Never Told

'How' was by nosebleed; 'the bride' was named Ilico.

Daniel Emmett, and the song was 'Dixie'.

The dog was Balto (whose story was made into an animated movie); the race, the Iditarod.

Something to do with its height making it a good antenna mast. (I always thought it was 'because nobody wanted the metal'

It's the only World Series game the Cubs won in Comiskey Park?

Granola, although perhaps they graduated to corn flakes.

Chuck Grant

'Peter Pan' in response to Jim Ward wrote

He was a slave trader, capturin' black guys from Africa, and taking them to America, and then he was converted, and was saved, and wrote the famous song/hymn ... read on !

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see.

And he kept all the money !

I mean all the money from his slave tradin' !

So I've been led to believe.

He heard the saying, 'the Lord helps those who help themselves', so he helped himself.

The correct answer to that is that the cause is unknown. The *location*, however, was the O'Leary's barn.

The urban legend is that Catherine O'Leary's cow, Daisy, kicked over a lantern; however, that story seems to have started as a single-sentence story the next day in the Chicago Evening Journal (the source of which was not reported, and which reads with hindsight suspiciously like the reporting of gossip or speculation as fact). Mrs O'Leary and her husband both strongly and consistently denied it, saying that they'd been in bed at the time. There's also evidence that the fire wasn't, initially, even a particularly bad one, and it's unlikely in the extreme that the O'Leary's (who weren't insured, and much of whose livelihood centred around the contents of the barn in question) would have failed to raise the alarm and attempt to deal with the fire, had they been aware of it. The subsequent inquiry reached no conclusion as to its cause.

Cheers - Ian

Wasn't it a Doctor Graham who started the health food craze at Battle Creek Michigan?

So my guess if 'Graham Crackers'

No, Graham was not a doctor, and was not at Battle Creek, and Graham Crackers we never promoted as a breakfast food. Graham's ideas is that everyone should bake their own bread using 'graham flour' for religous reasons. He was not popular with bakeries.

Dr. John Kellogg, the inventor of Granola and (by mistake, with bother Will) Corn Flakes, was behind the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

Although both share the property of being total wackos.

Chuck Grant

Terry Portwain (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message

That figures - all the spanners available were metric but the nuts and bolts were sized in French inches.

Richard Gatling, as guessed by Keith Willoughby. He also invented a gun to be mounted on a camel saddle.

Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Bad luck to happen on the same night as the more famous one!
http://www.peshtigofire.info/

The dog was named Balto, as guessed by Don Del Grande. Another dog, named Togo didn't get as much press.

It was too valuable as a radio antenna (also Don Del Grande).

Planet X a.k.a. Pluto.

These were Tim Bernes-Lee's early names for the 'World Wide Web'.

It was the first time the 'Star Spangled Banner' was played before a ball game.

The composer was Daniel Decatur Emmett, who also wrote 'Old Dan Tucker'.

Close - Edwin Booth and Robert Todd Lincoln. How was Edwin related to John Wilkes? (Did J. W. ever act?)