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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Franklin Pierce. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Franklin Pierce was a former American president whom nobody knows much about, including Wikipedia. Oh, well.All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid) belowEach...

A top-ranked runner in NCAA women’s track is dominating the competition and setting records one year after competing as a man at the same level. Franklin Pierce University senior CeCe Telfer leads the NCAA’s Division II women’s division in the 55-meter dash and 55-meter hurdle events. Telfer led Franklin Pierce’s women’s track team into the top 25 rankings for the first time in program’s history, local newspaper The Keene Sentinel reported in December. The New Hampshire college is ranked 14th in DII. “Senior CeCe Telfer (Lebanon, N.H.) won three Northeast-10 Conference titles on Sunday, to lead the Franklin Pierce University...

A just released Franklin Pierce College (FPC) national poll shows Hilary Clinton with a 43.7 /41.4 lead over Donald Trump. That is the end of the good news in this poll for Clinton. The rest runs from good to very good for Trump. Those who cling to the notion that since the polls were right in 2012 when they predicted Mitt Romney’s defeat, they MUST be right today whether we want to believe them or not. The differences in this country; in the candidates and the poll mythologies from four years ago are enormous. Trump is not a pansy afraid...

23/02/2006 - Duke: Duke study posits presidents had mental illness U-Wire via NewsEdge Corporation : By Haley Hoffman, The Chronicle (Duke) DURHAM, N.C. -- No one would ever expect the general who led the Union army to victory in the Civil War to have a debilitating fear of blood. But Ulysses S. Grant was among the 49 percent of former U.S. presidents afflicted by mental illness, according to an article published recently by psychiatrists at the Duke University Medical Center. Jonathan Davidson, professor of psychiatry and director of the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program, has a particular interest in history,...

James Knox Polk 1845 to 1849 Polk wanted to wrest California and New Mexico from Mexico. He forced the Mexicans into war by duplicitous negotiations and was surprised at the stiff resistance they offered. His prosecution of the Mexican War cost thousands of lives and permanently soured our relations with Mexico. There is some evidence that Polk lied to Congress in his request for a declaration of war against Mexico similar to the way Lyndon Johnson, another Democrat would “exaggerate” the Tonkin Gulf incident to expand the Viet Nam War 120 years later. [13] In fairness it must be said...

On front page of website, no registration required.Shockingly, neither Carter nor the present occupant of the White House are choices...

Joe Biden turns 66 tomorrow. That makes him 19 years older than Barack Obama. The last time we had a VP who was that much older than the President was 1853 with President Franklin Pierce and VP William R.D. King.

Franklin Pierce birthday celebrated CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Tuesday is the 200th birthday of the only U.S. president from New Hampshire, and the state’s Historical Society is throwing a party, complete with cake, and history. In his lifetime, President Franklin Pierce was written off as a failure. And through the years, scholars dismissed Pierce, who served from 1853 to 1857, as a weak, ineffectual leader who was wrong on the overriding issue of his time: slavery. "He was often treated by the majority of people in New Hampshire like that crazy uncle you lock in the attic and you don’t...

CONCORD, N.H. - In his lifetime, President Franklin Pierce was written off as a failure. AP Photo   And through the years, scholars have dismissed Pierce, who served from 1853 to 1857, as a weak, ineffectual leader who was wrong on the overriding issue of his time: slavery. But a small group of Pierce enthusiasts in his home state believes the nation's 14th president deserves a second look. "He had the terrible task of being president just before the Civil War," said Florence "Chips" Holden, a member of the Pierce Brigade, founded in the 1960s to save Pierce's Concord home...