History
Needs to be More That Ben Franklin invented the first jet powered boat, and that actually his son first flew the kite while he stood under a shed. How Abe Lincoln came to wear his beard, and about an experience he had with pigeon soup. What it was that Christopher Columbus threw overboard and that if found today would be worth millions of dollars, and a happening in Jamaica. About a natural museum Teddy Roosevelt started, as well as a day when he shook 9000 hands.
The River of Doubt in Brazil was renamed in President Roosevelt's honor and is still occasionally called the Rio Theodore (The River Roosevelt). Are you aware that Admiral Christopher Columbus actually put some of his own money into the purchase of his three ships? In what way was his ship, the Santa Maria, like today's shuttle that goes into outer space? Why did President Abraham Lincoln once run for Vice President? How did Ben Franklin, printer, diplomat, inventor, enter Independence Hall in Philadelphia at the time they were putting together the Constitution?
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