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US HISTORY
Q: Did George Washington really have wooden teeth?
A: He did wear false teeth. But they were constructed from ivory, animal teeth and human teeth.
Q: Did Washington really chop down a cherry tree?
A: There are cherry trees at Mount Vernon. But the I cannot tell a lie story originated in the imagination of Mason Weems, an early Washington biographer, who invented the parable to illustrate the origins of Washington's heroic qualities. There is no evidence the incident actually took place.
Q: Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner - but who wrote the music?
A: An Englishman named John Stafford Smith wrote the music in 1777. It was originally for another poem titled, "To Anacreon in Heaven," which was a favorite of a London drinking club called the Anacreontic Society.
Also, "The Star Spangled Banner was the informal anthem of the Union Army during the Civil War but was officially adopted on March 3, 1931 when President Herbert Hoover signed it into law.
GENERAL HISTORY
Q: What does the phrase "status quo antebellum" mean?
A: The way things were before the war.
GEOGRAPHY
Q: HOW MANY OCEANS MAKE UP THE WORLD OCEAN?
A: The Earth's oceans are all connected to one another. Until the year 2000, there were four recognized oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic. In the Spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization delimited a new ocean, the Southern Ocean (it surrounds Antarctica and extends to 60 degrees latitude).
There are also many seas (smaller branches of an ocean); seas are often partly enclosed by land. The largest seas are the South China Sea, the Caribbean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Worksheet for elementary level on oceans.
economics
Q: IS THERE A FORMULA USED TO CALCULATE MONETARY FIGURES TO TODAY'S DOLLARS?
a: The following link provides a computation service where you can plug in monetary values and dates of interest between 1665 and 2002.