The Missouri River is the longest river in North America and the 4th longest in the world (when combined with the Mississippi River system).  Its utmost source (defined by the longest flow of water at its furthest source to sea) originates at Brower’s Spring in the Centennial Mountains southeast of Dillon, Montana.  This upper section form Hellroaring Creek (not the same one that’s in Yellowstone Park), Red Rock River, Beaverhead River and the Jefferson River.  The Missouri-proper starts where the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers join near Three Forks, Montana.  It flows 2,540 miles to where it joins the Mississippi River near St. Louis.  From there, the water continues to the Gulf of Mexico, another 1300 miles.  From source to sea, the total is nearly 3800 miles.  https://www.uppermissouri.com/resources/quick-facts-name-origin#:~:text=The%20Missouri%20River%20is%20the,Mountains%20southeast%20of%20Dillon%2C%20Montana.   

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles in Boston, Massachusetts.  Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury.  The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874.  In the 19th century, Jamaica Plain became one of the first streetcar suburbs in America and home to a significant portion of Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.  In 2020, Jamaica Plain had a population of 41,012 according to the United States Census.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain    

James Saburo Shigeta (1929–2014) was an American actor and singer.  He was known for his roles in The Crimson Kimono (1959), Walk Like a Dragon (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Bridge to the Sun (1961), Midway (1976), Die Hard (1988), and Mulan (1998).  In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer–Male, along with three other actors.  Shigeta entered and won first prize on Ted Mack's television talent show, The Original Amateur Hour in 1950.  Embarking on a singing career in Los Angeles, he teamed with Hawaiian operatic tenor Charles K.L. Davis.  Their agent at the time gave them the non-ethnic sounding stage names of "Guy Brion" for Shigeta, and "Charles Durand" for Davis.  They developed a supper club musical career in the United States, singing at venues such as the Mocambo and the Los Angeles Players Club.  Despite that success, breaking into the movies eluded him. 

During the Korean War Shigeta enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he entertained troops in California.  En route to Korea, the ceasefire led Shigeta to Japan, where he was discharged from the Marines and hired by the theatrical division of Toho Studios.   Shigeta did not speak Japanese until Toho Studios in Tokyo invited him to be a musical star under his real name in Japan.  He became a success in all media aspects of his day-–radio, television, stage, supper clubs, movies, recordings–-to such an extent that he became widely known as "The Frank Sinatra of Japan".  The 1961 romantic comedy Cry for Happy had Shigeta co-starring with Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor and Miyoshi Umeki in a tale about Korean War era United States Navy photographers in Japan.  In 1961, Shigeta was cast as Wang Ta, a role originated by Ed Kenney on Broadway, in the Academy Award-nominated movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song with Nancy Kwan and Miyoshi Umeki playing the love interests.  He was cast as World War II Japanese diplomat Hidenari Terasaki opposite Carroll Baker as Gwen Terasaki in the 1961 biographical movie Bridge to the Sun.   A rarity for its era, the movie told the true story of a racially mixed marriage set against the background of the war between the United States and Japan.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shigeta 

The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. patent 748,626.  A realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism, it is the inspiration for the 1935 board game Monopoly.  In 1902 to 1903, Magie designed the game and playtested it in Arden, Delaware.   The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences".   She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game     

Arden is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect William Lightfoot Price.   The village occupies approximately 160 acres, with half kept as open land.  According to the 2010 census, the population of the village is 439.   In 1973, the entire village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Two neighboring villages of similar size were founded on Georgist principles, Ardentown, in 1922, and Ardencroft, in 1950.  In 2003, they were also listed on the NRHP as the Ardens Historic District.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden,_Delaware    

November 6, 2025