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  2. Almon Brown Strowger - Wikipedia

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    A commonly told story holds that Strowger believed that his undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose wife was a local telephone operator and was preventing telephone calls from being routed to Strowger's business and re-routing them to her husband's business instead, following his discovery in the newspaper that a friend's funeral was being handled elsewhere. [1]

  3. John Stroeder - Wikipedia

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    John Stroeder (born July 24, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player. Born in Bremerton, Washington, he attended the University of Montana.. Despite being taken in the draft in 1980 (by the Portland Trail Blazers), the 6'10" power forward began his short NBA career with the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1987-88 season, appearing in 41 games and averaging 1.9 points and 1.7 rebounds ...

  4. Strowger switch - Wikipedia

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    The company installed and opened the first commercial exchange in his then-home town of La Porte, Indiana on November 3, 1892. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The exchange had around 75 subscribers. The installation followed the original patented design, with four keys and four additional line wires connected to the exchange, but not all of the keys were used.

  5. Mysteries at the Monument - Wikipedia

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    Don visits the Rocky Balboa statue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, uncovering the real story behind the character through boxer Chuck Wepner, who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky; examines the tombstones of a murdered dentist and his mistress, Emma Cunningham, who are eternally linked in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery; investigates ...

  6. Ricky Schroder - Wikipedia

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    Richard Bartlett Schroder (born April 13, 1970) is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor billed as Ricky Schroder he debuted in the film The Champ (1979), for which he became the youngest Golden Globe award recipient, and went on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons (1982–87).