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.
In a 1961 speech, Newton Minow, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced that television was a “vast wasteland” because it was a “procession” of formulaic and violent programs and endless commercials.
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) at six feet, four inches was the tallest U.S. president. James Madison (1809-1817) at five feet, four inches was the shortest U.S. president.
The Hotel Pennsylvania was located at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-third Street in Manhattan. It was built in 1918. The phone number Pennsylvania 6-5000 was that of the hotel’s Club Rouge, where Miller and his band often appeared. The hotel is now the New York Penta Hotel.
The first federal prison in America opened in Auburn, New York in 1821. To regulate prisoner activity, Auburn employed what came to be known as the Auburn system. In the hopes of instilling discipline and effecting rehabilitation, the Auburn system required inmates to work silently in groups. When not working, inmates were confined in silence…
The “Hurricane of Independence” was a hurricane that swept from North Carolina to Nova Scotia from September 2-9, 1775, killing over 4,000 people. It received its name because it coincided with the first stages of the American War of Independence.
Franklin Roosevelt first used it in his acceptance speech for the presidential nomination at the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.