Thanks for the recommendation. My library doesn’t have it for tablet, unfortunately but I’ll check again later.
Here’s another resource you might consult, OP.
Unfortunately the Roadside America museum is now no longer, and so many of the genuine American attractions of the road. At least in their place there an endless number of hamburger shrines has been built.
I think that the Roadside America website – which is still going strong, and which the previous post links to – is not connected with the miniature village Roadside America. The website evolve from the book Roadside America (all editions of which are now hopelessly out of date)
I miss the miniature village and plenty of other roadside attractions on the decline. Here is the Milk Pitcher on Rt. 146 in RI fallen into disrepair, likely unrecoverable without an investment no one wants to make. This Paul Bunyan in Elmsford NY has survived though several accidents, and like most of his brethren no longer wielding an axe. My wife has suggested we drive across the country some day to see the Grand Canyon and other such sites, but I’d rather do it to see the World Largest Ball of Twine and various giant dinosaur statues along the way.
TIL Winston Churchill was half American. His mother was from Brooklyn, and was the daughter of the Leonard Jerome, King of Wall Street.
I give up. How is someone’s mother being from Brooklyn “puzzling”?
In that era, wealthy and noble Britons collected American wives like bric-a-brac. It would be puzzling if Lord Churchill didn’t have an American wife.
Apparently I stumbled across the fact that a list of random and irrelevant words that can be dropped into headlines to produce the best clickbait must exist.
I think that the following quote says it all:
‘The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.’ ERNEST RENAN (1823-92).
So even if an ancient scientist or mathematician went to a modern elementary school, he’d be dumbfounded. I find that fascinating 
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Hey, just wanted to say welcome back. I ran across one of your posts in an older thread a couple of weeks ago and wondered what happened to you. Hope all has been well.
Geez, that well written, deeply researched article should have explained that for you.
You accept that as commonly known, but I didn’t know it.
It was quite the fashionable thing to do. Rich American families got to marry their daughters off to suitable (that is, titled) Britons and said Britons got access to all that filth American money.
I’m not blaming you for not knowing. I’m sure most people don’t. But the article never bothered to explain what was puzzling about Jennie being American or being born in Brooklyn. It merely presents it as a fact. She wasn’t living in Brooklyn when she got married either. That happened in Paris. Junk history.
“Society’s to blame… Arrest them instead.”
Or, as Monty Python put it (after the killer of The Bishop on the Landing is deduced):
“All right, it’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame.”
“Roight! We’ll be charging them too.”
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Random fact: looking up “fair cop” (before the internet) started my lifelong fascination with Britishisms.
It’s a theme in the costume drama Downton Abbey. Elizabeth McGovern plays the wealthy American wife who is married to Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, owner of Downton Abbey.
Is that more or less puzzling than the fact (random and interesting!) that Alexander Boris the Piffle Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City?
I think they meant “puzzling” as in “Did you know Churchill was half American?” “No, I assumed he was 100% British, because he led the UK and rallied the British fighting spirit in WWII, and manifested other characteristics that are genuinely British.”
It’s puzzling that such an established British icon isn’t wholly British.
He was born in Britain and lived his entire life there.
My father wasn’t born in America, but I was and I’ve lived my entire life here. I’m as thoroughly 100% American as Churchill was thoroughly British.
Just for the record, immigrants’ kids tend to thoroughly hate this assumption and thought process.
He [Churchill] has a US Navy ship named for him. The fourth USN ship named after an Englishman.
Oops, thought I was editing a different post. Sorry for the non-sequitur. But to carry that forward, if you enjoy traveling, check out these sites…
Trip Advisor gives info about places to visit, eat, sleep, etc.
Roadtrippers…watch the video in the link (I’ll let them persuade you). It’s interesting that they have some trips you can build from.
Atlas Obscura is pretty interesting. For one thing, they go international. For another, you can travel with them, have various experiences, and more.
Pyramids and petroglyphs of Sudan?
Here’s an illegal Lego workshop where you can learn to bend them.
There’s a gastro section. Arkansas Black Apple is something I’ve never heard of.
Yes, but Churchill was an American citizen. : 
heard on “Planet Money” – Due to the lockdown in Shanghai, there were zero cars sold in April --in the city of ~25,000,000 people.
Brian