Children respond to plea for funds

On January 1, 1965, the host of “The Soupy Sales Children Show” instructed viewers to get into their parents’ wallets and remove “those little pieces of paper with the pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson on them and send them to me, and I’ll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico.” TV-WNEW suspended Sales when it received a deluge of U.S. currency from young viewers. But many of the parents liked Sales and demanded his rehire. He returned the money.

Thomas Jefferson helped design the federal city that was to become Washington, D.C., insisting that streets be at least 100 feet wide and suggesting that the capital should have eight-acre parks located every 200 yards along the avenues.

The Brady Bunch of television fame lived at the fictional address of 4222 Clinton Way, Los Angeles, Calif.

When it comes to kings, numbering systems aren’t always set in stone. For instance, Scotland’s James VI became James I when he took the throne of Great Britain in 1603. Then there’s England’s Edward I (1272-1307). He was actually the fourth English sovereign to go by that name. Other earlier Edwards include the Elder (899-924), the Martyr (975-978) and the Confessor (1042-1066).