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were pirates who worked the Caribbean in the 1800s, mainly attacking Spanish vessels.
Buccaneers
The original buccaneer was a French hunter living on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). These hunters used a local design of frame called a “buccan” as a smokehouse for meat, and so picked up the name “buccaneer”. In the first half of the 17th century, many of the buccaneers were driven off the island of Hispaniola by the Spanish and so they turned to the sea, making their living by pirating Spanish shipping.
The Soviet Union launched the this satellite towards the end of 1957 in a development that shocked the establishment in the US.
Sputnik
Within months, President Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Space Race had begun …
Tom hanks character
The green mile
Paul edge come
Tom hanks character
You’ve got mail
Joe fox
Tom hanks character
Sully
Chestly sullen Berger
Tom hanks character
Sam Baldwin
Sleepless in Seattle
Da Vinci died and was buried in this country
France - with king in France forced him to come over after France defeated Italy in a war
Unknown where his body is now
Michelle Obama got her undergraduate degree at this oldest university in NJ
Princeton
Rutgers - 10 -20 years younger
At 17 Espys Michelle Obama posthumously honered her with the Arthur Ashe courage award for founding this organization
U nis schriver
Special Olympics
character holds
Record for most portrayed literary non human character in film and tv
274 times - first in 1921
Dracula
Johnny weis muler holds record for one actor playing the same character the most times in different movies
12 movies 32-48
Tarzan
Olympic athlete ?
Actor portrayed most times by another actor
Famous for his role in history rather than
Acting
11 times
John Wilkes boothe
This historical figure has been portrayed most times in movies
194 movies
Napoleon Bonaparte
Soil Texture classification is based on % these 3 materials
Clay
Sand
Silt
Upon exiting the Apollo 12 lunar module this astronaut yelled whoppe that may have been a small one for Neal but a long one for me
Pete Conrad
Not golf ball Alan Shepard
