Max has also enjoyed fine health into his older years. As of a few years ago, he only had mild arthritis and some cataracts. The owner says that he never spoiled the dog, and never even fed him any food from their table.
Using the rule of thumb for translating dog years into human years; in August, he will have lived for 210 human years. Here's to hoping he gets to live many more years.
The town became completely deforested after supplying lumber for helping with the reconstruction. This was their big mistake. Without the trees to cover them from the great Lake Michigan winds, the town became completely eroded. Sand started covering streets and houses.
By 1875, the town was completely vacated and it was consumed by sand. The town of Singapore now only lives in the name of the Singapore Yacht Club, located at one end of the town.
What they did was design new routes which maximized the efficiency of package delivery by making a series of right-turn loops. This development has led to UPS saving more than 10 million gallons of gas since 2004, and reducing carbon emissions by 100,000 metric tons, or the equivalent of 5,300 cars being off the road for a year.
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The movie, the 1975 musical and a 1927 silent film were all actually based on the real life story of Beulah Annan. Let's see if you can spot all the similarities to Chicago in Beulah's story.
She was born in Kentucky, where she met and divorced her first husband. Then, she met a car mechanic called Albert Annan. They both moved to Chicago. Annan worked as a mechanic at a garage. Beulah would meet a man named Harry Kalsted at a laundry and begin an affair.
In 1924, in her bedroom, Beulah shot Kalsted in the back. Her story changed several times. According to her, they were having an argument; there was a gun on the bed and they both reached for it, and she got to it first. Then, she claimed it was self-defense, fearing rape. Then she said he was leaving her because she said she was pregnant.
Her loving husband stood by her through the trial. He gathered his money out of the bank and got her the best lawyers. She was acquitted on May 24, 1925. The very next day, she left her husband and finally divorced him in 1926, saying he had deserted her.
The show had shocking images and an atmosphere that resembled the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The script turned a lot of heads at Fox. Some executives even called it immoral. Turns out, the writers based the script on the real life experiences of Charlie Chaplin.
Chaplin was touring England in a musical. He went to stay in an old boarding house. The family who ran it liked him and asked him to come upstairs to show him something not many people saw. There was a man with no arms or legs. Then, they started dancing and the kid flopped around. When they were done, the kid lay on his back and was rolled under the bed.
That anecdote showed up in an autobiography and the writer of the episode thought that he just had to do something like that at some point in his life.
