Why Can't You See?
This blind man invented a namesake system of tactile writing for blind people to read.
Who is Louis Braille?
Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro are examples of these gold-seeking Spaniards.
Who are conquistadors?
Zachary Taylor did this after he ate too many cherries and drank too much milk at a Fourth of July celebration.
What is dying?
This author of 1984 stated his great admiration for Jonathan Swift in his essay Politics vs. Literature.
Who is George Orwell?
William Travis participated in this war of a future US state against Mexico along with Sam Houston and Stephen Austin.
What is the Texas Revolution?
This girl attended Radcliffe College despite being blind and deaf after Anne Sullivan taught her to read.
Who is Helen Keller?
Bruno Hauptmann kidnapped the baby of this aviator who was the first to cross the Atlantic in an airplane.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Zachary Taylor was a veteran of this war that began as a result of the annexation of Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Jonathan Swift is best known as the author of this book that chronicles fictional journeys to places like Lilliput.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
William Travis was in command of this former mission in San Antonio that fell to the Mexicans in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
This blind doge of Venice, Enrico Dandolo, led this catastrophic crusade that sacked the Christian (not Muslim) cities of Zara and Constantinople.
What is the Fourth Crusade?
The fame of this painting of Lisa de Giocondo exploded in fame after it was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre.
What is Mona Lisa?
This compromise, debated during Taylor's presidency but actually passed under his successor, was controversially supported by Daniel Webster's Seventh of March speech.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Jonathan Swift wrote this satirical essay in which he sarcastically suggested that the English should eat Irish babies to "reduce the number of Papists" in the country.
What is A Modest Proposal?
This Mexican dictator defeated William Travis in 1836 in San Antonio, but lost the overall war after he was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Who is Santa Anna?
Napoleon's pyrrhic victory over the partially blind Mikhail Kutuzov at this battle gave him the opportunity to burn Moscow, but we know how the general campaign went.
What is the Battle of Borodino?
Frederick II of Prussia seized this piece of land from Maria Theresa to initiate the War of the Austrian Succession.
What is Silesia?
Zachary Taylor was derided for fainting at the Battle of Contreras by supporters of this opponent and former comrade of his in the election of 1848.
Who is Winfield Scott?
This queen, the namesake of the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession as well as Blackbeard's ship, took a great dislike to Swift's allegory A Tale of the Tub.
Who is Queen Anne?
This backwoodsman and namesake of a gigantic knife died when the Mexicans overran Travis' defenses.
Who is Jim Bowie?
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem was developed by this pioneer of graph theory and namesake of e (2.71...) who continued his work even after becoming totally blind.
Who is Leonhard Euler?
The First Punic War began after these mercenaries seized the city of Messina.
Who are the Mamertines?
Zachary Taylor's biggest victory was his defeat of Santa Anna at this battle that saw the death of Henry Clay's son.
What is the Battle of Buena Vista?
Writing under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff, Swift facetiously predicted and then announced the death of a man of this profession, John Partridge, in an ironic turn of events.
What is an astrologer?
Travis signed his letter asking for reinforcements before the fall of the San Antonio fort he was commanding with this three-word phrase.
What is "Victory or Death?"