After President James Garfield was shot in 1881, this man wrote Garfield’s wife, offering medical advice on sanitation.
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Daily Quiz for February 14, 2011
When this mother of an English king fortified a city, William the Conqueror was forced to besiege the town.
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Daily Quiz for February 13, 2011
This author coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe the period post-Reconstruction through the 1890s.
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Daily Quiz for February 12, 2011
The Confederate States of America honored all these Southern-born U.S. presidents on CSA postage except for this man.
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Wild West Magazine Article Wins Wrangler Award
Wild West magazine has won its fourth Western Heritage Award, known as the Wrangler, for one of its articles. This year’s article winner was “Taking Stock of the Pony Express,” by Frederick J. Chiaventone, author of the Wrangler-winning novel “Moon of Bitter Creek.”
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Taking Stock of the Pony Express
The short-lived horseback mail service known as the Pony Express, which operated 150 years ago, was a business failure but a romantic triumph.
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Daily Quiz for February 11, 2011
Born in New York state, this great orator originally spoke Dutch and remained illiterate throughout life.
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Gossip flies as Sumter burns
Mary Boykin Chestnut, daughter of South Carolina Gov. Stephen Decatur Miller, writes in her diary of the Battle of Fort Sumter.
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Daily Quiz for February 10, 2011
This man was the last of America’s "Log Cabin Presidents."