Ohio History
The Crime of the Decade
Enabling Cookies
State of the State Forest
Same First & Last Letter
200

What's today known as this was established near Columbus in 1870 as an agricultural & mechanical college

The Ohio State University

200

5 burglars are busted at the DNC's office at the Watergate

the 1970s

200

The Facebook page of this century-old brand of sandwich cookie has more than 42 million "likes"

Oreo

200

Mackinac State Forest

Michigan

200

24 hours earlier

Yesterday

400

 People laughed when Dayton's James Ritty added a bell to this store device, but the noise deterred theft

The Cash Register

400

The Unabomber commits his last murder & is caught with bomb parts & detailed journals of his crimes

the 1990s

400

This Nabisco brand went cage-free on its box covers in 2018

Animal Crackers

400

Tillamook State Forest

Oregon

400

In radio communication, "message received & understood"

Roger

600

Little Turtle fought off U.S. troops as a chief of this Ohio (not Florida) tribe

Miami

600

The kidnapping of Charles & Anne Lindbergh's baby 

The 1930s

600

DD: This Nestle cookie named for a Massachusetts inn dates to the 1930s

The Toll House

600

Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest

Massachusetts

600

According to a proverb, it's "the best teacher"

experience

800

In an 1835 "war" Ohio got Toledo & this state got its upper peninsula

Michigan

800

The NSC goes around Congress to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in the Iran-Contra Affair

the 1980s

800

A little elf told me that this brand makes E.L. Fudge, but obviously, that elf was slacking & should get back to work

Keebler

800

Mississippi Headwaters State Forest

Minnesota

800

It's the Japanese name for Japan

Nippon

1000

During the Civil War, Ohio rep. Clement Vallandigham was a leader of these "snaky" antiwar northerners

The Copperheads

1000

Leopold & Loeb kill Bobby Franks for an "intellectual" thrill

the 1920s

1000

These Girl Scout cookies are known as the "Cradle of Polynesia"

Samoas

1000

Mohegan State Forest

Connecticut 

1000

In 2017 Monopoly gave the boot to the boot, the thimble & this contraption designed to move outdoor loads

The wheelbarrow