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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE: CIVIL WAR TRIVIA
- What were the “border states”?
- The highest number of casualties during one Civil War battle was nearly 24,000. What was the battle?
- What was the first ironclad warship to engage in the war?
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- Answer: Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri
- Answer: The Battle of Shiloh
- Answer: The CSS Manassas

DR. EAMON’S RETIREMENT PARTY
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POP CULTURE & AMERICAN PRESIDENTS QUIZ
- Also known for playing Thanos in the Avengers movies, what actor played President George W. Bush in the 2008 film “W.?”
- Played by Harrison Ford, one of the White House’s most popular fictional residents is President James Marshall, who attempts to retake the title plane from terrorists in what 1997 film?
- Rated by the Wall Street Journal as #2 on the list of best fictional presidents, Josiah “Jed” Bartlet was the POTUS played by Martin Sheen on what long-running series?
- (Answer: Josh Brolin)
- (Answer: Air Force One)
- (Answer: The West Wing)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
*1912: Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee
*1962: Soviet missiles photographed in Cuba
*1964: Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
*1964: Nikita Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
See more: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-14

POLITICAL HISTORY: ON THIS DAY IN
*> 1908: Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina
*> 1973: The Yom Kippur War brings United States and USSR to brink of conflict
*> 1981: The president of Egypt is assassinated
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