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In 1958, 17 year old Robert G. Heft designed a 50 star flag for a school project. He received a B- on it, but his teacher made a deal that if he got it approved by Congress he would bump his grade up. A year later, when Alaska and Hawaii were granted statehood, his flag design was chosen and he got an A. US President Coolidge used to prank his bodyguards by ringing for them and then hiding under his desk. Gabriel de Clieu brought the first coffee seedlings to the New World to the island of Martinique in 1720. Over the next fifty years there were 18,680 coffee trees and it eventually spread to other parts of Latin America. Of the top 10 coffee producing country 6 are from Latin America, all because of those first little seeds. Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826. Jefferson’s last words were, “Is it the Fourth?” and Adams were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.”, not knowing that Jefferson died several hours earlier. During World War II, in order to fool Ger

  On this day 3rd May 1945. Admiral Dönitz established the seat of his government in Flensburg. Dönitz was surprised when he learned he had been named Hitler’s successor, and he was not alone. When General of the Waffen SS  Obergruppenfürer  Felix Steiner heard of Dönitz’s appointment, Steiner reportedly responded “Who is this Herr Dönitz?” Dönitz later claimed that Hitler made this choice “because he felt, doubtlessly, that only a reasonable man with an honest reputation as a sailor could make a decent peace.” Dönitz later told his American captors that he immediately set about surrendering German forces after assuming power, but in fact, the admiral prolonged the war as long as possible. As Germany’s military situation deteriorated, Dönitz attempted to negotiate a favorable surrender with the western allies in order to avoid abandoning German soldiers and equipment to the Soviet Union. Dönitz knew that Soviet captivity would likely mean death for hundreds of thousands of German soldi

  Building the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1876. The Statue of Liberty as seen from the torch. Workers building the Empire State building, in 1930s. Henry Ford in the first car he ever built, 1896. The absolutely massive chain for the Titanic’s anchor, in 1909. A photo by Berenice Abbot of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948. A man repairs the antenna on the World Trade Center, NYC, 1979. Bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory, Pittsburgh, 1897. A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, California, in 1930. The intact seal on Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922. It went untouched for 3,424 years. A woman is ticketed for wearing a bikini, 1957. Vietnamese soldier, in 1965. Painting the Eiffel tower, 1932. Wojtek the bear, who fought in WW2. Loggers pose with a massive redwood, 1892. Collecting golf balls, 1920s. A baby cage, initially named a “health cage”, was essentially a bed encased in wire, dangling from the windows of city apartments. This photo from 1902 shows French knife gri