From the July 3rd Chicago Tribune.
Another masterful list by those Tribune research guys, Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer.
1. PAUL REVERE did not shout "The British are coming!" He was a British subject at the time. He actually said, the "regulars" were coming, referring to British soldiers. Regulars had one too many syllables for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem, so "British" be it.
2. I liked President Josiah "Jed" Bartlett in the TV show "West Wing," but there was another JOSIAH BARTLETT from New Hampshire who signed the Declaration of Independence. He was a physician and credited with saving the lives of people with diphtheria by breaking with the practice of bloodletting or sweating as treatment. He treated his patients with Peruvian bark which contains quinine.
3. The "FOUNDING FATHERS" obviously did not refer to themselves with that term. Probably "Dead Meat" if the British got them. The term is usually credited ti President Warren Harding who said it at the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago when he was still a senator. Actually, Judson Welliver was his speech writer so he should receive the credit.
More to Come. --DaCoot
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