In alphabetical order, the executive departments are:
Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.
In 1920, the Yankees paid the Boston Red Sox $125,000 for the Babe.
The sequence of 16 pamphlets The American Crisis, published 1776-83, was written by Revolutionary War patriot Thomas Paine. Who wrote The Present Crisis? The anti-slavery poem was written in 1844 by Massachusetts poet James Russell Lowell. Who wrote Six Crises? The 1962 memoir was written by former vice-president and future president Richard Nixon.
Four presidents have been assassinated. Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The 32,000-ton liner the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine on May 6, 1915, was British. Of the 1,200 passengers who lost their lives, 128 were Americans, a fact that aroused strong anti-German feeling in the U.S.
In 1992, 98 percent of U.S. households had a TV set. Sixty-five percent had two or more. Seventy-seven percent had videocassette recorders.
No, Abraham Lincoln didn’t write the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope. Judging from the many drafts of the speech that have been discovered, the speech was fashioned through the traditional method of writing and revising. It was presented on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, four…