Thursday, July 24, 2008

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting

Francisco de Goya Nude Maja painting
childe hassam Wayside Inn Sudbury Massachusetts painting
computer programmer at the University of Texas suspected that comparable links might be found for any pair of U.S. presidents. To test this, he fed data on presidents into a computer and came up with a profusion of correspondences among them that were just as remarkable, and hence just as unremarkable, as those between Lincoln and Kennedy. Presidents William McKinley and James Garfield, for example, were both Republicans who were born and bred in Ohio. They were both Civil War veterans and both served in the House of Representatives. Both men were ardent supporters of protective tariffs and the gold standard, both were assassinated while in office, and both of their last names contained eight letters, and on and on and on. If you look for coincidences, it's no surprise you might find

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