It’s extremely easy to vilify, degrade, badmouth or insult when it comes to discussions about presidents of the United States. How about if it went a different directio... moreIt’s extremely easy to vilify, degrade, badmouth or insult when it comes to discussions about presidents of the United States. How about if it went a different direction? Could you name the ONE US president who either by evidence or merely in your opinion was the most loved or most liked or most respected by the highest majority of US citizens? You might be surprised to learn that even those presidents most remembered fondly in hindsight actually had high percentages of detractors, to include people who hated them vehemently. Some of that negativity had to do with concrete issues and some of it had to do with the man himself. The passage of time and the information that is chosen to be put in history books or recalled by the media has a strange way of being picked and chosen by people who seem to be suffering amnesia. The reason you’re being asked to name only one of them is that there may have been good qualities and bad qualities about many of them, and this would beco... less
Similar to the examples above, what are some other phrases that are largely obsolete nowadays?
(They need not be just technology-related nor communications-related.)~
Depending on which person, persons or organization created the particular “map” in question, red has sometimes meant Democrat and blue has sometimes meant Republican, a... moreDepending on which person, persons or organization created the particular “map” in question, red has sometimes meant Democrat and blue has sometimes meant Republican, and vice-versa. It’s been since approximately the 1860s that such designations were first used, and for more than 100 years, they have changed back and forth almost as often as the weather has changed.
Just like the US government, Australia imprisoned Japanese residents in camps. There were far fewer percentages of them living in Australia than in the US, but a much... more
Just like the US government, Australia imprisoned Japanese residents in camps. There were far fewer percentages of them living in Australia than in the US, but a much higher percentage of the Japanese who lived in Australia were incarcerated, almost 90% of them. Also, after the war was over, the Australian government deported many of them to Japan.
Were you aware that all of this took place?
