[Vision2020] trivia 4
lfalen
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Fri Sep 4 18:04:23 PDT 2015
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>Subject: [Vision2020] trivia 4
>From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
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>Date: 09/04/15 06:15:24
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>How many presidents were lawyers? 25
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>How many presidents were generals? 12
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>Who was both a lawyer and a general? Jackson, also Hayes
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>Who was the descendant of William Wallace of Braveheart fame that was a famous Naturalist? Alfred Russel Wallace. He outlined his thoughts on the Origin of the Species by natural selection in a letter to Darwin. Darwin had already had similar thoughts but had not published. Darwin submitted a paper to a scientific group in both their names and then wrote the book " The Origin of the Species"
The September issue of Natural History Magazine is devoted entirely to Wallace.
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