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I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You When And Why Did The New York Times Start Publishing the once-pagan day. And after the Revolutionary War, the
Didn’t Know It Either Crossword Puzzles? new Congress found the day so unimportant that they even
The New York Times wasn’t complimentary early in the
held the first session on Dec. 25, 1789. Christmas wasn’t
days of crossword puzzles when it said it was not a game proclaimed a federal holiday for nearly another century.
Fascinating trivia facts or sport and was a sinful waste of time to look for letters
compiled by Stanley to words that fit into a pattern. By the following year, nine Which President Banned Christmas Trees In The White
Morgenbesser dailies in Manhattan and 14 additional large newspapers were House?
How Much Salary Did offering crosswords. The New York Times, ever stubborn, President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid outdoorsman and
Steven Spielberg Receive declared crosswords dead in 1929 and held out for many environmentalist, banned Christmas trees from the White
For Directing The Movie years before including them in the newspaper. In 1942 House during his presidency. The president feared that real
Schindler’s List? following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, The Times decided Christmas trees would lead to deforestation. Roosevelt
Spielberg was not that publishing crossword puzzles was a good idea to occupy refused to display a Christmas tree in the White House,
comfortable with taking a people’s minds and give them something to do if a blackout fearing that to do so would be sending the wrong message
salary or any royalties from occurred. to the public. Roosevelt’s action was intended to inspire
the film. He did not want Americans to just say no to Christmas trees.
the film to be done as a way Which U.S. Presidents Have Descendants Who Are
to earn money, and so refused pay and refused to profit Married To Each Other? How Many Workers Died While Constructing The
personally from the film. Instead, he funneled the profits into Julie Nixon is married to David Eisenhower. Julie Nixon Panama Canal?
forming a charity called the Shoah Foundation, which was was the daughter of Richard M. Nixon, who was running More than 25,000 workers died during the canal’s
and still is based at USC. The Shoah Foundation’s purpose for president at the time of the wedding. Her groom was the construction. Workers on the construction of the canal had
is to record testimony from Holocaust survivors. grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Julie and David met at the to deal with the difficult tropical weather, tropical diseases
Republican National Convention in 1956 while his grandfather and terrain that was challenging. The French, in their earlier
How Long Was The Wright Brothers’ First Flight? was campaigning for re-election. They were both 8 at the time. attempt, had lost around 20,000 workers, while America lost
In 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first successful flight They started dating in 1966, when they were both college about 5,600 between 1904 and 1913 because of accidents
in history of a self-propelled airplane 20 feet above a beach freshmen, and became engaged a year later. The couple are and devastating diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
near Kitty Hawk, N.C. The inaugural flight lasted 12 seconds still married, have three children and live in Pennsylvania.
and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day, Who Received The First Speeding Ticket In The United
with Orville’s brother Wilbur piloting the longest one, which Where Did Vincent Van Gogh Produce His Most Famous States?
lasted 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. Paintings? That singular honor goes to a man named Jacob German,
After the ear incident came hospitalization, and, following a taxi driver in New York. The date was May 20, 1899, and
Who Did TIME Magazine Select As “Person Of The that, Van Gogh voluntarily went into a mental institution. German was zipping down the road at a shocking 12 mph in
Year” For 2019? The more than 100 paintings he produced during this period Manhattan along Lexington Street when he was stopped by a
Sixteen-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta include some of his most celebrated works, including The police officer patrolling on his bicycle. German was arrested
Thunberg was named TIME’s Person of the Year. Thunberg Starry Night, which was acquired by New York City’s and tossed in the clinker at the station house on East 22nd
gained international attention for excoriating world leaders Museum of Modern Art in 1941, and Irises, which was Street for exceeding the speed limit by 4 mph.
for their inaction in the climate crisis in a viral speech she purchased by an Australian industrialist in 1987 for a then-
made at the United Nations. Thunberg is the magazine’s record sum of $53.9 million. Which Country Has More Lakes Than The Rest Of The
youngest choice ever to be named Person of the Year. The World Combined?
other four final candidates for person of the year were Nancy Was Celebrating Christmas Ever Considered Illegal? Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world
Pelosi, President Donald Trump, the whistleblower who By the time the Puritans settled Boston, celebrating combined; 60 percent of the world’s lakes are in Canada.
revealed Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, and the Hong Kong Christmas was outlawed. From 1659 to 1681, anyone At last count, there are two million, with 563 of them larger
protesters. caught making merry would face a fine for celebrating than 100 square kilometers. The Great Lakes, straddling the
Canada-U.S. boundary, contain 18 percent of the world’s
fresh lake water.
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