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What is Kleinfeld's? The Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at this hotel from 1919 to roughly 1929.
What is the Algonquin?This hotel, across the street from a statue of W.T. Sherman, is the focal point of a 1971 comedy, starring Walter Matthau.
What is the Plaza Hotel in NYC?This first for an American president happened on Aug 8, 1974.
What is Richard Nixon resigned?These two presidents passed away on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1826.
Who are Jefferson & John Adams?This battle, which began on August 8, 1918, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive that ultimately led to the end of the First World War.
What is the Battle of Amiens?That battle was planned by this general, an Australian civil engineer, and commander of the Australian Corps.
Who is Monash?This American painter was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
Who was Jackson Pollock?The first ever night-time baseball game was held on May 2, 1930, in this city.
What is Des Moines?This professional baseball team played its first night time game on August 8, 1988, but because of a rain out, the official date is August 9.
Who are the Chicago Cubs?Babe Ruth was born in this city.
What is Baltimore?This novel consists of letters written concerning life on the Channel Island of Guernsey during WWII, and has recently been made into a film.
What is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society?Working with surgeon Alfred Blalock and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig at Johns Hopkins, this surgical technician (and supervisor of the surgical laboratories) was part of a team that devised a means to correct a congenital heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot, or Blue Baby syndrome
Who is Vivien Thomas?One in every 1000 babies is born with this.
What is a tooth?Today is the birthday of this woman who was the first Native American female engineer, and a founder of 'Skunk Works.'
Who is Mary G. Ross?This famous Australian tennis player and coach was born on Aug 9, 1938. He was the No. 1 ranked professional from 1964 to 1970.
Who is Rod Laver?This lawyer successfully argued the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case, and was the first African-American to be on the Supreme Court.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?Thurgood Marshall was born in this city.
What is Baltimore?This athlete was the first Native American to win Olympic gold. He also excelled at several other sports, and even has a Pennsylvania town named after him.
Who was Jim Thorpe?This was the original name of the town that re-named for Jim Thorpe.
What is Mauch Chunk?This is the 2nd tallest mountain in the world, but for a short time was thought to be the tallest because of an incorrect measurement. It was successfully climbed in 1954.
What is K2?This is the world's longest venomous snake.
What is the King Cobra?On August 11, 1934, this infamous island opened for business. Since closing, it has had nearly 1 million visitors per year.
What is Alcatraz Island?The relationship between these two composers was the subject of a 1980's play and then later a movie in1984. the story suggested that one poisoned the other.
What is Amadeus?This city was divided on August 13, 1961.
What is Berlin?This woman became known as 'The Lady With the Lamp' for her service in the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?This female Victorian fossil hunter is the inspiration behind the tongue twister "She sells sea shells on the sea shore"
Who is Mary Anning?This Canadian is a writer , noted for his travel memoirs,and some of his Fiction. He edited an anthology of Canadian Humour , written of Canadian politics with his brother, and has a Giller.
Who is Will Ferguson?This 1920s Hollywood restaurant was famous for its Cobb Salad, its wall of celebrity drawings, and that one branch resembled a hat.
What is the Brown Derby?On what vegetable did an ancient Egyptian place his right hand when taking an oath?
What is an onion?On August 14, 2003, this event took place, which affected much of the East Coast.
What is a blackout?This music and art fair started on August 15, 1969, with nearly half a million in attendance.
What is Woodstock?August 15, 1769, was the birth date of this Corsican military leader. His great opponent was also born in 1769.
Who are Napoleon and Wellington?"Under the Wide and Starry Sky" is a novel based on the marriage of this writer and his American born wife.
Who are Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny?In 1960 this pilot of a U-2 was shot down, and eventually convicted of spying on Russia, causing international tensions to escalate.
Who is Francis Gary Powers?Logical positivism and logical empiricism, together formed a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was verificationism, a theory of knowledge which asserted that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are cognitively meaningful.
Since I'm not even sure what you were asking for I'll go with What is Analytic Philosophy?This August hurricane is the costliest in damages in history.
What is Katrina?This "presidential" home and library were severely damaged on August 29, 2005.
What is Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis home?This team recently won the Little League World Series.
Who are Honolulu Little League, Hawaii?He was a British officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, India.
Who was Robert Clive of India?September 1, 1939, is infamous for the invasion of this country.
What is Poland?This poem was written by W.H. Auden:
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
What is Poland?W.H. Auden wrote this poem:
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
What is 'September 1, 1939'?On this vessel, 6 years later, the Japanese officially surrendered.
What is USS Missouri?Which U.S. President was from Missouri?
Who was Harry S Truman?This newspaper was the focus of a famous photo from the 1948 election.
What is Chicago Daily Tribune?On this date (Sept 8) in 1504, this famous statue was unveiled in Florence, Italy.
What is David?On September 8, 1930, this comic strip was first published.
What is Blondie?In 1811-12 three major earthquakes on this fault line enabled the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
What is the New Madrid?This trophy is named for the two Iowa interstate rivals that first met in 1894.
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