The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

Later, the Little Angels of Chicago's Angels Church from Chicago performed the national anthem.

He begins by promoting Eugen Sandow ( Nat Pendleton ), the " world's strongest man ", at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, overcoming the competition of rival Billings ( Frank Morgan ) and his popular attraction, belly dancer Little Egypt, with savvy marketing ( allowing women to feel Sandow's muscles ).

Middle Eastern belly dance, also known as oriental dancing, was popularized in the United States after its introduction on the Midway at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago by a dancer known as Little Egypt.

Repertory theatre with mostly changing casts and longer running plays, perhaps better classed as " provincial " or " non-profit " theatre, has made a big come-back, in cities such as Little Rock, AR, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Buffalo, and Seattle.

A Walking Tour of the Shambles ( Little Walks For Sightseers # 16 ) ( 2002 ), written by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, is a tour guide concerning a fictional part of Chicago called ' The Shambles '.

* History of Vieux-Hull aka Little Chicago ( French )

In its early days, Moore Haven was often called " Little Chicago ", reflecting its status as a significant boom town.

In August 2008, the Arts Council sponsored a Chicago production of " Little Women " at the Griswold.

Located on Little Bay de Noc at the northern edge of Lake Michigan, Escanaba continues to serve as an important shipping point for iron ore to other Great Lakes ports, especially south to Chicago and northern Indiana.

The Little Traverse History Museum is housed in the former Chicago and West Michigan Railroad depot.

The unincorporated community of Little Chicago is located within the township.

This gave Hamilton the nickname " Little Chicago ".

However, local residents did refer to Port Jefferson as ' Little Chicago ' for a number of years.

* Like many towns in the 1920s and 1930s with organized crime, the borough carried the name of " Little Chicago.

In its early days, Kelso obtained the nickname " Little Chicago " as it became famous for its large number of taverns and brothels that catered to local loggers.

The unincorporated communities of Hamburg and Little Chicago are located within the town.

In 2006, illegally manufactured, non-pharmaceutical fentanyl often mixed with cocaine or heroin caused an outbreak of overdose deaths in the United States, heavily concentrated in the cities of Dayton, Ohio ; Chicago ; Detroit ; Philadelphia ; Baltimore ; Pittsburgh ; St. Louis ; Milwaukee ; Camden, New Jersey ; Little Rock ; and Dallas were also affected.

The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U. S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25 – 26, 1876.

* Chicago Film Critics Association Awards ( 1999 ): Nomination for Best Actress for Little Voice ( 1998 )

In 2006 he co-starred in the horror film Séance and in Little Chicago.

* Little Chicago ( 2006 )

Little Orphan Annie was adapted to a 15-minute radio show that debuted on WGN Chicago in 1930 and went national on NBC's Blue Network beginning April 6, 1931..

There are proofsheets of Little Orphan Annie daily strips from the Chicago Tribune-New York Times Syndicate, Inc. for the dates 1943, 1959 – 61 and 1965 – 68, as well as originals and photocopies of the printed versions of Little Orphan Annie, both daily and Sunday strips.

* Every Day a Little Death — Countess Charlotte Malcolm and Anne Egerman

There is a Mozart reference in the title — A Little Night Music is an occasionally used translation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the nickname of Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525.

* With So Little to Be Sure Of — Fay Apple and J. Bowden Hapgood

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

* " Pretty Little Picture " — Pseudolus, Hero, and Philia

Railroad had reached the area in 1872 — on Little Clam Lake, in Cadillac.

* The Big Street ( 1942 ) — Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball ( adapted from Runyon's story " Little Pinks ")

Sullivan had a healthy sense of humor about himself and permitted — even encouraged — impersonators such as John Byner, Frank Gorshin, Rich Little and especially Will Jordan to imitate him on his show.

" As a boy, Bogart was teased for his curls, his tidiness, the " cute " pictures his mother had him pose for, the Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes she dressed him in — and the name " Humphrey.

With an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) of 6, the eruption was equivalent to — about 13, 000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb ( 13 to 16 kt ) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba ( 50 Mt ), the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

In August, Television — with Fred Smith, former Blondie bassist, replacing Hell — recorded a single, " Little Johnny Jewel ", for the tiny Ork label.

* 1963: " Little Latin Lupe Lu " — # 49 U. S.

Alternatively it has been suggested that the star could be in a low-activity state analogous to a Maunder minimum — a historical period, associated with the Little Ice Age in Europe, when sunspots became exceedingly rare on the Sun's surface.

The route started at St. Joseph, Missouri on the Missouri River, it then followed what is modern day US 36 — the Pony Express Highway — to Marysville, Kansas, where it turned northwest following Little Blue River to Fort Kearny in Nebraska.

Stylistically refined minuets, apart from the social dance context, were introduced — to opera at first — by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who included no less than 92 of them in his theatrical works ( Little 2001 ) and in the late 17th century the minuet was adopted into the suite, such as some of the suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Händel.

Green wrote to Freeman on 11 November 1875 :" I am very sorry to have missed you, dear Freeman ... Little Evans — son of John Evans the great — has just come back from the Herzegovina which he reached by way of Lapland, having started from the Schools in excitement at the ' first ' I wrung for him out of the obdurate Stubbs ..."