Alex Trebek Heart Attack
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has had a minor heart attack. A terse announcement on the show’s official site says he’s fine and will be back on the job in January.
Biographies
Kirchner & Kirchner, Tag-Team Presidents
Imagine if Bill Clinton had stepped down in 1996 so that his wife Hillary could be elected to replace him.Then suppose that Bill was elected again in 2000, and Hillary again in 2004 — with Hillary now in year 15 of a Clinton White House.
The Day Somebody Was Born
December 6th is unusual. It’s been known around Who2 HQ as the day nobody was born — the one day on which nobody in our database had a birthday. And we have consistently pledged not to hunt for a December 6th celeb just to artificially fill the gap.
States to Heroes: Drop Dead
What a biographical bust the 50 State Quarters program turned out to be!
Gore vs. Shaw: Oscar Smackdown!
Two users wrote us last week with the same thing on their minds:
Evel Knievel, “Bone-Shattering” Stuntman
Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel has died at age 69.Knievel was a crafty star of the pre-cable TV age, when a single rare appearance on ABC’s Wide World of Sports would be seen by tens of millions. Nowadays kids in the X Games perform motorcycle jumps, spins and look-ma-no-hands shenanigans that beat anything Evel ever did. But Evel had the P.T. Barnum gene and knew how to milk a jump over 10 Greyhound busses for maximumum publicity, drama, and cash.A spin through the obituary openers:
Who’s on the Million-Dollar Bill?
Grover Cleveland, apparently.(Seems to be borrowed from this.)Interesting side note from the U.S. Treasury: Bills bearing the image of Santa Claus may be legal tender.
Wife Wants Fossett Declared Dead
The wife of adventurer Steve Fossett has asked a court to declare her husband legally dead.”After nearly three months we feel now that we must accept that Steve did not survive,” Peggy Fossett said in a statement.
Belated 60th Congratulations
We missed it: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last week.They were married on 20 November 1947, just two years after the end of World War II. The queen is the first English monarch to be married for 60+ years.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Running Mate?
“Does Civilization Need Religion?” asked theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 80 years ago in the title of one of his many works on church and society.