Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Green Cove Springs, in northeast Florida (current population about 6,000). Charles Merrill, who with Edmund Lynch founded Merrill Lynch in 1914, was born there in 1885. Merrill's grandson Peter Magowan is the managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants.

The island of Surtsey, located just off the southwest coast of Iceland, has been part of that nation since 1963. Why not earlier? The island didn't exist before that, having been ...

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