Who said, “We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it”?
Will Rogers said, “We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it”?.
Timothy Leary was fired from Harvard. He and fellow professor Richard Alpert were fired for LSD experiments with students.
The subject of the Civil War marching song of the same name, goober peas were peanuts, one of the few foods soldiers in the South could find to eat.
The original “action figure,” G.I. Joe, was introduced in 1964 by Hassenfeld Bros. (later Hasbro) of Newport, Rhode Island. G.I. Joe was 12 inches tall. By 1982, G.I. Joe had shrunk down to three inches.
The royal governor of New York Henry Sloughter with the murderous name was responsible for hanging Jacob Leisler in 1691. Leisler was a New York City wine merchant who led a rebellion against royal rule in 1689. As acting governor, Leisler set up an assembly and reformed tax laws until the new governor, Sloughter, stopped…
The first women’s college in the U.S. was the Troy Female Seminary, in Troy, New York, founded by Emma Willard (1787-1870) in 1821. The first coeducational college was Oberlin College, which first accepted female students in 1833.
The city of Seattle is named for a local Indian chief, whose name was variously spelled Seattle, See-yat, and Sealth.