U.S. Politicians
This current high school debate teacher ran for U.S. Congress in 2018 and 2020 for the Libertarian Party.
Mr. Anthony Cristo
This president is widely regarded as "The Father of Our Country," though he never actually chopped down a cherry tree.
George Washington
This man was a Russian intelligence officer during the Cold War and is now the current president of Russia.
Vladimir Putin
Texas declared its independence from Mexico on March 2nd of this year.
1836
This ancient Greek poet wrote the epic poems, "The Odyssey," and "The Iliad." He is not one of the Simpsons.
Homer
He is the first secretary of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
Elon Musk
He was president of the United States during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He was reading to school children in Florida when the first plane hit.
George W. Bush
This current president of Germany, is officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
This battle, which became a rallying cry, saw the deaths of William B. Travis, James Bowie, and Davy Crocket.
Battle of the Alamo
His 18th sonnet begins with, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
William Shakespeare
He was vice president during Donald Trump's first term in office.
Mike Pence
This president signed the Interstate Highway System into law in 1956.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This man replaced Justin Trudeau and is now the current prime minister of Canada.
Mark Carney
This man led the defeat of the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto and became the first president of Texas.
Sam Houston
His 1798 poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," describes a crazed mariner as he tells a wedding guest of his transgressions aboard a ship where he senselessly kills an albatross.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Austrian immigrant bodybuilder, went on to become a successful action movie star, before becoming governor of California from 2003 - 2006
Arnold Schwarzenegger
This president signed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 into law forbidding people of Chinese descent from becoming citizens for the next 61 years.
Chester A. Arthur
She is a scientist, academic, and current president of Mexico.
Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum
Of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, this state was never part of Texas.
Utah
This Irish actor and poet wrote "There Are Too Many Saviors on my Cross," as a commentary of the religious war in Northern Ireland.
Richard Harris
She became the first female African-American secretary of state under George W. Bush from 2005 - 2009.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice
This president refused to enforce the 1832 Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia and forcibly removed the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Muskogee Creek tribes in what became known as "The Trail of Tears."
Andrew Jackson
This El Salvadoran president refers to himself as "the world's coolest dictator" after turning his country from the deadliest country in the world to the safest country in the world.
Nayib Bukele
Texas became the 28th state of the United States on December 29th of this year.
1845
She read her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration in 1993.
Maya Angelou