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While many people shorten their last names, in 1700 this author lengthened his from "Foe" to this.
He called his first wife "Button Nose No. 1" & his daughter Maureen, "Button Nose No. 2".
This area in the Dakotas was named for its difficult terrain, not for its wild frontiersmen.
She was named for her birthplace: Winona, Minnesota.
He was re-elected to the U.S. Senate & at the same time elected Vice President of the U.S.
It was Thursday, 9 o'clock; turned on this show; cop named Friday wanted "Just the facts, ma'am".
Mark Twain said this man "scored 114 offenses against literary art" on just 1 page of "The Deerslayer".
Because of her energetic dancing style, she was nicknamed "Luci Watusi."
The waters off Cape Hatteras in this state have been called "the graveyard of the Atlantic".
These ever-popular singing sisters performed at the Lawrence Welk Champagne Theatre in Branson, Missouri.
Shirley Jones & Burt Lancaster both won Oscars for their roles in this 1960 film.
Of "Harry-O", "Cannon", or "Banacek", the one who wasn't an ex-cop.
The 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to "Look Homeward: A Life of" this man.
She inspired the song "Alice Blue Gown".
This region between the Appalachians & the Atlantic Coastal Plain was named for a region in Italy.
Kay Waldo Barnes, this former CBS anchorman's cousin, became the first female mayor of Kansas City, MO. in 1999.
17 days before leaving office in 1960, President Eisenhower cut diplomatic ties with this country.
He once described his series "Bronk" as "Stupid" - believe it or not.
He grew prize dahlias & had an enormous aviary at his Hollywood home, "Ozcot".
Rivers that eventually reach the Atlantic are separated from those reaching the Pacific by this.
Her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall", was published in 1948, the same year as her short story "The Lottery".
After a record 8 stays of execution, this author of "Cell 2455 Death Row" was finally executed.
Former Olympic decathlon star who filled in for Erik Estrada during salary dispute on "CHiPs".
He was the most famous resident of Oxford, Mississippi.
This son of a president was at or near the scene of 3 presidential assassination.
Both the Army's Field Artillery Center & Geronimo's grave are at Fort Sill in this state.
Ekaterina Gordeeva won her first Olympic gold medal in 1988, the same year this skater won her second gold medal.
Country which led the world in oil production in 1960.
Detective whose writing a novel, "Blood on the Badge", became a running joke on "Barney Miller".