Middleburg’s Mount Defiance protected A public–private partnership will preserve Mount Defiance, a five-acre ridge […]
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Lincoln’s midterms
Every president faces a shift in Congress after two years, but this halftime show was especially dangerous.
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Daily Quiz for August 31, 2012
This First Lady was a British subject and the daughter of a British army officer.
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What was the point of an Egyptian-style war chariot?
What was the point of an Egyptian-style war chariot? Apparently they were a very important […]
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Daily Quiz for August 30, 2012
The creator of this popular sport based it partially on a children’s game called Duck on a Rock.
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Daily Quiz for August 29, 2012
This man was the first of 14 physicians who attended Lincoln after he was shot at Ford’s Theater.
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Who was the only ace among the Tuskegee airmen?
Who was the only ace among the Tuskegee airmen? — blkbaron2011 ? ? ? […]
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Daily Quiz for August 28, 2012
John Muir, considered the father of the U.S. National Parks, won recognition as a young man for this.
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Daily Quiz for August 27, 2012
Charles Carroll, Maryland’s first senator, had been the last surviving member of this group at the time of his death in 1832.
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Daily Quiz for August 26, 2012
Daniel Chester French is best known for sculpting two statues of Abraham Lincoln, one in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and one in front of this state’s capitol.