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Back in the early days of his career, Sylvester Stallone was so broke he ended up homeless and unable to buy food. At his lowest point, he realized he had no option but to sell his beloved dog and best friend, Butkus, whom he simply couldn't afford to feed.
After selling Butkus to a stranger for $25, he walked away crying.
Just two weeks later, Stallone saw a boxing match between Mohammed Ali and Chuck Wepner. It inspired him so much, he wrote the script for Rocky. As he started approaching movie studios, he had one request: he would star in the movie. With offers for as much as $350,000, Stallone still refused until they agreed for him to play the lead.
But the compromise came at a cost, with Stallone instead receiving just $35,000 for his script.
The first thing the actor did when he received the money was return to the liquor store where he had last seen Butkus. After standing there for three days, he saw the man who had purchased his dog approaching and begged to buy his dog back.
It would cost him $15,000, but it was worth every cent to Stallone. Butkus would appear in the film with his owner.
Rocky went on to be the highest grossing film of 1976 and won three Oscars. It also propelled Stallone to fame.

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Gouyen was born in 1857, into the Chihenne band of Chiricahua Apache. Her Indian name was[1] Góyą́ń meaning the one who is wise, or [2]Wise Woman. There is a story of Gouyen bravery, passed down in Apache history. Her husband was killed in a Comanche, raid while he was visiting the Mescalero Apaches. The revenge of Gouyen, is [3]legendary. Gouyen went looking for the Comanche chief, who had killed her husband. She found him dancing a in a victory dance around a bonfire, he had her husband's scalp hanging from his belt. Gouyen put on buckskin puberty ceremony dress, and joined the dancers, she seduced the chief, and led him away, she killed him. Then she scalped him, cut off his breechcloth and took off his moccasins. She then returned to her camp, to present her husbands parents with the Comanche leader's scalp, giving them his clothing and his footwear, to prove it was him. Gouyen had [4] avenged her husband's death.
In October 14, 1880, when [6]Victorio's band was evading U.S. and Mexican troops along the U.S. Mexican border. [7]The Chiricahua Apache, had stopped at Tres Castillos, New Mexico, for a rest, they were attacked by Mexicans. After the attack, Victorio and seventy eight Apaches had been murdered, among them Gouyen's baby daughter. Only Gouyen, her young son Kaywaykla, and seventeen others had escaped.
Gouyen did marry again to Kaytennae, who was an Apache warrior. Kaytennae was one of the Apaches that had escaped during the Battle of Tres Castillos. [8] Kaytennae and Gouyen joined [9] Nana and [10]Geronimo's band, and helped with their escape from the San Carlos Reservation in 1883. While on the run trying to evade capture, Gouyen saved Kaytennae's life by killing a man trying to ambush him. In 1886 Geronimo and his followers were taken prisoner by the U.S. Army and among them was Gouyen, and her family. They were taken to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Gouyen [11] died at Fort Sill in 1903.

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Happy 160th Birthday to Harriet High, born on this day in 1862. "Hattie" High was dedicated to volunteerism and the arts, and donated her family's house on Peachtree Street to create the museum in 1926.

She was active in the Museum until her death in 1932. Her house remained the primary museum building until 1955 when a new brick building adjacent to the original High house was constructed. The house was demolished in 1963. The High Museum of Art has continued to grow. In 1983, the Richard Meier designed building (now the Stent Family Wing) opened and in 2005, architect Renzo Piano completed the Museum campus.

Sidney Edward Dickinson (American, 1890–1980), Portrait of Harriet “Hattie” Harwell Wilson High (Mrs. Joseph Madison High), 1926, Oil on canvas.

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