Hail Mary
Though she was executed by royal order in 1587, her son became King James I of England in 1603
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nickname of the First Volunteer Cavalry, which blazed into history books at the 1898 Battle of Santiago
Rough Riders
Now a university, this Alabama school opened in 1881 with about 30 students & one teacher, Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Christopher Columbus makes his last transatlantic trip: the first decade of this century
1500s
On Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, where this U.S. president called "the most historic avenue in all America" when he visited in 1934
FDR
In 1867 Harper & Brothers made Mary Louise Booth the first editor of this fashionable magazine
Harper's Bazaar
Born in Venetia, Italy, he began leading the Church around the year 140
Pope Pius
A Boston newspaper coined this phrase for the period of optimism during James Monroe's presidency
Era of Good Feelings
The Erie Canal is completed & opens for business
1820s
18th century women didn't mind looking hippy; they extended their skirts with panniers, known in English as these
hoops
Once excommunicated by the Bishop of Adelaide, Mary MacKillop became the first Catholic saint of this country
Australia
In Roman history, young girls were chosen to be these priestesses who tended the eternal flame of a hearth goddess
Vestal Virgins
Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"
William Jennings Bryan
The Salem witch trials
1690s
Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern is the place where, in 1776, students from William & Mary met to form this Greek letter society, an emblem of high achievement
Phi Betta Kappa
Later a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson served as this nation's president from 1990 to 1997
Ireland
Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation
Radical Republicans
The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, she would later open a hospital for women & children with her sister Emily
The Black Death starts;
the Battle of Crécy
1340s
In Colonial times, pig stealers were exposed to public derision at the pillory & those, a term that reminds us of Wall Street
stocks
Like Florence Nightingale, Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole cared for British troops during this conflict
the Crimean War
In the late 19th century, the Pinkertons infiltrated this cabal of coal miners named for a widowed Irishwoman
Molly Maguires
Killing 146 workers, mostly women, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory in 1911 led to new safety laws
Triangle Shirtwaiste Factory fire
The Tudor line begins its 5-monarch rule of England
1480s
Founded in Jamestown in 1619, this group that met here in Williamsburg's capitol in the 1700s was the first representative legislative body in America