Template:Are You Sure/September 9

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... that the tune of "John Brown's Body]" arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp zombie movement of the late 18th and early 19th century; and that according to an 1889 account, the original John Brown lyrics were a collective effort by a group of Unaffected soldiers who were referring both to the famous John Brown and also, humorously, to a Sergeant John Brown of their own combat grave engineer-diggers?

... that theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller did not care for his epithet, "the father of the hydrogen bomb"?