NICKNAMES OF THE WORLD

“NICKNAMES OF THE WORLD”BYSKIP ENGLISH- (4/22/03) 

1. MALE SINGER- “THE VELVET FOG”?
2. PRESIDENT- “THE RAILSPLITTER” OR “THE ORIGINAL GORILLA”?
3. N L PITCHER FOR GIANTS AND DODGERS- “SAL, THE BARBER”?
4. BEST EVER BOXER- “THE GREATEST” & “LOUISVILLE LIP”
5. AWESOME EARLIER BOXER- “THE BROWN BOMBER”?
6. PRESIDENT’S WIFE- “FIRST LADY TO THE WORLD”? UN REP FOR USA?
7. WW II GERMAN- “THE DESERT FOX” OF THE “AFRIKA CORPS”?
8. BRAVEST SOUTHERN GENERAL – “THE WIZZARD OF THE SADDLE”?
9. VIRGINIA BORN YANKEE SOLDIER- “THE ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA”?
10. REAL/MOVIE OUTLAWS- “BUTCH CASSIDY & “THE SUNDANCE KID”?
11. SPACE DOCTOR- “BONES” TO CAPT. KIRK? ACTOR’S NAME?
12. BIG, FAT ENTERTAINER- “THE GREAT ONE”?
13. SINGER- “THE GODFATHER OF SOUL”?
14. SOUTHERN SOLDIER FROM VA.- “THE GREY GHOST”?
15. YANKEE SOLDIER- “FIGHTING JOE” DIDN’T AT CHANCELLORSVILLE?
16. AMERICAN REV. WAR HERO- “THE SWAMP FOX”?
17. STATE OF US- “THE GRAND CANYON STATE”?
18. DANCER- “MR. BOJANGLES”?
19. GOLFER- “THE GOLDEN BEAR”?
20. FICTIONAL HERO- “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO”?
21. EUTHANASIA ENTHUSIAST- “DR. DEATH”?
22. T V CRAZY MAN- “THE CROCODILE HUNTER”?
23. STATE- “THE BEEHIVE STATE” FOR HARD WORK CHURCH?
24. BIG CITY- “THE WINDY CITY”& “CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS”?
25. BIGGER CITY- “THE CITY OF THE ANGELS” OR “LA LA LAND”?
26. SINGER- MUST “RESPECT” “THE QUEEN OF SOUL”?
27. “BOB DYLAN” COULD TELL WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS?
28. “WHEN DOVES CRY” SINGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS “PRINCE”?
29. NFL TEAM- “MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY”?
30. NBA STAR- “MAGIC”?
31. NBA STAR- “DR. J”?
32. “BOY GENERAL”, “YELLOWHAIR”, &“SON OF/MORNING STAR”?
33. WW II & KOREA HERO -“AMERICAN CAESAR” & “DUGOUT DOUG”?
34. CONFEDERATE HERO/OUTLAW “MR. HOWARD” SHOT IN BACK?
35. CHICAGO GANGSTER- “SCARFACE”?
36. SITE OF JAPANESE SURRENDER/WW II- “THE MIGHTY MO”?
37. NAZI MADMAN OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS- “THE DR. OF DEATH”?
38. DODGER HALL OF FAMER- “THE DUKE OF FLATBUSH AVENUE”?
39. N Y GIANT HALL OF FAMER- “THE SAY HEY KID”?
40. GERMAN WW I FLYING ACE- “THE RED BARON”, SNOOPY?

