- Probably the most popular of the several mischievous boy heroes in early animation was "Bobby Bumps," whose series (1915-23) was inspired by R. F. Outcault's comic strip "Buster Brown." Its creator, Earl Hurd, owned a 1914 patent for the use of celluloid and his employment by J.R. Bray (at whose stu…
- In1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, in fact, before anyone, man or woman had made such a trip, 23-year old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become t…