The trail of footnotes leads one eventually to the most thorough account of how Stanton's words entered the American memory, and it occurs, bizarrely, in Otto Eisenschiml's 1937 book "Why Was Lincoln Murdered?" — bizarre because Eisenschiml, whose book was a best-seller in its day, was a conspiracy theorist who believed that Stanton had conspired to have Lincoln assassinated.
These two events became bizarrely intertwined this week in a tweet which read: "Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a human being from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school.
In 1819, bizarrely, he considered joining forces in Latin America with Simón Bolívar".
Bizarrely, Nicholas Serota was "commended" in 1986 for refurbishing the Whitechapel Gallery, and by the decade's end the prize found itself without funding and a public who cared.
"The original productions in 1989 bizarrely lost the Olivier Award for Best Musical to a rock and roll compilation show Return To The Forbidden Planet - so it's nice to see the public having the last word".
Putin went on to publicly announce his divorce from his wife of three decades in 2013 — bizarrely, during the intermission of a ballet in the Kremlin State Palace.
This sequence started with the Queen's own wedding in 1947 and, bizarrely, ended with that of William and Kate this year.
As would be expected from a trove of 100,000 photographs, there are the bizarrely mundane and the breathtaking: in 1984, transporting lumber in Bad Berka in Thuringia, Germany; in 1919, a family of 11 living in poverty in a single room, photographer unknown.
His response to the Nazi era was far less courageous than that of Alone in Berlin's protagonists, largely consisting of getting drunk and hiding in a rural backwater – though he was recognised as an anti-fascist by the Soviet occupiers in 1945, who bizarrely made him a mayor.
But it would be tested, bizarrely, in a multinational controversy that started five years later, on March 17 , 2008
