[spoiler]… Huh, as soon as you said three I knew you meant England, Scotland, and Wales. What I didn’t know was that Wales was considered a country, I thought only Scotland and England were given country status. I know Wales has its own culture and language and such, I always just thought of Wales as sort of a “region of England” and Scotland as its own thing.
I’m so sorry, Wales.
Learned something new I guess.
Edit: On review, I knew Diana was the princess of Wales, and Henry the prince. How the fuck did I not connect this to Wales being an actual sovereign entity (albeit under the UK)?
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And I’ll concede the slavery answer. It was a complicated mess of political, moral and ideological differences, but slavery was indeed at the core of things.
This man was the first black Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He had previously served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as the Solicitor General. Before becoming a judge, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case that ended racial segregation in public schools, Brown v. Board of Education. Who was he?
If a train travelling eastbound from San Francisco to Chicago at 34.5 mph increases its speed to 73.6 mph 3/4 of the way through the trip, and another train travelling from Chicago to San Francisco at 44.4 mph increases its speed to 90 mph 1/3 of the way through the trip, what is your favorite cartoon?
What household liquid did people commonly use to disinfect minor wounds that is now no longer recommended? The recommendation changed recently (i.e. I’m not talking about a recommendation that changed in 1882)
I’m really just asking this to see how quickly this practice has faded from public knowledge so it’d probably be a good thing if you don’t know about it!
I burn down a building. What’s the name for the crime I have committed?
I sell national security information to another government. What’s the name for the crime I have committed?
We hear a lot about the First Amendment (freedom of speech and the press) and the Second Amendment (right to bear arms). What the heck is the Third Amendment about?
In 1938, over Halloween, Mercury Theater on the Air broadcast a dramatic radio series of a novel written by H.G. Wells. It was being narrated by Orson Welles, and he had adapted the first part of the novel to sound like radio news bulletins, which caused an unforeseen localized panic as some listeners took the drama to be an actual news broadcast of an alien invasion.
What was the title of this classic science fiction book by Wells, Welles was reading?
