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...quarter-century after Lincoln's death, the innocent but mindless inside maneuverings of Caroline Harrison, wife of Benjamin, would jeopardize the White House with an element war could not: grandeur. She loved the White House but wanted more space. She rallied Cabinet officers and engineers to produce a plan for massive buildings attached to the existing White House and an enclosed quadrangle in the French Neoclassical mode. She had public and official support but not that of House Speaker Thomas B. Reed. Miffed by a postal appointment, he refused to let the authorization bill come to the floor. All that...
...shower; Martin Van Buren brought in central heating; and Polk did away with candles and oil and lighted his chandeliers with gas. An early form of air conditioning was improvised for the dying James A. Garfield in the summer of 1881. Rutherford B. Hayes introduced the telephone, and Benjamin Harrison had the White House rigged for electricity, though he would not touch the switches...
...president in the red states and the Vice President takes the blue states." Hell yeah! Give the fascist Idaho and Utah. But what happens to Florida, you ask? Sell it to Cuba for a nice pack of cigars!...Lara Flynn Boyle had flings with Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, and Harrison Ford back to back. Can we say Father Fetish?...Britney Spears got her nipples pierced. Sigh. So predictable....As soon as I get my job, I'm going to chop my hair off and go platinum both in rebellion against corporate culture and in celebration of blonde nymphets...
Recent work by Rachel Perry Welty is on display at the Clifford-Smith Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., Boston, through Nov. 25. For more information, call...
...popular vote but could lose the electoral vote. Has a president ever been elected with the majority of the electoral votes and but without the majority of the popular vote? A:Yes. Most recently in 1888, when Grover Cleveland, who won 5,540,050 popular votes, lost to Benjamin Harrison, who pulled down 5,444,337 popular vote. Harrison took 233 electoral votes to Cleveland's 168. (There were fewer electors back then...