The author of "-And He Built a Crooker House-" is known by what nickname?
&quot;—And He Built a Crooked House—&quot; '—And He Built a Crooked House—' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein first published in "Astounding Science Fiction" in February 1941. It was reprinted in the anthology "Fantasia Mathematica" (Clifton Fadiman, ed.) in 1958 and in the Heinlein collection "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" in 1959. The story is about a mathematically inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract. The title is paraphrased from the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man".
Tad Lincoln Thomas "Tad" Lincoln III (April 4, 1853 – July 15, 1871) was the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. The nickname "Tad" was given to him by his father, who found him "as wiggly as a tadpole" when he was a baby. Lincoln was known to be impulsive and unrestrained, and he did not attend school during his father's lifetime. He had free run of the White House, and there are stories of him interrupting presidential meetings, collecting animals, and charging visitors to see his father. He died at the age of 18 on July 15, 1871, in Chicago.