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    • CommentAuthorsejal_21
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007 edited
     

    Hi Guys,

    My first post on this discussion board. So hello to everyone. :bigsmile:

    A question has been boogling my mind about why White house is called White house ?

    I know that in the great war in 1811 caused a fire to the white house and it was repainted then. But it is true that it was called white house since it was pointed white, or has there been reference to it being called white house before the fire.

    Hope to have a good discussion.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     

    It was the War of 1812, and, as wars go, it wasn't all that great, but it did give Beethoven a reason to write the 1812 Overture.

    The war didn't cause the fire; the British did.

    The actual name of the building is The Executive Mansion.

    It's called The White House because it was originally designed and built by Josiah White & Sons, a local general contracting company.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     

    A bit of trivia: Josiah White is the father of A. D. White, founder of Cornell University, and great grandfather of E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     

    A niece of A.D. White, Maude, married Heinrich Black, grandson of Hans Black, for whom the Black Forest and the Black Sea are named.

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      CommentAuthorWrong
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: Taed

    A bit of trivia: Josiah White is the father of A. D. White, founder of Cornell University, and great grandfather of E. B. White, author ofCharlotte's Web.

    Posted By: Fact totum

    A niece of A.D. White, Maude, married Heinrich Black, grandson of Hans Black, for whom the Black Forest and the Black Sea are named.

    Unbelieveable! I'm sure some Greens and Browns have married into the family somewhere along the way.

    • CommentAuthorsejal
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007 edited
     

    My niece was taught in her school that White House was called White house because any other coloured people were not allowed in the house, long time ago..

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    Posted By: sejal

    My niece was taught in her school that White House was called White house because any other coloured people were not allowed in the house, long time ago..

    We know that to be untrue because Th. Jefferson had Sally Hemmings in the White House quite often.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    It was the War of 1812, and, as wars go, it wasn't all that great, but it did give Beethoven a reason to write the 1812 Overture.

    Only in the USA is it called the War of 1812. Everywhere else, it's the Napoleonic Wars.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     

    What side was Napoleon on in the War of 1812? US or England?

    • CommentAuthorBig Guy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    What side was Napoleon on in the War of 1812? US or England?

    This was a very complicated situation. So complicated, in fact, that we still refer to these kind of decisions as a "Napoleonic Complex".

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    I thought the Napoleonic Complex was an office park in the 8th arrondissement!

    • CommentAuthorBig Guy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    I thought the Napoleonic Complex was an office park in the 8th arrondissement!

    Directly across Waterloo Boulevard from the Wellington Arms, I believe.

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      CommentAuthorTadGhostal
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: sejal

    My niece was taught in her school that White House was called White house because any other coloured people were not allowed in the house, long time ago..

    They actually disproved that common "urban legend" on one of the first episodes of Myth Busters. They interviewed grandchildren of several "non-white" folk who stayed in the White House quite often. In fact, in 1874 documents of current residence and visitors show that there were in fact (at least at that time) less white people in the white house than there were "other".

    PS. I was reading Vanna White's autobiography a few years back and she states that E.B. White was her Great Uncle.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: TadGhostal

    I was reading Vanna White's autobiography

    Must've cost you a fortune to get all those vowels.

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      CommentAuthorTadGhostal
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    Must've cost you a fortune to get all those vowels.

    cheeky monkey, you!

    • CommentAuthortherunner
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    It was the War of 1812, and, as wars go, it wasn't all that great, but it did give Beethoven a reason to write the 1812 Overture.

    Beethoven didn't write the 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky did. And it wasn't about the British-American 1812 War, but about the Franco-Russian 1812 War, when Napoleon's troops froze and starved to death after they couldn't capture Moscow.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    Sure -- as if someone would write about some little skirmish in Europe when they had a real war going on in the US to celebrate. And there's ample evidence that Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were the same person.
    A) No one ever saw them in the same room together.

    Scholars have come to think that the Beethoven/Tchaikovsky thing was like the Stephen King/Richard Bachman thing -- Ludwig was concerned he was becoming overexposed so he created this alterego, pseudonym.

