Photograph of Hamilton Grange by wallyg on Flickr More than 200 years after its construction, preservationists aren't sure which direction Alexander Hamilton's country house should be facing. Hamilton Grange, located in Harlem, has already been moved and reoriented once, but that was just a temporary relocation undertaken in 1899. Now preservationists want to give the Federal-style country house a more permanent and less cramped site, but can't agree on what axis to place it.......

For the last 24 hours we've been deluged with requests to track down Chris Parnell's "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" video (AKA "The Narnia Rap"). It can be found at YouTube, and it is indeed the funniest thing SNL has put up in about five years. A quick transcription of the lyrics: Lazy Sunday wake up in the late afternoon call Parnell just to see how he's doing hello what up pas! yo sandburg, whats rocking?......

In a boon for history buffs and duel enthusiasts, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the most famous fight in American history (with pistols - not chads), the Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel was reenacted in Weehawken, NJ. You remember it from your history/social studies books in grade school - Thomas Jefferson's Vice-President Aaron Burr and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton hated each other (even though Burr and Hamilton shared a law practice early on, Burr......

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