This reminds me of when my daughter was very young. She came to me and asked diffidently, Mommy, I know about Santa Claus and the Easter Rabbit but - there is a Tooth Fairy, isn't there?

I couldn't lie to her so I said, Well, what do you think?

She moaned, Oh no.

Not only was Cristopher Columbus not the first to discover America, George Washington is seated on an uncomfortabe pinnacle. sob

I Didn't Learn This in School...


I was aware that early days America wasn't led by one man only but I really didn't know that its leaders' service was so episodic and disjointed.