Sunday, 23 October 2011

Purchase of Alaska from Russia,American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin ....



  1. American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin tested the electrical charge of a thunder storm.
  2. American revolutionary hero Nathan Hale last words were,'I only regret that I  have but one life to lose for my country'.
  3. The animal symbol 'elephant' represents the US Republican Party.
  4. The Softball originated in USA.
  5. $100 note is the largest note in general circulation in the USA.
  6. The US state of Florida is nicknamed as ' the Sunshine state'.
  7. In 1978 the US Open Tennis Championships moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows.
  8. The purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, for $7,200,000 was known as 'Sewald's Folly'.
  9. Manhattan cocktail was invented by Lady Randolph Churchill(Winston Churchill's mother).
  10. John F Kennedy was the thirty fifth president of USA.

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