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Available reporting identifies at least a half‑dozen U.S. presidents with documented Mayflower ancestry — most commonly cited are John Adams (and his son John Quincy Adams), Zachary Taylor, Franklin D...
Historians and expert surveys most commonly name James Buchanan as the single worst U.S. president for his failure to check the slide toward Civil War, though recent polls that mix contemporary criter...
Esmeralda was part of the early-2000s Disney Princess roster but was later removed because Disney decided she “did not suit the brand,” with reporting attributing the decision to concerns about market...
Available reporting and polyglot accounts disagree on a single numeric ceiling: some commentators and bloggers say a dedicated adult might realistically reach high proficiency in 5–10 languages (with ...
The little square or circular panel you see on many modern plastic bumpers is a removable cover for a threaded tow-eye receptacle: behind it sits a weld‑nut or anchor where a tow eye or loading eye bo...
The sarcastic online phrase “That happened” (often rendered “yeah, that happened” or simply “that happened”) is documented in pop culture usage going back at least to film and TV around 2000–2001, and...
Neil Diamond has repeatedly pointed to a photograph of Caroline Kennedy — then a child and daughter of President John F. Kennedy — as the spark for the name in his 1969 hit “Sweet Caroline,” but he ha...