On September 12, 1948, Mr. and Mrs. Presley moved with their son, Elvis, to this one bedroom apartment in Memphis after leaving Tupelo.

The family lived here until they moved to Lauderdale Courts on September 20, 1949.

The original building is no longer standing. Today, it's a vacant lot.

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On July 20, 1947, rock guitar god Carlos Augusto Alves Santana was born in the city of Autlán de Navarro, in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. The son of Jose Santana, a well-known Mariachi violinist, and Josephina, Carlos learned to play the violin when he was five years old.

Although the family moved to Tijuana in 1955, there is a plaza in Autlán (with a statue) dedicated to Carlos Santana.

Autlán de Navarro had a population of 53,269 in 2005. The word "Autlán" comes from the Nahuatl language and roughly means "next to the water ditch."

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A Pullman porter turned homesteader turned novelist and pioneer filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux lived a storied life.

One of the many chapters of his life happened here, in Gregory, SD. Micheaux was the only African American to purchase a relinquishment claim on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1904.

He fictionalized his experience in his best-selling novel The Homesteader, which later became the first film written, directed and produced by an African American (The Homesteader, released 1918). The film was shot in and around Gregory, SD. Micheaux went on to contribute to 44 films.

Today, the Oscar Micheaux center holds a semi-annual Oscar Micheaux Film and Book Festival to celebrate his work.

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In May of 1816, Mary Goodwin, Percy Shelley (a radical poet-philosopher) and their son traveled with Claire Clairmont to Geneva, Switzerland. Their plan was to spend the summer with Lord Byron, another poet whom Clairmont was having an affair with, on Lake Geneva.

Lord Byron rented the villa, and the group spent time writing, boating on the lake, and talking late into the night.

It was a wet summer, and the group found themselves reading from a book of German ghost stories one evening. They had heard of Erasmus Darwin's experiments, and that he had animated dead matter, and the conversation drifted towards galvinism and assembling a reanimated corpse from body parts. Lord Byron challenged them to write their own horror stories.

Mary Goodwin (who had introduced herself as Mrs. Shelley at the Villa) began work on Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus which was first published in 1818.

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The term "derrick" refers to the structure's resemblance to the type of gallows from which a hangman's noose hangs.

The derrick type of gallows in turn got its name from Thomas Derrick, an English executioner from the Elizabethan era who executed more than 3,000 people, including the guy who gave him the job, the Earl of Essex.

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