Fun fact: The first president to have a middle name was John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
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Frog@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 days ago
John Quincy Adams
the sixth president
Quincy - Meaning:The fifth
RAAAAAAAARGH
rockerface@lemm.ee 3 days ago
They started counting from zero, as it should be
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel like you’re lying, but I don’t know enough about middle names to dispute it.
Although, Washington didn’t have a mustache. That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.
And there’s never been a president with purple hair. Harris, I’m lookin’ at you. Be bold!
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.
Oddly enough that was ALSO John Quincy Adams…
Ok. Not really. He was the first to have sideburns.
Lincoln was the first to have a beard.
Grant was the first to haa mustache.
affiliate@lemmy.world 3 days ago
as an expert in middle names (been working with them my whole life) i can confirm it is true
drolex@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
OK what was it then? I’ve heard him being called John Quincy S. Adams at a local museum. Do you know what the S stands for?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Squincy
Masamune@lemmy.world 2 days ago
John Quincy Skibidi Adams
HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Smith, named after George Smith Washington
pigup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
President Fake A. Gay
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He’s got my vote!
Tamkish@programming.dev 2 days ago
Randomass Fakenamington
M137@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Went back 8 years later after”
Words hard.
where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I also don’t never proof-read my shit posting on the internet tbh
Baku@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I just about exclusively Lemmy from mobile, and auto carrot hates my guts. I end up sounding illiterate most of the time
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 days ago
While looking up what his middle name was, I learned that the tradition of middle names did not become widespread in the US until the 1830s. Interesting.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 2 days ago
What I want to know is what’s up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So nice we named her twice
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I wonder if this is a possible explanation for the mandela effect
WldFyre@lemm.ee 3 days ago
There’s already an explanation for the Mandela effect, it’s that our memories are extremely fallible and more affected by our view/environment as opposed to facts than most people believe.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Still, this could have possibly made a mini localised Mandela effect
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
People walking in from parallel dimensions to mess with others? Likely.
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
George Steptoe Washington
Sounds like what George Washington would’ve been called if he’d been a great dancer.
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or a terrible one!
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Just goes to show how easy history is to alter tho. If he can do this as a one-off for shits and gigs just think what the people doing it on purpose are up to.
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
My AP history teacher liked to make up stuff. But like, he’d say he made it up right after telling the made-up thing.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
TIL I’m your AP history teacher (just kidding, but I do enjoy recreationally lying to children)
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I mean that’s a great illustration of the importance of those primary sources in a memorable way, especially if you’re out of school now and it’s stuck with you that long.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 days ago
Primary sources make shit up too tho
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
But if you read a primary source, that’s one persom who had the opportunity to make stuff up. With a secondary source, even if the primary it’s based on is legit, there’s some other guy who wasn’t there and may either be lying to you or misinterpreting the primary source his report is based on. Each new level of isolation adds another opportunity to stack both lies and mistakes onto the data.
It’s not that you can’t go wrong with primary sources. It’s that you can go a lot wronger without them.