Nearly 50 years after a mystery man with a bundle of sticks was famously featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, his identity was discovered by accident by a researcher. The subject’s name was Lot Long, a thatcher who was born in Mere, Wiltshire in 1823 & died in 1893. At the time of the photograph, Lot was a widower living in a small cottage on Shaftesbury Road.

A young Alan Greenspan played sax and clarinet professionally in the 1940s with future jazz great Stan Getz — but quit after deciding he could never reach Getz’ level of skill. Instead, he pursued economics, eventually becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades.

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