Actor Peter Lorre performed in more than 80 films, both in the U.S. and internationally. He is best remembered for his villainous leading role in the movie M.

McClelland “Mac” Barclay devoted his considerable artistic talent to the U.S. Navy where he became one of the artists sent out to record World War II on canvas.

In the 1920s, Constantine Peter Arnold threw an annual winter picnic at the foot of the Snowy Range to celebrate his February birthday. His elaborate invitations promised guests either “snow or sunshine, only the fool weatherman knows which it will be”.

Multi-talented Paul Newman was one of film’s most dominant male stars from the mid-1950s through to his retirement from acting in 2007.

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereals fortune, was a savvy businesswoman and a philanthropist. She built Mar-a-Lago, her Palm Beach, Florida estate in 1927.

Disney’s 1960 film Swiss Family Robinson was a box office hit. The cast included a whole menagerie of animals, including a tobacco loving zebra named Kitty.

Roscoe Turner was a pilot who helped publicize and romanticize aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly broke air speed records and won multiple air speed trophies.

Roscoe Turner was a pilot who helped publicize and romanticize aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly broke air speed records and won multiple air speed trophies.

The Mono Lake Committee formed in 1978 with the goal of saving California’s Mono Lake.

Near the end of World War II, the USS Queenfish torpedoed the Japanese Navy’s Awa Maru. The sinking of the Awa Maru, which was designated as a Red Cross aid ship, was decried by the Japanese as an “outrageous act of treachery.”