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John Tyler, 10th POTUS (1841-1845), fathered 15 children: 8 with his 1st wife and 7 with his 2nd. His grandson Harrison Ruffin Tyler is still alive!

President John Tyler was born in 1790 during the Washington administration. Tyler was an originalist, meaning he was a vehement devotee of the Constitution, holding that it was the most supreme governing document in the land and should be adhered to with no hesitation or compromise. He held this belief during his entire life, but it was especially solidified during his collegiate years spent at the College of William and Mary where he studied law. Political upheaval was constant during the 19th century as the issues of states rights and slavery moved to the political forefront; as abolitionist groups augmented in number, so did the number of staunch supporters of the system of slavery. Tyler was a fervent supporter of states rights, including regarding slavery – when serving in the House of Representatives for the 23rd district of Virginia, he voted against the Missouri Compromise of 1820 because the federal legislation would make Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state in perpetuity. As the states were not obliged to decide on the issue of slavery for themselves, it was for this reason that Tyler voted against it. Tyler did own slaves though he was opposed to the institution.

*Author’s Note: It is said that William Henry Harrison was the first victim of the “Tippecanoe Curse”. Also known as Tecumseh’s Curse, this urban legend is said to have emerged after the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 when then-Governor of the Indiana Territory (Harrison) defeated Tecumseh’s united Native American forces. The curse is said to affect United States Presidents voted into office in years that end with zero and can be divisible by twenty.

So far, the curse has been very effective: 1840 – President Harrison died in office from illness, 1860 – President Lincoln was assassinated during his second term, 1880 – President Garfield was assassinated by an ex-Oneida madman, 1920 – President Harding died in office after suffering a heart attack, 1940 – President Roosevelt died while in his fourth term in office, 1960 – President Kennedy was assassinated while visiting Dallas, and 1980 – there was an attempted assassination on President Reagan, who thankfully survived and may have broken the curse.*

“White House Kids” Series – Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Grandson of 10th President John Tyler

June 16, 1858: Abraham Lincoln gave his "House Divided" speech in Springfield, Illinois. 

"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing or all the other."


From early childhood, Marilyn Monroe's hero was Lincoln.



June 16, 1933: FDR signed the Glass-Steagall Act. Banking Act of 1933. It separated commercial banking from investment banking and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). FDR also signed the Farm Credit Act, the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, which created the Public Works Administration. This day also marked the end of the first hundred days of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Those one hundred days were a period of frenetic activity.


The investment of federal monies in a series of public works programs, which provided desperately needed jobs, formed an integral part of Roosevelt’s domestic agenda, the New Deal. Under Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the Public Works Administration initiated and oversaw about 34,000 public works projects. Millions of unemployed Americans went to work in the 1930s in programs such as the Work Projects Administration (originally named the Works Progress Administration), the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program established in 1935, employed writers to collect life histories from a broad spectrum of American citizens. Many of those interviewed expressed gratitude for the New Deal programs:

    I am heartily in favor of the New Deal, and its results are apparent even in my neighborhood. In former years, my pastor…was often hard put to it to take care of some of his flock. But the work furnished and the wages paid to those in our neighborhood on the WPA [Works Progress Administration] are apparent, and if it is so in this small section, what must its accomplishments and rehabilitative affects be throughout the United States?

    “Mrs. Eulalia McCranie.” Rose Shepherd, interviewer; Jacksonville, Florida, ca. February 23, 1939. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1940. Manuscript Division

A New Deal: The First 100 Days

June 16, 1963: the world’s first cosmonette, a dimpled Russian girl who wore lipstick into space.


Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937 - still alive) became the first woman in space.


June 16, 1999: David Sutch, known as "Screaming Lord Sutch", died (aged 58). He founded the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, serving as its leader from 1983 to 1999. He holds the Guinness record for losing more than 40 parliamentary elections in which he stood from 1963 to 1997. Imagine if this guy was still kickin around today!



As a singer he worked with Keith Moon, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, and Charlie Watts. He also had some rocking tunes...



Here's a rare interview with "Screaming Lord Sutch":





Bat boy never had a chance. He thrived in war but could not exist in peace, that was the central contradiction of his character.




Here's Ms Vampira...The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira", of late night 1950s television, believed to be the first television "horror host" was actually born Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1922 in Gloucester, Massachusetts (not Finland as she often claimed).


Of course, her unusual figure was a key factor to her success, as Vampira claimed to be gifted with the following measurements: 38-17-36! Her uncle was the multiple Olympic medal runner Paavo Nurmi.

She was raised in Astoria, Oregon, where she worked in tuna and salmon canneries. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1940, with hopes of becoming an actress. After several minor film roles, she found success with her Vampira character, television's first horror host. Nurmi hosted her own series, The Vampira Show, from 1954 to 1955, on KABC-TV.

In the 1940s, Nurmi claimed she had a child with Orson Welles; since Welles was married to Rita Hayworth, the child was given up for adoption.

Retired lawyer is the son of Vampira but is Orson Welles the father?

A DNA check and Ancestry.com confirmed that retired attorney David Putter of Montpelier, Vermont, is Nurmi’s biological son.

“My partner here is always accusing me a blood-sucking lawyer now. She didn’t use to use that term, now she does,” Putter, 76, joked in an interview with WCAX-TV, CBS-3, in South Burlington, Vermont.

However, there has been no DNA test to determine if he is related to Welles — and the claim might best be taken with a grain of salt.

However, Nurmi revealed in an interview weeks before her death in January 2008 how she met Welles in a New York casting office while he was separated from Hayworth. Welles was living in New York in the spring and summer months of 1946 when he was staging Around the World on Broadway. Nurmi said she and Welles dated for several months before he reunited with Hayworth to film The Lady from Shanghai in October 1946.

Nurmi made it clear to the interviewer she did not get involved with married men, but Welles and Hayworth were separated at the time.

The CUBE is being powered up right now. Jun 14, 2024 – Jun 19, 2024. Harvested 14 bodies...


They circle the Kaaba seven times counterclockwise, to turn back time.

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