Evelyn Lincoln served as John F. Kennedy’s private secretary from his election to the Senate in 1953 until his death. He quickly learned to value her unwavering loyalty.
The president once summed up her blind devotion to him by remarking, “If I had said just now, ‘Mrs. Lincoln, I have cut off Jackie’s head, would you please send over a box?’ she still would have replied, “That’s wonderful, Mr. President, I’ll send it right away. … Did you get your nap?’
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The 1904 Olympics in St. Louis were swallowed by the World’s Fair, producing marathon mayhem, food legends, dazzling spectacle, and deeply troubling human exhibits.
The Student Who Fought a Sleepwalking Duel: The 1816 Case of Mr. D
In 1816, a London medical journal reported the bizarre case of a student who fought sleepwalking duel while, collapsed from a nonexistent gunshot wound, and received fake surgery from a very committed doctor.
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