The Inauguration

I don’t have much time seeing as how I’m currently at my day job, but I just wanted to send out some interesting links in regards to presidential inaugurations:

• Mental Floss has an interesting article on inaugurations.  From being drunk to being the first to ride in a car, this article has a collection of 10 quirky facts about past inaugurations. 
• Subscribe to the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics podcast (link opens in iTunes), and go back about 10 episodes or so.  There is an episode that puts Obama’s inauguration in context and also questions the historicalness (historiocity?) of the event (particularly in regards to the fact that the first African-American Speaker of the House was during Reconstruction almost 150 years ago). 
• For an international take on the Obama inauguration, visit the BBC, which has a portal dedicated to the event.

I wish I could give more, but I’ve got to get back to “work”.

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