The Brownshirts in the Nazi army were the ordinary soldiers.
The Black-shirts were members of the army chosen to be bodyguards for high-ranking officials and supervisors of concentration camps.
The latter were also known as the SS, short for Schutzstaffel, or elite guard.
In 1959, Glen Raven Mills of North Carolina brought out PantiLegs, the first pantyhose. Allen Grant, president of Glen Raven, got the idea when his wife Ethel complained about the discomfort of nylon stockings and garter belts.
The Viennese founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud visited the U.S. only once, to receive an honorary doctor of law degree from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1909. Freud got sick eating American food and was unimpressed by U.S. culture. He later said, “Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.”
In 1990, the U.S. zoos with highest attendance were: 1. Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois 2. San Diego Zoo, California 3. National Zoo, Washington, D.C. 4. Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida 5. St. Louis Zoo, Missouri
Just one U.S. president has registered patents Abraham Lincoln. He secured patent 6469 for a plan to buoy steamboats over shoals.
Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy, was a Jordanian-born American. He shot Kennedy, then a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, on June 5, 1968.
Malcolm X was shot dead on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem where he was preparing to speak. It is widely alleged that his assassins were members of the Nation of Islam.