Coming from Boston, this man signed the Declaration of Independence a few blocks away in larger print to mock King George's bad eyesight.

This movie dethroned Star Wars as the biggest domestic money maker ever in 1997. George Lucas sent the movie's director a postcard congratulating him.

The last thing this general, and future president, said to troops before an invasion on June 6th, 1944 was 'You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.'

Alfred Hitchcock went to great lengths to keep this movies ending a secret - even buying every copy of its source novel to keep people from reading it.

The phrase 'I heard it through the grapevine' comes from the civil war and the use of this messy wired technology to communicate.

Missouri joined the Union in 1821. It joined with this other northern state.