And, Of Course, Titanic and The Number 14.
Ever notice how much the number 7 gets around ???
- There are 7 days in a week.
- There are 7 sacrements, 7 virtues, and 7 deadly sins.
- Rome was founded on 7 hills.
- There has been a 7 Years War(1756-63), a 7 Months War(1870), a 7 Weeks War(1866), and a 7 Days Battles.
Think this is werid? Just wait till you get to the titanic 14's.
Presidents
- George Washington had to barrow money so he could travel to his inaguration.
- Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.
- Grover Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally.
- Calvin Cooledge was sworn into office by his own father.
- Jimmy Carter's brother Billy is allergic to peanuts.
- It's Harry s Truman. No period after the s, because it's not an intital. hIs parents couldn't agree on a name and S was as close as they came.
- Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, bothed died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same feild by Aaron Burr.
- Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.
- Warren Harding was the first US president who could drive a car.
- George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
- Theodore was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go unerwater in a submarine.
- Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
- JFK was the first president born in the 20th century.
- Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."
- President Mckinly was shot while shaking hands with spectators.
- Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother both died on Feb. 14, 1884.
- Lincoln was shot on Good Friday.
- James Garfeild often gave campaign speeches in German.
- George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
I just thought this was really strange.
Assasination Boy
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- Robert Todd Lincoln arrived too late to stop three seperate presidential assasinations.He met his father, President Abraham Lincoln, at the theatre after John Wilkes Booth had fired the shot. He went to a Washington train station to meet President Garfeild, arriving only minutes after he was shot. And, he traveled to Buffalo, New York to meet President Mckinly, but got there after the fatal shot had already been fired.
Civil War
I know this was boring in school, but some of this is pretty neat.
- Union Soliders ate Van Camp's pork`n beans and drank Borden's condensed milk.
- Confederate soliders were often illiterate farm boys who didn't know left from right, but they did know hay from straw. To teach them to march, officers put a stalk of hay in one shoe and a stalk of straw in the other and gave the marching orders as "HAY FOOT! STRAW FOOT!" instead of "LEFT, RIGHT,etc."
- The first offical shot of the war- at Fort Sumptor- just missed the ear of Captain Abner Doubleday, the "inventor" of baseball.
- One solider killed in the fighting at the Battle of Shiloh was 70-year-old Irishman, Hugh Kelly, who had helped take dowm Napoleon at Waterloo when he was 25.
- Four of Abe Lincoln's brothers-in-law served in the confederate army.
Yankee Doodle Went to Town...
What does macaroni mean anyway?
Actually, it meant about the same thing as cool does now.
- Yankee Doodle was written by a man in England as a goof on Americans.
- American Armies adopted the insult and marched to the song played on fife and drum.
- In 1812, two girls, ages 15 and 16, scared away a british landing party by playing the song on their fife and drum and making the enemy think an army was near.
- Yankee Doodle was the first song recorded onto a record.
And Now...The Titanic.
Two Quik Facts To Set The Stage...
- Private suites on the Titanic went for $4,350.
- John Wannamaker set up a wireless telegraph in his New York store in 1912 as a publicity stunt. On April 14th 20-year-old David Sarnoff accidently picked up a message-"SS Titanic ran into iceberg-Sinking Fast." He relayed the message and stayed at his post for 72 hours, taking names of survivors and directing ships to the area.
Attack of the Titanic Fourteens!!!
I don't know if anyone saw the articles on this, but I did some research on my own and I was amazed by these facts.
