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#237909 - Mon Aug 09 2004 03:34 AM Some trivias
Rossella Offline
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1)Who was the first European woman arrived in America? Hint --a-----a ---------a

2)What trees have been featured on U.S. stamp in 1937?
3)White Cedar is the State tree of state name???
4)What tree has no trunk? Hint: ------
5)What tree has the smallest buds?

I don't know the answers..but I know someone who knows them..It's for a game
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#237910 - Mon Aug 09 2004 01:28 PM Re: Some trivias
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2). There were 5 stamps issued in 1937 featuring trees. None of the trees were identifed but appeared in the general scene of West Point, The Great Smoky Mountains and an Alaska Territorial Issue. Two stamps featured Washington, D.C. The trees were incidental to the theme.
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#237911 - Mon Aug 09 2004 01:34 PM Re: Some trivias
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3) White cedar is not a state tree of any state. http://www.state-tree.com/
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#237912 - Mon Aug 09 2004 03:02 PM Re: Some trivias
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Is it possible that 4 is a trick question, and that the answer is 'family'?

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#237913 - Tue Aug 10 2004 12:15 AM Re: Some trivias
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1) Who was the first European woman arrived in America?

It was probably Gudrif, the wife of Thorfinn Karlsefni, a Viking.
    Ericson got very interested in Bjarni's story and he decided set off on an expedition with a crew of 35 men in the year 1000 AD. Leif soon found a new land that he called Helluland, the flat and stony land, thought to have been Baffin Island or Labrador. From there, Leif's expedition continued sailing south along the coast and stopped in a second land he called Markland, the wood land, believed to have been Newfoundland. The expedition sailed further to the south, possibly as far as Cape Cod, and stopped in a land that the Sagas describe as rich, fertile, and forested, where grapes grow... Leif called it Vinland, the wine land. He and his men spent the winter in Vinland, filled his ship with the riches of the new land, and returned to Greenland in the spring.
    ..
    Leif's reports of fertile Vinland reached as far as Iceland, and a colonist expedition composed by sixty men and five women was organized by Thorfinn Karlsefni. The group led by Thorfinn settled in Vinland for about three years. It is thought that they were probably driven away by violent encounters with the Skraelings, a Norse word for the native North Americans. During their time in Vinland, Thorfinn and his wife Gudrid had a son, Snorri, who was first European child to be born in America.
http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/history/vinland.htm

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#237914 - Tue Aug 10 2004 12:36 AM Re: Some trivias
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1)Who was the first European woman arrived in America? Hint --a-----a ---------a
The usual answer is this:

Code:
--a-----a ---------a
Francisca Hintestroa


sometimes written as
Francics Hinestrosa


http://www.umkc.edu/imc/womenfi.htm http://mywebpages.comcast.net/calderon/history.html

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#237915 - Tue Aug 24 2004 08:52 AM Re: Some trivias
Rossella Offline
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I've tried that answer but it isn't right

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#237916 - Tue Aug 24 2004 08:55 AM Re: Some trivias
Rossella Offline
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and in the past??

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#237917 - Sun Oct 17 2004 05:07 AM Re: Some trivias
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--a-----a ---------a
Francics Hinestrosa
Perhaps the first __a is an abbreviation of signorina.
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