The Gershwins wrote the song for dancer and actor Fred Astaire for the film "Shall We Dance."

VOA: special.2009.02.08

He wrote in it every day. On the day Lincoln was killed, he wrote: "For six months we had worked to kidnap Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Later,Polk wrote: "We had not gone to war for conquest.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23