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Candlelight Desolation said:
Lincoln's chair at Ford's theater, preserved in a museum:

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This is at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. The dark spot on the top of the back rest is supposed to be hair oil, with blood spots said to be near the middle of the back rest and at the front of the seat.

Note: Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit and where the Ford Motor Company headquarters is located.

Also, Dearborn has the proportionally largest Muslim population in the United States and the largest mosque in North America*.
 
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Scriabin and his beloved wife, Tatiana.
 
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In May 1984, unemployed ice cream truck driver Michael Larson famously won $110,237 in cash and prizes on the CBS game show Press Your Luck by memorizing the "random light patterns" on the game board. He used a VCR to study recorded episodes, finding that the patterns repeated, allowing him to avoid the Whammy and set a record.
 
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Ronnie Kray giving a photographer the crazy eyes at Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital.

Reggie was the smooth criminal, Ronnie was criminally insane. He was famous for the "stare" as seen here. People feared it.
General Patton said:
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In May 1984, unemployed ice cream truck driver Michael Larson famously won $110,237 in cash and prizes on the CBS game show Press Your Luck by memorizing the "random light patterns" on the game board. He used a VCR to study recorded episodes, finding that the patterns repeated, allowing him to avoid the Whammy and set a record.
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The Cracked article on this guy is gold. This dude was a nutcase, he obsessively calculated how to win at Press Your Luck and then hid some of the prize money under his mattress. Of course, his apartment got burgled and the thief found the money. :story: He'd been planning to use the remainder of the money to scam a different show.
 
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Ronnie Kray giving a photographer the crazy eyes at Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital.

Reggie was the smooth criminal, Ronnie was criminally insane. He was famous for the "stare" as seen here. People feared it.

The Cracked article on this guy is gold. This dude was a nutcase, he obsessively calculated how to win at Press Your Luck and then hid some of the prize money under his mattress. Of course, his apartment got burgled and the thief found the money. :story: He'd been planning to use the remainder of the money to scam a different show.
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It's one of my favorite game show stories. From what I know, he didn't cheat on Press Your Luck and they couldn't prove it which is why he got the money.
 
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In May 1984, unemployed ice cream truck driver Michael Larson famously won $110,237 in cash and prizes on the CBS game show Press Your Luck by memorizing the "random light patterns" on the game board. He used a VCR to study recorded episodes, finding that the patterns repeated, allowing him to avoid the Whammy and set a record.
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I had never heard of him, but very recently watched the movie "The Luckiest Man In America"

No cheating, unlike the Britbongs on "Who Wants to be A Millionaire" TV show there.
 
In honor of the RMS Titanic:

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Relatives of Titanic survivors waiting for their loved ones at Southampton, 1912.

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Titanic survivors boarding the Carpathia, 1912.

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Titanic survivor, 4th Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall watches an early screening of A Night To Remember in 1958.

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Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea.​

 
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