# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938 "2020-01-25T03:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 339
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/6764 "2021-07-07T01:53:47Z")
**Major rivers of North America** 1. Columbia River 2. Ohio River 3. Chicago River 4. Mississippi River 5. St. Lawrence River 6. Missouri River 7. Rio Grande 8. Cumberland River 9. Hudson River 10. Colorado River 11. Yukon River 12. Nazas River 13. Rio Grande **People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long German track athlete who finished second behind Jesse Owens in the long jump at the 1936 Olympics. Owens and Long formed a friendship after the competition, and kept up correspondence with one another until shortly before Long died in combat during the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England He’s the last English king to die in battle, in 1485 ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle – Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and war correspondent; killed by enemy fire April 1945 while accompanying American troops on the island of Ie Shima during the battle for Okinawa. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus Last Byzantine emperor, he died defending the walls of Constantinople when the Turks finally broke through in 1453. ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/6770 "2021-07-07T13:29:39Z")
**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan The only known Medal of Honor winner from my alma mater, Oberlin College: [Richard Cowan (soldier) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cowan_(soldier)) ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan 8. Pat Tillman NFL safety who turned down a lucrative 3-year contract extension to join the Army after 9/11. He died in Afghanistan. ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan 8. Pat Tillman 9. Alonzo Cushing Awarded the Medal of Honor 151 years after he died heroically at Gettysburg: [Alonzo Cushing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Cushing) ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan 8. Pat Tillman 9. Alonzo Cushing 10. JEB Stuart ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan 8. Pat Tillman 9. Alonzo Cushing 10. JEB Stuart 11. King Harold Godwinson 1066 and all that: [Battle of Hastings - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings) ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan 8. Pat Tillman 9. Alonzo Cushing 10. JEB Stuart 11. King Harold Godwinson 12. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr ---
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**People who died in combat** 1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 2. Luz Long 3. Richard III of England 4. Ernie Pyle 5. Constantine XI Palaeologus 6. George Armstrong Custer 7. Richard Cowan 8. Pat Tillman 9. Alonzo Cushing 10. JEB Stuart 11. King Harold Godwinson 12. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr 13. Dorie Miller To have a new carrier named after him: [Doris Miller - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller) Pass. ---
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Following up a recent topic **Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire ---
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**Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire 2. Nile ---
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**Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire 2. Nile 3. Ganges ---
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**Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire 2. Nile 3. Ganges 4. Rhine ---
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**Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire 2. Nile 3. Ganges 4. Rhine 5. Yang-tse ---
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**Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire 2. Nile 3. Ganges 4. Rhine 5. Yang-tse 6. Danube ---
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**Notable Rivers outside the U.S.** 1. Loire 2. Nile 3. Ganges 4. Rhine 5. Yang-tse 6. Danube 7. Limpopo “The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees,” immortalized by Kipling: [https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/](https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=338) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=340)