Charles Vance Millar, whose will sparked the Great Stork Derby
The Great Stork Derby was a contest held from 1926 to 1936. Female residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will.[1]
^Goldenberg, David (December 11, 2015). "How A Dead Millionaire Convinced Dozens of Women To Have As Many Babies As Possible". FiveThirtyEight Science. Archived from the original on January 13, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
The GreatStorkDerby was a contest held from 1926 to 1936. Female residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order...
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by Alfred Nobel's will. Charles Vance Millar's will provoked the GreatStorkDerby, as he successfully bequeathed the bulk of his estate to the Toronto-area...
financier, and practical joker Charles Vance Millar created the GreatStorkDerby, a contest in which women had to give birth to the most babies within...
most notorious will in Canadian history, which was the catalyst for the StorkDerby. When the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was announced...
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dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa. Once found widely...
1970s Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later starred in Picnic...
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their own. Featured cartoons : Love That Pup (1949), Pop 'im Pop! (1950), Stork Naked (1955), Congratulations It's Pink (1967), Pop Goes Your Heart (1934)...
in the first of his 149 appearances on the show. 40 2 "Race Against the Stork" Richard L. Bare Jay Sommers & Lou Huston September 29, 1964 (1964-09-29)...
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assistant to note Tierney's name. Later that night, Zanuck dropped by the Stork Club, where he saw a young lady on the dance floor. He told his assistant...
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became a popular spot for celebrities as a precursor to the later Brown Derby restaurant. Henry Bergman continued to be associated with the Chaplin Studios...
has changed venues repeatedly, moving to Oakland where it started at The Stork Club, then finding its current home where "every month, throngs of fans...
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would rest in the Mayor's Parlour of Bootle Town Hall and his ships, HMS Stork and HMS Starling, sailed out of Gladstone Dock Bootle. Memorabilia associated...
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