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Famous First Facts
''Famous First Facts'' is a book listing "First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States". The book's seventh edition (), published in March 2015 — includes more than 8,000 entries on 1,400 pages. The book was originally published by H. W. Wilson Company in 1933, weighing in at 757 pages and selling for $3.50. The book was created by Joseph Nathan Kane, a freelance journalist who had assembled 3,000 "firsts" into a text that had been rejected by 11 other publishers before it was accepted by its current publisher. The book became a library reference standard. The first edition led to a 1938–39 radio show hosted by Kane on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The second edition of the book was published in 1950, the third in 1964, the fourth in 1981 and the fifth in 1997. The sixth edition (1,300 pages) was published in 2006, and the seventh edition (1,400 pages) was published in 2015. See also *''Notable Last Facts ''Notable Last Facts'' is a book published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Nathan Kane
Joseph Nathan Kane (January 23, 1899 – September 22, 2002) was an American non-fiction writer, historian, and journalist. He is best known for being a researcher who found the person that did an event first and what products, services, and inventions were first to come about. His book ''Famous First Facts'' with later publications is a reference book used by academic and public libraries. He hosted a weekly national radio program in the 1930s on facts that were first and was an authority for quiz programs like ''The $64,000 Question'' and '' Break the Bank''. He wrote 52 books that had to do with trivia and first facts. He was a consultant to various radio and television stations as well as to the United States Congress, the White House, and the Department of the Interior. His last work was about Walter Hunt, who he believes is actually the true inventor of the modern fountain pen, the common sewing machine, and the American safety pin. Early life Kane was the oldest of three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutual Broadcasting System
The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the Old-time radio, golden age of U.S. radio drama, Mutual was best known as the original network home of ''Lone Ranger#Original radio series, The Lone Ranger'' and ''The Adventures of Superman (radio), The Adventures of Superman'' and as the long-time radio residence of ''The Shadow''. For many years, it was a national broadcaster for Major League Baseball on Mutual, Major League Baseball (including the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star Game and World Series), the National Football League, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football. From the mid-1930s and until the retirement of the network in 1999, Mutual ran a highly respected news service accompanied by a variety of popular commentary shows. Mutual pioneered the nationwide late night call-in radio program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Current Biography
''Current Biography'' is an American monthly magazine published by the H. W. Wilson Company of New York City, a publisher of reference books, that appears every month except December. ''Current Biography'' contains profiles of people in the news and includes politicians, athletes, businessmen, and entertainers. Published since 1940, the articles are annually collected into bound volumes called ''Current Biography Yearbook''. A December issue of the magazine is not published because the staff works on the final cumulative volume for the year. Articles in the bound volumes correct any mistakes that may have appeared in the magazine and may include additional relevant information about the subject that became available since publication of the original article. The work is a standard reference source in American libraries and the publisher keeps in print the older volumes. Wilson also issues cumulative indexes to the set, and an online version is available as a subscription database. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notable Last Facts
''Notable Last Facts'' is a book published by the American librarian/writer William B. Brahms in 2004 and was the first relatively comprehensive collection of important lasts. Although that work mainly details American culture (TV, Radio, Sports are almost completely American examples), and to a lesser extent with European culture (in Art, Music and Transportation for example), some sections (Nations, Wars, Slavery, Voting, and Era & Empires for example) do have a broad international treatment. The smaller trivia books on "lasts" by Christopher Slee (cited below) have a treatment that is almost exclusively limited to the United Kingdom. Examples of "Notable Last Facts" include the last surviving participant or witness to a historic event, the last work produced by a major artist, author, performer or musician, or perhaps the last remaining example of a once-prevalent style or object, such as a type of architecture, or a make or model of an automobile, motorcycle, or airplane. Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Anzovin
Steven E. Anzovin (September 10, 1954 – December 25, 2005) was an author and editor of reference and computer books, a computer journalist, and the co-founder of Anzovin Studio, a computer animation company. He wrote and edited 25 books and more than 300 magazine articles and was a pioneering advocate for green computing. Biography Anzovin was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on September 10, 1954. His parents were Beverly (Gold) French, of Flat Rock, North Carolina, and Russell Ames (born Anzovin). Anzovin grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he attended the public schools. He studied at the University of Connecticut and graduated from Connecticut College with a Bachelor of Arts in studio art, cum laude, in 1976. In 1980 he received his Master of Fine Arts in New Media from Pratt Institute. From 1981 to 2005, Anzovin and his wife, Janet Podell, ran a freelance writing and editing business, first in Englewood, NJ, and later in Amherst, MA. They specialized in com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Non-fiction Books
Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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