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.
West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards, 1989.
Portrait of Vance a Trapper Boy (15 years old), 1908. He has trapped for several years. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come.
President Theodore Roosevelt reads a book, while his dog Skip rests in his lap, in the doorway of the West Divide Creek ranch house in Colorado on September 12, 1905.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) relaxing in their garden with their teenage daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. The photo was taken in the gardens of the Royal Lodge at Windsor. ca 1946.
President Theodore Roosevelt reads a book, while his dog Skip rests in his lap, in the doorway of the West Divide Creek ranch house in Colorado on September 12, 1905.
Oscar famously read books very fast, while still being able to absorb the material. He also was able to drink others under the table. They'd pass out and he'd just ask for more booze to drink.
