News about Aaron Burr

Marjorie Taylor Greene is lashed after getting list of people who signed Declaration of Independence wrong

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 8, 2024
Marjorie Taylor Greene made yet another humiliating social media gaffe over the weekend in which she wrongly named several icons of American history has having signed the Declaration of Independence. 'The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was 44 years old, but more than a dozen were 35 or younger,' the Trump acolyte tweeted on July 5. 'Thomas Jefferson: 33 John Hancock: 39 James Madison: 25 Alexander Hamilton: 21 James Monroe: 18 Aaron Burr: 20 Paul Revere: 41 George Washington: 44,' she added.

The mystery of the missing understudy has been revealed: The performance of a £200-a-ticket Hamilton has been postponed 30 minutes after actress Eliza falls ill - and there is no stand-in was available.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 22, 2024
Following a performance of Hamilton's wife Eliza, a theatregoer protested after the show was called off after just 30 minutes because no substitute was available to take the place of a lead character who was ill. MailOnline learned that one audience member of the Victoria Palace Theatre had trouble singing on the night.

In a TikTok video, a high-end NYC restaurant was accused of separating Asian diners from white diners

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 9, 2022
After an Asian TikTok customer said she was separated from white diners, a restaurant that is deemed as one of the world's most romantic spaces has been accused of segregating diners. One if by Land, Two if by Sea has been a fixture in Greenwich Village since 1973, but the restaurant is under fire for two allegations that the workers allegedly placed Asian diners on the second floor together and treated them unfairly than others. 'Lets cut to the chase: One if by Land, Two if by Sea racially discriminates against nonwhites, especially Asians,' said TikTok user @rokug4n, also known as Annie.' Annie said in the video that after being seated upstairs with her boyfriend, she found only Asian diners on the second floor.

Senator Roy's 'descendant of Aaron Burr,' Chuck Schumer joked

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 30, 2022
After a statue of Harry Truman replaced one of Alexander Hamilton in the Capitol, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer chastised Republican Senator Roy Blunt of being a descendent of Aaron Burr. In the July 1804 duel in Weehawken, New Jersey, Burr fired and critically wounded Hamilton. In the Capitol rotunda on Thursday, Schumer was giving Blunt grief after a statue of former President Harry Truman from Blunt's home state, Missouri, was removed. 'Sen.'Sen. Schumer later discovered that they were moving the Hamilton statue out of the Rotunda and that he jokingly accused Sen. Roy Blunt of being a descendant of Aaron Burr,' a source familiar with the case.' Schumer, a lifelong New Yorker, also gave Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar grief about the move. Klobuchar and Blunt are the chair and ranking members of the Senate rules committee, which deals with topics such as statue placement in the Capitol building.