June 7, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published June 7, 2024 · Last modified June 10, 2024 During a 1972 presidental visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called “Ode to the Plum Blossom”
June 6, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published June 6, 2024 · Last modified June 7, 2024 Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925’s Butler Act in Tenn. outlawed this activity & wasn’t repealed until 1967
June 5, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published June 5, 2024 · Last modified June 6, 2024 This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva and a “sacred spring” found there
June 4, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published June 4, 2024 · Last modified June 5, 2024 This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promises, “I’ll stay till the wind changes”
June 3, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published June 3, 2024 · Last modified June 4, 2024 Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south
May 31, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published May 31, 2024 · Last modified June 3, 2024 An island near Cebu city has a statue of Lapulapu & a monument to this man that Lapulapu is said to have killed in 1521
May 30, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published May 30, 2024 · Last modified May 31, 2024 Around 1930 a bank named for this N.Y.C. area known as a slum was the U.S.A’s largest savings bank by total deposits
May 29, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published May 29, 2024 · Last modified May 30, 2024 The city attracted thousands of visitors even before a new shrine was dedicated there on July 7, 1220
May 28, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published May 28, 2024 · Last modified May 29, 2024 On the 2022 bicentennial of his birth, the body of this man was exhumed & DNA used to determine his genetic afflictions
May 27, 2024 by Alex Matthews · Published May 27, 2024 · Last modified May 28, 2024 In December 2023, she became the oldest solo artist, at 78, to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with a song she recorded in 1958