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Reality

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:05 am

theoneandonly wrote:

D!ck Cheney shot someone once when he was out hunting. I think the victim apologized.

I forgot about that. Definitely didn't learn about that in HS!

Ema of 5

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:06 am

I have nothing to add, but I am really enjoying reading everything posted here!!

Reality

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:08 am

Nobody answered:

Henrietta Szold
The Great Migration

Anyone?

pause

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:29 am

Most of the history I learned drained out of my brain like a sieve, retaining only absolutely necessary info. But here are some I remember:

Tigris and Euphrates
The Magna Carta
Hamurabi's Code

Reality

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:49 am

pause wrote:

Most of the history I learned drained out of my brain like a sieve, retaining only absolutely necessary info. But here are some I remember:

Tigris and Euphrates
The Magna Carta
Hamurabi's Code

1. The two rivers that formed the fertile crescent.

2. The document that limited the powers of the english monarchy.

3. I think the Japanese code of ethics?

Reality

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:50 am

I have to thank Superwifey for starting this thread. It really kept me entertained on a cold rainy day, stuck indoors cooking for a Chanukah party!!

shyner

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:52 am

Reality wrote:

I have to thank Superwifey for starting this thread. It really kept me entertained on a cold rainy day, stuck indoors cooking for a Chanukah party!!

Me too, I hope this thread keeps on going

theoneandonly

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 10:53 am

Hammurabi's code was the first written code of laws, inscribed onto stone tablets by the sumerians

youngishbear

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 11:47 am

Reality wrote:

Nobody answered:

Henrietta Szold
The Great Migration

Anyone?

The Great Migration refers to the exodus of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities in search of better opportunities, definitely post Reconstruction but I can't pin it down more precisely

youngishbear

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 11:48 am

Reality wrote:

Dunkirk was another famous bloody battle during WW2.

Wasn't Dunkirk the one with the evacuation by fishing boat?

youngishbear

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 11:52 am

Reality wrote:

Henrietta Szold
Nagasaki
Treaty of Versailles
Sura and Pumpadesa
Balfour Declaration
Tenochtitlan

Nagasaki was the second Japanese city where the US dropped an atomic bomb, ending WWII

Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, with its harsh terms setting the stage for German misery and anger that would lead to the Nazi rise to power

Sura and Pumpadesa were the two major yeshivas in Babylonia - or the names of the cities

Balfour Declaration had something to do with Israel or Palestine as it was then called. Did it declare the right for Jews to establish a homeland there? I don't recall the year

chili-n-cholent

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 12:21 pm

Thanks to whoever started this thread, I'm really enjoying it.
Here goes mine:
State the Preamble
Trail of Tears
Harriet Tubman
Chiang Kai-shek (I needed to google the spelling of this one;)
Mesopotamia
Sutter's Mill
John Roebling

youngishbear

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 1:06 pm

chili-n-cholent wrote:

Preamble: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice (and a list of other goals that I'm not sure I remember in the correct order... such as) provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, ensure domestic tranquility for ourselves and our posterity... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Trail of Tears was the name for the exile of Native Americans from their land by the American government - I remember the Cherokee, but there might have been other tribes as well.

Harriet Tubman was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, shepherding enslaved people to freedom in the north. She returned 19 times (or so?)

Chiang Kai-shek was a leader of China during the Revolution - but I don't remember which side... pro-democracy, maybe? Because the other guy was Mao Zedung and his name is more synonymous with Communism in my memory.

Mesopotamia was part of the Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris and Euphrates, the "Cradle of Civilization"

I don't remember Sutter's Mill

John Roebling was the designer/builder of the Brooklyn Bridge! Do you know about Emily Roebling's role in that?

GLUE

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 1:42 pm

youngishbear wrote:

I don't remember Sutter's Mill

John Roebling was the designer/builder of the Brooklyn Bridge! Do you know about Emily Roebling's role in that?

Stutter's Mill-were the gold rush started in California

Roebling the father was killed the son took over then he got sick so his wife Emily took over

Were is Vinland and what group tried to settle there
Why is Russia called Russia
Iditarod Trail
Oregon Trail

chili-n-cholent

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 2:00 pm

[quote="GLUE"]Stutter's Mill-were the gold rush started in California

Roebling the father was killed the son took over then he got sick so his wife Emily took over

Iditarod Trail -from the book Balto, the trail in Alaska where the community got medicine and food, I don't remember the details but they were sick and needed medicine, and Balto the dog got through the trail in the snow...

PractclyPerfect

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 2:05 pm

youngishbear wrote:

The Great Migration refers to the exodus of Black Americans from the South to Northern cities in search of better opportunities, definitely post Reconstruction but I can't pin it down more precisely

Mostly post WWI.

Living Princess

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 2:11 pm

What did each of these explorers discover?

1. Vasco de Gama
2. Amerigo Vespucci
3. Samuel de Champlain
4. Christopher Columbus
5. Ferdinand Magellan

amf

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 2:19 pm

This thread is really fun!
Here are mine:
Chandraguptamaurya
ENIAC
Magellan
Fat Man
The Globe Theatre
Buccaneers

GLUE

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 2:20 pm

Living Princess wrote:

What did each of these explorers discover?

1. Vasco de Gama
2. Amerigo Vespucci
3. Samuel de Champlain
4. Christopher Columbus
5. Ferdinand Magellan

2-America is named after him because he realized he was not in India
4-He thought he was by India not the Caribbean and died disappointed
5-His crew was the first to travel around the world,he died in the middle

1-was he the one to explore Florida?

GLUE

Wed, Dec 01 2021, 2:21 pm

PractclyPerfect wrote:

Mostly post WWI.

I thought it was at the turn of the century pre WW1

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