Facts : 1 Inspired by Max Sielaff s AUTOMAT Restaurants in Berlin, they became among the first 47 restaurants, and the first non-Europeans to receive patented vending machines from Max Sielaff s AUTOMAT GmbH Berlin factory, creators of the first chocolate bar vending machine
Facts : 2 was opened June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St in Philadelphia by Horn & Hardart
Facts : 3 Later that week, another opened at Broadway and East 14th Street, near Union Square
Facts : 4 In 1924, Horn & Hardart opened retail stores to sell prepackaged automat favorites
Facts : 5 Using the advertising slogan Less Work for Mother, the company popularized the notion of easily served take-out food as an equivalent to home-cooked meals
Facts : 6 The Horn & Hardart Automats were particularly popular during the Depression era when their macaroni and cheese, baked beans and creamed spinach were staple offerings
Facts : 7 In the 1930s, union conflicts resulted in vandalism, as noted by Christopher Gray in The New York Times: In 1932 the police blamed members of the glaziers union for vandalism against 24 Horn & Hardart and Bickford s restaurants in Manhattan, including the one at 488 Eighth Avenue
Facts : 8 Witnesses said that a passenger in a car driving by used a slingshot to damage and even break the plate glass show windows
Facts : 9 Glaziers union representatives had complained about nonunion employees installing glass at the restaurants
Facts : 10 By the time of Horn s death in 1941, the business had 157 retail shops and restaurants in the Philadelphia and New York areas and served 500,000 patrons a day
Facts : 11 During the 1940s and the 1950s, more than 50 New York Horn & Hardart restaurants served 350,000 customers a day
Facts : 12 The New York company was named the Horn & Hardart Company, while the Philadelphia company was named the Horn & Hardart Baking Company
Facts : 13 New York was traded on the American Stock Exchange and Philadelphia was traded on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Here are 10 facts about the Constitution of the United States.

We’re all experts on celebrating America’s independence from the British, but how good are you at knowing stuff about the government charter that came of it?

Here are 10 facts about the Constitution of the United States.

Number 10. Two of our founding fathers didn’t sign it. Thomas Jefferson was off representing the US in France and John Adams was pulling diplomat duty in Great Britain.

Number 9. It contains spelling errors. Among them is the misspelling of Pennsylvania. Also, many may be relieved to know that even the brainy guys behind the Constitution had a tough time knowing when not to use the apostrophe in ‘its’.

Number 8. The US has the shortest constitution. Among the rule writers of the modern world the early Americans were the most brief. They outlined the laws of the land in only 44 hundred words. For comparison, the longest constitution is India’s, which in English has over 117 thousand words.

Number 7. The US was relatively small when the Constitution was signed. There were only 4 million people in the country, and the largest city, Philadelphia, had a mere 40 thousand residents.

Number 6. There was a lot of debate about what to call the president. One suggestion was “His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of their Liberties.” Eventually, the House and Senate settled on President of the United States.

Number 5. James Madison wasn’t entirely overlooked. If you feel that President Madison, regarded as ‘the father of the Constitution’, was shafted because he’s never been memorialized on money, rest easy. He’s on the super-rare 5 thousand dollar bill, as well as the one dollar coin.

Number 4. Americans are getting older. At the time the constitution was penned, the median age in the country was 16. Nowadays it’s in the mid 30s.

Number 3. The scribe who inked the Constitution was only paid $30. Of course, that’s over 700 dollars in today’s money. It was paid to one Jacob Shallus, a clerk for the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

Number 2. The Constitution refers to ‘others’. By that, the authors meant those belonging to ethnic minorities.

Number 1. Not all of those who signed the Constitution were born in the US. 4 of them came from Ireland.

What interesting things do you know about the US constitution?

Facts : 1 New York and Philadelphia Leaving numerous unfinished paintings behind, Stuart ended his 18-year stay in the British Isles in 1793, returning to the United States to settle briefly in New York City
Facts : 2 In 1795 he moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, near (and now part of) Philadelphia, where he opened a studio
Facts : 3 It was here that he would gain not only a foothold in the art world, but lasting fame with pictures of many important Americans of the day
Facts : 4 Brooklyn Museum Gilbert Stuart s unfinished 1796 painting of George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum, is his most celebrated and famous work
Facts : 5 Stuart painted George Washington in a series of iconic portraits, each of them leading in turn to a demand for copies and keeping Stuart busy and highly paid for years
Facts : 6 The most famous and celebrated of these likenesses, known as The Athenaeum, is currently portrayed on the United States one dollar bill
Facts : 7 Stuart, along with his daughters, painted a total of 130 reproductions of The Athenaeum
Facts : 8 However, Stuart never completed the original version; after finishing Washington s face, the artist kept the original version to make the copies
Facts : 9 He sold up to 70 of his reproductions for a price of US $ 100 each, but the original portrait was left unfinished at the time of Stuart s death in 1828
Facts : 10 The painting was jointly purchased by the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1980, and in late 2014 was on display in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C
Facts : 11 Another celebrated image of Washington is the Lansdowne portrait, a large portrait with one version hanging in the East Room of the White House
Facts : 12 During the burning of Washington by British troops in the War of 1812, this painting was saved through the intervention of First Lady Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings, one of President James Madison s slaves
Facts : 13 Four versions of the portrait are attributed to Stuart, and additional copies were painted by other artists for display in U.S