Presidential
Nicknames
Nicknames
This five-star general and World War II Allied commander became president in 1953, and his childhood nickname inspired the campaign slogan "I Like Ike."
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped trigger World War I, which officially began in this year.
1914
This Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.
Robert E. Lee.
This Chicago crime boss acquired the nickname "Scarface" because of scars on his left cheek from an earlier violent encounter in New York.
Al Capone.
The Industrial Revolution first took hold during the 18th century in this European country, which became the world's first industrial nation.
Great Britain.
This goddess defeated Poseidon in a contest to become the patron deity of Athens by offering its people an olive tree.
Athena
1939.
Nuclear weapons
United Nations.
World War 2.
Oak Island, famous for centuries of treasure-hunting expeditions, is located in this Canadian province on the Atlantic coast.
Nova Scotia
Silent Cal
This president of the Roaring Twenties earned his nickname because of his reserved personality and famously brief replies.
Calvin Coolidge.
Soldiers on the Western Front spent much of the war fighting from these long, fortified ditches dug into the ground.
Trenches
This Confederate general earned his famous nickname during the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 after his troops stood firm against Union attacks.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
This Texas-born outlaw partnered with Bonnie Parker in a notorious Depression-era robbery spree that ended in a deadly police ambush in 1934.
Clyde Barrow
In 1794, this American inventor patented an improved cotton gin that dramatically accelerated seed removal and helped expand cotton production and slavery in the American South.
Eli Whitney.
This Greek goddess was the wife of Zeus, queen of Olympus, and protector of marriage.
Hera
1920.
19th amendment.
Constitutional rights.
Women's Suffrage
This famous underground excavation on Oak Island supposedly began with the discovery of a mysterious depression in 1795 and became the center of the island's treasure legend.
Money Pit
This seventh U.S. president earned the nickname "Old Hickory" from soldiers who admired his toughness during military service.
Andrew Jackson
This unsuccessful Allied campaign in 1915–1916 attempted to gain control of the Dardanelles and involved soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, and other Allied forces fighting the Ottoman Empire.
Gallipoli Campaign
In 331 BC, this Macedonian king and military commander defeated the Persian army of Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela, helping secure his conquest of the Persian Empire.
Alexander the Great
Born Lester Gillis, this violent Depression-era gangster earned his nickname because of his youthful appearance.
George "Baby Face" Nelson
This black fossil fuel powered many steam engines and furnaces during the Industrial Revolution.
Coal
After the hunter Actaeon saw this goddess bathing, she transformed him into a stag, and his own hunting dogs tore him apart.
Artemis
1918.
1/3.
50 million.
1918 Influenza Pandemic
This shoreline area on Oak Island has been investigated for mysterious wooden structures, coconut fibers, and a lead cross discovered by the treasure-hunting team.
Smith's Cove
This president acquired his nickname from his portrayal of Notre Dame football player George Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American.
Ronald Reagan.
On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank this British ocean liner near Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people, including 128 Americans.
RMS Lusitania
This Carthaginian general famously marched his army, including war elephants, across the Alps and later crushed a much larger Roman force at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC.
Hannibal Barca
This notorious bank robber, whose real name was Charles Arthur Floyd, became one of America's most wanted fugitives before being killed by law enforcement officers in Ohio in October 1934.
"Pretty Boy" Floyd
In 1769, this Scottish engineer patented a separate condenser that dramatically improved steam-engine efficiency, helping factories become less dependent on waterpower.
James Watt.
In Homer's Iliad, Hera persuaded this god, the brother of Thanatos, to put Zeus to sleep so she could interfere in the Trojan War.
Hypnos
1996.
Black BMW.
4 times
The death of Tupac Shakur.
According to the traditional story, three young treasure hunters discovered a mysterious depression beneath an oak tree in this year, beginning the famous Money Pit legend.
1795
His Fraudulency
This president was mockingly called this by political opponents after the disputed presidential election of 1876, which was resolved through a special Electoral Commission.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Fighting on the Western Front officially stopped at 11 a.m. on this date in 1918, after Germany agreed to an armistice with the Allies.
November 11, 1918
This German field marshal earned his famous nickname for his armored warfare tactics while commanding Axis forces in North Africa during World War II.
Erwin Rommel
This Caribbean-born female gangster operated a lucrative illegal lottery business in Harlem and openly challenged Dutch Schultz when he attempted to take control of the neighborhood's gambling operations.
Stephanie St. Clair, also known as Madame Queen
Beginning in the 1820s, thousands of young women left New England farms to work in the textile factories of this Massachusetts city, eventually becoming known as its famous "mill girls."
Lowell, Massachusetts
This son of Apollo studied medicine under the centaur Chiron and became so skilled at healing that Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt for restoring the dead to life.
Asclepius
2007 - 2010
Multinational.
High risk borrowers.
Subprime mortgage crisis
This teenager, reportedly only 16 years old, is traditionally credited with discovering the original Money Pit after noticing unusual signs of digging beneath an oak tree.
Daniel McGinnis (also spelled McInnis)