.... By the beginning of last century, everyone was snorting cocaine. Celebrities from Thomas Edison to Sarah Bernhart – not to mention Hollywood – ext... ...odern implement was designed and tested by Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to... ...istened bathroom tissues, each embossed with his name. Aptly named British plumber Thomas Crapper redesigned the modern toilet and received a serie... ...college representing the states. John Quincy Adams (1824), Rutherford Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison (1888) and George W. Bush (2000) lost the ove... ...National Prohibition Act, popularly known as the Volstead Act (after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead), was enacted, providing enforcem...

...arted when the child 49 was born. The Christian idea, as developed by Thomas Aquinas based on the ideas of Aristotle, was that boy babies got th... ...eption and girl babies got theirs 6 to 8 seeks after conception. Although Thomas seemed to settle on 40 days as being the magical moment. However an... ...p, thrown into the fire and burned.‘ ―Christian theologians, like Thomas Aquinas, approved of the inquisitional methods. ‗Wherefore if forge... ...States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.‘(16) ―Benjamin Franklin was an acknowledged deist. In his autobiography he wrote,... ...e people by what they say, only by what they do. As another example, U.S. Congressman Randy Cunningham who said he ran for Congress ‗in 1990 because... ...ahead of those who elected them.‘ Then in the course of his 15 years as a congressman proceeded to take bribes and evade taxes amounting to millions... ...s elected to the Senate and a Catholic president. And we recently had one congressman admitting that he was not a believer.‖ 93 --―But the ... ...d of men like Thomas Jefferson or the knowledge of practical science of a Benjamin Franklin? How many physicists, surgeons or lawyers have read Locke... ...arles Cushing, October 19, 1756 16. Treaty with Tripoli 17. Writings of Benjamin Franklin: London, 1757 – 1775 18. John 18:36 19. John 14:6 20. ...

...eel, or anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the... ...heel, or anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the ... ... upon this: the willingness to die rather than being conquered and enslaved. Thomas Paine’s famous line: ‘Give me Liberty, or give me Death’, is the... ...rful planters. Simply because he was not as corrupt and as greedy as others. Benjamin Franklin was just as much of a money-grubber as the others. ... ...Millions of people giving all of their voting power to one single person? One congressman? One senator? One president? One prime minister? That ...

...ngton........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.........................16 Thomas Jefferson................ ...field.......................168 Grover Cleveland.........................177 Benjamin Harrison.....................182 Grover Cleveland.................. ...ame the second President of the United States. His opponent in the election, Thomas Jefferson, had won the second greatest number of elec toral votes... ...ll possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence. Thomas Jefferson FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. WEDNESDA... ...GURAL ADDRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1853 On religious grounds, former Senator and Congressman Franklin Pierce chose “to affirm” rather than “to swear” the ... ...ce the Jack son Administration, he had a distinguished career as a Senator, Congressman, Cabinet officer, and ambassador. The oath of office was admi... ...d as the President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. The former Illinois Congressman had arrived in Washington by a secret route to avoid danger, ... ...ountry’s history, let us in voke His aid and His blessings upon our labors. Benjamin Harrison INAUGURAL ADDRESS MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1889 Nominated on th...

...Contents George Washington........................4 George Washington........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.........................16 Thomas Jefferson.........................21 James Madison............................27 James Madison............................31 James Monroe..............................35 Jame...

...nvy the white boy who had no obstacles placed in the way of his becoming a Congressman, Governor, Bishop, or President by reason of the accident of hi... ... referred, the President of the National Educational Association, the Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell, was present at one of those meetings and heard me speak... ...en the group of jurors to which I was assigned met for orga- nization, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, who was one of the number, moved that I be made secreta... ..., besides my- self, on Sunday evening, were Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Fa- ther Thomas P. Hodnett, and Dr. John H. Barrows. The Chicago Times-Herald, in de... ...e feeling in America is not growing less intense! At this concert the Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., the present governor of New York, presided. I was n...