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| 41 | Two streets in Boston go along the Charles river. Storrow Drive doesn't have any lights. Memorial Drive has a few but it's still pretty fast. I think other than those two you're going to be on a street with a fair number of lights. In Cambridge and Somerville, which are mostly dense residential housing, there are a few highways, some of them elevated, and other large roads that don't have a lot of lights. These include some of the old state routes like 1 and 9, that used to be the big traffic carriers but have since been superceded by the interstates. You can't get across Boston on 93, by the way. It's permanently backed up. | When you come to a "four-way" stop, what is the rule? |
| 42 | I think it was Virginia. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 43 | As I recall, the way the Civil War was taught to me in school was designed to make it as boring as possible. Same with the Revolutionary war. Lots of discussion about Grant marching here and Lee marching there and this battle and that battle. Lots of statistics - casualty counts and number of bullets expended. But very little discussion of why people would decide to put their lives on the line to split or hold together their nation. There are some very important lessons to be learned from that war about justice and freedom and other American buzzwords, but the schools don't teach that. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 44 | The name for the rebel country was "The Confederate States of America", or the Confederacy for short. They didn't name themselves "con" anything, it was just a different way of saying union. The name for the other side remained "The United States of America", or the Union for short. Actually most of the war plans centered on the not-very-great space between Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia, capitol of the Confederacy. But that front mostly stalled out and most of the effective gains in the war were made further West like Zang said. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 45 | Massachusetts is MA Michigan is MI, as you said Maine is ME Montana is MT, I think, which means that Minnesota must be MN. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 46 | You think that's hard, you should try memorizing the Canadian provinces! Wait, let's see, there's Quebec, well they don't really count, and New Brunswick and Saskatchewan and Inuitia. I think I forgot one but probably nobody lives there anyway. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 47 | Fine! I'll give you Ottawa but that's my final offer. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 48 | Yeah, of course when you put it that way it seems so simple but don't forget how big your provinces are! Compare, for example, our medium-sized state of Rhode Island to your North Territory. Jesus! You could fit, like, three Rhode Islands into that province! How you people commute to work is completely beyond me. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 49 | Don't know for sure if it's true but I've heard that while every man in Switzerland has a gun, none of them have any bullets! The story I heard was that they are required to maintain their weapons but ammunition is not dispensed except in wartime. Could be wrong, though. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
| 50 | It's not considered politically correct, but I think the US no longer even tries to abide by the constitution where guns are concerned. The NRA is too powerful for the anti-gun lobby to get an amendment through but if you think any judge is going to interpret that amendment to mean that every American can own a tank, you've got another think coming. The big test of this was the Civil War, in which the federal government refused to allow the states to secede from the union. The militias of the seceding states were not strong enough to overcome the federal forces, and the second amendment was buried forever. What might seem odd to the founding fathers is that no one really cared. I don't think anyone in their right mind believes the government is out to kill them any more. | During the American Civil War, which state divided in two? |
