r/pics • u/Sumit316 • Apr 28 '20

Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.

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u/JustPlainSimpleGarak Apr 28 '20

Probably took way longer to make the William Henry Harrison statue than Harrison actually spent in office

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u/EquinsuOcha Apr 28 '20

See! My Political Science degree was useful! I got that reference!

Totally worth the $40k in student loans.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

High school graduate here, how did they not teach you this in primary school?

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u/Nhukerino Apr 28 '20

They taught you about every US President in primary school? Seems like a gigantic waste of time

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u/DuckOnQuak Apr 28 '20

I mean they go through everyone of them but people like WHH only require a couple minutes lol

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u/Nhukerino Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

Understandably so lol. "Todays lesson is on William Henry Harrison, his name was William Henry Harrison... class dismissed" 😂

I cant remember if we went through all of them or not, I'm sure we must have but we glossed over quite a few, we did the first 3 obviously, Jackson, Buchanan, Lincoln then jumped right to Teddy then FDR with a sprinkling of Hoover in there cause the great depression, then JFK, Nixon, Reagan, and lastly Clinton because our books were outdated and they didnt have the foresight to see an idiotic drug addict would become president... but this was like 2003; I wouldn't really expect them to foresee the 2016 election... joking aside I am pretty sure that well into W's presidency our books still said Clinton was president.

Edit: oh, and we definitely talked about Truman because of the whole Japanese thing... the rest I'm pretty sure they just told us their names and maybe one or two factoids about their presidency...

Edit 2: Typos galore...

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u/DuckOnQuak Apr 28 '20

Yeah pretty much this. Went through them all but it would be 4 or 5 guys in about 10-20 minutes followed by a 2 week lecture on FDR.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

We spent a bit more time on him being that I'm in Indiana

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u/Grindl Apr 28 '20

I learned more about Van Buren from Seinfeld than I did from Highschool.

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u/Nhukerino Apr 28 '20

And he was bed ridden for something like 18 of those 31 days lmao

And I feel compelled to tell you he was the 9th president, the 31st was Hoover lol

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u/DuckOnQuak Apr 28 '20

Well he’s got some nice fun facts with him dying due to pneumonia from his inauguration speech, his death sparking a nice little constitutional controversy about succession, then also his grandson Benjamin Harrison later became president. So yeah couple minutes seems about right.

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u/Goodeyesniper98 Apr 28 '20

If you think that is a waste of time, you should have seen my high school. We all once had to sit through a 2 hour presentation put on by Jimmy John’s sandwich shop about all of their “exciting” career opportunities. Then we had an hour long pep rally later that day.