Which Aleutian Islands were occupied by the Japanese in World War II?
Japan occupied the Aleutian islands Attu, Agattu, and Kiska from 1942 to 1943.
The islands lie west of the Alaskan Peninsula.
Three cities were destroyed when the volcano erupted. They were Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae, all southeast of modern Naples. When were the ruins of Pompeii discovered? Destroyed in A.D. 79, the city was not discovered until the late 1500s. Formal excavation did not begin until 1748.
“M” and “N” are tied with eight states each for the most common initial letter for U.S. states: Maine Nebraska Maryland Nevada Massachusetts New Hampshire Michigan New Jersey Minnesota New Mexico Mississippi New York Missouri North Carolina Montana North Dakota
The subject of the 1840s folk song “On Top of Old Smoky” is one of the peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains, located near Asheville, North Carolina.
The five persons that are in line of succession to the presidency are: 1. Vice-President 2. Speaker of the House of Representatives 3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate 4. Secretary of State 5. Secretary of the Treasury
William Safire wrote the phrase “nattering nabobs of negativism” for Vice-President Spiro Agnew in 1970. Agnew speechwriter Pat Buchanan, came up with “pusillanimous pussyfooters”, also in 1970.
The New York Times adopt the slogan, “All the news that’s fit to print” in 1896, when it was purchased by Chattanooga Times newspaper publisher Adolph Ochs. Known until 1857 as The New York Daily Times, it was founded in 1851 as a Whig newspaper. Under its first editor, Henry Jarvis Raymond, the Times was…