General knowledge quiz from Ask Me Another
Answers cover a range of topics from history geography and language. Notable items include Theodore Roosevelt at San Juan Hill Augustus Caesar the pirate flag and the term shin plaster.
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San Juan Hill
Lake Constance
Philadelphia
Yokohama
Theodore Roosevelt
China
Augustus Caesar
Robert Bruce
Switzerland
Germany
Edward VI
English Mock Cheese Cake for Muffin Tins
Cook a rich pie paste from flour salt three quarters cupful butter and boiling water. Roll out cut rounds line muffin tins. Cream quarter cupful butter add sugar eggs cream vanilla fold in coconut fill tins bake until set and lightly brown. Top with whipped cream when cool.
French Revolution Aims Against War of Conquest
The historian notes that in May 1790 the French representatives approved a pacific resolution in their new constitution promising the nation would never undertake a war of conquest. Napoleon followed immediately after.
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France
Napoleon
Murdered Woode and a jealous suspect surface in a tense study scene
Detective Vance questions Professor Garden about Woode’s death while a disjointed buzzer repair and a garden stakeout reveal a tense web. Miss Weatherby claims Cecil Kroon’s jealousy and possible motive as she slips upstairs to case the crime scene.
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Vance
Heath
Snitkin
Markham
Swift
Madge Weatherby
Charmin
Miss Weatherby
Cecil Kroon
Woody
Cecil
Cause of Justice
Kroon
Liberal wills reveal Swift's uncertain inheritance
Vance questions Professor Garden about wills leaving equal shares to Woode and their son and whether Swift knew of the estate disposition. The professor notes Swift's father left him a comfortable sum, now squandered, while the son relies on liberal allowances from his parents. The exchange hints at broader stakes amid a troubling situation.
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Floyd
Woode
Vance
Garden
Swift
Sermons in Stone Exhibit Captures Scottish History
In Aber deen Regional Museum Scotland exhibits stone sermons gathered from the British Isles. The display links social and natural history with Carlyle’s life scenes, early Scottish tools like axes and windmills, and geologic specimens set among flora and fauna to reveal evolution.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
British Isles
Carlyle
Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Patterns Offer Styles
A fashion feature promotes Barbara Bell patterns for Spring and Summer patterns 1909 1252 1233 sizes 12 to 52 with yardage details 39 inch material available via The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago Illinois 15 cents each Bell Syndicate WNU Service
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Foreign Terms and Phrases Glossary Notes
A compact list of Latin French terms with English equivalents and brief meanings. Includes Mare clausum non compos mentis ex parte non est inventus Pax vobiscum statu quo ante bellum sur le tupis vinculum matrimonii tabula rasa sine qua non absque hoc ad hominem in extense.
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