Died On the Forth of July

My education apparently lacked history. I don't necessarily mean my classes or teachers didn't present it, but maybe I was not listening. I'm not laying blame, but there is a lot of shit I don't know. The sucktactular part of that is you can't really know what you don't know. It works more like this: you find something out that you really think you should have known and now you know that, but what the fuck else don't I know?

I didn't know that 50 years to the day after the signing of the declaration of independence both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. Now I'm skeptical, but only for the reason that story just seems too good, but hey I have no evidence that it didn't happen that way.

I just finished John Adams by David McCullough. It is a fantastic and seemingly fair account of history. The other thing I didn't now what putting these presidents in context. If you would have had me put Napoleon on time line with US presidents I wouldn't have been able to do it. Now I could. After Adams and before Quincy Adams.

Did Ms. Sanford in US history even mention this stuff? Did the book? Not sure I'll ever know. This was largely 651 pages of stuff I didn't know so it was time well spent.

I guess I'll just keep reading and finding out shit I didn't know before, but I'll know then. You know?