Family Matters:
Robert had a close call when he was young. He was standing on a train platform, pinned against the side of a train by the crush of a crowd, when the train began to move. He lost his balance and started to fall towards the gap between the train and the platform. His life was quite possibly saved when a bystander, actor Edwin Booth, grabbed ahold of him and pulled him to safety.
Although Abraham Lincoln had four sons, three grandchildren (two boys, one girl), and two great-grandchildren (one boy, one girl) he has no living progeny.
The names of the two brothers who invented the first flying contraption to carry a man?
(Hint – not Wilbur and Orville Wright.)
It was Frenchmen Joseph Michael and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier.
The Wrights built the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine to carry a man, more than a hundred years later.