Odd, Amusing & Little Known Incidents in American History
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Enjoy the little bits I put out. XD
-The worst day in the history of the New York Stock Exchange was March 16, 1830, when a mere thirty-one shares, valued at $3,470.25, were traded.
-Wall Street received its name in 1644, when New York City built a wall around lower Manhattan to protect cattle from marauding Indians.
-The first Bible was printed in America in 1661-in the Algonquin language, a language
that no one today can read.
-The year 1949 was the first year of the twentieth century in which a Negro was not lynched.
-Amidst the crisis in the Middle East in 1948, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin made the helpful remark that he hoped Arabs and Jews would settle their differences "like good Christians."
-Disgusted with bureaucratic intrigue and small-minded meddling, Albert Einstein remarked in 1954 that if he had his life to live over again he would want to be a plumber or a peddler-for the independence.
-When President Johnson found he had nothing interesting to do on a Sunday, he would call a small group of reporters to the White House and spend the afternoon complaining that he had no time as president to do half the great things he needed desperately to do.
-J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to walk on his shadow.
-In 1974 the Texas Legislature repealed a law passed in 1837 that allowed a husband to murder his wife's paramour if he caught the pair in the act of lovemaking.
-Polygamy was legal in Utah until the year 1890.
-The worst day in the history of the New York Stock Exchange was March 16, 1830, when a mere thirty-one shares, valued at $3,470.25, were traded.
-Wall Street received its name in 1644, when New York City built a wall around lower Manhattan to protect cattle from marauding Indians.
-The first Bible was printed in America in 1661-in the Algonquin language, a language
that no one today can read.
-The year 1949 was the first year of the twentieth century in which a Negro was not lynched.
-Amidst the crisis in the Middle East in 1948, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin made the helpful remark that he hoped Arabs and Jews would settle their differences "like good Christians."
-Disgusted with bureaucratic intrigue and small-minded meddling, Albert Einstein remarked in 1954 that if he had his life to live over again he would want to be a plumber or a peddler-for the independence.
-When President Johnson found he had nothing interesting to do on a Sunday, he would call a small group of reporters to the White House and spend the afternoon complaining that he had no time as president to do half the great things he needed desperately to do.
-J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to walk on his shadow.
-In 1974 the Texas Legislature repealed a law passed in 1837 that allowed a husband to murder his wife's paramour if he caught the pair in the act of lovemaking.
-Polygamy was legal in Utah until the year 1890.
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EmiyaKiritsugu wrote...
-When President Johnson found he had nothing interesting to do on a Sunday, he would call a small group of reporters to the White House and spend the afternoon complaining that he had no time as president to do half the great things he needed desperately to do.
-J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to walk on his shadow.
-In 1974 the Texas Legislature repealed a law passed in 1837 that allowed a husband to murder his wife's paramour if he caught the pair in the act of lovemaking.
These 3 made me LOL hard.
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Waar wrote...
i dont let people walk on my shadow either, why; is that weird?i don't think it's possible to walk on anyone elses shadow. the other persons shadow would be on top of your feet. under your feet would be your own shadow, wouldn't it?
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Waar
FAKKU Moderator
Mr.Shaggnificent wrote...
Waar wrote...
i dont let people walk on my shadow either, why; is that weird?i don't think it's possible to walk on anyone elses shadow. the other persons shadow would be on top of your feet. under your feet would be your own shadow, wouldn't it?
you're thinking too hard.
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Waar wrote...
i dont let people walk on my shadow either, why; is that weird?A little bit, why would it matter if someone was walking on your shadow?
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Waar
FAKKU Moderator
IEAIAIO wrote...
Waar wrote...
i dont let people walk on my shadow either, why; is that weird?A little bit, why would it matter if someone was walking on your shadow?
because it's mine.
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Reaper_69 wrote...
American history...hah..America is still to young as a country ,what..around 200 yearsYep and look at what we've accomplished in that short time frame.
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200 years of American bullshit is still funny.
Can't sleep. Tried lying down and counting sheep, no work T_T.
Soooooo... I'll put up more before I actually fall asleep.
-John D. Rockefeller: "God gave me money."
-J.P. Morgan gave this answer when asked about the cost of maintaining his yacht, the Corsair: "Nobody who has to ask what a yacht costs has any business owning one."
-One of Teddy Roosevelt's sons once remarked, "When father goes to a wedding, he wants to be the bride; when he goes to a funeral, he wants to be the corpse."