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    I'm fairly sure that fact totum and therunner are the same person. He's just having an argument with himself. I've never actually seen them post at the same time.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    Actually, I'm therunner.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    I am Spartacus

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007 edited
     

    "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."-Ambrose Bierce

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    "I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."-Mark Twain

    • CommentAuthorBig Guy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: D League

    "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."-Ambrose Bierce

    Rene DesCarte walks into a bar. "Would you care for a drink, sir?" asked the bartender.

    "I think not," replied DesCarte. And immediately vanished.

    • CommentAuthorBig Guy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: D League

    "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."-Ambrose Bierce

    "I Yam what I Yam!" - Mr. Sweet Potato Head.

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    "I do not like them, Sam-I-am, I will not have green eggs and ham."-the mind of Dr. Seuss.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    "Maybe the oozing goo is pure liquid happyness." - The mind of David Firth.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    No, No it tastes like burnt yoghurt.

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    Back on topic:
    I herd that it was called the Presidential Mansion or other variants involving words that mean large grand homes.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: D League

    I herd that it was called the Presidential Mansion

    Please check my first post on this subject

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     

    It was also called Presidential Mansion. Instead of "or" I ment "and." Sorry for the confusion.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 15th 2007
     

    When JFK was in office, it was also called the Marilyn Mansion.

    Man, I'm booing my own jokes. :cry:

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    Sure -- as if someone would write about some little skirmish in Europe when they had a real war going on in the US to celebrate. And there's ample evidence that Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were the same person.
    A) No one ever saw them in the same room together.

    Scholars have come to think that the Beethoven/Tchaikovsky thing was like the Stephen King/Richard Bachman thing -- Ludwig was concerned he was becoming overexposed so he created this alterego, pseudonym.

    I'm Legat, as we've never been seen in the same room together.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     
    Posted By: cmseagle
    Posted By: Fact totum

    Sure -- as if someone would write about some little skirmish in Europe when they had a real war going on in the US to celebrate. And there's ample evidence that Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were the same person.
    A) No one ever saw them in the same room together.

    Scholars have come to think that the Beethoven/Tchaikovsky thing was like the Stephen King/Richard Bachman thing -- Ludwig was concerned he was becoming overexposed so he created this alterego, pseudonym.

    I'm Legat, as we've never been seen in the same room together.

    That's my line!

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    I'm your line

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      CommentAuthorcritdragon
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     

    i'm you!

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     
    Posted By: Trance

    That's my line!

    Well, we finally have answer to What's My Line?

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007 edited
     

    Who's line is it anyway?

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2007
     

    Oh! I love that show! Do you watch British or American? (Or both)

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2007
     

    I watch the one with Wayne Brady; I went to high school with him.

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2007
     

    Really? He's my neighbor.

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2007
     

    That's the American one. Wayne Brady's really funny, but Ryan Stiles is my favorite.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2007
     
    Posted By: Udoboy

    I watch the one with Wayne Brady; I went to high school with him.

    Which one was Wayne? The middle brother? All I know is who Marcia and Jan are. The other 4 are pretty much background noise to me.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum
    Posted By: Udoboy

    I watch the one with Wayne Brady; I went to high school with him.

    Which one was Wayne? The middle brother? All I know is who Marcia and Jan are. The other 4 are pretty much background noise to me.

    Oh you think you're funny? Wayne wrote that joke, back in 1988.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2007
     
    Posted By: Udoboy

    Waynewrotethat joke, back in 1988.

    I wrote that joke back in 1988 and sold it to Wayne.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum
    Posted By: Udoboy

    Waynewrotethat joke, back in 1988.

    Iwrote that joke back in 1988 andsoldit to Wayne.

    nobody likes a sellout.

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2007
     
    Posted By: nyarfdude

    Oh! I love that show! Do you watch British or American? (Or both)

    I didn't know there was a British Who's Line.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2007
     

    I thought Wayne Brady was a serial killer or something.

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2007
     

    Only on Chappelle's Show.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2007
     

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