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By the 1960s, comic books were seen as having no redeeming social value and too simplistic for adults.That changed in 1961 when writer Stan Lee and artist…
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Seth Parker was a fictional preacher created by radio star Phillips Lord. The character was based on Lord's own grandfather. Lord played the elderly…
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Minnie Corum wrote a memoir titled "I Licked a Stamp" that detailed her life as postmistress in Encampment, Wyoming, from 1918 to 1946.She was not only a…
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German-born artist Hans Kleiber immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1900. He developed what he called "an abiding love for whatever the out-of-doors…
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The black-footed ferret is a small weasel-like animal that once occupied the Great Plains.These reclusive mammals hunt prairie dogs in their burrows.In…
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The CowBelles started as a social group for the wives of cattlemen. Soon statewide chapters formed. Wyoming founded the first state CowBelles organization…
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A cartoon set to epic opera? Why not?Michael Maltese of Warner Brothers Studios devised a story featuring hunter Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny through a…
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The government of Afghanistan signed an agreement with the University of Wyoming in 1952 to train Afghans in engineering and agriculture.The courses were…
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Evelyn Ankers was Queen of the Screamers due to her long career as a B-movie horror actress.She was the love interest of The Wolf Man in the 1941 film of…
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The year was 1949.Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman was in Italy filming the movie Stromboli with director Roberto Rossellini. Rossellini was known as…