April Powers
April 2, 1865 - General Robert E. Lee informed Jefferson Davis, President of this rebel force, that he must evacuate the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Confederacy?
This decade was a peak time for High Point! High Point University was founded in the 4th year of the decade, The world's largest chest of draws was made in the 6th year. The nation experienced an economic downturn at the end of this roaring decade.
What are the 1920s?
Don't panic!!! April is an Awareness Month for this, characterized by mild to acute mental worry and tension. Some antidotes include walks outside, deep breathing, and spending time with community.
What is stress?
Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of this nation & is second only to Louis the 14th of France in longest reigns.
What is England?
A syzygy is an alignment of 3 or more celestial bodies, as seen in a solar this, consisting of the alignment of the sun, moon, and earth.
What is an eclipse?
On April 26th, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster took place in Ukraine, then part of this Union.
What is the Soviet Union?
Capus Waynick was a man of many talents! A marker to him made in 2014 commemorates his role as an ambassador to Nicaragua and Colombia, as well as his work as editor of the High Point THIS. A fictional ship of this same name is captained by James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series.
What is Enterprise?
April 6th is Tartan Day, a celebration of this heritage. This day celebrates the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, which granted this nation independence from England. Highland games are enjoyed this month, including the hammer throw, tug-of-war, and caber toss.
What is Scottish heritage/Scotland?
DAILY DOUBLE: April 15, 1817 - The first American school for the deaf was founded by Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc in this capital city of Connecticut.
What is Hartford?
Catacoustics is the science of reflected sounds or these... these...these.
What are echoes?
A shower of bullets rang out the "shot heard round the world" beginning the American Revolutionary War at Lexington & Concord on April 19th 1775. This was the king of England at the time.
Who is George III?
The Beard’s THIS Shop marker shows the influence of the Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) on this area.
What is hat?
April is Arab American heritage month. Fundamental to Arab culture is the religion of Islam which means this.
What is submission/to submit?
The British are coming!!! On April 18th 1775, The Midnight Ride of this man and lesser known compatriots Samuel Prescott, Israel Bissell, William Dawes, and Sybil Ludington rode out from Boston to warn patriots at Lexington and Concord of the approaching British.
Who is Paul Revere?
If you were to fall into this, your body would be stretched and thinned out, due to this strong, gravitational pull. Essentially, you’d be left with a spaghetti like disposition. Fitting, the renowned astrophysicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking, termed this phenomenon as “spaghettification”.
What is a black hole?
April 10, 1998 - Politicians in this nation reached an agreement aimed at ending 30 years of violence. Under the agreement, Protestants and Catholics would rule together from Belfast, thus ending English rule.
What is Northern Ireland?
After land was destroyed during the Civil War, Quakers from Baltimore came South to teach self sustaining practices of this. Their Model ____ helped many grow crops on a 200 acre plot of land with modern methods. A marker at the intersection of Baltimore St., east of South Main commemorates their work.
What is farming/farm?
This refers to the deliberate and systemic destruction or killing of a group of people because of their ethnicity, race, or religion. Examples throughout history include Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Armenia, and the Holocaust
What is a genocide?
April is Genocide Awareness Month.
She did not walk on a yellow brick road, but on April 4th 1887, Susanna M. Salter became the first female mayor in a city of this state famous for twisters as seen in the Wizard of Oz.
What is Kansas?
Leaning into the playful side of life, a trend of this maxxing features adding fanciful decorations, hobbies, and little sidequests to everyday life.
This term's formal definition is the quality or state of being fanciful
What is whimsy?
April 8, 1913 - This amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified requiring direct popular election of U.S. senators. Previously, they had been chosen by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
High Point's Giant Furniture Company set aside 100 workers to produce these for the airforce. Made from silver spruce, these objects helped turn the tide of the war with each plane.
What are propellers?
These 2 Holidays are celebrated in April.
One is a Judeo-Christian celebration of the plague of the first born, in which the Jewish people were spared if they had lamb's blood on their doorpost, which led to the Exodus from Egypt.
The other holiday is the Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ which fell on the same day many years later. Symbols of eggs and rabbits also signify the idea of rebirth and today are used as commercialized symbols for this holiday.
What is the Passover and Easter?
This artist passed away in April of 1973. He paved the way for more modernist artists of the 20th century, establishing cubism in the public mind. He was believed to have created nearly 50,000 works of art during his lifetime.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Collywobbles refers to a generalized stomach upset/pain, its root also refers to this disease an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
What is cholera?