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In 1959 his New York City tomb became a National Memorial
Ulysses S. Grant
Ford Madox Ford wrote 3 novels about Catherine Howard, this king's fifth wife
Henry VIII
To become literate in this field, try "The Macintosh Companion" or "DOS for Dummies"
operating a computer
An evil spell or curse
hex
George Washington called her "Patsy", a childhood nickname
Martha
Referring to his daughter, he once quipped that he could be President or control Alice, but not both
Theodore Roosevelt
This author of "Space" once served on NASA's Advisory Council
Michener
A 1992 book, "The King & I", features interviews with 46 of his impersonators
Elvis Presley
Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane & Kool Moe Dee received 1991 Grammys for this type of music
rap
19 years after she left the White House in 1961, her Boone, Iowa birthplace was opened as a historic site
Mamie Eisenhower
Some blamed his death on a Shawnee curse that was put on him at the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
He described his sensational 1931 novel "Sanctuary" as "The most horrific tale I could imagine"
Faulkner
He "generalizes" about his life & the Persian Gulf War in "It Doesn't Take a Hero"
Norman Schwarzkopf
It can be slang for a boxer, or a Chinese dog with a snub nose & a wrinkled face
pug
In the 1930s she studied dance with Martha Graham; in 1974, she became First Lady
Betty Ford
While playing football for West Point, he injured his knee tackling Jim Thorpe
Eisenhower
This 1887 novel by onetime ostrich farmer Rider Haggard is known by a single pronoun
She
This fitness guru talks about weight loss & some of the people he's inspired in "Never Give Up"
Richard Simmons
In 1961 Sue Thompson sang that these "movies make me cry"
sad
Her maiden name was Elizabeth Wallace
Bess Truman
Within a 3 1/2 year period, he became Mayor of Buffalo, Governor of N.Y. & President of the U.S.
Grover Cleveland
This James Joyce work was called "the first attempt to articulate the wordless world of sleep"
Finnegan's Wake
His "All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten" was 1989's top-selling hardcover nonfiction book
Robert Fulghum
A Spanish gentleman, or to put on clothing
don
Prior to marrying the president, this first lady had been married to jeweler Norman Galt
Edith Wilson