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Fame

This pygmy hippo at the 1939 World's Fair Firestone exhibit was probably Gumdrop I, Billy's first surviving calf.

Before Moo Deng, There Was ‘William Johnson Hippopotamus’

During the Roaring ’20s, the American National Zoo welcomed the first pygmy hippo superstar.

Andrew Coletti November 25, 2024

St. Louis Walk of Fame

University City, Missouri

St. Louis Walk of Fame

A commemoration of over 150 of St. Louis's favorite sons and daughters.

Stars Plaza.

Stars Plaza

In Asakusa, Tokyo's very own Walk of Fame.

Downtown Paris.

Paris, Kentucky

Bourbon County Horse Walk of Fame

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."

Birmingham, England

Birmingham Walk of Stars

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

The cast of <em>My Fair Lady</em>with Baddeley cake in 1959, with Julie Andrews on cake-cutting duty.

How £100 Bought an Obscure British Actor 224 Years of Cake and Fame

Thespians, writers, and princes all dined on Baddeley cake.

Anne Ewbank January 4, 2019

Gallop to Glory.

Louisville, Kentucky

Gallop to Glory

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

Alex serenades a Coke can.

Alex the Honking Bird May Be the First Interspecies YouTube Celebrity

The distinctively voiced cockatiel has earned both human and avian fans.

Cara Giaimo March 2, 2018

One of the notes.

albert einstein

Found: Handwritten Notes With Einstein's Thoughts on a Good Life

The famous scientist gave two notes to a courier in lieu of a tip.

Sarah Laskow October 23, 2017

Daisy II and Paul "Farmer" Minor, performing for an appreciative audience last week in Baton Rouge.

The Pig Who Tours the U.S. Reading to Children

The world's least likely literacy ambassador is big and bristly and loves to kiss authority figures.

Cara Giaimo June 12, 2017

Donovan jumps from the London Bridge in 1887.

Larry Donovan, 1880s Bridge Jumper, Lived Too Soon

Just imagine what would have happened to this man in the age of YouTube.

Eric Grundhauser March 21, 2017

New York, New York

Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.