Jan 27-Judge Learned Hand: U.S. Circuit Judge and philosopher. Hand has been quoted more often by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States than any other lower-court judge; -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; -Lewis Carroll author Alice in Wonderland; -Art “The Chief” Rooney: born 1901. Steeler’s founding owner. After graduation from Georgetown, he dedicated himself to sports, winning the AAU welterweight belt in 1918 and tried out for the 1920 Olympic Team. He played minor league baseball and in 1925 as player-manager he led the Middle Atlantic League in games, hits, runs, stolen bases and finished 2nd in batting average. Art also played half-back for a semi-pro Pittsburgh team which he later took over and renamed the J.P. Rooneys before purchasing an NFL franchise for $2,500 in 1933 (Pittsburg Steelers); -Edward J. Smith – Captain of the Titanic; -Troy Donahue the actor singer my Mom named me after; -Carl Blegenan: archaeologist born Minneapolis who worked on the site of Pylos in modern-day Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He directed the excavations of the mound of Hisarlik, the site of Troy; -Jean-Francois de Troy-French “Rococo” Painter; -Dmitri Mendeleev: chemist discovered periodic table of elements; -Wilhelm II: German Emperor during WW1; -Friedrich von Schelling: German philosopher Views on Christianity; -William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; -Samuel Ting: Nobel for discovery of sub-atomic particle; -“Bjorne”: Swedish singer; -Mikhail Baryshnikov; -Brian Downey-Thin Lizzy “The Boys Are Back in Town”; -Billy “White Shoes” Johnson; -John Roberts: Current Chief Justice of U.S.; -Frank Miller: comic book Batman; -Gilliam Gilbert: New Order; -Jonny Lang: blues singer/guitarist “Lie to Me”. In 1998, at 17 he opened for the Rolling Stones in Houston at the Compaq Center. Here is the list of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices: John Jay, N.Y. John Rutledge, S.C. Oliver Ellsworth, Conn. John Marshall, Va. Roger B. Taney, Md. Salmon P. Chase, Ohio Morrison R. Waite, Ohio Melville W. Fuller, Ill. Edward D. White, La. Charles E. Hughes, N.Y. William H. Taft, Conn. Harlan F. Stone, N.Y. Frederick M. Vinson, Ky. Earl Warren, Calif. Warren E. Burger, Va. William H. Rehnquist, Ariz. John G. Roberts, DC — youtu.be/UmoIzIaXVWI
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