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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone
Stallone is known for his Hollywood action roles, most notably, are the
boxer Rocky Balboa in the Rocky series from 1975 to 2006 and soldier
John Rambo in the series that began in 1982. It was announced on
December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into boxing’s Hall of Fame.
Clyde Austin Drexler is a retired pro basketball shooting guard and small
forward. He was with the Portland Trail Blazers from 1983 to 1995
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FoxNews – A seven-page letter signed by George Washington, urging a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress to help ratify the Constitution, fetched just
under $1.5 million at an auction Friday.
Washington wrote the letter to John Armstrong, a major general in Washington’s
army, in 1788. In it, Washington voiced his passionate support of the newly-drafted
Constitution.
“I have no doubt those persons who are chosen to administer it will have wisdom
enough to discern the influence which their examples as rulers and legislators may
have on the body of the people, and will have virtue enough to pursue that line
of conduct which will most conduce to the happiness of their Country,” the letter
reads.
It was not immediately known who the winning bidder was at Christie’s. He or she
placed the bid of $1,443,750 over the phone, beating out a competing bidder in
the auction room.
Mousekeeter Lisa Whelchel
Lisa Diane Whelchel is best remembered as portraying Blair Warner on the
NBC television series The Facts of Life (1979-1988). She became a member
of The New Mickey Mouse Club in the mid 1970s.
In 1984,Whelcher was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best inspirational
Performance for her contemporary Christian album, All Because of You. She
has also been a regular speaker with Women of Faith Christian conferences
since 2009.
Abraham Lincoln and the Army discharge note (inset)
(FoxNews) – A hastily scrawled note by President Abraham Lincoln just two months
before his assassination ordering a disabled 14-year-old boy released from the
Army in response to an impassioned plea from the boy’s father went on sale
today in Philadelphia.
The message saying “Let this boy be discharged,” and signed A. Lincoln was
written on a telegram from Col. Thomas W. Harris about his son, Perry. It had
been in a private collection and was valued at $15,000 by Nathan Raab of the
Raab Collection, which offered the previously unknown document for sale.
The letter is considered rare because there are few Lincoln documents relating
to children.
Lincoln’s order came just two months before he was assassinated by John Wilkes
Booth at Ford’s Theatre on April 15, 1865. Ironically, Perry Harris was discharged
from the Army the same day.
