It's a Wonderful Life election. The angel shows him Bedford Falls as it would have been not if he had never been born, but as it would have been if he had gone into business instead of politics. Seneca Falls, New York, claims that when Frank Capra visited their town in 1945, he was inspired to model Bedford Falls after it. The town has an annual "It's a Wonderful Life Festival" in December. In mid-2009, The Hotel Clarence opened in Seneca Falls, named for George Bailey's guardian angel. On December 10, 2010, the "It's a Wonderful Life" Museum opened in Seneca Falls, with Karolyn
George S. Wise of the Aztec Eagle, the highest award given to a foreigner in 1949. Rise married Florence Rosenberg, who died on January 11, 2013 at the age of a hundred. He died in Miami Beach, Florida on July 2, 1987 after suffering from heart failure for several months. Upon hearing of his death, former Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin described Wise as "the dearest man I ever met". The Wise Observatory and the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University is named after Wise. George S. Wise George Schneiweis Wise (April 6, 1906 – July 2,