Eponym of the week: Revolutionary War brigadier general Francis Nash. Born in Virginia, he became an attorney in North Carolina, and commanded the First North Carolina Regiment at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. The city of Nashville, Tenn., was named for him; the state was once part of North Carolina.

There are three "degrees of separation" between Tom Mix (filmdom's first cowboy megastar) and Tom Cruise. Mix was in "Rustlers' Roundup" (1933) with Noah Beery, ...

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