The 5,000 Richest Girls in the US        I am occasionally asked, “how do you find  all the strange stuff in your blog?”      The answer is “I stumble onto it.”  Researching one thing leads to reading about something else just as fascinating or unknown as what I am originally looking for.      For example: I was looking for stories about the election of Nathaniel Banks, Jr. as Speaker of the US House of the 34 th  Congress February 2, 1856. Banks was elected after the House had voted 133 times! over a period stretching from December 1855 to February 2, 1856 Nathaniel Banks 1842      A short story in the Alexandria Virginia Gazette from February 4, 1856 briefly reports the election of a new Speaker of the House.  The paper has a longer article about deep disagreement between General Winfield Scott, head of the US Army, and then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.       On t...