What was the original name of IBM?
The company IBM, now known as International Business Machines was originally founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in 1911.
Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps during John F. Kennedy’s term (1961-63), was Kennedy’s brother-in-law.
Mark Twain said, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to”.
The two U.S. beachheads at Normandy in the D-Day invasion were Omaha Beach and Utah Beach. The beachheads were secured in the invasion of June 6, 1944.
James K. Polk, photographed by Matthew Brady in 1849, was the first president photographed while in office. The first president of whom there is any known photograph was John Quincy Adams.
Approximately 5,000 people appeared at the dedication of the Civil War battlefield cemetery on November 19, 1863.
The $100 bill is the largest denomination of U.S. currency now being issued. Issuance of larger denominations stopped in 1969, though some of the bigger bills are still in circulation, all the way up to the $100,000 bill featuring Woodrow Wilson’s picture.