Did John Adams Out Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings?
A scholar makes the intriguing case that Adams gossiped about the relationship years before the news erupted in public
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**Yankee Doodle Dandy - what's with the macaroni?
"Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni."
Once dismissed as fake, Maya calendar called Americas' oldest manuscript