-Stopping in Nashville at the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, after a bear-hunting trip in 1907, Theodore Roosevelt coined a famous phrase when, after drinking a cup of Maxwell House coffee, he remarked-according to the General Foods Corporation-"Delighted-this coffee is good to the last drop."
-Whenever his wife suffered an epileptic seizure in public, there was always one thing William McKinley would do: throw a napkin over her face.
-Among the most popular books of 1924 was advertising executive Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows, a book about Jesus as the quintessential businessman.
Barton followed up this book with another a year later called The Book Nobody Knows, a work about the Bible.
-Scott Fitzgerald worried that his penis was small. One day he called Hemingway into a closet for an opinion. Hemingway reassured Scott that his penis was normal, and then took him on a tour of nude statues at a local museum to prove it.
-Women were in such short supply in Louisiana in 1721 that the government of France shipped 25 prostitutes to the colony. By this action the government hoped to lure Canadian settlers away from Indian mistresses.
-In 1950, J. Edgar hoover began the practice of issuing a list of the "Ten Most Wanted Criminals," after the idea was suggested to him by a friend of the fashion designer who invented the survey of the "Ten Best Dressed Women."
-James A. Garfield was the only man in U.S. history who was a congressman, a senator-elect, and a president-elect at the same time.
random quote:
Can't sleep. Tried lying down and counting sheep, no work T_T.
Soooooo... I'll put up more before I actually fall asleep.
-John D. Rockefeller: "God gave me money."
-J.P. Morgan gave this answer when asked about the cost of maintaining his yacht, the Corsair: "Nobody who has to ask what a yacht costs has any business owning one."
-One of Teddy Roosevelt's sons once remarked, "When father goes to a wedding, he wants to be the bride; when he goes to a funeral, he wants to be the corpse."
-Stopping in Nashville at the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, after a bear-hunting trip in 1907, Theodore Roosevelt coined a famous phrase when, after drinking a cup of Maxwell House coffee, he remarked-according to the General Foods Corporation-"Delighted-this coffee is good to the last drop."
-Whenever his wife suffered an epileptic seizure in public, there was always one thing William McKinley would do: throw a napkin over her face.
-Among the most popular books of 1924 was advertising executive Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows, a book about Jesus as the quintessential businessman.
Barton followed up this book with another a year later called The Book Nobody Knows, a work about the Bible.
-Scott Fitzgerald worried that his penis was small. One day he called Hemingway into a closet for an opinion. Hemingway reassured Scott that his penis was normal, and then took him on a tour of nude statues at a local museum to prove it.
-Women were in such short supply in Louisiana in 1721 that the government of France shipped 25 prostitutes to the colony. By this action the government hoped to lure Canadian settlers away from Indian mistresses.
-In 1950, J. Edgar hoover began the practice of issuing a list of the "Ten Most Wanted Criminals," after the idea was suggested to him by a friend of the fashion designer who invented the survey of the "Ten Best Dressed Women."
-James A. Garfield was the only man in U.S. history who was a congressman, a senator-elect, and a president-elect at the same time.
random quote:
Puritanism: "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy."
-H.L. MENCKEN[align=center]
happy."
-H.L. MENCKEN[align=center]
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animefreak_usa
Child of Samael
In Ohio is illegal to speak English... gotta speak American.
Texas law said you can beat your wife with a rod width no wider than your thumb.
Arkansas it legal to beat your wife if your on the court house steps and if it's the first Sunday of the month.
Texas law said you can beat your wife with a rod width no wider than your thumb.
Arkansas it legal to beat your wife if your on the court house steps and if it's the first Sunday of the month.
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Project A119, or "A Study of Lunar Research Flights" was a 1950s top-secret plan developed by the United States Air Force with the intention of dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon. It is presumed that the purpose of such an action would be to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world during the Cold War. The plans were never carried out, possibly because landing on the moon would be more acceptable to the American public.
The A119 project is allegedly classified. Most information on the nature of the project comes from a retired NASA executive, Dr Leonard Reiffel, who claimed to have fronted the project in the late 1950s at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation. Carl Sagan was part of the team assigned with researching the theoretical effects of a nuclear explosion in low gravity. Additional information about the project was disclosed when Sagan submitted some of his work on the project while applying for an academic fellowship.
Dr. David Lowry, a British nuclear historian, commented: “It is obscene. To think that the first contact human beings would have had with another world would have been to explode a nuclear bomb. Had they gone ahead, we would never have had the romantic image of Neil Armstrong taking †˜one giant leap for mankind.’”
