Also: for those who know Speepy Hollow, the Headless Hassian came from Hessen: Hassia (named so for a long-gone German tribe) was the Latin name of the area, and during the US Revolution, the king (who then still was a Hannover) hired a lot of mercenaries from Hessen. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
He was associated with several efforts that saved the Revolution from collapse, which turned out to be the main requisite for ending up as the father of the country. That plus French warships. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
