[Vision2020] Trivia 22 answers
lfalen
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Tue Oct 6 17:21:21 PDT 2015
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>Subject: [Vision2020] Trivia 22
>From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Date: 10/06/15 04:42:20
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>Who invented the Brassiere( backless bra)? Mary Phelps Jacob when she was 19. She was a descendant of Robert Fulton and William Bradford. As Caresse Crosby she and her husband Harry founded The Black Sun press and published works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, Dorothy Parker, Ezra Pound and Henry Miller.
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>Who was the general that conspired with Aaron Burr to form a new country? General of the Army James Wilkinson. He testified at Burr's treason trial. After his death it was found he was a paid agent of Spain.
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>Source of--Hell hath no fury like the wrath of a women scorned. I remember it as a line from Rob Roy a novel by Sir Walter Scott. A bing search says William Congreve.
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>Who killed John Wesley Harden? Sometime Constable John Selman. He also killed Texas Ranger Bass Outlaw, a friend of U.S. Marshall George Scarborough. Scarborough killed John Selman. Scarborough was wounded in a gun battle with George Stevenson and James Brooks. He died 4 days latter.
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>Another odd name( first name of Arizona lawman Owens). Commodore. His father named him after the naval hero, Commodore Perry. Therefore Commodore Perry Owens.
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