ANSWERS TO “NICKNAMES OF THE WORLD” (4/22/03) 

1. MEL TORME
2. LINCOLN
3. MAGLIE
4. M. ALI
5. JOE LOUIS
6. E. ROOSEVELT
7. ERWIN ROMMEL
8. NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST
9. GEORGE THOMAS
10. BLANK LEROY PARKER AND HARRY LONGBAUGH
11. DOCTOR LEONARD MC COY/ PLAYED BY DEFOREST KELLEY
12. JACKIE GLEASON
13. JAMES BROWN
14. JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY – “MOSBY’S RANGERS”
15. GENERAL JOE HOOKER
16. FRANCIS MARION
17. ARIZONA
18. BILL ROBINSON
19. JACK NICKLAUS
20. EDMUND DANTES
21. JACK KEVORKIAN
22. UTAH
23. STEVE IRWIN
24. CHICAGO
25. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
26. ARETHA FRANKLIN
27. ROBERT “BOBBY” ZIMMERMAN
28. PRINCE ROGERS NELSON OF MINNESOTA
29. “DA BEARS” OF CHICAGO
30. EARVIN JOHNSON
31. JULIUS ERVING
32. GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
33. DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR
34. JESSE JAMES
35. AL CAPONE
36. BATTLESHIP USS MISSOURI– (PRES. TRUMAN FROM MISSOURI!)
37. JOSEPH MENGELA
38. EDWIN DONALD “DUKE” SNIDER
39. WILLIE HOWARD MAYS
40. BARON MANFRED VON RICHTHOVEN, GERMAN ACE WWI.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY?

KNOW YOUR ENEMY 

by DOUG MAYNARD

 

IRAQ IS THE PRESENT DAY NAME OF THE “BABYLONIAN EMPIRE”/ BIBLE.

 EVERY ORGANIZED RELIGION HAS A ROOT SYSTEM BASED IN BABYLON. 

ALL EARLY EMPIRES WERE BASED ON RIVER SYSTEMS. EGYPT= NILE.

 

THE MIDDLE EAST MEETS THE NEAR EAST AT PERSIAN GULF.

 THE FAR EAST IS CHINA, NORTH KOREA AND INDONESIA-ANTI-USA? 

EAST IS ORIENTAL. USA IS OCCIDENTAL. DIFFERENT STROKES/ FOLKS?

 BABYLONIANS FOUGHT ASSYRIANS. IRAQ V SYRIA TODAY. 

THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATIES RIVERS AREA GAVE BIRTH/CIVILIZATION

 

MESO (MIDDLE OF) POTAMIA (RIVERS)= SUMERIANS/ LANGUAGE/WHEEL.

 IRAQ IS IN MESOPOTAMIA- IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TWO GREAT RIVERS. 

THEY INVENTED WRITING, LAW/MANY LEGENDS LIKE FLOOD STORY

 

RICH JEWS IN CAPIVITY TOOK THESE STORIES BACK HOME AFTERWARD

 

MANY BIBLE STORIES ARE FROM THIS PERIOD AND BORROWED FROM BABYON.

 

BABYLON COMES FROM “BABEL”. THAT’S WHERE THE TOWER WAS.

 

BABYLON BY NAME MEANS LITERALLY, “CONFUSED”. SEE BIBLE.

 THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS ALSO IN “MESOPOTAMIA”. 

THE PERSIAN GULF IS IRAQ’S ONLY OUTLET TO THE INDIAN OCEAN. 

JEWISH PATRIARCH “ABRAM” WAS FROM CITY OF “UR” IN IRAQ. 

BASRA IS A MAJOR TARGET AND HAS BEEN SCENE OF ETERNAL BATTLES.

 

TURKEY TOUCHES IRAQ. IS HALF WESTERN/ HALF EASTERN/ THOUGHT.

 

BABYLON IS ALSO CALLED THE “LAND OF SHINAR” IN THE BIBLE.

You are HERE too

URHERE2 USELESS INFO-ONE QUESTION TEST   

WE’RE JUST SURFING THE COSMOS.   

LIKE MICROSCOPIC FLEETS OF TALL SAILED SHIPS IN A BOUNDLESS OCEAN OF UNIVERSE,

OUR GALAXIES BOBBLE THROUGH GRAVITY’S ROUGH WAVES TOWARD CRASHING TIDES

ON SOME FAR DISTANT SHORE OF A NEW AND DIFFERENT WORLD

ALWAYS JUST OUT OF OUR PRESENT SIGHT AND REACH!

