Stuff you probably know about Christmas but may have forgotten….for example did you know that the word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ’s Mass?
Or-do you know who the first president to decorate the White House for Christmas was?
Some people hear his story and see what he has done and are impressed, some just shake their heads, and some think he is crazy. Having been there and seen it I have my own opinion, but I will leave you to make your own decision.But . . .
It is the age old question. . . How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
He was such an avid reader that he took his 117,000 volume library with him whenever and wherever he traveled. His books were carried by a caravan of four hundred camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
The idea was one of those “what if?” ideas that float across your brain from time to time. When it was all said and done there was a list and some very interesting things discovered along the way.