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There are some things in life that everybody just knows, like where the Eiffel Tower is, or why it’s okay to catch a butterfly with your hands, but not a bee. These are examples of the kind of knowledge that is so basic, you just pick it up naturally throughout your life and couldn’t possibly [...]
Posted by Simon Griffin on Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History · Tagged Alexander Graham Bell, Antonio Meucci, big bang, big bang theory, charles darwin, Charles Lindbergh, Columbus, Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, first President of the United States, George Washington, John Alcock, LIght Bulb, President of the United States, presidents, printing, printing press, Thomas Edison
Every four years the good citizens of this country drag themselves to the voting booth (well, actually about half of them do, the rest being far too busy to concern themselves with such things as picking the leader of their nation) to pick the candidate they hope will do the least amount of damage to [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Friday, April 2, 2010 at 6:01 am
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Who doesn’t love a bobblehead doll? Of course adding the adjective “political” makes the bobblehead that more interesting. Here are the top 10 political bobblehead dolls. ADVERTISEMENT 10. Barack Obama/Joe Biden Classic with the President and Vice President. Not many Vice Presidents get their Bobblehead made.
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5:34 am
Filed under Bizarre · Tagged barack obama, bobble, bobble head, bobblehead, bobblehead doll, bobbleheads, charles darwin, che guevara, doll, dolls, hugo chavez, joe biden, joe the plumber, kim jong il, osama bin Laden, People, political, political culture, Politics, poltical bobbleheads, president, presidents, Russia, sarah palin, vladimir putin
It is journalistic practice for rookies to start writing obits as their first assignments when first diving into the newspaper world. Sometimes these writers get ahead of themselves and some celebrities will find out that their obituaries have been written before their demise. And that means that a few of those people have the misfortune [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 12:02 am
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A wise man once said, “popularity is overrated,” but when you are the president it certainly to gain the majority of the votes. Unfortunately for many of our previous presidents they stepped into our country’s most powerful role with less than half of our country’s support. Not a ringing endorsement and a heck of a [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Filed under Politics · Tagged abraham lincoln, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democrat, Democratic, election of 1860, electoral vote, electors, Franklin Pierce, George W. Bush, John Frémont, john quincy adams, Lewis Cass, Nixon, Politics, popular vote, presidency, president, presidential election, presidents, Republican, Richard Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Electoral, united states presidential election, Whig, William Clinton, william taft, woodrow wilson, Zachary Taylor
How do we decide which Presidential elections were the least important? We have to acknowledge that any election had some importance, because it chose the United States chief executive for four years. So we need to ask which elections match this statement: “For all the effect the election had on history, we could have skipped [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, November 3, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Filed under History, Politics · Tagged Adlai Stevenson, andrew jackson, chance, Democrat, Eisenhower, franklin roosevelt, George Washington, Harry S. Truman, henry clay, Lewis Cass, martin van buren, Nixon, Politics, presidency, president, president calvin coolidge, presidential election, presidential elections, presidents, Republican, Richard Nixon, robert lafollette, ronald reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, walter mondale, warren g harding, Washington, Whig, William Henry, william mckinley, Zachary Taylor
In our recent history there have been some very close presidential elections, but elections decided by a small margin are certainly not something new. Throughout our country’s short history we have had more than our fair share of presidential elections that were too close to call. Here are the top 10 presidential elections based on [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Filed under History, Politics · Tagged Al Gore, Democrat, election, Garfield, George Bush, George W. Bush, Kennedy, Lewis Cass, Nixon, Politics, presidency, president, presidential election, presidential elections, presidents, Republican, Whig, Zachary Taylor