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Thomas Jefferson said, “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing”, writing from Paris on hearing of Shays’s Rebellion, an uprising of poor farmers against the Massachusetts state government in 1786.

Jefferson added, “God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”

The first American musical radio broadcast was a broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in 1910.

Tippecanoe is located in Indiana.

In 1811, William Henry Harrison led a regiment to victory over Indians, led by Tecumseh.

Harrison was elected president (with running mate John Tyler) in 1840, using the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!”

Supreme Court received the disparaging epithet “Nine Old Men” when they opposed President Franklin Roosevelt’s reforms during the Great Depression.

The Nine Old Men was the title of a 1936 book on the Supreme Court by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen.

Dennis Barrie, director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, was indicted by a local grand jury for exhibiting photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, but acquitted on October 5, 1990.