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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.
Thursday, May 9
Boston Red Sox pitcher Clarence Blethen only played a couple of seasons in the 1920s but he is best remembered (in so much as he'd remembered at all), as being the only player who bit himself in the butt during a game. He was sliding into second …Read more.
Wednesday, May 8
It is difficult to imagine the entire squad of the New York Yankees, or the Chicago Bulls, or the Dallas Cowboys, being almost entirely at once in a plane crash. But the soccer world has seen that kind of tragedy several times: Torino AC in 1949, …Read more.
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Monday, May 13Marion 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 also cofounded the Society for Creative Anachronism and appears to have coined the name. The SCA traces its origin to a 1966 grad party billed as a "protest against the 20th century."
Legislators in what commonwealth stare up at the Sacred Cod, which usually hangs over the chamber of the House of Representatives? A) Massachusetts B) Ohio C) Oregon D) Pennsylvania
Previous answer: Taj Mahal was a groovy blues musician.
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