academicanarchist
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Brain Teasers
Identify the famous American in this photograph.
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This photo shows the ruins of a colonial-era church in Panama City. What is the historical significance of the ruins? Be specific. Hint: the church
was in ruins when the significant historical event took place.
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That's Samuel Clemmons on the left I think.
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better known as?
Better known as Mark Twain. What celestial event marked both his birth and death?
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Or: Sieur Louis de Conte
Haleys comet
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Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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That's right
correctomundo.
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Give me the connection: Virginia Dare and Miguel de Cortes the first.
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???????
I dare say firt European children born in the Americas would be the general category: Virginia Dare first European child born in Roanoke in the
mid=1580s. Miguel de Cortes first illegitimate son of a Spaniard born in Mexico.
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church ruin in Panama City
The key to the story was the arch that was still standing when engineers visited different potential canal routes in Central America: Nicaragua and
Panama. They ruled out Nicaragua because of earthquakes, They saw the arch in the ruined church and a light bulb went off (they did not have light
bulbs back then). There were no earthquakes in Panama!!!!!
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Halleys Comet- Not Haley
Halley's Comet was in the sky during his birth and death. 76 years.
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[Edited on 11-20-2005 by bajadave1]
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You're right: First American and First Mexican
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I'll have to give
a bow--or at least a curtsey--to all you erudite guys. I didn't know any of that stu;ff.
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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