The A119 project is allegedly classified. Most information on the nature of the project comes from a retired NASA executive, Dr Leonard Reiffel, who claimed to have fronted the project in the late 1950s at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation. Carl Sagan was part of the team assigned with researching the theoretical effects of a nuclear explosion in low gravity. Additional information about the project was disclosed when Sagan submitted some of his work on the project while applying for an academic fellowship.
Dr. David Lowry, a British nuclear historian, commented: “It is obscene. To think that the first contact human beings would have had with another world would have been to explode a nuclear bomb. Had they gone ahead, we would never have had the romantic image of Neil Armstrong taking †˜one giant leap for mankind.’”
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Waar wrote...
IEAIAIO wrote...
Waar wrote...
i dont let people walk on my shadow either, why; is that weird?A little bit, why would it matter if someone was walking on your shadow?
because it's mine.
Lolok
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[quote="EmiyaKiritsugu"
-Disgusted with bureaucratic intrigue and small-minded meddling, Albert Einstein remarked in 1954 that if he had his life to live over again he would want to be a plumber or a peddler-for the independence.[/quote]
Albert Einstein would have been the real inspiration for Mario.
-Disgusted with bureaucratic intrigue and small-minded meddling, Albert Einstein remarked in 1954 that if he had his life to live over again he would want to be a plumber or a peddler-for the independence.[/quote]
Albert Einstein would have been the real inspiration for Mario.
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Waffles246 wrote...
EmiyaKiritsugu wrote...
-Disgusted with bureaucratic intrigue and small-minded meddling, Albert Einstein remarked in 1954 that if he had his life to live over again he would want to be a plumber or a peddler-for the independence.
Albert Einstein would have been the real inspiration for Mario.
He probably was. Anyone wanna try to put a bright red cap on Einstein with a big E on it?
-Hoover Collage-
-While a student at Stanford, Hoover opposed elitist fraternities and founded his own group, the Barbarians.
-At Hoover's inauguration in 1929, Chief Justice William Howard Taft bungled the swearing in ceremony. Instead of asking Hoover to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States," he used the words, "preserve, maintain, and protect." The slip caused low murmurs among the spectators.
-Hoover was the first president to have a telephone right on his desk. All previous presidents kept the instrument in an adjoining room.
-While an engineer, Hoover translated a sixteenth-century work on mining written in Latin.
-Hoover required White House servants to be "invisible." Whenever he or the first lady appeared, the servants would jump into the nearest closet to avoid being seen.
-After learning that Maine had gone Democratic in the September election in 1932, Hoover ordered an aide to determine the truth of the old saying,"As Maine goes, so goes the nation."
-In his memoirs Hoover asserted that people did not turn to apple selling in the depression because they were unemployed, but because apple selling was a highly profitable business. "Many persons," he wrote, "left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples."
-Mickey Mouse Banned-
The banning of a Mickey Mouse cartoon is the last thing one would expect, but in 1932 it happened. The cartoon showed a cow in a pasture reading a book that was considered obscene. The book was Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks, which told the story of a young Englishman's affair with a Russian queen. The book had been banned in Boston in 1908 and was considered vulgar and boring by moralists and critics alike. It is a mystery how the book came to be put into a Walt Disney cartoon.
Source: Anne Lyon Haight, Banned Books, 3d ed. (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1970), pp. 67, 92
-Santa Claus Did Not Always Have a Beard-
In the seventeenth century Dutch settlers brought the myth of Santa Claus to America. But the Santa Claus they brought did not look anything like that jolly figure pictured today. Their Santa was tall, slender, and very dignified. Around the beginning of the nineteenth century Santa took on the appearance of a jolly figure. In 1809, Washington Irving imagined Santa as a bulky man who smoked a pipe and wore a Dutch broad-brimmed hat and baggy breeches. Later in the century artists pictured Santa as a fat man, with brown hair and a big smile. Finally, in 1863, Thomas Nast drew a picture of Santa as a jolly old man with a white beard and wide girth-the first picture of Santa as he looks today.
Source: Albert Bigelow Paine, Th. Nast: His Period and his Pictures (New York: Macmillan, 1904), p. 22
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Reaper_69 wrote...
American history...hah..America is still to young as a country ,what..around 200 yearsDon't mess with the spirals, yo. Our long hard drills will pierce the heavens and have a euphoric battle in the metaverse.
