56. amazed
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Wikipedia: Noah Webster, Jr. (October
16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was an American lexicographer,
textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political
writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father
of American Scholarship and Education". His blue-backed speller
books taught five generations of American children how to spell and
read, secularizing their education. According to Ellis (1979) he
gave Americans "a secular catechism to the
nation-state."
Webster's name has become synonymous
with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the
modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published
in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
He was one of the Founding
Fathers of the United States...
... In 1806, Webster published his
first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English
Language. In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully
comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English
Language; it took twenty-six years to complete. To evaluate the
etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-eight languages,
including Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Gothic, German, Greek,
Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Welsh, Russian, Hebrew,
Aramaic, Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Webster hoped to
standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of
the country used different languages. They also spelled, pronounced,
and used English words differently...
55. God bless
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Wikipedia:
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965)
was an American politician and diplomat, noted for his intellectual
demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of liberal causes
in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of
Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for
president in 1952 even though he had not campaigned in the
primaries. John Frederick Martin says party leaders selected him
because he was "more moderate on civil rights than Estes
Kefauver, yet nonetheless acceptable to labor and urban machines —
so a coalition of southern, urban, and labor leaders fell in behind
his candidacy in Chicago."
...
The governor proved to be a popular public speaker, gaining a
national reputation as an intellectual, with a self-deprecating sense
of humor to match. One example came when the Illinois legislature
passed a bill (supported by bird lovers) declaring that cats roaming
unescorted was a public nuisance. Stevenson vetoed the bill, and sent
this public message regarding the veto: "It is in the nature of
cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming...the problem of
cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to solve it by
legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as
well in the age old problem of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or
even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its
local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to
control feline delinquency. For these reasons, and not because I love
birds the less or cats the more, I veto and withhold my approval from
Senate Bill No. 93."
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