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Ohio has become the quintessential swing state in American politics. Nine days from now, on March 4, Ohio’s primary may decide whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination. Here are some Buckeye State nuggets:
1. Eight U.S. presidents have hailed from Ohio, and half have died in office. The last of them was likely the worst of them: Warren Harding, who was chosen as the 1920 Republican nominee by party bosses in the original “smoke-filled room” at Chicago’s Blackstone Hotel. While Harding spent his career philandering, his cronies were busy filling their pockets. More sordid details are expected in 2014 when the Library of Congress is allowed to unseal Harding’s love letters to a secret paramour. Those who have seen the letters say Harding was an even worse poet than president.
2. Cleveland is a typo. The city’s founder was Moses Cleaveland, and even today there’s no consensus for why the letter A disappeared in the 1830s. Among the theories: A local newspaper editor dumped the A because it didn’t fit on the masthead; an early map contained a spelling error; or store signs posted by brothers named Cleveland made residents think that was the city’s correct spelling.
3. Ohio once went to war with Michigan — and not just on the football field. The Toledo War of 1835 was a dispute over 500 square miles of land, including the town of Toledo. Militias from Ohio and Michigan confronted each other along the Maumee River, but reportedly the only injury was a single stab wound to the leg. The federal government settled the issue: Ohio got Toledo, and Michigan received the western Upper Peninsula.
4. Halle Berry, born in Cleveland, was named after the city’s now-defunct Halle Brothers department store chain. The Oscar-winning actress is part of an impressive cast of African-Americans from Ohio. They include Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison of Lorain; poets Paul Laurence D
1.One of George Washington's friends, the physician Dr. William Thornton, tried to bring him back to life.
Washington died of acute epiglottitis, a bacterial throat infection, in 1799. Thornton was summoned to treat him with an 18th century tracheotomy, which I think we can all agree would be a bummer, but he arrived after Washington's death.
Thornton's plan B involved a zombified George Washington. He proposed that they "thaw him in cold water," then "produce an artificial respiration" via "open[ing] a passage to the lungs by the trachaea," and as his grand and grim finale, "transfuse blood into him from a lamb." Somehow, no one was thrilled with this idea, and Dr. Thornton never got his mad scientist moment with the first president.
2.John Adams' last words were super wrong.
But what he didn't know was that Jefferson had just died five hours before him. They both perished exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
3.While he was an ambassador in France, Thomas Jefferson asked John Sullivan, the governor of New Hampshire, to send him a dead moose (along with a caribou and an elk) to prove a point.
The specimens arrived in good shape, though the moose was missing a lot of its hair. Jefferson promptly sent them to a natural history center called the Jardin du Roi, in the hopes that they would contribute to a "positive image that would encourage immigration and commerce" to the United States.
But when the Americans were quickly defeated, the Madisons were forced to flee. The British found a victory feast intended for 40 guests, which they thoroughly enjoyed. They even toasted to "the success of his Majesty's arms" with Madison's "best wine."
After they were done, they burned down the White House.
5.James Monroe makes a cameo appearance in one of the most famous paintings of a (different) US president: Emanuel Leutze's 1851 work Washington Crossing the Delaware.
James Monroe is the soldier holding the fl Ettore boiardi biography of barack obama
Barack Obama undoubtedly possesses one of the most complicated – and fascinating – backgrounds of any former president of the United States.
Born to a father he hardly knew and to a mother he almost never saw, Obama’s path to the White House is one of the most remarkable and unlikely of any I’ve seen.
And yet, in hindsight, his political ascent makes almost perfect sense.
Because his presidency ended so recently, and due to his young age, it could be three decades or more before the definitive biography of Obama is written.
To wrap up this six-year journey through the best biographies of the presidents I read three books on Barack H. Obama:
* * *
* “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” (2010) by David Remnick
Remnick’s “The Bridge” was the perfect place for me to start: it covers Obama’s life up through his presidential inauguration and although the narrative ca
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This article is about Italians and their descendants in America. For the 1974 Martin Scorsese documentary film, see Italianamerican.
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Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwesternmetropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan areas.
Between 1820 and 2004, approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated to the United States during the Italian diaspora, in several distinct waves, with the greatest number arriving in the 20th century from Southern Italy. Initially, most single men, so-called birds of passage, sent remittance back to their families in Italy and then returned to Italy.
Immigration began to increase during the 1880s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than had in the five previous decades combined. Continuing from 1880 to 1914, the greatest surge of immigration brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States. The largest number of this wave came from Southern Italy, which at that time was largely agricultural and where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign rule and heavy tax burdens. This period of large-scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of World War I in August 1914. In the 1920s, 455,315 immigrants arrived. They came under the terms of the new quota-based immigration restrictions created by the Immigration Act of 1924. Italian-Americans had a significant influence to American visual arts, literature, cuisine, politics, sports, and music.
History
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Main article: Italians in the United States before 1880
Italians in the United States before 1880 includ
Ettore boiardi biography of barack obama
Barack Obama undoubtedly possesses one of the most complicated – and fascinating – backgrounds of any former president of the United States.
Born to a father he hardly knew and to a mother he almost never saw, Obama’s path to the White House is one of the most remarkable and unlikely of any I’ve seen.
And yet, in hindsight, his political ascent makes almost perfect sense.
Because his presidency ended so recently, and due to his young age, it could be three decades or more before the definitive biography of Obama is written.
To wrap up this six-year journey through the best biographies of the presidents I read three books on Barack H. Obama:
* * *
* “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” (2010) by David Remnick
Remnick’s “The Bridge” was the perfect place for me to start: it covers Obama’s life up through his presidential inauguration and although the narrative ca
Italian Americans
American citizens of Italian descent
This article is about Italians and their descendants in America. For the 1974 Martin Scorsese documentary film, see Italianamerican.
Ethnic group
Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwesternmetropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan areas.
Between 1820 and 2004, approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated to the United States during the Italian diaspora, in several distinct waves, with the greatest number arriving in the 20th century from Southern Italy. Initially, most single men, so-called birds of passage, sent remittance back to their families in Italy and then returned to Italy.
Immigration began to increase during the 1880s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than had in the five previous decades combined. Continuing from 1880 to 1914, the greatest surge of immigration brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States. The largest number of this wave came from Southern Italy, which at that time was largely agricultural and where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign rule and heavy tax burdens. This period of large-scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of World War I in August 1914. In the 1920s, 455,315 immigrants arrived. They came under the terms of the new quota-based immigration restrictions created by the Immigration Act of 1924. Italian-Americans had a significant influence to American visual arts, literature, cuisine, politics, sports, and music.
History
Before 1880
Main article: Italians in the United States before 1880
Italians in the United States before 1880 includ