1. World War 1
WW1 began in Europe
1917, Germans introduced mustard gas
Versailles treaty ended WW1
Grenade came in Jam Tin variety
Nivelle, French commander in charge during Battle of Verdun
Turkish tried to capture it - Suez Canal
Turnip Winter - I cannot imagine a worse, more depressing situation than to be an average german on the homefront during the Turnip winter of 1916-17. As the police reports indicate, the people where between a rock and a hard place. "The mood can only be described as very bad...the discontent in the population has reached a new intensity...the attitude of women toward the war can be summarized as 'Peace at any price.' (66)" First the government rations the bread, and provides potatoes instead. Then, potatoes by 1916 become increasingly difficult to find legally, so the only alternative become turnips. As Fritzsche points out on pg 69, over 28,000 copies of "Turnips Instead of Potatoes" were published in newspapers and cookbooks during this awful time in German history. I have never eaten just turnips, or turnip soup, but if that was all I could eat, for months at a time, without meat, bread, potatoes, or hardly any sugar or chocolate to consume either, I could not be a happy camper- to say the least. On top of the terrible eating situation, Fritsche continues by adding that "the winter turned out to be the coldest in memory...35,000 households in Nuremberg simply ran out of coal before the winter ended... 175,000 men and women died of influenza in the year 1918." I just canot fathom a worse living quagmire than to not only be able to eat hardly anything, not be able to keep yourself warm, and to sit back and read daily reports of how the war was not going germany's way any longer. This shows how devoted the people were to not only the war, but to their country, and for that these poor souls should be recognized for enduring one of, if not the worst living conditions possible in all of german history. There is just no way I could have been able to survive through that horrible turnip winter.
German M-16 Stahelm were helmets 1st used in action in Verdun
2. World War 2
1937 Italy withdrew from League of Nations
Eva Braun, name of Hitler's Wife
1945, German instrument of surrender signed
Hiroshima, first City atom bomb was dropped
1944 - year of Warsaw Uprising
6 billion leaflets Allies dropped on Europe during WW2
8 German Panzer divisions took part in the December 1944 von Rundstedt offensive
3. Star Trek
Captain Kirk in Orig Series = William Shatner
Neelix = cook and morale officer
Leonard Nimoy, played Spock in Original Series
The Ferengi was not pursuing
The Cochrane
Tuvok had an orchid named after him
Guardian of Forever
4. Shakespeare
"Et tu, Brute?" Julius Caesar said that
Anne Hathaway - wife of Shakespeare
England was were Shakespeare was born
The Winter's Tale = A Dance of Twelve Satyr's
Bard of Avon = Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus - first of Shakespeare's plays
Italy and France = setting of All's Well that Ends Well
5. Baseball
42 number that Dodgers and every other Major League team retired in honor of Jackie Robinson
National League Central, division of Cincinnati Reds
George Brett - entering 2014, holds Royals' record for hits in a career
Willie Mays - only National League batter to hit at least 50 home runs in a season during the 1950s
Jackie Robinson - first Rookie of the Year winner to later win a league MVP award
Jackie Robinson again - first former Negro Leaguer to win an MVP award
Mike Schmidt - entering 2014 who holds Phillies' record for hits in a career
6. NBA
Zach Lavine
8
Thunder
Darryl Dawkins
Chris Paul
82 games in an NBA Season
Christian Laetner
7. Boxing
Joe Frazier's nickname = Smokin' Joe
20 Mike Tyson's age when he became youngest ever
Tavoris Cloud, lost his last 3 fights in a row after winning his first 24
Amir Khan - defeated Andreas Kotlenik to win WBA Light Welterweight title in 2009
Anders Eklund - Frank Bruno defeated him in 1985 to become European Heavyweight Champion
Stuart Hall is from Great Britain, he's the former IBF Bantamweight World Champion
8. Geography
Patagonia = large region of South America shared by Chile and Argentina
A loaf of bread symbolizes France to many people, Baguette
London = Wembley Stadium
Bhutan = Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary as a way to protect the Yeti
New Hampshire = Maine Borders two Canadian Provinces.. the only US State to border exactly one other State.
Russia = You can ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad..
117 man made islands found in a 200 square mile lagoon
9.
David Copperfield - Who befriends James Steerforth and is raised by Betsy Trotwood in the Charles Dickens novel bearing his name
Hester Prynne - forced to wear a red letter "A" in "The Scarlet Letter"
Anna Karenina - "Happy Families are all alike; every unhappy in its own way" is from what 1877 novel
Mr. Hyde - Dr. Jekyll's alter ego in Robert Louis Stevenson novel
Great Expectations - title of 1860s coming-of-age story about an orphan named Pip
Rudyard Kipling - wrote "The Jungle Book"
Robert Louis Stevenson , wrote 1886 novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
10.
Augusta - where is US Masters golf tournament held every year
US Open, The Open, US Masters - 3 of the 4 majors
Phil Mickelson plays Left Handed - these golfers play left handed
1985 British Open -
Gene Sarazen
Tiger Woods
Illinois
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