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		<title>What was the first name of the federal official named Nixon whom the U.S. Senate impeached?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter was the first name of the federal official named Nixon whom the U.S. Senate impeached. Walter L. Nixon, Jr., a judge of the U.S. District Court for Mississippi, was removed from office on November 3, 1989, after appearing before the Senate in its role as court of impeachment. President Richard Nixon resigned from office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wrote the book PT-109?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1961 book PT-109 about John F. Kennedy&#8217;s exploits in World War II was written not by Kennedy but by Robert F. Donovan.]]></description>
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		<title>What GM chairman said, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for General Motors is good for the country&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No GM chairman ever said, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for General Motors is good for the country&#8221;. The line actually was, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for the country, is good for General Motors, and vice-versa,&#8221; and it was said by Charles Wilson, a former GM head who was at the time the secretary of defense under President Eisenhower.]]></description>
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		<title>When did Oliver Wendell Holmes serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wendell Holmes never served as chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was an associate justice from 1902 to 1932, during the terms of four different chief justices.]]></description>
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		<title>When was Adlai Stevenson vice-president of the U.S.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The grandfather and namesake of 1950s Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson served as vice-president from 1893 to 1897 under Grover Cleveland.]]></description>
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		<title>What ironclad ship fought the Monitor during the Civil War?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Merrimac was not the ironclad ship fought the Monitor during the Civil War. The Union ship Merrimac had been renamed the Virginia by the Confederates. The Virginia fought the Union ironclad Monitor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862. The battle ended in a draw.]]></description>
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		<title>From what law school did Clarence Darrow graduate?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clarence Darrow did not graduate from law school. Darrow (1857-1938), famed for his defense in the Scopes trial of 1925, briefly attended the University of Michigan law school but did not get a degree. He studied on his own and got most of his legal education in a law office in Youngstown, Ohio.]]></description>
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		<title>How do you spell the name of the inventor of the Derringer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inventor of the Derringer was Henry Deringer, Jr., (1786-1868), spelled with one &#8220;r&#8221;. The Philadelphia gunsmith started making pistols in 1825 and came to specialize in the short-barreled, large-caliber pistol that bears his name. The extra &#8220;r&#8221; was added to &#8220;Derringer&#8221; by an imitator making similar pistols, and that became the accepted spelling.]]></description>
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		<title>Who was the first president of the United States?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technically, the first president of the United States was not George Washington, but John Hanson of Maryland. In 1781, Hanson began a one-year term as the first &#8220;president of the United States in Congress assembled&#8221; under the Articles of Confederation. Seven other men served as president before Washington, technically, the ninth president, took office in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the number of Supreme Court justices specified in the U.S. Constitution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No number of Supreme Court justices is specified in the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court began with six justices, rose to a peak of ten during the Lincoln years, and settled at nine in 1869.]]></description>
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