Isaac Asimov, who wrote extensively on Shakespeare (including a guide to every Shakespeare play, originally published in two volumes), noted that the English language changed enormously in the four hundred years before the playwright’s birth, but comparatively little since then. He suggested that, on some unconscious level, we as a society just never want to be unable to understand Shakespeare’s plays as he originally wrote them.
About US Marines, Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army offered, “… my entire commendation of the conduct of the detachment of Marines, who were at all times ready and prompt in the execution of any duty.” This is on display at NMMC in Quantico VA, the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Robert E. Lee, who led the Marine detachment which killed two of John Brown’s sons at Harper’s Ferry and captured that great martyr, married the great grand-daughter of Major Daniel Custis, a wealthy Virginia planter much older than his wife. Custis’ widow was only 25 years old when Custis died; she then married another wealthy planter named George Washington,
FLOTUS, the wife of POTUS, and specifically First Lady, was a term that started to be used in the mid-1800s. There is no record of Martha Custis Washington being called First Lady. She instead was called Lady Washington, as was her preference. Such titles as “Lady”, “Mrs. President”, and “Mrs. Presidentress” were used.
In 1838 a newspaper article referred to Lady Washington as the first lady. This is one of the earliest documented uses of the term.
George Washington and Harry Truman were the only Presidents not to reside in the White House for most or all of their tenures - Washington because it hadn’t been built yet, Truman because it was being heavily renovated.
Harry Truman was sometimes called “the Senator from Pendergast” due to his association with the corrupt political boss of Kansas City, Tom Pendergast. However, despite that Pendergast was Truman’s main backer and that then-Vice President Truman attended the by-then convicted felon’s funeral, there’s little or no evidence that Truman was a corrupt Senator.
Harry Truman and Bess Wallace met in grammar school when they attended the same one-room schoolhouse as children in Independence MO.
George Wallace was the American Independent Party candidate in the 1968 presidential election. He remains the last third-party candidate to receive a state’s electoral college votes.
Truman and Eisenhower, who worked closely together during the final months of the War against Hitler and planning the post-war future, had a warm relationship until 1952, with Truman offering to back Ike for President (and even to stand down in 1948 to let Ike run as the Democratic nominee). But during the campaign of 1952, with Ike running as a Republican, their relationship turned bitter. Especially disgusting to Truman was Ike’s partial embracing of McCarthyism. When Ike refused to defend the great General and Secretary of State George C. Marshall from McCarthy’s absurd charges, Truman said “I had never thought the man who is now the Republican candidate would stoop so low. A man who betrays his friends in such a fashion is not to be trusted with the great office of President of the United States.” (He later wrote “[It was] one of the most shocking things in the history of this country. The trouble with Eisenhower . . . he’s just a coward . . . and he ought to be ashamed for what he did.”) Ike was particularly rude to the outgoing President at the 1953 Inauguration.
The chill between the 36th and 37th Presidents began to thaw in 1961, and they had a warm conversation together after attending the funeral of the 38th President.
(ETA: Annie-Xmas ninja’d me while I was typing this long trivium. Fortunately I’d already mentioned Marshall whose first name is George. 
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(Not to be a cite-nag) I can’t find a citation for Truman having attended a one-room school. Before he was born, Independence was already a thriving city, the largest city west of St. Louis, and by no means a backwater. Nebraska was the last state in which one-room schools were forced to close, through a 1993 legislation. Alberta still had one-room schools in 2000, I knew a family whose daughter was attending one.
No problem, always good to check. It is in his Presidential museum in Independence MO, one of the displays.
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Between 1883 and 1885, Laura Ingalls taught three terms of school in a one room schoolhouse, worked for the local dressmaker, and attended high school, although she did not graduate. She later admitted she did not particularly enjoy teaching but felt the responsibility from a young age to help her family financially, and wage-earning opportunities for women were limited.
The Maysville School, 1882-1939, is a well-preserved, painted bright red and white, one-room schoolhouse in Maysville CO.
ETA: I will add, I drove by it earlier this year. The ground was dusted with snow, it was a bright, sunny day with a vibrant blue sky and nary a few whispy clouds. Very pretty, scenic Americana.
Violence was common in one-room schoolhouses, with teachers beating students and older students attacking teachers, sometimes with deadly results. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy mentions a teacher who is almost fatally beaten by a group of older boys while Jesse Stuart, in his autobiographical The Thread that Runs So True, tells of his sister who after being badly beaten by a student becomes a “nervous wreck”.
http://articles.philly.com/2009-10-14/news/25271242_1_school-violence-youth-violence-teacher
I think you mean the 33rd, 34th and 35th Presidents.
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Despite popular portrayals of ex-Confederate outlaw Jesse James as an embodiment of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang shared or redistributed any loot from the robberies they committed.
Robin Wright is an American actress and director. She currently stars as Claire Underwood in the critically acclaimed Netflix series House of Cards. She will next appear in the superhero film *Wonder Woman * and is currently in talks to appear in the upcoming Blade Runner sequel opposite Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.
Robin Wright started her career as a model, when she was 14; she starred as Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride when she was 21.
“Build Me Up Buttercup” is a song written by Mike d’Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang.
A picturesque castle that frequently appears in photographs, film and television dominates the island of Eilean Donan on Loch Duish in the Scottish Highlands. It was said to have been commanded by Duncan Macaulay against the Earl of Ross in the 1300s.
William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne and PM, is said to have commented about the author Thomas MacAulay: “I wish that I knew anything as well as Thomas MacAulay knows everything.”