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Man, I Don't Know My Presidents #132 comments

lizagator wrote 2 months ago: Millard Fillmore July 1850- March 1853 The Accidental President Wool-Carder-President The American … more »

Tags: Man I Don't Know My Presidents, History, Trivia, fun facts, presidential nicknames, 13th president of the US, American Presidents

Bush Administration Going Down in History---and Down and Down and Down4 comments

prestoncoleman wrote 2 months ago: If journalists write the first draft of history, historians write the final one. Judging by two poll … more »

Tags: George Bush, iraq, James Buchanan

Returns for the 1856 Presidential & 1859 Gubernatorial Vote in the Shenandoah Valley

cenantua wrote 3 months ago: Still need the returns for the 1860 Presidential election, but, in the meantime, this is a start. Th … more »

Tags: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Shenandoah Valley, 1860 Presidential returns for the Shenandoah Valley, 1856 Presidential returns for the Shenandoah Valley, 1859 Gubernatorial returns for the Shenandoah Valley, William Leftwich Goggin, James Buchanan, John Letcher

Milk Baths With Eliot Spitzer3 comments

josh1215 wrote 3 months ago: I fondly recall a memory from my 11th grade American history class. It was about two weeks into the … more »

Tags: Elliot Spitzer, gouverneur morris, prostitutes, Founding Fathers, Theodore Roosevelt, Bull Moose Party, howard taft, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland

Forgotten Holidays

Minerva Abbott wrote 4 months ago: A few decades ago three special days in February were widely observed in the United States: Abraham … more »

Tags: U.S. Presidents, Holidays, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Presidents Day, Washington's Birthday

Kia: Millard Fillmore down the drain10 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: Millard Fillmore sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry to open trade with Japan, but his overtures and imp … more »

Tags: accuracy, Business, History, History images, Humor, advertising, media

Millard Fillmore, fulcrum of history2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: Without the fanfare the act deserves, Elektratig has been revealing secrets of the history of Millar … more »

Tags: Civil War, historic documents, History, History blogs, Politics, Know-Nothings

208-year-old candidate

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: The East Aurora (New York) Advertiser brings news that Millard Fillmore has offered himself as a can … more »

Tags: Campaigns, History, Humor

Bathtubs in the White House 15 years before Fillmore

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Is this the information which confirms Mencken’s writing was really a hoax? Can we confirm th … more »

Tags: H. L. Mencken, History, Hoaxes, Humor, Presidents, BathTub, Hoax, White House

Happy Birthday, Millard Fillmore! 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: January 7, 2008, is the 208th anniversary of Millard Fillmore’s birth. More obscure facts abou … more »

Tags: History, Humor, Presidents

A neglected anniversary

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Gee, here’s one this blog really should be celebrating: December 28 was the 90th anniversary … more »

Tags: H. L. Mencken, History, Hoaxes

Call the bakery: Millard Fillmore's birthday is January 73 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Monday, January 7, is the 208th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore. Campaign poster fro … more »

Tags: History, History video sources, Humor, Politics, Presidents

Quote mystery5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Who said “There’s nothing so powerful as truth,” and was that what he really meant … more »

Tags: Humor, Politics, Presidents, Elections

In which we expose Leo Todd's insults to President Fillmore3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: Dr. Bumsted sends us an alert to a site dedicated to President Franklin Pierce, the Franklin Pierce … more »

Tags: On-line learning, On-line education, History blogs, Presidents, History, technology, Politic

Franklin Pierce? Wrong hoax, Scholastic1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: Maybe Fillmore fans should be offended. Scholastic.com has a section, “Fun Facts to Know about … more »

Tags: Hoaxes, Bogus history, Presidents

Millard Fillmore at the National Portrait Gallery2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: Part of the Smithsonian Museums, the National Portrait Gallery remains one of my favorite museums in … more »

Tags: Travel, History, History museums, Museums, History and art, History images

Who was Millard Fillmore? No, really?6 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 11 months ago: George Pendle’s hoax biography of Millard Fillmore sells okay — but Amazon lists 365,000 … more »

Tags: History, Hoaxes, Politics, Presidents

Harsh judgment on Millard Fillmore

Ed Darrell wrote 11 months ago: Missed this on Presidents’ Day:  The Forgettable Millard Fillmore (in The Los Angeles Times) … more »

Tags: History blogs, Hoaxes, Presidents

Top 5 US Presidents10 comments

Curtis Plowgian wrote 1 year ago: Okay, I was quite prolific in my verbal assault on The Secret, and I must say all of this verbosity … more »

Tags: Top Fives, President, History, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Harrison, Grover Cleveland


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