Fun fact, they are restoring the Monitor at the Mariner's Museum near my house, you can even walk around in a replica of the ship. Check it out if you are in Hampton Roads its a cool museum.
One helped improve and transform the country with groundbreaking work as a lawyer and justice. The other was an ideologue, unqualified for the job, and now known for a quiet unwillingness to ever deviate from far right agendas. So, yeah, it does feel wrong to put Marshall and Thomas in the same group, just as we'll always have the shame of putting Lincoln and Trump in the same group.
Apolitically (i.e., in terms of the quality of their legal analysis and written opinions), Marshall is regarded among legal scholars much more highly than Thomas, whose work is not regarded very well. Other conservative justices, like Scalia and Roberts, are also regarded much more highly than Thomas. His contributions to the court have been negligible.
Esso was the name on the gas stations. Esso = S.O. (Standard Oil). After the breakup, Esso became Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Amoco (all of which maintained the red, white and/or blue colors of Esso in their logos).
Esso only became Exxon in the US in the rest of the world it remained Esso, since there were no legal issues about the name there. And only in 1973 I believe, so not at the start of the break up, which was 1911. I stand corrected if I made an error.
When I was young, the signs at the gas station in my area said Standard and the company was still called Standard Oil. The first time I saw Esso was when we traveled to Canada.
"Sioux" is not a tribe. It is an anglicised referent to a group of similarly cultured tribes, the Lakota, the Dakota and the Nakota. So either the clue should reference ethnic or cultural groups, or use the next biggest actual tribe, which is probably the Shoshone based on the fact that they are the majority population of Wind River reservation, the 5th most populous reservation in the US. I worked on this reservation for the summer in 2000. Simultaneously the most beautiful and terrible place I've ever been.
@seokunshichae There are two stan countries that begin with a k. I'm guessing you are talking about Kyrgyzstan, though. I think it's fun to spell, personally. It would be a killer scrabble word if proper nouns were accepted.
Yes, @musiclistareus, it's still too hard to get it. I'm not American, so it hasn't been imprinted in my memory since elementary school. And the name doesn't come up in enough quizzes that I can get used to the correct spelling. It's not as if it was a "spells as it sounds" case, either. So I stand by my comment, thank you. (By the way, I left the comment almost three years ago. Took the quiz again today without knowing I had already taken it and came to the comments section to make exactly the same point, only to realize I already did in 2017. So there you go. Proof of concept. Either I'm too stupid to ever learn how to spell Sacagawea, or it's an unusual and hard to spell name that most non-Americans will have trouble with.)
Thank you, third grade music class for the Erie Canal answer. "I've got a mule and her name is Sal, fifteen miles on the Erie Canal...and she knows every inch of the way from Albany to Buffalo..."
Also, cut us some slack on spelling for Sacagawea. Please.
When we went on long trips, I would count gas stations. Exxon always won easily, quickly taking any suspense out of the "game".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Indian_Reservation