Soviet space researcher Oleg Gazenko holds Strelka (left) and Belka (right) aloft at the 1960 press conference immediately after their landing. In his memoirs, Gazenko referred to this as the proudest moment of his life.
Joshua Abraham Norton, the self-proclaimed Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself “Emperor of these United States.
THE EMPEREOR SAYS: WHEREAS, we issued our decree ordering the citizens of San Francisco and Oakland to appropriate funds for the survey of a suspension bridge from Oakland Point via Goat Island;
[carte de visite portrait of a gentlemen tentatively identified as Emperor Norton I of California], Jacob Shew via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Manutz Collection
