Yargh. I forgot to post an It's Ac fact of the day yesterday! So here it is:
The author Nathaniel Hawthorne, known for such works as
The Scarlet Letter,
The House of The Seven Gables, and
The Blythesdale Romance was a friend to president Franklin Pierce. Now, if any of you can say which number president Pierce was and what years he was in office,
without using Wikipedia, I will present you an invisible cookie! Oh, and you should very definitely come to It's Academic on Tuesday.
(Ozymandias is not allowed to answer, btw.)