Morgan Freeman isn’t a fan of Black History Month. “I detest it. The mere idea of it. You are going to give me the shortest month in a year? And you are going to celebrate ‘my’ history?

Full Name: Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte Profession: Emperor of France Biography: First as President of France (1848–1852), then as Emperor of the French (1852–1870), Napoleon III was the last French monarch. After his election in 1848, he seized power in 1851; and then proclaimed himself emperor—thus founding the Second Empire. His reign lasted until the Battle of Sedan (1870), at which he was defeated by the Prussian alliance and captured.

I’M going to mention two words to you,” a TV reporter told pedestrians in downtown Atlanta. “You tell me what they mean. The words are: Spiro Agnew.” “It’s some kind of disease,” said one man. “It’s some kind of egg,” ventured another. “He’s a Greek who owns that shipbuilding firm,” declared a third. Richard Nixon’s choice as running mate would not have batted an eye. “Spiro Agnew,” admitted Spiro T. Agnew last week, “is not a household word.

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Everybody who got anything out of school has a favorite teacher, a person who drew out hidden qualities that you, in your ignorant youth, didn’t even know were qualities. More often than not, those favorite teachers stood apart from their peers in big ways that may have, at the time, seemed small—they thought creatively rather than just being slaves to that dictatorial beast of education we call pedagogy. And often, they were just a little…odd.