Trivia For March 15, 2026

The original restaurants featured large, yellow metal arches with neon trim. The arches were later combined and stylized into the "M" logo by designer Louis Cheskin in 1962, becoming a standalone symbol in 1968.

When first awarded in 1927, the award was called "Man of the Year". The idea originally focused on a Man of the Week before it was decided to use Lindbergh to represent the predominant story of 1927, with the magazine listing him as Man of the Year being published in early 1928.

Loman is a 63-year-old travelling salesman from Brooklyn with 34 years of experience. During the course of the play he endures a pay cut and a firing. To cope with reality, he creates a fantasy world in which he is famous, influential and successful.

The model was introduced by the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying (1969). She originally developed the stages to describe the process patients with terminal illness go through as they come to terms with their own deaths.

On July 11, 1804, both men left Manhattan by separate boats and rowed across the Hudson River to Weehawken, NJ. Dueling was prohibited in both New York and New Jersey, but New Jersey was not as aggressive as New York in prosecuting dueling participants.