Saint Cad:
It certainly used to, before the Virginia portion seceded.
But the verb is in present tense, not past.
It didn’t secede, it was retroceded with the consent of all the parties.
But I will abide by the OP’s ruling. Just in case, if someone else wants to mention a world capital with a river, knock yourself out.
The 5 rivers question was my idea, and I was happy with Potomac. But in case anybody wants to move on…
Pssst… there’s this river that rhymes with ‘stiffy" that flows through a city that rhymes with "troublin’."
I thought it seceded with Virginia at the onset of the civil war and simply wasn’t demanded back after the union was restored (or re-acknowledged).
astorian’s ruling is good enough.
Nope, it happened in 1847, more than a decade before the Civil War began: District of Columbia retrocession - Wikipedia
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Congenital Optimist
I Blame My Mother
I Blame Your Mother
No, I don’t remember which are GCUs, ROUs etc… Hope that’s good enough.
Name five US Marines
John Glenn
Stephen Decatur
Smedley Butler
Ted Williams
Pappy Boyington
Name 5 people for whom major airports have been named.
John Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Fiorello LaGuadardia
Charles DeGaulle
O’Hare
5 Lead actors who played a real person
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Edward O’Hare
Ted Stevens (I didn’t think Wiley Post - Will Rogers Airport would be considered major)
William Mines
Name 5 cities that used to be, but are no longer, national capitals.
How about two real people
Leonardo Di Caprio (Hughes & Abergnale)
Charles Laughton (Henry VIII & Bligh)
Anthony Hopkins (Treves & Bligh)
Paul Muni (Zola & Pasteur)
Geoffrey Rush (de Sade & that Shiney McShine guy)
Kingston, Canada
Philadelphia, United States
Austin, Texas
Bonn, West Germany
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Name five Americans who have won the Nobel Peace Prize but not while they were President.
Decatur was a U.S. Navy officer, not a Marine. So I’ll add one: former NYC Mayor David Dinkins.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Al Gore
Jane Addams
Ralph Bunche
George Marshall
Name 5 historical figures mentioned in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
Yeah, I suppose… but since Decatur is regarded as the first hero of the US Marines (when Marines sing about “the shores of Tripoli,” they’re paying tribute to Decatur’s attacks on the Barbary pirates),I thought he rated a mention.
Harry Truman
Doris Day
Johnnie Ray
Walter Winchell
Joe DiMaggio
Name five Stephen King characters with supernatural abilities
Randall Flagg
Carrie
The shopowner in Needful Things
The sorcerer in Eyes of the Dragon
The kid in The Shining
(leaving it open to the judges if that counts as “naming”.)
5 historical figures mentioned in “The End of the World as We Know It”
There are only four; I looked it up. What should we do now?
Keep playing!
Name 5 Black US Senators.