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| Deep thoughts |
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| Fast paws! |
After reading Dan's blog about Pluto and how the dwarf planet got its name, I started thinking about my name - Major Thomas Jefferson Cat, or Major Tom. I researched Thomas Jefferson first, and I almost fell off my barstool and had to grab the edge quickly so I wouldn't fall over! Let me give you some facts and you will be impressed and amused:
- Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and was considered one of the greatest American Presidents that ever lived and one of the most intriguing.
- Jefferson was the chief writer of the Declaration of Independence (1776).
- Jefferson founded, designed, and built the University of Virginia.
- He's on the nickel!
- Thomas Jefferson started the presidential tradition of shaking hands with visitors instead of bowing.
- He kept a mockingbird named Dick in the White House study, and let the bird ride on his shoulder. When Jefferson went upstairs, Dick would hop up after him, step after step.
- Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."
- Jefferson was a very gifted violin player, but he broke his wrist trying to impress a woman and it never fully healed afterwards.
- He wrote over 20,000 letters in his lifetime.
- He took a cold foot bath every morning for 60 years.
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| That was close! |
As far as "Major Tom," he is a fictional astronaut by the singer David Bowie, heard in three of his songs: Space Oddity, Ashes to Ashes, and Hallo Spaceboy!
Everybody is talking about my Presidential name now - just look:
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| Can you believe that Doris? |
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| My name is George W. Bushy! |
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| That's major, Major Tom! |
Click the link to the song Space Oddity
