Who wrote the book PT-109?
The 1961 book PT-109 about John F. Kennedy’s exploits in World War II was written not by Kennedy but by Robert F. Donovan.
Ohio and California are tied with six each for producing the most Miss America winners. Twenty-three states have produced no Miss America winners at all, even though the Miss America pageant has been crowning beauty queens for over 70 years (since 1921). As of 1993, Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, and Wyoming are among the states…
Operation Torch was the Allied invasion of French North Africa beginning on November 8, 1942. Assault troops, almost all American, captured Morocco and Algiers with mostly British naval support.
The grandfather and namesake of 1950s Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson served as vice-president from 1893 to 1897 under Grover Cleveland.
The 13 original American colonies were: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Theodore Roosevelt offered a “square deal”. Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered a “new deal”. Harry Truman offered a ‘fair deal”.
More than 13,000 Union prisoners died at Andersonville, the largest Confederate military prison. Most died of neglect. The prison’s commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was the only Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.