Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

[Kern Dog]

A catchy name has a way of sticking…even when it’s wrong. Probably because “Gunfight in an Alley Behind C.S. Fly’s Photography Studio” was too ungainly a moniker, one of the most iconic events of the Old West is known by another name: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral…

Lasting just 30 seconds on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the brief shootout between lawmen and outlaws has been enshrined as a vital part of Americana: Good guys on one side, bad guys on the other, and justice prevailing in the end. Yet as is the case with a lot of folklore, many details have been flubbed over time – including, notably, the fact that the shootout didn’t actually take place at the O.K. Corral, but rather down the block behind a photography studio on Fremont Street near Third Street…

Pitting lawmen brothers Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp and their friend Doc Holliday against outlaws Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury (also brothers), and Billy Claiborne, the brief fracas ended in the deaths of Billy Clanton and both McLaurys. The gunfight was preceded by several violent run-ins between the two groups, who were battling for control of Tombstone. The Earp brothers and Holliday, all of whom survived (though only Wyatt Earp was uninjured), were later charged with murder but found not guilty, with a Tombstone judge ruling they had been “fully justified in committing these homicides.” They don’t call it the Wild West for nothing…

Also worth noting is that the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral didn’t gain major popularity – or even widespread public knowledge – until the 1930s. Sensationalized in dime novels and books, especially Stuart Lake's "Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal" (1931), it was then that the heroic myth of Wyatt Earp became a cultural phenomenon…

 

[DeltaV]

Charles Bronson was a famous American actor known for his tough roles in films like Death Wish. He grew up in deep poverty in Pennsylvania, one of 15 children, and worked in coal mines as a boy. During filming in the early 1960s, young Kurt Russell, a child actor, gave Bronson a remote-controlled airplane for his birthday. Bronson took it silently and walked away, then returned minutes later and said, "No one has ever given me anything for my birthday." It was his first gift ever. Years after Bronson's death in 2003, Russell received the same airplane with a note that read, "Thanks for the memories." It was more than a toy.

 

[Kern Dog]

It is interesting how in some cases, a small act of kindness really affects another person.