Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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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
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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

The only known Medal of Honor winner from my alma mater, Oberlin College: Richard Cowan (soldier) - Wikipedia

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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

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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

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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

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/