Portal:United States/Did you know/archive/2010/March

March 2010

... that
Bayne-Fowle House, a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra, Virginia, United States
, served as a military hospital in 1864?

, and could write both simultaneously with separate hands?

... that the CARVER matrix was developed by United States special forces as a target acquisition system used to rank and prioritize targets?
... that
President George Washington was once a guest at Lloyd House
?

... that although
al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews
"?

... that supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York, was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln
in 1865?

... that American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed?

... that a 1996
National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon
(pictured) as the Great Sandy Desert?

... that 1968 was the deadliest year in the Vietnam war for the United States and its Vietnamese allies?

... that Afghanistan, as well as during the Gulf War
?

... that
Filipino migrants in the United States
?

... that federal disaster area
declared by the U.S. President in the state of Utah?

... that indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?

... that
Filipino immigrants in America
?

... that the
singer, and songwriter, Johnnie Bassett, played on The Miracles 1958 debut single
, "Got a Job"?

... that during the
US Army Colonel Robert F. Martin commanded the 34th Infantry Regiment for only 14 hours before he was killed in the Battle of Chonan
?

... that
PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil
?

... that the
singer, and songwriter Jimmy Burns, issued a number of singles in the 1960s, but waited over 25 years to release his debut album
?

... that Shingle, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival
architecture?

... that General Dwight Eisenhower's quarterback at West Point
?

... that footballer Edward King was honored for heroism in the Philippines and tactical skill in France and later became Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College?

... that Catawba Native American tribes and an American Civil War
skirmish?

... that Wyandanch, the sachem of the Montaukett, in 1659, sued Jeremy Daily in the colonial court in one of the first trials in North America with an English defendant and a Native American plaintiff?

... that Export-Import Bank of the United States
?

... that
OV-10 Bronco for the US Air Force Request for a slower support plane, or Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance
aircraft?

... that American Texas and electric blues musician Mike Morgan's backing band, the Crawl, was named after a Lonnie Brooks song?

... that Agalinis aspera (tall false foxglove), a purple and pink flowering plant native to the United States and Canada, is endangered?

... that the
singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica
player?

... that Afghanistan, respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
?

... that
Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod
, a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?

... that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing "Crucifixion", tears came to his eyes?

... that Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama?

... that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics, once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States?

... that
Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian-language newspaper in the United States
?

... that Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama
on his first day in office?

... that Michele S. Jones (pictured) was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration?

... that World War Two
?

... that the restaurant chains
in the United States?

... that early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate?

... that the
singer and songwriter, Little Sonny, often boosted his earnings by photographing
customers between his on-stage appearances?

... that Mary Nolan voted in favor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 that recognizes the service of United States Merchant Marine veterans during World War II?

... that Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy
?

... that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton, Ecuador, and emigrated mostly to the United States?

... that in 1906, some
medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera
, and those who survived were rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?

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