How many U.S. presidents have registered patents?
Just one U.S. president has registered patents Abraham Lincoln.
He secured patent 6469 for a plan to buoy steamboats over shoals.
Mark Twain said, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to”.
After hitting an undersea reef, the oil tanker the Exxon Valdez spilled over 10 million gallons into the Alaskan waters on March 24, 1989, in the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
The Spanish Inquisition lasted about 350 years. It was begun in 1478 by Queen Isabella of Castile to search out converted Jews secretly practicing their original faith. In 1483, it was broadened as a means of persecuting any and all heretics. The Spanish Inquisition was not completely abolished until 1834.
Born in upstate New York, Matthew Brady (c. 1823-96) worked in New York City as a clerk in the A. T. Stewart department store and as a manufacturer of jewelry cases. He opened his first daguerreotype portrait studio at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street in 1844. He later became famous for the pictures…
One hundred seventy-nine episodes of the TV series “I Love Lucy” were broadcast, from 1951 to 1957, on CBS.
William Safire wrote the phrase “nattering nabobs of negativism” for Vice-President Spiro Agnew in 1970. Agnew speechwriter Pat Buchanan, came up with “pusillanimous pussyfooters”, also in 1970.