On vacation until July 4: No more posts until then. Hopefully you can struggle through this dark period…

#2. NO VOCAL RUNS OR RIFFS FOR THESE GRAMMY WINNERS 3 U.S. presidents have won Grammy awards, but not for their impeccable vocals. Jimmy Carter leads with a total of 9 nominations and 3 Grammy awards for Best Spoken Word Album. Bill Clinton won 2 Grammy awards, one for Best Spoken Word Album for Children and one for Best Spoken Word Album. Barack Obama also holds 2 wins for “Dreams from My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.” Obama also has 2 Emmys.

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#1. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ROCKY BALBOA’S WRESTLING COUNTERPART. Good ol’ Honest Abe, the lanky 6-foot-4 16th president, competed in wrestling matches as a lad. And he fared pretty well: He had only one recorded defeat in 12 years. In fact, in 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an “Outstanding American” in the sport.

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“All roads lead to the Capitol” since it is the dividing center for quadrants of the city.

The Court really didn’t have a fully functional home until 1935. The Court was in various locations before the Civil War, and it was housed in the Old Senate Chamber from 1861 to 1935. The chamber wasn’t spacious; the Justices ate lunch in the robing room. Chief Justice William Howard Taft led the drive for a Supreme Court building in the 1920s.

It’s bigger than you think! Although it’s relatively modest in terms of today’s sprawling mansions, the White House was the country’s biggest house until after the American Civil War. It has 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms on six levels, as well as 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators. It is 168 feet long by 85 feet wide (without porticoes), 70 feet tall on the south side and 60 feet 4 inches tall on the north side. The building and grounds are sprawled across 18 acres.

1: A Desk In The Senate Is Always Filled With Candy

Desk 80 in the US Senate is informally called the “candy desk.” This is because it contains candies available to any member of the US Senate for free. It was created by Senator George Murphy, elected to Congress in 1965. Senator Murphy often took candy to Congress and shared it with other senators, irrespective of party. Murphy never got reelected, but the senator who got his seat kept his tradition going [https://tinyurl.com/yfes4xhf].

Q: Though three presidents (Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe) died on the 4th of July, which president was the only president to have been born on that date?

A: Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President. Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont and is the only president to be born on Independence Day.