History Lesson

[texasmom]

I've thought Booth was born in 1838?

He was.

But had that one thing been left out, still an impressive list.
And why do you have that obscure piece of history committed to memory?

[2bighorn]

And why do you have that obscure piece of history committed to memory?

Memory? What's that? 

In short, two or three days ago I did some reading on VPs through history, how they were and are elected (article II, 12th and 25th amendment), etc, and since my home library is a bit short on material, I made good use of http://www.loc.gov and http://www.gutenberg.org. One click lead to another and somehow I ended up with Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's assassination and Booth.

Guess I get distracted too easily...

[texasmom]

Memory? What's that? 
In short, two or three days ago I did some reading on VPs through history, how they were and are elected (article II, 12th and 25th amendment), etc, and since my home library is a bit short on material, I made good use of http://www.loc.gov and http://www.gutenberg.org. One click lead to another and somehow I ended up with Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's assassination and Booth.

Nice =)

Hm. Interesting, too. I've not seen any VP books. Would be a good book to have that info compiled.  You should totally write that book bighorn. I'd buy it.

[hijack]
I'm reading "Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?" It's a nice little book that gives all the information about each President's death, their last words, where they're buried, etc.  Since then I've been looking for the same style of book on each Presidents life before the Presidency ~ and stopping at each one with their inaugural speech. Heard of any like that? [/hijack]

[sluggish]

The human mind is wired to find correlations; that's why The Wizard of Oz and The Dark Side of the Moon work so well together.  You guys need to put down the pipe and get out of your mom's basement.

[Bosco123]

Life is full of strange coincidences.

[Denholm]

Amusing.