Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Angola, N.Y. (current population about 2,000), near Lake Erie and Buffalo. Engineer Willis Carrier, known as the father of modern air conditioning, was born there in 1876. Another native is basketballer Christian Laettner, known to sports fans as the only college player on the U.S. gold-medal Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics.

Who was the first actress on a U.S. postage stamp? Strictly speaking, it was Ethel Barrymore, on a 1982 stamp with ...

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