The Ultimate Pizza Quiz

There’s a persistent belief that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by someone else – the Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe being the top candidates. This questioning of authorship is mostly due to the bias of 19th century scholars who couldn’t accept that such brilliant literature was written by a mere commoner.

American and British English, while sharing many similarities, deviate from each other linguistically in many ways – from spelling to pronunciation to word choice. One thing they have in common, however, is that both versions of the language have undergone significant changes since first spoken.

Theodore Roosevelt allowed his children (all six of them) to bring their pets to the White House in 1901. They brought along several dogs, a small bear, a lizard, guinea pigs, a pig, a badger, a blue macaw, a garter snake, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, a barn owl, a rabbit, a pony, and a hen!