Retropod

In the early days of the House, some congresspeople thought hats had no place atop the heads of representatives debating the great issues of the day. Hats, they argued, weren’t dignified.

When Eugene Cernan walked on the moon, he didn’t know he’d be the last astronaut to make the journey.

The name on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth certificate was not Martin. Nor did the document include the middle name Luther.

When Alexander Hamilton argued in favor of lifetime tenures for Supreme Court justices, he probably didn’t foresee them living past their prime.

More than a century ago, Carry Amelia Nation — hatchet in hand — chopped the country toward temperance.