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Guesswho
10-21-2004, 01:53 PM
Lets see how much we know about our founders and our history .

NO CHEATING ! Just go but what you know without looking it up on web or books . No asking others either .
Winner gets to ask question .no questions ask until first answered .

# 1 ..Who said ,'Give me liberty or give me death ?

Criminal
10-21-2004, 08:47 PM
Patrick Henry, who oddly enough was a slaveowner. Still odder, he never served in the army.

OK my turn... which Presidential candidate got a million votes while in prison?

Guesswho
10-21-2004, 10:02 PM
Is this American history ? Nelson Mandella ?

Criminal
10-22-2004, 12:35 AM
Is this American history ? Nelson Mandella ?Indeed it is.
And this candidate ran in the 1920 election. Another clue, he was a candidate for the Socialist Party.

Snouter
10-22-2004, 12:53 AM
Is the commie you are referring to Eugene Debs?

Criminal
10-22-2004, 01:03 AM
Is the commie you are referring to Eugene Debs?
Yep, except that Debs was never a commie. He was a Socialist and a pacifist who opposed the US entry in WW 1. He was arrested for giving anti war speaches. I consider him to be the most heroic political leader the US ever had.

Guesswho
10-22-2004, 01:42 AM
Is the commie you are referring to Eugene Debs?


Snout you did'nt give us a question .

Criminal
10-29-2004, 03:28 AM
Snout you did'nt give us a question .
In the interest of keeping the thread going:

Which Russian political lived in New York City, worked as an actor in silent films and then returned to Russia to play a vital role in the Bolshivik Revolution.

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