16th February: President's Day

The third Monday in February is Presidents' Day in the US, because it is close to the birth dates of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. 10 facts about US Presidents:

1. The youngest elected president was John F. Kennedy at age 43. The oldest elected president was Ronald Reagan at age 69. Most presidents were between the ages of 50 and 59 when they were elected.
2. James Madison was the smallest president. He was only 5' 4" tall and weighed less than 100 pounds (about 7 stone). Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president at 6' 4” and the heaviest was William Howard Taft who weighed in at 325 pounds (23 stone). It's said he was so fat that he often got stuck in the Bath in the White House and his staff had to come and pull him out.
3. No president has ever been an only child.
4. Only one president never married - James Buchanan. He had a close relationship with Alabama senator William King, which has led historians to speculate that he may have been the first gay US president. Only one president has ever been divorced - Ronald Reagan. Nancy was his second wife.
5. Richard Nixon was the first US president to visit all 50 states.
6. William Henry Harrison holds the record for the longest inauguration speech. It was 8,578 words long and lasted an hour and 40 minutes. However, he was only president for one month, the shortest presidency ever, because he caught pneumonia while making his speech, and it killed him.
7. Woodrow Wilson was the only president to have earned a PhD. Perhaps all the more remarkable because he didn't learn to read until he was ten.
8. US presidents usually have other careers: Abraham Lincoln was also a licensed bartender and co-owned a saloon in Illinois. Grover Cleveland was a hangman and Andrew Johnson was a tailor and only ever wore suits that he had made himself.
9. James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously.
10. Barack Obama collects comic books, especially Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian.

Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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