Mark Twain said, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to”.
In 1939, a night at the Essex House on Central Park South cost $6. Today, a night in the same hotel starts at $185.
West Virginia was part of Virginia when that state seceded from the Union in 1861. The delegates of 40 western counties formed their own government and seceded from Virginia to join the Union side. These counties entered the Union as the state of West Virginia in 1863.
President Reagan’s supply-side tax cuts lowered the top tax rate from 70 percent to 30 percent during the Reagan years.
The song “Meet Me in St. Louis” by Andrew B. Sterling and Kerry Mills refers to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. The tune provides the leitmotif for the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, about a St. Louis family faced with a move to New York…
The speech known as the Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, runs 271 words, if you count “resting place” as two words.