FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
He was 23 years old, and a T/Second Lieutenant in the 38th Bn., Machine Gun Corps, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 18 September1918 at Gouzeaucourt, France, when the advance was held up by enemy machine-guns, Second Lieutenant White rushed a gun position single-handed, shot the three gunners and captured the gun. Later he attacked a gun position accompanied by two men, both of whom were immediately shot down. He went on alone to the gun, killing the team and capturing the gun. On a third occasion when the advance was again held up this officer collected a small party and rushed the position, inflicting heavy losses on the garrison. Subsequently he consolidated the position by the skilful use of captured enemy and his own machine-guns.
A liberal free-thinker, White often wrote as a somewhat ironic onlooker, and he was a spokesman for the freedom of the individual.
E.B. White was born in Mount Vernon, New York and graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921.
White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005.
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States.
Born in Niles, Ohio on Sunday January 29, 1843, William McKinley was the seventh of nine children.
William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. Presidential election of 1896, in what is considered the forerunner of modern political campaigning.
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