actor, director, producer, and Academy Award-winner. John was born in a humble two bedroom house on 216 S. 2nd St., Winterset, IA. In June 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne 13th among the Greatest Male Screen Legends of All Time.
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On March 30th, 1974, the Ramones had their very first show at the “Performance Space” on 23 East 20Street, New York, NY. They would not play at the world famous CBGB’s until August of that same year. If you would like to learn more about New York’s Greenwich Village’s past, present and future, we recommend visiting “The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation”: www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/index.htm
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British Prime Minister - 10 Downing St, London SW1A 2AA, also referred to as "10", is the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Conveniently right next door at 11 Downing Street, is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the second highest cabinet member of the British Parliament. You can learn more about this famous address and the people who held office there at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/prime-ministers-office-10-downing-street
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Dr. Maya Angelou - raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas, is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Unfortunately, this wonderful human being passed away this year, but her spirit, love, and compassion will live on forever in her words, and the millions of people that she touched around the world. Rest in Peace Maya. Visit to learn more: www.mayaangelou.com.
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Boris Karloff - Although he is best known for playing many sinister characters on screen, Karloff was known in real life as a very kind gentleman who gave generously, especially to children's charities. Beginning in 1940, Karloff dressed up as Father Christmas every Christmas to hand out presents to physically disabled children in Baltimore hospitals. During much of his acting career, Boris resided at "The Dakota" located on 1 west 72nd St. New York, NY.
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