Bicentennial Quiz on American Founding Events
Copley News Service asks readers about key founding events and figures. Questions cover Concord battle duration Suffolk Resolves author largest colonial city first colony to renounce allegiance and Saratoga site details. Answers reference Warren death at Bunker Hill and Philadelphia population.
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Copley News Service
Concord
Suffolk
Acton
Joseph Warren
Boston
First
Continental Congress
Warren
Bunker Hill
Philadelphia
Ford Honors Three Russians at White House
President Ford honors two Soviet airmen Aleksander Bel yakov and Georgi Baidukov and Igor Chkalov son of Valery Chkalov at the White House for the first Europe to United States North Pole flight. Ceremony followed a Vancouver commemorative event and prior flights toward Oakland then Portland. Ford planned meetings with German economics minister Hans Friderichs and AFL CIO head Meany, as well as opera night at Wolf Trap Farm.
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Washington
Ford
North Pole
Europe
United States
Aleksander V. Belyakov
Georgi F. Baidukov
Igor V. Chkalov
Valery Chkalov
Vancouver
Wash
Oakland
Calif
Portland
Ore
White House
Hans Friderichs
Labor
John T. Dunlop
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Metropolitan Opera
Wolf Trap Farm
Virginia
Fords
Camp David
Maryland
Catoctin Mountains
Henry A. Kissinger
Nancy
Kissinger
Mike
Gayle
Revolutionary War Battles of Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights
May 4 1776 Rhode Island events referenced. Two engagements occurred at Freeman's Farm on September 19 1777 and Bemis Heights on October 7 1777 where American forces secured a decisive victory.
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Rhode Island
Freeman's Farm
Bemis Heights
Package Bomb injures youths in Chinatown
Police say two teenagers were injured when they opened a booby-trapped package at their Chinatown apartment. James Wong, 14, had finger reconstruction surgery and other injuries, Debbie Wong, 13, was treated for minor cuts and released. A grudge against their father is suspected.
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New York
Chinatown
James Wong
Debbie
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