Trivia’s Facts and More (10/1)

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This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing.  You are invited to participate with the opening question.

Brain Teaser Question

Anne has 3 blouses, 4 skirts, and 2 pairs of shoes.  How many different outfits can she wear if an outfit consists of any blouse worn with any skirt and either pair of shoes?

(answer found at the end of this post)

Featured Facts

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) served as the third President of the United States for two 4-year terms (1801-1809).  He was an accomplished farmer, lawyer, and architect.  

Some interesting notes about Jefferson included:

  • Governor of Virginia 
  • Founded the University of Virginia
  • Portrait found on two-dollar bill and nickel (five cent coin)
  • One of four Presidents with images carved on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore

Following his election in 1800, Jefferson was given a major opportunity in greatly expand the land size of the young United States.  France was in need to extra money because of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ongoing European wars.  They offered to sell their stake in North America, which became known as the Louisiana Purchase, for $15 million in 1803.

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Answer to Brain Teaser Question

24   (3 x 4 x 2 = 24)

Mount Rushmore Presidents Quotes

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Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills.  The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.  

George Washington (1789-1797)

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than the externals in the world.

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Mount Rushmore Presidents Quotes

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Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills.  The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.  

George Washington (1789-1797)

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Mount Rushmore Presidents Quotes

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Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills.  The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.  

George Washington (1789-1797)

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Mount Rushmore Presidents Quotes

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Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills.  The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.  

George Washington (1789-1797)

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

American Presidents Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle.  No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.  It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

James Madison

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Thomas Jefferson Quote

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

As drafted for the American Declaration of Independence–1776.