Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol," thus Scrooge was embedded.
\nSir Thomas More became a saint, but first he was beheaded.
\nEubie Blake composed and played the piano in a ragtime way.
\nEddie Bracken, comic, starred and sang in films and on Broadway.
\nSinclair Lewis wrote "Elmer Gantry" and "It Can’t Happen Here."
\nMiguel Ferrer, long-time actor, "Twin Peaks" vet, died just this year.
\nBuster Crabbe, olympic swimmer, played Tarzan and Buck Rogers.
\nBurt Hooten was a pitcher, mostly for the Cubs and Dodgers.
\nAlfred Adler was a famed Austrian psychotherapist.
\nSteve Nash, Canadian, was Suns guard best known for the assist.
\nJohn Deere made equipment history inventing his steel plow.
\nJames Spader started out in movies but is on t.v. now.
\nAn Wang is a famed inventor and computer engineer.
\nGarth Brooks is a country phenom, often artist of the year.
\nAshton Kutcher, actor, took Demi and Mila as his choice.
\nEmo Phillips was a stand up comic with a silly voice.
\nJeff Van Note played center for the Falcons, five pro bowls to boot.
\nIsaiah Thomas, Celts’ guard, is short, but he can score and shoot.
\nLaura Ingalls Wilder had her Little House on the Prairie.
\nThere was no submarine reliever like Dan Quisenberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"