Fun Fact: Albert Einstein

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.

Fun fact: Susan B. Anthony

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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.

Fun Fact: Harry S Truman

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)

Fun Fact: Milton Hershey

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.

Fun Fact: Milton Hershey

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One early advertising slogan described this new product (chocolate) as “a palatable confection and a most nourishing food.”

Fun Fact: Milton Hershey

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In 1876 Hershey starts a candy business in Philadelphia, PA. The business fails after six years

In 1882 Hershey starts a candy business New York City, NY. This business also fails

Hershey’s Kisses rolled off the production lines in 1907.

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Fun Fact: Milton Hershey

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Hershey’s success was not simply a matter of luck. Having learned from his past failures, he had become a shrewd and astute businessman.

Fun Fact: Benjamin Franklin

Posted by admin on November 6, 2009 under Benjamin Franklin Fun Facts, Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment

• Benjamin Franklin founded the Union Fire Company, a fire-fighting company of America.
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• He presided The Academy and College of Philadelphia. He served as the Justice of Peace for Philadelphia.
• He was appointed as the deputy postmaster-general of North America, where he was instrumental in bringing reforms to the postal system.
• He was the head of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Albany Congress in 1754. Benjamin Franklin was active in the Pontiac’ s rebellion and in the opposition of the 1765 Stamp Act in London.
• He was one of the authors of the ‘Declaration of Independence’.
• Franklin was a key player in the American Enlightenment, which was a part of the great intellectual movement called the ‘Age of Enlightenment’.

Fun Fact: Harriet Tubman

Posted by admin on November 5, 2009 under Fun Facts, Harriet Tubman Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment

Harriet guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.

The actual number isn’t exactly known because of the secrecy of her work.

More…: Thomas Edison / Video (link)

Posted by admin on November 4, 2009 under Fun Facts, More..., Thomas Edison Fun Facts, Thomas Edison More Information | Be the First to Comment

Joseph Swan invented a light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison. But Swan didn’t patent his idea and was accused of copying by Edison ( who did patent the idea and is therefore recognised as the inventor ) until it was shown both bulbs were produced in different processes. They then formed a joint company using the best of both technologies.

Thomas Edison speaks about the lightbulb