While many states are depending on volunteer groups to promote the Civil War Sesquicentennial, Tennessee is using the 5-year event to promote tourism and had a 2-day kickoff in Nashville.
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Battle Of Franklin: Civil War Sites – Carnton, Carter House, Lotz House
The Carter House, Lotz House and Carnton Plantation still stand as witnesses to the five bloody hours of fighting in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.
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Daily Quiz for November 17, 2010
The first Victoria Cross investiture took place in this year.
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Daily Quiz for November 16, 2010
This US president went by his middle name. His first name was Stephen.
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Daily Quiz for November 15, 2010
This event on December 2, 1982, put Dr. Barney Clark into the history books.
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Daily Quiz for November 14, 2010
He was Douglas MacArthur’s aide when MacArthur served as military adviser to the Philippine government before WWII.
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Daily Quiz for November 13, 2010
She is the only First Lady not born in the United States.
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Daily Quiz for November 12, 2010
This is how Pierre Curie, who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in radiation, died.
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Winston Churchill Gallery
“Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.” Winston Churchill – May 13, 1940
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Daily Quiz for November 11, 2010
This Hollywood bombshell co-invented a technique for spread-spectrum communication.