Stupid american history [hardcover][rare books]

In 1872, Congress passed a law requiring members of both houses to be docked a day's pay for every day's absence, except in the case of illness. More than 135 years later, the law has been enforced only twice.

Karl Marx was once a correspondent for the New York Tribune.

When television was first demonstrated at the 1939 New York World's Fair, a New York Times critic remarked that television would never compete with radio because "people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't the time for it."

In 1937, Gertrude Stein proposed that Adolf Hitler receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

The first motto that appeared on U.S. coins was not "In God We Trust"; it was "Mind Your Business."