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Post by colonelbuckrobely on Apr 24, 2009 11:31:26 GMT -6
The questions are which President's picture is on the following legal tender? I have provided hints after each to help you along. Here we go.
$1 bill --- was our nation's first President and a leader of the American Revolution.
$5 bill --- was an honorable leader and pulled our nation through its darkest hour.
$10 bill --- was one of our founding fathers, the first secretary of the treasury, and a leader of the constitutional convention.
$20 bill --- was nick named "Old Hickory" and fought the British in New Orleans.
$50 bill --- was a Union army general and led the North through the Civil War.
$100 bill --- was a genius inventor, political theorist, and a leading author of the constitution.
Food Stamp Coupon --- photo soon to be placed. Nobody knows his accomplishments or even what nation he is a legal resident of. Currently resides in Washington D.C.
The winner might receive a gift certificate to Frederick's of Jenkins. Go for it gang.
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Post by mndapa1 on Apr 24, 2009 15:19:05 GMT -6
This i way to easy Buck....except the Food stamp coupon...which could have Obama, Kennedy, Reids, or a whole list of other liberals face on it......But Obama faithful will try to have the one dollar bill with Obama face on it before long as they already believe he is the nations best president.
I would rather P&G put his face on my toilet paper so I can express everyday what I really feel.
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Post by mndapa1 on Apr 24, 2009 15:19:28 GMT -6
Did I say that? Shame on me...but it is true.
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Post by hasset on Jun 26, 2009 8:07:22 GMT -6
I found a book called Tidbits and Trivia, The Presidents by Sid Frank. I thought this was interesting:
"Nine Hundred Ninety-four dupes"
In the 20th century, it has become the fashion for an administration to have a label. There was Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal", Harry Truman's "Fair Deal", Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom", John Kennedy's "New Frontier" and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society".
The most well-known of these, certainly the most enduring, was Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal." The phrase was not created especially for the occasion. It had a source, and the source was a literary one, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. In the book, chapter XIII (entitled Freemen) contains a passage in which Twain's storyteller says: "And now here I was in a country where a right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population ....So to speak. I was to become a stockholder in a corporation where nine hundred and niety-four of the members furnished all the money and did all the work, and the other six elected themselves a permananent board of direction and took all the dividends. It seemed to me that what the nine hundred ninety-four dupes needed was a new deal."
(Can you think of who the six self elected people are today?)
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Post by hasset on Jun 26, 2009 8:13:40 GMT -6
WHAT DOES BLOVIATE MEAN? from Tidbits and Trivia, The Presidents by Sid Frank.
HE BLOVIATED IN PUBLIC
Warren Hardin had the ability to bloviate whenever he wanted to. He was a master at bloviating. He should have been, for he'd created the term himself. Bloviating is the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing....praising all the good things, damning all the bad things, and revealing one's own position on not a single one.
(and all this time I thought Bill O'Reilly made up that word.)
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Post by nobama on Jun 26, 2009 9:17:18 GMT -6
Hey Buck,,,,easy on Jenkins,,I didn't know,,nor does my wife,,that we have a Fredericks in Jenkins,,,must be right next to our Dollar Store. LOL !!!
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Post by colonelbuckrobely on Jun 26, 2009 14:22:57 GMT -6
OK, nobama. How about if we make that gift certificate to Frederick's of Pierz. Would that be more satisfactory?
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Post by hasset on Jul 8, 2009 20:30:14 GMT -6
Only one man in the history of the United States was the son of one president and the father of another. Who was he?
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Post by cubbieblue on Jul 16, 2009 7:20:14 GMT -6
I know! I know!
The only man in history of the U. S. to be the son of one president and the father of another was JOHN SCOTT HARRISON. He was the son of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (9th president) and father of BENJAMIN HARRISON, (23th president).
Interesting side note: John Scott Harrison died at age 73. He was supposed to be buried but somehow his body was sent to the dissecting room of the Ohio Medical College. He was found in time to have a proper burial. Because of this, an enactment of legislation made the penalty of bodysnapping very, very severe.
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Post by colonelbuckrobely on Jul 16, 2009 8:40:03 GMT -6
I am glad you answered this as I was totally stumped.
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Post by hasset on Jul 19, 2009 12:28:54 GMT -6
On two separate occasions our country had three Presidents in one year.
Name those two occasions and explain. (this is a hard one. I am glad I have the book with the answer)
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Post by dtothelux on Jul 19, 2009 19:30:02 GMT -6
I give in. I know that Presidents are sworn in in January so I assume that the outgoing and incoming ones account for two. I would therefore assume that the incoming was in some way incapacitated during the first year. Am I getting warm?
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Post by cubbieblue on Jul 20, 2009 6:45:22 GMT -6
You are getting warmer"!
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Post by cubbieblue on Jul 23, 2009 9:51:28 GMT -6
On two separate occasions the country had three Presidents in one year.
In 1841, on March 3, Martin Van Buren completed his term of office. William Henry Harrison was inaugurated, died a onth later, and John Tyler became President. It happened again in 1881. Rutherford B. Hayes' term ended on March 3 and James Garfield becme President. Garfield was shot in July, died in September, and Chester A. Arthur became the third President of that year.
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Post by colonelbuckrobely on Jul 23, 2009 12:51:55 GMT -6
There is no way I would have ever gotten this one. Thanks for filling in the blanks for me (there are many these days).
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