No one knows exactly how old is the song “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” is.
It seems to have begun as “The Levee Song” among African-American workers building levees on the Mississippi River in Louisiana in the 1830s-40s.
It was later adapted to railroad building and associated with Irish work gangs in the West.
By 1880, when almost 100,000 miles of railroad track had been laid, the song was known across the country.
The first situation comedy on television was a live show called “Mary Kay and Johnny” (1947-50, Dumont). Forerunner to I Love Lucy, the live show concerned the adventurous life of New York newlyweds Johnny and Mary Kay Stearns. The couple’s real-life newborn son was worked into the show in 1948.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, 58,135 Americans were killed and 153,303 wounded. It is estimated that 1.3 million Vietnamese lost their lives.
Bangladesh was founded in 1971. Formerly East Bengal and then East Pakistan, it rebelled against Pakistan, with help from India in 197. Bangladesh was not recognized by Pakistan until 1974.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said the line, in the essay “Self-Reliance” (1841). The complete quote is, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
The Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, was America’s first national monument.
Will Rogers said, “We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it”?.