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Tuesday, May 14
They say that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. So, that made us wonder how horseshoes works. If your horseshoe connects, that's a ringer. You get three points. If it leans against the stake, that's a leaner, worth one point. …Read more.
Monday, May 13
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote a series of books set on Darkover, an ice-age planet orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman. She also wrote a feminist version of the Arthurian legend called "The Mists of Avalon." Interestingly, she …Read more.
Saturday, May 11
George Read was the only person to vote against the Declaration of Independence. The Delaware representative was a moderate who hoped to negotiate a settlement with Britain. Since Delaware's Thomas McKean voted in favour, Caesar Rodney had to ride …Read more.
Friday, May 10
Ghana used to be called the Gold Coast, back when it was a British colony. It was called that, you'll be shocked to learn, because they region was littered with gold. However, nationalists liked Kwame Nkrumah felt the name belittled them, defining …Read more.
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Monday, March 11Almost all U.S. presidents had some electoral practice. They got elected to Congress, sometimes the senate, or to state office, usually as governor. They at least got to be vice-president first. But four presidents had no electoral experience at all. Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower were all generals. Herbert Hoover, on the other hand, had been the hugely popular Secretary of Commerce under Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
In 1944, 88 American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers got destroyed in Italy.
A) Accidentally bombed by France B) Infestation of fire ants C) A sandstorm swept through D) Vesuvius erupted
Previous answer: Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer for "The Road," about a post-apocalyptic journey by a father and son.
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