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Authors: Joe Rhatigan

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Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About the Civil War.
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INDEX

335 Years’ War, 112

Adams, John, 19-20, 30

Adams, John Quincy, 49, 63

Al-Qaddafi, Muammar, 36

Amin, Idi, 59-60

Antoinette, Marie, 87-88

Apollo 13, 143

Archimedes, 123-124

Basquete, Lina, 60-61

Baseball, 91-92

Battle of the Bulge, 101-102

Bethlem Royal Hospital, 71-72

Blahyi, Joshua Milton, 124-125

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 36, 90, 132

Booth, Edwin, 147-149

Booth, John Wilkes, 144

Borden, Lizzie, 92

Boyd, Maria “Belle”, 115-117

Brooks, Preston, 52-53

Brown, Henry, 142-143

Burr, Aaron, 28

Bush, Neil, 42

Caligula, 42-45

Carter, Billy, 40-41

Carter, Jimmy, 38-39, 40, 50

Carter, Rosalynn, 62-63

Catherine the Great, 87

Charles II, 49

Charles VI, 37

Charles the Fat, 16

Charles the Simple, 16

Civil War, 104-105, 112, 115-117, 126, 140-141

Cleveland, Grover, 17

Clinton, William, 17

Coolidge, Calvin, 50, 64

Cures, ancient, 74-75

De Poitiers, Diane, 61-62

Declaration of Independence, 132-135

Doubleday, Abner, 91

Drakulya III, Vlad, 81-82

Drunken War, 120

Dueling, 55-56

Ethelred the Unready, 16

Extramarital affairs, 24-25, 28

Fashion, 77-80

Ferdinand, Franz, 129-130

Foo Fighters, 114-115

Football War, 100

Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 104

Founding Fathers, 7, 28-29, 132-135, 143-144

Franklin, Benjamin, 30

Frederick II, 48-49

Gacy, John Wayne, 62-63

Garfield, James, 50

Graham, Calvin, 122-123

Great Emu War, 113-114

Griswold, Roger, 53-55

Hamilton, Alexander, 28, 55

Harding, Warren, 50

Harrison, Benjamin, 64

Harrison, William, 136-137

Hayes, Lucy, 61

Hedley, J. H., 122

Heliogabalus, 20-22

Henri II, 61-62

Henry IV, 17

Henry VI, 37, 101

Henry VIII, 141-142

Hitler, Adolf, 60-61, 101-102, 126

Hoover, Herbert, 65

Hyde, Edward, 23

Ibrahim I, 31-32

Ivanovna, Anna, 33, 35

Jackson, Andrew, 18, 63, 135-136

Jefferson Thomas, 19-20, 29, 41, 63

Jefferson, Randolph, 41

John III, 95-96

Johnson, Andrew, 64

Johnson, Lyndon, 41-42, 66

Johnson, Richard, 25

Johnson, Sam Houston, 41-42

Jong II, Kim, 36, 50-52

Justin II, 45

Kennedy, John F., 4-25

Khan, Genghis, 26-27, 36

King, Charles D. B., 19

Lead poisoning, 68-69

Lincoln, Abraham, 41, 55, 64, 139-140, 144

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 41

Lincoln, Robert, 147-149

Long-sleeved Kimono Fire, 81

Louis XI, 75-76

Louis XV, 17

Ludwig II, 45

Lyon, Matthew, 53-55

Magellan, Ferdinand, 86

Mary, Queen of England, 17

McKinley, Ida, 61

Mercury poisoning, 69

Merkel, Angela, 36

Musical instruments, 75-76

Nelson, Horatio, 111

Nero, 27

New France, 132

Nineteenth Amendment, 130-131

Nixon, Don, 42

Nixon, Richard, 35, 42, 56-58

O’Neill, James, 103

Patton, George S., 103

Peter I, 33-34, 35, 82-83

Pichegru, Jean-Charles, 110

Pig War, 108-109

Pledge of Allegiance, 90-91

Pork and Beans War, 108

Predictions, 137-139

Presidential pets, 63-66

Putin, Vladimir, 36

Quick comebacks, 47

Quicksilver, 101-102

Ramses II, 118-120

Reagan, Nancy, 62

Reagan, Ronald, 38-40, 62

Religion, 83-84

Revere, Paul 88-89

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 36, 65-66

Roosevelt, Theodore, 64, 146-147

Ross, Betsy, 86-87

Sacred Band, 123

Salem Witch Trials, 145

Sedgwick, John, 112

Selling wives, 67-68

Sports, 72-73

Sticky bomb, 115

Sumner, Charles, 52-53

Taft, William, 64

Tasadays, 93-95

Thirty Years’ War, 109-110

Thurmond, Strom, 56

Tojo, Hideki, 105-107

Torture, medieval, 69-71

Tsunayoshi,

Tokugawa, 31

Tuck, Dick, 56-58

UFOs, 38-40

Van Buren, Martin, 63

War of 1812, 121-122

War of the Oaken Bucket, 107

Washington, George, 25, 29, 35, 100-101

Watergate, 58

Whipping boy, 74

White House tub, 93

William the Conqueror, 32

Wilson, Edith, 62

Wilson, Woodrow, 64

Witch of Ridley Creek, 145-146

World War I, 117-118, 122

World War II, 101-102, 105, 114-115, 126, 145

Yankee Doodle Dandy, 120-121

Yarborough, Ralph, 56

York, Alvin Cullum, 117-118

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