On December 11, 1792 this man went on trial for treason before National Convention of France.
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Daily Quiz for November 30, 2015
This was the first TV show to depict a pregnancy.
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Daily Quiz for November 29, 2015
This famed astronomer paid for the first printing of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
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Daily Quiz for November 28, 2015
The first bartender’s guide in the US was published in this year.
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Daily Quiz for November 27, 2015
In 1797, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II allowed Jewish military veterans to do this.
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One Little Indian Boy
Captured in 1860 when Texans raided a Comanche camp, Pease Ross became a ‘ward’ of Ranger Captain Sul Ross and later a mystery
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Daily Quiz for November 26, 2015
This US president said: “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”
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Jug of Empire
Known by many colorful monikers, whiskey flowed unregulated and unrestrained across the frontier West
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Henri Chatillon’s Heart of Lightness
Buffalo hunter and guide Henri Chatillon’s enlightened relationship with the Lakotas had a lasting influence on frontier historian Francis Parkman
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Texas Historian Stephen Moore
His tie-in book to History’s 2015 Texas Rising miniseries stands alone and gives early Texas Rangers their due