Who created the phrase “a thousand points of light”?
Peggy Noonan created the phrase “a thousand points of light”, in a speech she wrote for presidential nominee George Bush at the 1988 Republican Convention.
The original Diet Coke, made with saccharin, debuted in July 1982. An updated version of Diet Coke, made with NutraSweet, first appeared in August 1983.
Two U.S. presidents are buried in Arlington National Cemetery: William Howard Taft and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
No number of Supreme Court justices is specified in the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court began with six justices, rose to a peak of ten during the Lincoln years, and settled at nine in 1869.
A chinook was a dance to summon the warm wind to melt the snow. It also refers to the wind itself and to the Chinook people of the Columbia River valley. “Chinook jargon” is a pidgin language based on Indian languages, French, and English, formerly spoken in the Pacific Northwest.
In 1800, the national debt was $83 million. In 1988, it was $2.6 trillion.
Officially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill gave a variety of benefits to World War II veterans. The benefits included medical care in veterans’ hospitals, low interest mortgages, grants for higher education, unemployment compensation, and vocational rehabilitation.