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  • Rated by aliasinkhorn on May 23 2008, 6:58pm

    Here's a sweet site of historical trivia to season your conversations in those timely moments when knowledge is bliss. Here's an example of the light, entertaining style of facts you'll encounter: From the page: 1791 Alexander Hamilton, first treasury secretary of the U.S. and codrafter of the Constitution, found himself in a bit of a pickle. Earlier that year he had listened sympathetically to the plight of Maria Reynolds, who had come to his office in dire need of financial help because her husband had recently deserted her. Responding as much out of ardor as magnanimity, Hamilton agreed to do what he could, and a few nights later he appeared at her home with the needed cash. Mrs. Reynolds was grateful to say the least--so grateful, in fact, that she melted in his arms, whereupon the great statesman, who was married and the father of five children, had his way with her. And continued to have his way with her whenever the duties of state and family did not interfere. It all went quite smoothly until Mrs. Reynolds's AWOL husband reappeared on the scene and handed Hamilton an ultimatum: pay or be exposed as an adulterer. Hamilton, of course, had no choice but to pay Reynolds. Having silenced his blackmailer, he continued his liaison with Mrs. Reynolds without interruption. A year later Reynolds was accused of shady dealing with the government. Tried and convicted, he went to jail, and soon after that Hamilton and Mrs. Reynolds ended their affair. But five years later, some of Hamilton's political foes accused him in public of having been an intimate of Reynolds's and of having conspired with him to defraud the government. Hamilton's reputation was at stake, and rather than be marked forever as a crook--which he was not--he told the entire story of the Maria Reynolds affair, revealing all the sordid details in a pamphlet that had as big an audience in its day as Forever Amber and Peyton Place had in theirs. Alternately spicy and bathetic, it was the first of the great true confession stories, and it cleared Hamilton's name as a public statesman. And, happily, Mrs. Hamilton forgave him as well.

  • Rated by usmjam on Nov 01 2007, 9:48am

    Loads of facts, overload AAMOF...

  • Rated by johnjohn on Aug 25 2006, 5:52am

    I am home. (I am a trivia junkie)

  • Rated by louieK on Dec 18 2005, 4:50pm

    Great place to kill some time.