So Steve mentioned the Gettysburg Address this afternoon.. and after doing the wiki thing, going to Lincoln, then the Civil War, and through links after links, finally to a Union Army general named Ambrose Burnside, comes a revelation of a colloquialism attributed to said general that is now a common noun. I'd imagine the vast majority of Americans have no idea the origin.
Quick.. without hitting the wiki, can anyone tell me what it is? Most every man has them to one degree or another.
2 comments:
How terribly interesting. :)
And I couldn't come up with the answer w/o looking it up on the wiki. :)
Steve.
I knew before I scrolled up, but I'm kind of a Civil War history afficianado.
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