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1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade’s worth of [...]

A great history lesson…Our national anthem!
How many of us have EVER heard it all or known the full circumstances or the time and place of the poetry and the characters involved.

By Isaac Asimov
I have a weakness–I am crazy, absolutely nuts, about our national anthem. The words are difficult and the tune is almost impossible, [...]