It just happened to come to my attention that today is the anniversary of the Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel.
I’m not sure that I knew JPMorgan Chase owned the actual pistols used in the duel. Now that I do know that, I wonder if they have the pistols on exhibit at corporate headquarters, or just locked away in a vault somewhere.
Yes, the site of the duel is in Google Maps.
One of the two reasons I stuck with “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” for as long as I did was that it was just about the only show on television that would be gutsy enough to do an episode based in part on the Burr/Hamilton duel. (The other reason was that I liked D’Onofrio’s acting; at least, before the writers got lazy and resorted to the ever popular tortured Goren effect.)
And, just for grins, as long as we’re talking about Burr/Hamilton references in popular culture…