Never Told 2

Vienna

Football

The hero was Abner Doubleday. Don't know the millionaire.

The one that Archduke Ferdinand's driver took in Sarajevo

Scopes

Thanksgiving

Pies were in the tins; The campus was back east, wasn't it? Princeton or Yale or somewhere like that.

Bjarni Herjolfsson and Leif Eriksson.

Vienna.

Waving mechanical arms on hilltops. See description in 'The Count of Monte Cristo'.

The island: Martinique?

Archduke Francis Ferdinand's car took one in Sarajevo in 1914, giving Gavrilo Princip the opportunity to assassinate him and leading to World War I.

Ian Fleming.

Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada

Wilmer McLean, who moved from Manassas to Appomattox.

Thanksgiving (and wasn't there a 'Democrats Thanksgiving' and a 'Republicans Thanksgiving' one year?). But didn't it last three years?

Inside were the words 'Frisbie's Pies', but there is some question as to which university (if any) was visited.

Jim Ward:

Marc Dashevsky:

The answer wanted is the tunnel for Alfred Beach's demonstration pneumatic subway line. However, this is a myth. The excavation did break into Beach's old tunnel, but that was no surprise; its location was well known.

See my article <http://www.davros.org/rail/atmospheric.html> for more on the 'might-have-been' technology that this tunnel belonged to. However, my article itself repeats a myth

: The diggers of the 1908 NY subway? : Yankees tickets? : El Dorado, the legendary city of gold!

Actually, it was a cult of people worshipping a cobalt bomb.

Was that from a comic book? If so, which one?

Movie, although it might have been a comic book too.

The town in which Lee surrendered was Appomattox Courthouse, not Appomattox. Appomattox was down the road a bit.

More likely, the Salem witch trials.

Bill Smythe

The town of Appomattox, Va has had seven other names during its history and at one point was moved a couple miles away from its original location. One of those previous names was Appomattox Court House. (Court House was frequently a part of the names of county seats, although most have since dropped it. But there's still at least one around.) The other six former names of Appomattox are Apamatuck, Appomattox Depot, Appomattox Station, Apumetec, Nebraska, and West Appomattox.

Nebraska?!? Really? Place names are indeed weird...