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“The Carver” by JREAM

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Urban Nature by Naoki Ito, 2009

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1993: Chicago Bulls fan Don Calhoun makes a 75 foot shot that wins him $1 million dollars. (source)

The insurance company that was required to make the payoff, American Hole 'N One Inc, voided the payment when they discovered that three years earlier, Calhoun played basketball for a junior college (a fact he disclosed and the Bulls did not have an issue with), and said it was a violation of the rules. Fortunately, the sponsors of the event and the Chicago Bulls pledged to cover the prize if the insurance company would not. As a result, Calhoun got $50,000 a year over the next 20 years.

One lasting impact was that Mr. Calhoun was able to use the winnings to help his son, Dr. Clarence Calhoun II, go to medical school.

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unfortunately for me i will never be understood in the way i understand others.

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Alfred Mosher Butts of Jackson Heights was an unemployed architect when he set out to invent a word game in 1938. Studying the prevalence of letters in printed works and newspapers, Butts devised his first iteration of the game that followed the same letter distribution as Scrabble, but used no board. He devised the game in his Jackson Heights apartment and tested it with community members in the basement of the Community United Methodist Church on 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights.

He originally named his game Lexiko before a rejected patent revealed a second name, Criss-Cross Words. In 1947, Butts’s business partner, James Brunot, officially renamed the game to the word meaning “to grasp or grope.” After trial and error, Butts eventually developed the game we know and love today.

Scrabble struggled to take off for years until 1952, when the president of Macy’s placed a large order after discovering it on vacation. Soon enough, Scrabble was flying off shelves. The structure of Scrabble has remained the same since, although alterations to the rules have been made four times—in 1953, 1976, 1989, and 1999.

Photo: Toby Talbot for the AP via the NY Daily News Text: NY Daily News

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Black Panthers organization helps serve breakfast to youngsters in a Philadelphia headquarters, 1970, unidentified photographer

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Allen Iverson: Reebok’s answer to get them back in the game.

During the late 90’s Reebok was struggling to compete with Nike and Adidas in the NBA. Iverson’s first sneaker with Reebok was The Question so it only made sense that his next sneaker was The Answer. Not only was A. I. the answer to Reebok’s hopes of being competitive in the NBA again, the sneakers also referenced a tattoo he had of a bulldog with “The Answer” written above.

Original ad and article with Allen Iverson from Vibe 1998.