The inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery reads: “Here Rests in Honored Glory an American Soldier Known But to God.”
Arlington has been a military cemetery since 1864.
The athlete’s father was part Sac and Fox; his mother was part Potawatomi. Born at a Sac and Fox village in Oklahoma, Thorpe (1888-1953) won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics and went on to play professional football and baseball. Although Thorpe was stripped of his gold medals for playing professional baseball before…
Ten million Americans were employed in the health care field in 1992, an increase of 43 percent in four years. This vigorous growth contrasts with an increase of only 1 percent in private employment overall during the same period. The Commerce Department expects health spending in the U.S. to exceed $1 trillion in 1994.
William Howard Taft, at a top weight of 352 pounds was the heaviest U.S. president.
For late 19th-century immigrants from Europe, to travel to America in “steerage” meant a passage below decks, near the ship’s steering gear. The price for these uncomfortable but low-fare accommodations was about $15.
During the Revolutionary War years, 90 percent of Americans were farmers. By World War II, the number had shrunk to 15 percent. Today fewer than 3 percent of the population are farmers.
The name for the tribe Crow in their own Siouan language is Absaroke, meaning “crow, sparrowhawk, or bird people.” The French called these people of the Rocky Mountains gens des corbeaux, from which the English “Crow” is translated.