Question > History

Who's epitaph reads: "In Loving Memory of my Beloved Son, Murdered by a Traitor and Coward Whose Name is not Worthy to Appear Here"?

UPDATE: Answer: Jesse James

Question > History

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Who was the first U.S. Secretary of Education?

UPDATE: Answer: Shirley Hufstedler, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Prior to this, Education was part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Question > History

In what year did the U.S. elect it's first president who was born after the Declaration of Independence was adopted?

UPDATE: Answer: 1836 (Martin Van Buren, born 1782)

Question > US History

Who wrote: "In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of republic ought to suffer death."?

UPDATE: Answer: Samuel Adams
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These words were written around the time of Shay's Rebellion, when farmers and other working class rebelled against oppressive debt system and taxes. The rebellion, and the struggles the weak federal government had opposing it, helped prompt the dissolution of the Articles of Confederation and the creation of our existing Constitution.

Question > US History

What US First Lady died on the 105th anniversary of her husband's birth?

UPDATE: Answer: Edith Wilson
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