what is benedict arnold famous for?
Traitor
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 The connection between Arnold and treason continued into the 20th and 21st centuries . On an episode of The Brady Bunch , " Everyone Can 't Be George Washington " , Peter is assigned the role of Arnold in the school play , and is ostracized . On one of The Simpsons ' Halloween specials , Treehouse of Horror IV , Arnold is included in a " jury of the damned " – along with other figures like John Wilkes Booth and Richard Nixon – deliberating the ownership of Homer Simpson 's soul . 

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 Early biographers attempted to describe Arnold 's entire life in terms of treacherous or morally questionable behavior . The first major biography of Arnold was The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold , published in 1832 by historian Jared Sparks ; it was particularly harsh in showing how Arnold 's treacherous character was allegedly formed out of childhood experiences . George Canning Hill authored a series of moralistic biographies in the mid @-@ 19th century , and began his 1865 biography of Arnold : " Benedict , the Traitor , was born ... " . 

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 Novels related to the American Revolutionary war sometimes feature Arnold as a character . Kenneth Roberts ' Arundel series treats him more positively , covering his military campaigns . 

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 Although never gaining wide fame , Ali had a dedicated following on the vaudeville circuit in the United States . He performed for heads of state including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia . Judy Garland named him her favorite vaudevillian and David Blaine identified Ali as his favorite magician . Portions of his act were captured in the short film Strange as It Seems ( 1930 ) and in Politiquerias ( 1931 ) , the Spanish @-@ language version of Laurel and Hardy 's Chickens Come Home . Two documentaries contain footage of Ali taken from Politiquerias : 1977 's Gizmo ! , and 1999 's Vaudeville . Ali 's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post @-@ mortem . After he died in England , his body was offered to Johns Hopkins University for study , though the offer was declined . 

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 Red Rackham 's Treasure introduced Professor Cuthbert Calculus to The Adventures of Tintin , who became a recurring character . Hergé had made use of various eccentric professors in earlier volumes of the series , such as Sophocles Sarcophagus in Cigars of the Pharaoh , Hector Alembick in King Ottokar 's Sceptre , and Decimus Phostle in The Shooting Star , all of whom prefigure the arrival of Calculus . The character 's deafness had been inspired by a colleague whom Hergé had worked with years earlier at Le Vingtième Siècle . Visually , Calculus was based on a real scientist , the Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard , who had been the first man to explore the stratosphere in a hot air balloon in 1931 . Hergé had observed Piccard walking about Brussels on a number of occasions , however the character of Calculus would be notably much shorter than Piccard . Hergé named this character Tryphon Tournesol ; while the surname meant " sunflower " , the forename was adopted from a carpenter named Tryphon Beckaert whom Hergé had encountered in Boitsfort . Tryphon Tournesol was later renamed Cuthbert Calculus in the English translation and Balduin Bienlein ( meaning " Little Bee " ) for the German translation . 
