Most people know Thomas Edison as a great inventor. He was also a generous philanthropist, donating his time and talents to the American Indian.
He lived with the Indians on the reservation for a period of time, trying to get a better feeling of how to improve their living conditions.
As there was no running water, he had to go to the outdoor toilet to relieve himself. He was a man who liked to read there, as to not waste any opportunity to educate himself further. But there was no electricity in the out-buildings, so he ran a cable out there and hooked up a light.
So, you might say that Thomas Edison is the first man to wire a head for a reservation.
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There are two guys who have been lost in the desert for weeks, and they're at death's door. As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a small tree off in the distance.
As they get closer, they can see that the tree is draped with rasher upon rasher of bacon. There's smoked bacon, crispy bacon, life-giving juicy nearly-raw bacon, all sorts. And the smell... oh, the glorious smell!
"Look Pepe," says the first man. "It's a bacon tree!"
"You're right!" says Pepe, "We're saved!"
Pepe doesn't wait another second. He runs up to the tree salivating at the prospect of food. But just as he gets to within five feet of the tree, there's the sound of machine gun fire, and he is shot down in a hail of bullets.
His friend quickly drops down on the sand, and calls across to the dying Pepe.
"Pepe!! Pepe!! What on earth happened?"
And with his dying breath Pepe calls back: "Ugh, run, run!! It's not a Bacon Tree after all..."
"...its a ham bush!"
He lived with the Indians on the reservation for a period of time, trying to get a better feeling of how to improve their living conditions.
As there was no running water, he had to go to the outdoor toilet to relieve himself. He was a man who liked to read there, as to not waste any opportunity to educate himself further. But there was no electricity in the out-buildings, so he ran a cable out there and hooked up a light.
So, you might say that Thomas Edison is the first man to wire a head for a reservation.
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There are two guys who have been lost in the desert for weeks, and they're at death's door. As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a small tree off in the distance.
As they get closer, they can see that the tree is draped with rasher upon rasher of bacon. There's smoked bacon, crispy bacon, life-giving juicy nearly-raw bacon, all sorts. And the smell... oh, the glorious smell!
"Look Pepe," says the first man. "It's a bacon tree!"
"You're right!" says Pepe, "We're saved!"
Pepe doesn't wait another second. He runs up to the tree salivating at the prospect of food. But just as he gets to within five feet of the tree, there's the sound of machine gun fire, and he is shot down in a hail of bullets.
His friend quickly drops down on the sand, and calls across to the dying Pepe.
"Pepe!! Pepe!! What on earth happened?"
And with his dying breath Pepe calls back: "Ugh, run, run!! It's not a Bacon Tree after all..."
"...its a ham bush!"
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