After she added to his unusual collection of photos of relatives riding camels, Douglas in Thomasville, Georgia, wonders whether his brother’s granddaughter is his great-niece or his grandniece. Both terms are widely acceptable for that relationship...
I’ll be John Brown! and I’ll be John Browned! are mild oaths that go back to John Brown’s 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. The abolitionist planned to arm enslaved people for revolt and was caught and hanged. Depending...
