A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER
December 1, 1955: She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, launching a 381-day boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
"Na na na
na-na-na-na,
na-na-na-na..."
What is "Hey Jude"?
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me" these
What are Your ears?
"Now, for the third time, a new century is upon us, and another time to choose"
Who is Bill Clinton?
Cork
What is Ireland?
December 13, 1577: This English privateer departs Plymouth with five ships, returning three years later with one—and a circumnavigation.
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be.
What is “Yesterday”?
"All the world's" this, "and all the men and women merely players"
What is a stage?
"Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed..."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Goteburg
What is Sweden
December 23, 1888: In Arles, this Dutch painter mutilates his left ear after a razor altercation with Gauguin, then gifts the severed lobe to a brothel maid named Rachel.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.”
What is Strawberry Fields Forever?
"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of" this person
What is the king?
"Eight years from now America will celebrate its two-hundredth anniversary as a nation"
Who is Richard Nixon?
Pusan
What is South Korea?
December 11, 1936: After 325 days on the throne, this British king abdicates via BBC radio to marry Wallis Simpson, uttering “I have found it impossible… to discharge my duties… without the woman I love.”
Who is Edward VIII?
“Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something, I think you’ll understand.”
What is “I Want to Hold Your Hand”?
"Once more unto" this, "dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!"
What is the breach?
"...Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...to do all which may achieve & cherish a just & lasting peace..."
Who is Abraham Lincoln? (second inaugural)
Marseille
What is France?
Ending the War of 1812, this treaty was signed by the U.S. & Great Britain in December 1814
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
"There beneath the blue suburban skies"
What is "Penny Lane"?
These people "die many times before their deaths"
What are cowards?
"In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor"
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Rabat
What is Morocco?