One of the more chilling facts about Lincoln is that there were many similarities between him and John F. Kennedy. According to the Republican President website, the years in which each president was elected to Congress and the presidency are one hundred years apart. When Lincoln was elected ...
Previous to 1862, the government only collected sales tax on certain items such as alcohol and tobacco. President Lincoln created the IRS and enacted a 3% income tax on those who made between $600 and $10,000 to assist in covering Civil War costs. This would be repealed 10 years later.[...
Lincoln and Kennedy were infamously assassinated. William Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, died in 1841 from a very bad cold that turned into pneumonia. He also had the shortest term, only 30 days. Many believed at the time that he caught the cold during his inauguration ...
James Garfield was a southpaw. Though his presidency only lasted 81 days, Garfield sticks out in many people's minds for beingthe first left-handed president. Apparently, he was also the first ambidextrous president. RELATED:20 Fascinating Facts About Left-Handed People ...
Notable Americans of (at least partial) Welsh descent include presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, but also William Penn (who founded Pennsilvania), Jack Daniel (founder of the homonymous whiskey), J. P. Morgan (bank &...
History class taught us about many famous presidents, but have you ever heard these funny and unusual facts about President Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and others before?
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theNational Museum of American History, the nation’s largest institution devoted to American history, where you can see theoriginal Star-Spangled Banner, the desk on which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s gold pocket watch and even Dorothy’s ruby slippers...
Abraham Lincoln loved cats and once let one eat from the table during a formal White House dinner. The Canadian government isn’t sure when Canada became a sovereign state. Its Supreme Court ruled that sovereignty occurred sometime between 1919 and 1931. On April 1, 2005, NASA pulled an Apr...