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« Reply #925 on: May 10, 2008, 11:27:45 PM »
Yalta?
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« Reply #926 on: May 11, 2008, 11:55:08 AM »
Yalta and Washington are wrong.
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Kaine for Senate '18
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« Reply #927 on: May 11, 2008, 01:11:10 PM »
Hyde Park
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« Reply #928 on: May 11, 2008, 01:43:40 PM »
Chicago and Hyde Park are incorrect.

Note:  He actually made his acceptance speech from this city.
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Kaine for Senate '18
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« Reply #929 on: May 11, 2008, 02:06:17 PM »
Was he in Manilla?
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« Reply #930 on: May 11, 2008, 02:32:17 PM »
No, and the city was in a US state at the time (and still is, of course).
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Kaine for Senate '18
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« Reply #931 on: May 11, 2008, 02:56:45 PM »
Los Angeles
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« Reply #932 on: May 11, 2008, 04:58:04 PM »
Honolulu, Hawaii?

Well FDR was on the way to the South Pacific.
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« Reply #933 on: May 11, 2008, 05:24:18 PM »
Quote from: Senator Conor Flynn on May 11, 2008, 04:58:04 PM
Honolulu, Hawaii?

Well FDR was on the way to the South Pacific.

Hawaii was not a state at the time.
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« Reply #934 on: May 11, 2008, 06:08:07 PM »
This is the best I can do:
"1944, July 20. President Roosevelt, address broadcast from a Pacific-coast naval base to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Ill.. accepting a fourth-term nomination."
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« Reply #935 on: May 11, 2008, 06:14:37 PM »
Quote from: Southern Patriot on May 11, 2008, 06:08:07 PM
This is the best I can do:
"1944, July 20. President Roosevelt, address broadcast from a Pacific-coast naval base to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Ill.. accepting a fourth-term nomination."

It wasn't LA (or Pearl Harbor).
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« Reply #936 on: May 11, 2008, 06:27:03 PM »
San Diego
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« Reply #937 on: May 11, 2008, 06:52:22 PM »

Correct, one of the early "undisclosed locations."
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« Reply #938 on: May 11, 2008, 07:08:27 PM »
Who was the President when Marconi patented his "wireless" devise?
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« Reply #939 on: May 11, 2008, 08:22:29 PM »
Quote from: True Democrat on May 11, 2008, 05:24:18 PM
Quote from: Senator Conor Flynn on May 11, 2008, 04:58:04 PM
Honolulu, Hawaii?

Well FDR was on the way to the South Pacific.

Hawaii was not a state at the time.

Indeed it wasn't and I should have known that they became a state on January 1, 1959 or there abouts.
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« Reply #940 on: May 11, 2008, 08:45:49 PM »
Quote from: Southern Patriot on May 11, 2008, 07:08:27 PM
Who was the President when Marconi patented his "wireless" devise?

McKinley?
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« Reply #941 on: May 12, 2008, 01:44:03 AM »
correct
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« Reply #942 on: May 12, 2008, 02:42:27 PM »
Which president appointed the brother-in-law of a viscount to the Supreme Court.
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« Reply #943 on: May 13, 2008, 11:36:10 PM »
No takers?
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Kaine for Senate '18
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« Reply #944 on: May 14, 2008, 07:15:54 AM »
George Washington
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« Reply #945 on: May 14, 2008, 08:49:20 AM »

Wrong.
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« Reply #946 on: May 15, 2008, 03:26:12 PM »
Due to the popularity of this thread and by request from one member, I have decided to sticky this topic.
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« Reply #947 on: May 15, 2008, 05:45:54 PM »
OK, any answers?
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Kaine for Senate '18
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« Reply #948 on: May 15, 2008, 05:47:23 PM »
FDR?
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« Reply #949 on: May 15, 2008, 05:50:39 PM »

Wrong.
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