and other lists about the presidents that you never knew you needed to know
Woodrow Wilson, in constructing his idea for the League of Nations, was indecisive with regards to the name of the organization. These are a few of his rejected ideas.
-Confederacy of Countries
-Ambassadors without Borders
-The United Seven
-Congress of Europe II: Weekend in Vienna
It is well documented and known that John Quincy Adams enjoyed swimming naked in the Potomac River in the morning, but what’s not well known is that for a brief time, skinny-dipping alone became a national craze–practically an epidemic. There was even a time when telling someone you were going to “swim an Adams” meant you would be ridding yourself of people and clothes to swim in a local river or lake. However fun this may have been, it was also very scandalous. The Adams expression was used only in the closest of friends (and only rarely in that company), and telling anyone that you skinny dipped was seen as utterly scandalous, fitting in with the general feelings of the time. As a result, people rarely admitted to swimming an Adams, and thus it is commonly forgotten today.
Due to the highly experimental and potentially dangerous nature of the Manhattan Project, FDR wanted to have all his bases covered in event of the worst case scenario. Before being allowed to participate in the Project, scientists would be required to not only sign a waiver swearing to secrecy but also to agree to some odd terms. For example, each scientist was instructed to burn a mark into his right hand immediately after any sort of accidental cloning; this mark would denote who the original or “real” version of the scientist was. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, was told by Roosevelt to prepare letters to his family in case of his disappearance or death due to many things from vaporization to accidental time travel.
Greetings, once again. The late lack of posts was caused by a new addition to the site. Lincoln’s Playlist is expanding; no longer will lists be the exclusive provincw of the site, but facts will now be included. After all, what is a list but a completely stripped down sentence or paragraph of facts?
In order to celebrate this new expansion of information, we will be posting a mixture of facts and lists and facts with lists for the remainder of the posts this week. Please enjoy, and if you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to let us know at presidentiallists@gmail.com. (Don’t forget, you can still submit your own research for publication in this prestigious locale.)
Happy listing, all.
-An ax to the neck
-A shovel to the neck
-A sawblade to the neck
-Shotgun
-Marshmallow Peeps (zombies hate Peeps)
-An urban environment (though lacking humanity, the zombie Truman would still retain some of the Missouri farmboy that still existed in his living self)
-John Quincy Adams
-Rutherford B. Hayes
-Goat
-Sheep
-Bear
-Chicken
-Snake
-Deer
*Note: Jackson once wrote that he “never would stoop so low as to consume that [blood] of the bovine. Such a beast would be too easy to kill and thus would provide no challenge to acquire.”
-Homer Simpson Grant
-Margaret Simpson Grant
-Lisa Simpson Grant
-Abraham Simpson Grant
-Bartholomew Simpson Grant
-Hiram Q. Robertson*
*Robertson was an illegitimate son of Grant who went on to become a famous designer of trousers in the 1880s. Chester A. Arthur was known to enjoy Robertson’s trouser designs.
Original research submitted by Kevin (Clusty) Blatz.
-Scissors
-Dewey
-The buck
-Multi-lettered middle names
-Gastroenteritis from some bad cherries and milk (true)
-Poison (untrue)
-Had to get away from Millard Fillmore somehow (contributed to it)
