Inspired by the story of President Teddy Roosevelt ordering a captive bear to be set free, Rose and Morris Michtom created and sold stuffed bears at their candy store and called them "Teddy's Bears."

For thousands of years, quartz fragments have traveled down the Delaware River (once called the Wehittck by the Lenape Indians), washing ashore near a place settled by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey, where they are gathered as treasures and known as Cape May Diamonds.

Irish giant Finn McCool is told that in order to become wise he must catch and eat the salmon that possesses knowledge, but Finn finds that he cannot bring himself to kill the miraculous fish.