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Anyone have an interesting fact or question about American history? Please, must fit in a nutshell. Thankyou.
Must just the question/fact fit in the nutshell, or the answer too?? Describe said nut…peanut shell, walnut, etc. 
“Honestly now, Chaplain, you wouldn’t want your sister to marry an enlisted man, would you?”
“My sister IS an enlisted man, sir” the chaplain replied.
Goody!
Stonewall Jackson got his nickname from a quote by another southern general during the First Battle of Manassas," There stands Jackson like a stone wall, rally behind the Virginians!!". Who said it?
Cecil said it. I believe it. That settles it.
Ahem… I think everybody needs to go through me on this one. I’m the only one that qualififes under the “tall, blonde, must live in D.C.” prerequisite.
Trivia fact about American history: The original name of the state now known as Utah was Deseret.
Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@kozmo.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Edwin Booth (brother of the man who killed Lincoln) had once saved one of Lincoln’s sons from falling underneath a train.
Source: the excellent Booth bio “American Gothic,” by Gene Smith.