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Daily Quiz for August 13, 2008

Published: August 13, 2008 at 1:01 am
Heinrich Kraemer and Johann Sprenger published Malleus melefircarum, which became the authoritative encyclopedia of this.

Daily Quiz for July 24, 2008

Published: July 24, 2008 at 1:01 am
The Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, was passed by Congress in this year.

Daily Quiz for July 23, 2008

Published: July 23, 2008 at 1:01 am
During the Civil War, this officer rode a gelding named Rienzi.

Daily Quiz for July 22, 2008

Published: July 22, 2008 at 1:01 am
Even though he had lost the lower part of his right arm in the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, this explorer led an expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers, through the Grand Canyon:

Daily Quiz for July 21, 2008

Published: July 21, 2008 at 1:01 am
Eleanor Roosevelt suggested that this person should be added to the four faces of Mount Rushmore.

Daily Quiz for July 20, 2008

Published: July 20, 2008 at 1:01 am
Brother Jasper initiated this American tradition.

Daily Quiz for July 19, 2008

Published: July 19, 2008 at 1:01 am
This ancient south Arabian kingdom flourished in the 5th-1st centuries BC in what is now southern Yemen.

Daily Quiz for July 18, 2008

Published: July 18, 2008 at 1:01 am
This was the only U.S. vice president whose election was determined by the Senate.

Daily Quiz for July 17, 2008

Published: July 17, 2008 at 1:01 am
This British officer gave American partisan leader Francis Marion the nickname of 'The Swamp Fox.'

Daily Quiz for July 16, 2008

Published: July 16, 2008 at 1:01 am
Anne Frank was imprisoned in this German concentration camp.

Daily Quiz for July 15, 2008

Published: July 15, 2008 at 1:01 am
The failed invasion of Cuba by CIA-backed Cuban refugees, known as the Bay of Pigs, took place on this date.

Daily Quiz for July 14, 2008

Published: July 14, 2008 at 1:01 am
William Wrigley, Jr., owned the Chicago Cubs baseball team and named their stadium after himself, but he made his millions creating an empire based on this.

Daily Quiz for July 13, 2008

Published: July 13, 2008 at 1:01 am
This Celtic leader of the Iceni tribe rose up in revolt against the Roman occupation of Britain.

Daily Quiz for July 12, 2008

Published: July 12, 2008 at 1:01 am
In direct reprisal for the killing of Nazi Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech agents, this town was completely destroyed and thousands of its residents murdered.

Daily Quiz for July 11, 2008

Published: July 11, 2008 at 1:01 am
This ancient Briton mounted a guerrilla uprising against the Romans in AD 43.

Daily Quiz for July 10, 2008

Published: July 10, 2008 at 1:01 am
This legendary hero of the American Revolution was nearly beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore in 1812.
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