Posted by admin on January 5, 2011 under Albert Einstein Fun Facts, Fun Facts | 
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Have you heard that Einstein was bad at studying in school? Actually, the owner of a Nobel Prize did very well in school, particularly in science and mathematics.
Posted by admin on January 4, 2011 under Fun Facts, Jackie Robinson & Branch Rickey Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment
• Played professional Negro League on the Kansas City Monarchs in 1945
• Married Rachel Isum Feb 20 1946
• Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-56
• Named NL Rookie of the Year 1947
(The FIRST rookie of the year awarded by the Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Named NL MVP 1949
• Had 3 kids, Jackie Jr., Sharon and David
• Retired from baseball 1957
• Worked for Chock Full O’Nuts
• Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Posted by admin on January 3, 2011 under Clara Barton Fun Facts, Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment
“as seen on her tombstone”
Clara Barton ”Angel of the Battlefield”
Civil War 1861-1885
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
Spanish-American War 1870-1871
Organizer and President of the American National Red Cross ;1881-1904 Dec. 25,1821- April 12,1912
Posted by admin on December 30, 2010 under Fun Facts, Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment
Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree. She graduated from Radcliffe College, with honors, in 1904.
More… http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkfacts.asp
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They call it “the soup that won the war.”
That’s because legend has it that on Dec. 29, 1777, with the Continental Army exhausted and hungry from fighting through an exceptionally harsh winter at Valley Forge, Gen. George Washington turned to his army’s chef, Christopher Ludwick, for a meal to boost morale and warm the troops.
Posted by admin on December 29, 2010 under Fun Facts, Mary McLeod Bethune Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment
Mary McLeod Bethune was the 15th of 17 children.
Posted by admin on January 11, 2010 under Albert Einstein Fun Facts, Fun Facts | Comments are off for this article
Thomas Harvey, a doctor at the hospital where Einstein died, removed the famous scientist’s brain and kept it with him over the next four decades. Harvey wanted to know what made Einstein a genius.
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In 1937, a bill was introduced in Congress to carve a head of Susan B. Anthony on Rushmore. A rider on an appropriation bill required that money be spent only on those figures already begun, thus ending the Anthony proposal.
Posted by admin on November 9, 2009 under Fun Facts, Harry S Truman Fun Facts | Read the First Comment
As a young boy, Truman had three main interests: music, reading, and history, all encouraged by his mother. He was very close to his mother for as long as she lived, and as president solicited political as well as personal advice from her.
(image from National Archives)
Posted by admin on November 7, 2009 under Fun Facts, Milton Hershey Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment
Lancaster Caramel Company.
Hershey moved to Chicago in 1883, then to New Orleans and then to New York City trying to get his business established. He returned to Lancaster, PA in 1886. After raising the money he needed, he began the business which formed his reputation as a candy-maker, the Lancaster Caramel Company.
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