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The Lincoln Memorial was sculpted by Daniel Chester French. He was also the artist that made the Thomas Gallaudet/Alice Cogswell statue at Gallaudet University. His daughter was deaf and they used ASL to communicate. If you look at Lincoln’s hands at the memorial, you will see that he is signing his initials “A” and “L”
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I did not know that. In keeping with the theme, another cultural icon was born that year...
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Damn you're young!!!
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Born in 1943
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That is not absolute. Those two are recognized as one in many circles.
This may help cloud the issue a little more.
Continents Of The World
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Together these make up the 7 continents of the world. Depending where you are from variations with fewer continents may merge some of these.
www.worldatlas.com
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And that is the way it's taught in most of America.
Travel enough in Central and South America and it will be explained to you!
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Pepsi (yes, that Pepsi) once had the 6th largest navy in the world:
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And because that sounds so unrealistic, I did some research:
www.businessinsider.com
And because that sounds so unrealistic, I did some research:
How Pepsi briefly became the 6th largest military in the world
In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union wanted to have Pepsi on hand permanently. But paying was an issue, so Moscow came up with a creative solution.
www.businessinsider.com
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If you ever go hiking in the woods alone, you can bring a deck of cards with you in case you get lost. Why a deck of cards?
If you get lost, start playing solitaire and someone will come up behind you and tell you to put the Queen of Spades under the King of Diamonds.
If you get lost, start playing solitaire and someone will come up behind you and tell you to put the Queen of Spades under the King of Diamonds.
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The first McDonald's Drive Thru was installed in a restaurant based in Sierra Vista, Arizona, located near the Fort Huachuca military installation. Military rules forbade the soldiers from wearing their military uniforms in public, and they weren't about to change into civilian clothes just to grab a burger and run back to base, so restaurant manager David Rich came up with a solution: cut a hole into the wall and allow members of the military to pick up their orders without stepping out of their car. The convenience and simplicity of the idea quickly caught on.
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Where did the word "gobbledygook" come from?
"Former Texas Congressman Maury Maverick, who was then the Chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, coined this word in a 1944 memo. He banned his staff from using bureaucratic language, writing, “Stay off the gobbledygook language. It only fouls people up. For the Lord's sake be short and say what you're talking about.” The neologism became so instantly popular that just a few months later, Maverick was quoted in The New York Times Magazine, defining the word as, “talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words."
from Word Genius
"Former Texas Congressman Maury Maverick, who was then the Chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, coined this word in a 1944 memo. He banned his staff from using bureaucratic language, writing, “Stay off the gobbledygook language. It only fouls people up. For the Lord's sake be short and say what you're talking about.” The neologism became so instantly popular that just a few months later, Maverick was quoted in The New York Times Magazine, defining the word as, “talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words."
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An egg salad sandwich is still a chicken salad sandwich.
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A liberal will be along soon to tell you why that is not so.
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