Happy President's Day!

[DD]

For those of you lucky enough to be off work today...well, I'm just so happy for ya!!

A little Presidential Trivia for you....

1. Sedated only by brandy, 11th president, James Polk, survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.

2. Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president, Abrahm Lincoln carried letters, bills and notes in his hat.

3. In warm weather, 6th president, John Quincy Admas customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.

More to come....gotta work.

 

[hnooe]

For those of you lucky enough to be off work today...well, I'm just so happy for ya!!

A little Presidential Trivia for you....

1. Sedated only by brandy, 11th president, James Polk, survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.

2. Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president, Abrahm Lincoln carried letters, bills and notes in his hat.

3. In warm weather, 6th president, John Quincy Admas customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.

More to come....gotta work.

4. Speaking of skinny-dipping, on occasion, John Kennedy, 35th Prez. went skinny dipping in the indoor White House pool with some of his "non-Jackie" lady friends..boy times have changed, I guess there was a time when a Prez. could get away with that stuff!

 

[Teresa]

For those of you lucky enough to be off work today...well, I'm just so happy for ya!!

A little Presidential Trivia for you....

1. Sedated only by brandy, 11th president, James Polk, survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.

2. Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president, Abrahm Lincoln carried letters, bills and notes in his hat.

3. In warm weather, 6th president, John Quincy Admas customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.

More to come....gotta work.

love it. we need some educatin' around here.

surely there are hundreds of little things we need to know about our presidents.

 

[DD]

4. John Tyler, 10th US president, fathered 15 children more than any president. He had 8 with his first wife and 7 by his second wife. Tyler was past his 70th birthday when his 15th child was born.

 

[Franny]

4. John Tyler, 10th US president, fathered 15 children more than any president. He had 8 with his first wife and 7 by his second wife. Tyler was past his 70th birthday when his 15th child was born.

Fertile myrtile!

 

[DD]

9th US President, William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest speech ever. The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in US history.

 

[Miss Kitty]

9th US President, William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest speech ever. The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in US history.

That'll teach ya' to STFU!

 

[NoHall]

I celebrated with some President' Day chocolate. Yum!

 

[DD]

That'll teach ya' to STFU!

No kiddin!!!

 

[skippertoo]

That'll teach ya' to STFU!

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