A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one. picked by bingo 4 weeks ago tags presidents geneology BridgeAnne d'Avignon |
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No, not that. 2 comments edit related share worldA collection of photos of toy U.S. presidents with interesting biographies of the real presidents' lives. "One day in summer, I ran across a small wooden box at a flea market. It was filled with 2-inch tall plastic figurines of the American Presidents, from Washington to Nixon." picked by bluenutria 2 years ago |
He’s the Chief Executive, the Chief Legislator, the Commander-In-Chief, the Chief Diplomat, and just about the Chief Everything. The President of the USA is one of the most symbolic and fictionalised figures in the world. These are the Top Ten Movie Presidents to ever grace our screens. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago 3 comments edit related share entertainment |
A forthcoming book gives us a look into the private lives of our Presidents or at least as those in the Secret Service saw them. Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Reagan comes out as decent guys, even great guys. Others such as Carter are less than decent. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
For all the perceived closeness Americans have to their presidents, we don’t really know them, as a slew of recent revelations make clear. They are layered thick with the armor of artifice. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
You've got 10 minutes to name 43 US presidents, but it's only by surname. How many can you get? picked by TheStep 2 years ago 15 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Pretty much just what the headline says. I love the ending (and how dated this cartoon is). 3 comments edit related share plime.comInspired by this post by gammerus. picked by KingKoopa 2 years ago |
From George Washington to Andrew Johnson to Barack Obama, U.S. presidents have worked as farmers, lawyers, tailors, soldiers, and even teachers. Here are 10 U.S. presidents who got their start in teaching. picked by sharon22 2 months ago 0 comments edit related share world |
President Barack Obama hoped to sell his economic stimulus tonight, instead, he was talking first about "screwing up'' with a key Cabinet appointment. And the president says that he worries about sending the wrong message picked by bingo 10 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
From 1840 through 1960, every president elected in the 20-year cycle died while he was still president. picked by DemureArt 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
African American children throughout the United States have greeted Barack Obama's electoral victory with tears and bewilderment. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
AN email sent by a Republican aide, entitled Historical Keepsake Photo, features portraits of the first 43 American presidents in a variety of dignified and statesmanlike poses. 21 comments edit related share plime.comThe succession of white faces, however, comes to an abrupt halt in the final and 44th panel which displays just a pair of cartoon eyeballs set against an entirely dark background. picked by bingo 6 months ago |
President Barack Obama claimed early progress Tuesday night in his aggressive campaign to lead the nation out of economic chaos and declared that despite obstacles ahead, ``we're moving in the right direction.'' picked by ebindelglass 8 months ago 1 comments edit related share politics |
Believe the headline says it all... picked by cstrickland 10 months ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service. picked by kakana 4 months ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
Article on past presidents who concealed their bi-racial ancestry. picked by tontodiablo 1 year ago 20 comments edit related share politics |
In his autobiography Barack Obama writes about the first night he spent in New York, prior to attending Columbia. Finding no one home at the apartment he was meant to stay at, he "found a dry spot, propped my luggage beneath me and fell asleep, the sound of drums softly shaping my dreams. I woke up to find a white hen pecking at the garbage near my feet. Across the street, a homeless man was ... read full post picked by suebe 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
Rather than restate untruths about Obama, the campaign would do better to start some rumors of its own. 4 comments edit related share politicsSuch as: Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower. and: There's only one artist on Barack Obama's iPod: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. picked by JoshSF49 1 year ago |
She's up through getting spanked by Ulysses S. Grant. A unique concept to say the least. 7 comments edit related share plime.comNote: This link IS suitable for work but the link 'works' at the site goes to her artworks which, predictably, are not. picked by tigertony 8 months ago |
No one ever called Bush MachoMan or BadAss. Some of our presidents though were quite the badasses. Here are the top 5 starting with Andrew Jackson the duelin' cane whippin' machine. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 14 comments edit related share world |
Just ask Philip K. Dick, whose Nazi-victory story in The Man in the High Castle hinges on the assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and the subsequent, ineffective presidency of John Nance Garner. So let's put our alternate historians' hats on and consider five other possible moments in presidential succession that would make for great stories. picked by bornbad 6 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |