Reply #14: I'll give it a try (remember, you promised "no laughing") [View All]

[Mind_your_head]

George Washington.....................................General, First President of US (didn't really want the job, but took it anyway)

The Potomac/Delaware River.........................Washington crossed the Potomac (it's around Wash., Maryland, Delawarez.....

1066........................................................... rough year in the Medieval Times (like most years were)

Paul Revere.................................................Silversmith, Midnight Ride

"Remember the Maine".................................It exploded and was the reason/rallying cry to start a war

Corregidor....................................................cool name, sounds like it should be the name of a spice ;-) .... it's in the Phillipines

Gen McArthur..............................................WW II, Africa, "I shall return"

Fatboy........................................................"cute" name for one of the two Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan

Antietum.....................................................Site of the Largest loss of American life in one single day/battle EVER - Civil War (50,000 dead, I believe?)

Abe Lincoln.................................................Lawyer, Illinois, 16th (?) President, Civil War President, Assasinated, Emancipation Proclamation, Tall....actually I can think of a lot of stuff, I'm gonna stop with what I wrote

Julius Caesar...............................................married to Cleopatra at one time, Assasinated

JFK............................................................PT 109, President, Jackie, Profiles in Courage....extreme sadness that he was assasinated

FDR...........................................................crippled by polio, President during WWII (didn't make it quite till the end of the war), Eleanor,

Ho Chi Minh................................................a Trail named after a Vietnamese leader....

Golda Meir..................................................

November 11...............................................1963...JFK was assasinated

June 14.......................................................don't know

Gen. Custer................................................fought the Indians....Indians Won

USSR........................................................United Soviet Socialist Republic, the cold war and allllll that went with it, bomb shelters, bay of pigs (the soviets were helping Fidal supposedly).....yhadda, yhadda, yhadda

Eisenhower................................................former General became President, after Truman before Kennedy, Meme (sp?) was his wife

Nixon....................................................... Nixon/Kennedy debates, I'm not a crook, Watergate

Egypt.......................................................Yul Brynner :-P , pyramids, Sadat, Mubarrak (sp?)

Martin Luther King......................................Civil rights leader, inspirational, courage, assasinated

Thomas Jefferson.......................................free thinker, one of the original founding fathers of US, Monticello