HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
POETS
THE 16TH CENTURY
FAMOUS MARGARETS
THE MISSISSIPPI
200
'This March observance has been called the "most important national holiday in Ireland"'
St. Patrick\'s Day
200
'In 1911 this "Trees" poet's first volume of verse, "Summer of Love" was published'
Joyce Kilmer
200
'On July 29, 1588 this fleet was sighted off the coast of England'
The Spanish Armada
200
'In 1994 this former British prime minister was installed as chancellor of the college of William And Mary'
Margaret Thatcher
200
'The Minnesota River joins the Mississippi near these twin cities'
Minneapolis & St. Paul
400
'On August 30 this state observes Huey P. Long Day'
Louisiana
400
'He became a reporter for the Chicago Daily News in 1917, a year after his "Chicago Poems" was published'
Carl Sandburg
400
'At the beginning of the century, Huayna Capac ruled this South American empire'
Incas
400
'Her 10th murder mystery, "Murder in the National Cathedral", was published in 1990'
Margaret Truman
400
'Riverboat casino gambling has increased tourism in this Hawkeye State's city of Bettendorf'
Iowa
600
'It's the date on which the anniversary of D-Day & South Korea's Memorial Day are observed'
June 6
600
'George Thomson's "Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" contains many of his songs'
Robert Burns
600
'When Thomas Cavendish became the third to accomplish this feat it took 2 years & 50 days'
Circumnavigate the globe
600
'Found at a swap meet, the special Oscar stolen from this child star of "Meet Me In St. Louis" was returned in 1995'
Margaret O\' Brien
600
'This word for a Mississippi River embankment comes from the French meaning "to rise"'
Levee
800
'The Megillah or Story of Esther is read on this Jewish holiday'
Purim
800
'In a Longfellow poem, this schooner is wrecked "On the reef of Norman's Woe"'
The Hesperus
800
'This confederation was split in the 1531 War of the Catholic Cantons'
Swiss Confederation
800
'Her photograph of Montana's Fort Peck Dam graced the cover of Life Magazine's first issue'
Margaret Bourke-White
800
'Ferde Grofe wrote his "Mississippi Suite" 6 years before this famous suite'
"Grand Canyon Suite"
1000
'July 26 is observed as the feast day of the Virgin Mary's parents, St. Joachim & this woman'
St. Anne
1000
'His 1892 work "Barrack-Room Ballads" included such poems as "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" & "Danny Deever"'
Rudyard Kipling
1000
'In 1543 he published his treatise "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres"'
Nicolaus Copernicus
1000
'She was secretary of Health & Human Services 1983-85, then became U.S. ambassador to Ireland'
Margaret Heckler
1000
'This future Republican president managed flood relief on the Mississippi in 1927'
Herbert Hoover
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