During the Civil War winter of 1862-63, where was Fort Keyes located in Virginia? […]
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Daily Quiz for May 16, 2013
Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed architect from Poughkeepsie, New York, created this classic board game.
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Daily Quiz for May 15, 2013
This Australian singer’s grandfather won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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The First: Solar-Powered Business
Edwin Cawston’s ostrich farm in South Pasadena, Calif., was a bona fide tourist attraction. […]
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Why did planes use different cooling systems in the ETO and PTO?
Why were the majority of the planes used in the European Theater of Operations […]
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Daily Quiz for May 14, 2013
Magician Count de Grisley performed this magic trick for the first time.
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Book Review: THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT / The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 By Rick Atkinson. […]
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The House Where Longfellow Lived
The Cambridge, Mass., home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow nurtured his poetic talents and harbored his greatest tragedy.
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Daily Quiz for May 13, 2013
This is considered the first science-fiction movie.
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Daily Quiz for May 12, 2013
The Congressional Joint Resolution to Admit Texas as a State permitted Texas to do this.