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...state capitals, 531 Constitution-ordained members of the Electoral College gathered to perform a patently superfluous rite, their sworn duty to re-elect (457-74) Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon to the nation's highest offices. In Alabama, however, one elector chose to ignore the vote that sent him to college, wrote in for President, instead of Adlai Stevenson, the name of Alabama's states-rightist Judge Walter B. Jones. Thus history books will forever record the 1956 election results as: Eisenhower, 457; Stevenson, 73; Jones...
...produce the elusive gold, but also to discover what made Chinese porcelain superior to European kinds. In 1709 an alchemist named Boettger found the secret (based on using kaolin, a white clay that he found in his wig powder). He made the secret known to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Augustus established a ceramics works at Meissen, destined to dominate European porcelain for the next 41 years...
Greatest of Dresden's art patrons was Augustus III (1696-1763), both Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, who lived for art, was willing to spend as much as "twelve barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna...
Among his political activities he fought for the Tories in the Revolutionary War, was knighted by George III, served the Elector of Bavaria, and became foreign minister to England but was not accepted by George III because of his British citizenship...
Count Rumford, a title that Benjamin Thompson acquired through his service to the Elector of Bavaria, studied everything from biology to how to build a better fireplace. By careful study of air currents and the flow of warm and cold air in fireplaces he developed the throat, smoke shelf, and damper, which constitute the present non-smoking hearth...