Archives for “Presidents”
Our visit not long ago to Washington D.C. and Gettysburg helped reinforce my interest in anything “Lincoln-esque”. Knowing that, my daughter passed on to me an interesting fact she recently came across. Booth saved Lincoln’s life. Meaning, Edwin Booth, brother of the assassin, and Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the president. Here’s the story. Robert [...]
The Philadelphia Deringer is a small percussion handgun designed by Henry Deringer and produced from 1852 through 1868. The term derringer is actually a misspelling of the maker’s last name. Kind of like kleenex (with a small k), the term derringer is now used to describe any pocket-sized pistol. The original Deringer pistol was a [...]
I often get ideas for this blog from my ‘It happened on this day in history’ calendar. When I turned to today’s entry I saw it noted that today was the birthday of Martha Washington and I thought it would be interesting to look up fun facts on her for this blog. Once I [...]
While the Civil War raged, Southerners scorned her as a traitor to her birth. Citizens loyal to the Union suspected her of treason. She was holding her husband’s hand when he was shot by an assassin, and declared insane later in her life. Who was she? Mary Todd Lincoln. Since I wrote about her husband [...]
Okay. I admit it. I’m reading Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, the current bestseller by Seth Grahame-Smith. It sounds real LOL…excerpts of Lincoln’s “journals,” motivations for his blood quests including avenging his mother’s death by a vampire…but this is what I found out about Lincoln. No vampire hunting in sight. Born poor on February 12, in [...]
