Who was the oldest man to be elected as U.S. president?
Ronald Reagan, at 69 in 1980 and at 73 in 1984, was the oldest man to be elected president.
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What was Bill Clinton’s name at birth?
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For which King Louis was Louisiana named after?
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Where is Bataan?
The Bataan Peninsula is in the Philippines. Following the Allied surrender of Bataan to the Japanese in April 1942, it was the site of the infamous “death march” in which thousands of American and Filipino prisoners died.
When and where did American forces meet Russian forces during the invasion of Germany in World War II?
The two Allied armies from America and Germany met on April 25, 1945, on the Elbe River at the town of Torgau. The Americans had been advancing from the west and the Russians from the east.