The only two ocean-going ironclads build for the Confederate States’ Navy wound up in the navies of these countries.
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Daily Quiz for December 9, 2009
Temujin is better known to history by this name.
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Daily Quiz for December 8, 2009
This was the bloodiest conflict in the history of South America.
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Interview: Jan C. Scruggs / president of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Vietnam veteran Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), speaks about getting the Wall built in Washington, and VVMF’s new efforts to build the Education Center, which will focus on the soldiers who served.
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Daily Quiz for December 7, 2009
During WWI, the "lost company of Celtic Wood" was comprised of men from this country.
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Daily Quiz for December 6, 2009
The oldest Civil War museum in America is located in this city.
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Daily Quiz for December 5, 2009
The 20th century’s first specialized landing ship, River Clyde, was used in this invasion.
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Daily Quiz for December 4, 2009
Renowned tank theorist B. Liddell Hart called this man "the Rommel of the American armoured forces."
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Daily Quiz for December 3, 2009
When William Penn established his colony in Pennsylvania, the Delaware indians gave him the option to extend his settlements as far as a man could walk within this amount of time.
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The Roman Empire Loses Its Grip at Adrianople in 378 A.D.
The 378 A.D. Battle of Adrianople between the eastern Roman emperor, Valens, and the Tervingi leader, Fritigern, exposed deep flaws in the Roman Empire that would lead to its downfall.