By 1764 French trade was well established upon the Missouri River and the eastern part of present-day Atchison County was well known to them. Lewis and Clark passed along the eastern boundary on their expedition in 1804 and spent some time in exploring the banks of the Missouri River.
M. Night Shyamalan. Producer | Writer | Director. Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University âs Tisch School of the Arts, in Manhattan, graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted Night as his second name. Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age.