S/O school thread- att history nerds

youngishbear

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:15 pm

BetsyTacy wrote:

It was David Farragut in the Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864.

True history nerds may enjoy googling the Farragut family's naval history-his father was of Spanish extraction and fought on our side in the Revolutionary War.

I would not have remembered the name, but it was fun trying to guess which war or significant battle.

youngishbear

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:16 pm

I think the only one of my posts that went unanswered was Mary Seacole. Ayone?

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:16 pm

Reality wrote:

Nope. Anyone else? I give up

Chuldah was the one who is not. She prophecized to the women, Tzafania in the shuls during the time of Yirmiyahu.

The three of trei asar with Yishayahu "Arba neviim shnivu boso haperek" were Hoshea, Amos and Micha.

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:21 pm

"We have met the enemy and they are ours" was said by Perry at the Battle of Put-in Bay (Battle of Lake Erie), in 1813, during the War of 1812. As far as I recollect, the battle is depicted on the back of one of Ohio's historical quarters.

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:23 pm

BetsyTacy wrote:

Yes. Battle of Gettysburg is one!

Critical-as it was the last time the confederacy tried to invade the north.

Final answer to my military questions" The other big event of July 4, 1863 was the Battle of Vicksburg. It cut the Confederacy in half, and was the beginning of the end.

PractclyPerfect

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:28 pm

youngishbear wrote:

The Homestead Act

The Open Door Policy

What did Teddy Roosevelt win a Nobel Prize for?

What's the backstory behind the American national anthem?

Where was the White City and why was it built?

Just checked through everything, and will answer those that weren't done yet.

Open Door Policy was the proposed US policy with China once it had been carved into spheres of influences by European other countries. It was turned down by the other countries until the US helped put down the Boxer Rebellion.

Teddy Roosevelt won the prize for negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese war.

shirachadasha

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:52 pm

The New Deal

The Georgia Peach

Ray Kroc

The checkers speech

CBS

President Truman's middle name

Phyllis Wheatly

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 6:56 pm

shirachadasha wrote:

The New Deal

The Georgia Peach

Ray Kroc

The checkers speech

CBS

President Truman's middle name

Phyllis Wheatly

Harry S Truman (just the S)
Ray Kroc founded Mcdonalds
Checkers speech was by Nixon
New Deal-Roosevelt's social programs to try to end Depression
Phyllis Wheatley- African American poet

Reality

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 7:10 pm

I realized nobody answered why did Truman recognize the State of Israel so fast?

Anyone?

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 7:13 pm

Reality wrote:

I realized nobody answered why did Truman recognize the State of Israel so fast?

Anyone?

Jacobson!

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 7:15 pm

As in, his friend from WWI and the co-owner in his habedashery (sp?). He had never asked Truman for anything before.
Also, you know, the Russians.

ChassidishMommy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 8:42 pm

BetsyTacy wrote:

New question (no more military ones)

Leo Frank

Jew in the south falsely accused of murder, lynched by an antisemitic mob

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 8:50 pm

ChassidishMommy wrote:

Jew in the south falsely accused of murder, lynched by an antisemitic mob

Yes!

ChassidishMommy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 9:18 pm

BetsyTacy wrote:

Yes!

Some more history bits for fellow Jewish history nerds: (I didn't read through the whole thread, hope I'm not doing any duplicates)

Lord George Gordon
Chaim Salomon
Mendel Beilis
Nachmanides Disputation
Schism in Hungarian Jewry

BetsyTacy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 9:27 pm

ChassidishMommy wrote:

I know Haym Solomon helped to finance the American Revolution
The Disputation was the Ramban defending Judaism (and the Gemara) against the Church.
Was the Schism the Chassidim /Chasam Sofer era or something entirely different?

ChassidishMommy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 9:33 pm

Who was the first Orthodox Jew to sit in the Polish Sejm (parliament)?
Jewish king for a day in Poland (according to legend)

ChassidishMommy

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 9:37 pm

BetsyTacy wrote:

Yep on all!
Wasn't sure if I should do the Jewish or secular spelling for Haym...
It wasn't specifically Chassidim AFAIK; it was Hungarian Orthodox Jewry led by the Chasam Sofer.

Living Princess

Thu, Dec 02 2021, 9:43 pm

ChassidishMommy wrote:

Who was the first Orthodox Jew to sit in the Polish Sejm (parliament)?
Jewish king for a day in Poland (according to legend)

Rabbi Meir Shapiro zt"l
The Jewish king story I read a few times but can't remember