Trivia: American History

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

HINT: (1924-2007), widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents.

RANDOM TIDBITS

Benjamin Franklin was the first head of the United States Post Office.

The first macaroni factory in the United States was established in 1848. It was started by Antoine Zegera in Brooklyn, New York.

The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.

The A&P was the first chain store business to be established. It began in 1842.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter. It was typed on a Remington in 1875 by Mark Twain himself. Twain did not want that fact known because he didn't want to write testimonials or answer questions about this "newfangled thing."

King George VI of England became the first British monarch to set foot on American soil when he visited the World's Fair in New York City in 1939.

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

ANSWER: Lloyd Alexander.