What queen supposedly replied "let them eat cake" when told that the peasants had no bread? (Historians believe the story is apocryphal.)
The French phrase is "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche." it can actually be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution when Antoinette was nine years old and before she had ever been to France.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland in September of what year?
The German invasion began on September 1, 1939 and the Soviets attacked on the 17th. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the country.
Fill in the blank to complete the acronym for NASCAR: National Association for __ Car Auto Racing.
Stock car racing originally used production-model cars, hence the name. Today, however, the cars are purpose-built for the track.
Name the Josephine Tey mystery novel that re-examines the alleged crimes of Richard III through the eyes Alan Grant, a Scotland Yard Inspector from the mid-20th century.
According to a 1990 survey by the British-based Crime Writers’ Association, The Daughter of Time is the best crime novel of all-time.
This collaborative, global event has occurred four times: 1882-1883, 1932-1933, 1957-1958 and 2007-2008.
The first International Polar Year was proposed by an Austro-Hungarian naval officer, Karl Weyprecht. The goal was to have a coordinated scientific approach to researching the polar regions.
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