Our amazing trip to Jefferson's home, Monticello, was made possible by this person's insistence against the very stubborn objections of this person that it would not be interesting.
Grandma and Grandpa
This dictator immortalized by Shakespeare was assassinated in the Senate House.
Julius Caesar
Though this incredibly talented singer seems to have gone off the deep end, Argentina should not cry for her.
Patti Lupone
Though the human one was a monster who's day we no longer celebrate, the canine one known as "the greatest dog ever still has his day remembered every July 15.
Columbus
Pumpkin ice cream pie
Thanksgiving
Our fabulous stay at the Toddy ponds cabins in Maine was made possible by the relentless persuasion of this person after he saw the cheap price advertised on the highway, despite this person's insistence that we needed to get all the way to Bar Harbour.
Grandpa and Grandma
Legend has it that this alleged wonder was create to please the wife of King Nebuchadnezzar. The landscaping bills must have been huge.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
This raise only makes a difference if it's given to you every hour, forty hours every week.
Seven and a half cents
This dog was named after Grandma and Grandpa's sister in law since it was believed that their dog was named after Grandpa.
Judy
Mashed Potatoes
Chanuka, Thanksgiving, Passover
Richard was an award winning member of this beleagued group of Oz residents.
Winkies
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui gave power to his son Topa Inca Yupanqui in 1471 in what is now this country.
Peru
Cole Porter's greatest musical
Kiss Me Kate
Grandma and Grandpa's only well behaved dog ever.
Molly
oreo ice cream cake
Anyone's Birthday
Mark spent a six week family trip across the United States attempting to enlarge his collection of these 1970's collectibles.
7-11 Baseball Trading Cups
On this country's South Island, the ancient people are believed to have used moas as there main food supply until they eventually went extinct (the moas, not the people).
New Zealand
Before the devil made her irresistible to men, Lola was the ugliest woman in this Rhode Island city.
Providence
Grandma and Grandpa's first dog - or the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife.
Zelda
Mexican Chocolate Cake
Passover
This girls organization was the beneficiary when Liz outsold all the other girls in her childhood candy sale.
Campfire Girls
Thucydides chronicled this war between Athens and Sparta.
The Peloponnesian War
This Brigadoon character was killed in order to stop him from leaving the community, not reasoned with to stay as some children erroneously believed.
Harry
This dog shared his name with a country in Africa, though it really referred to his penchant for running away.
Dr. Togo md
Salmon
Chanukah