In 1932 this Republican was elected governor of Kansas; he won reelection in 1934
In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that he acted alone in JFK's assassination
Concerning his "Alice in Wonderland" books, he said, "I meant nothing but nonsense"
On December 20, 1860, as a result of Lincoln's election, this state seceded from the Union
In a Christmas classic, his ghost says, "I wear the chain I forged in life"
To make his barometer, Evangelista Torricelli inverted a glass tube in a dish of this
In 1894 Kitasato found the bacillus that caused this scourge of the Middle Ages
Ventifacts are rocks that are shaped by sand driven by this force of nature
Alfred Lovell's Jodrell Bank radio telescope was finished in 1957 just in time to track this 1st artificial satellite
One of Galen's favorite animals to dissect was this "ape" of Gibraltar