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Trivia Questions

When this general died in 1863, Robert E. Lee wrote, "I know not how to replace him"

In 1959 Walter Williams, said to be the last surviving veteran of this war, died at age 117

In 1927 this aviator became the first person to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross

In 1909 the Lincoln penny replaced this one, which had been in circulation for 50 years

In 1770 Robert Treat Paine prosecuted the British troops indicted for murder in this incident

In 1776 Sgt. Ezra Lee led the first known attack in one of these submersible crafts

Some senators wanted to call him "His Elective Majesty", but settled for "Mr. President"

It says, "Our policy in Europe...is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers"

After an anti-Mormon mob murdered this man in Illinois, Brigham Young moved the flock west

In 1889 the dam rebuilt by the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club broke, causing this flood