Global Events This Week
This week President Trump agreed to ease sanctions against Russia by purchasing 1.8 metric tons of this good (likely as a pre-election ploy to bring down prices).
What is DIESEL OIL?
The first English colony to legislate that a state of slavery is passed matrilineally in 1705.
What is VIRGINIA?
The Hanlon school was named for Paul Hanlon, a former chairman of the Board of Selectmen in 1985. Prior to 1985 it was known by this name.
What is the Pine Hill School?
This week, this NATO country that borders the Black Sea summoned the Russian ambassador over the targeting of its ships by drones. It was hit despite sharing no land border with Ukraine.
Which Native American people are known as "the people of the first light." Likely due to their position in the Northeast.
What is the WAMPANOAG?
This school is named for a former Superintendent of schools in Westwood.
What is Thurston?
Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to THIS SOUTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY and former fiancee to Donald Trump Jr. was asked to resign after asking a republican donor to pay her credit bill of $100,000. I guess it will be short-lived diplomatic Odyssey for her!
What is GREECE?
Knowledge of the Mayflower Compact (1620) and the First Thanksgiving survive only through the diary of this English settler at Plymouth.
Who was WILLIAM BRADFORD?
What is the Fisher School?
The disputed Ukrainian city of Donetsk was known as Yuzovka from 1869-1924, named for a Welsh man named John Hughes who helped to establish this industry in the region.
The case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court by Quock Walker and Elizabeth Freeman in 1781 established settled that the Declaration of Independence made this practice illegal in the Commonwealth from then onward.
What is SLAVERY?
This school, which currently sits on High Street, was established in 1877 as a school for grades 1-8. It was used as the district administration office until 2005. It now has a bank on the first floor.
What is the COLBURN SCHOOL?
12 people were killed this week in an attack on a Saudi airport, conducted by THIS Shi'ite rebel group in Yemen.
Who are the HOUTHI?
This Shawnee leader fought to prevent the spread of American colonists beyond the Proclamation Line of 1763. He died trying to accomplish this in the War of 1812. Union General George Sherman was given his name for his middle name showing the respect he was given by the United States after his death.
Who is TECUMSEH?
When opened in 1948 the Sheehan School went by this name which combined two nearby geographic features of the immediate area (and is the name for a nearby street).
What is POND PLAIN School?