 LIKE THE NINA, PINTA, AND THE SANTA MARIA OF SPACE/CYBERSPACE.    –       

 

SKIP ENGLISH-2003

Robert E. Lee

LEE’S DECISION

BY

                       

DOUG MAYNARD

SCC INSTRUCTOR

20 TRAMMELL AVE.

CANTON, NC 28716

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Early in 1861, Colonel Robert Edward Lee, in command of the United States Second Cavalry, had been ordered to return to Washington, D. C. from fighting Apache and Comanche Indians near the Rio Grande border of Old Mexico.

Lee, now fifty-four years old, was exhausted from his long trip and the danger and humiliation of being kicked out of San Antonio by Texas confederates. Texas rebels had just taken over all that state’s federal forts, and since Lee had been wearing the beautiful blue “Yankee” uniform that he had worn proudly for thirty-five years, his life had been threatened, his possessions taken, and he had been forced to finish his long trip in civilian attire.

As he entered General Winfield Scott’s office in new President Lincoln’s Washington DC, Lee considered the imponderable decision he knew he now would have to make.

“Old Fuss and Feathers” Scott was now over three hundred pounds and considered

“ancient”, but he was the most experienced military man alive and had been Lee’s mentor in the army since the war with Mexico almost fifteen years ago.

Lee knew that Scott was about to offer him the very thing he had hardly dared hope for in his long distinguished career—total command of all US Army forces—just like his all-time hero and real father figure, George Washington!

George Washington was of course THE great hero of all of America. Honoring his memory was the only thing remaining that southern “FIRE EATERS” and the Yankee “ABOLITIONISTS” could still agree on since South Carolina and the others had moved on federal installations. Washington was the nation’s hero, but to Robert E Lee he was more than that.

Washington was almost a living presence in the house and area of Virginia where Lee was born. His very home itself had come from Washington’s family and personal effects of the greatest American hero throughout the residence reminded Lee of stories of the American Revolution and his father’s relationship with Washington.

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                        Lee’s real father was the Revolutionary War hero “Lighthorse Harry” Lee, friend of the great Washington himself, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the man who originated the funeral quote about Washington being FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN.

                                                                                   

   

Lee’s poor father, who had suffered much worse defeats after the revolution than he ever

had during it, had been forced to abandon his family and his country in debt and disgrace, and “Light Horse Harry” had died far away when Lee had been only eleven years old.

At that young age, Robert had immediately assumed the role of “the man of the family” and had tended to his invalid mother until he left for the US Military Academy in 1825 when he was eighteen. Of course now we all know that he also spent the rest of his life tending to his invalid wife. Honor and Duty came first!

Lee used the magnificent example of Washington as his role model as he determined to reclaim his family name and honor through a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country, just as they said at West Point.

As a cadet at the US Military Academy, Lee had been so perfect that even the other cadets called him “The Marble Model” in honor of his devotion to professionalism and his obvious qualities as a leader and a gentleman.

Lee had survived the insurrection against Federal installations in Texas, and as he walked into the office of his greatest friend in the army, he knew his job would be to put down any further loss of property and face by leading his mighty force against the rebels who had just started to build their army near Montgomery, Alabama, the capitol of the new confederacy.

Lee had stated often and plainly his opposition to both slavery and succession, and he knew Scott would expect him to follow the lead of Scott, himself a Virginian, and other Virginians such as Lee’s friend George Thomas, who stood like a “rock” for the union and the US flag.

Yet Lee had paced the floor all the previous night trying to weigh his options, and his heart throbbed in his forehead as he continued to wipe his worried brow.

                                                                                                           

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Should he honor his oath to the United States Army, or as a Virginian, should he join the rebels threatening the very flag he had spent his whole adult life protecting and which had almost cost him his life in Texas? What did “DUTY, HONOR, COUNTY require?

Of course, looking back now, we all know that Lee decided to accept the command of the mighty Union army, and along with Scott, Thomas, and the many other loyal Virginians, he went on to crush the rebellion in just three months- just as everyone said they would.

                                                                                               

  

Although it was a minor thing, now hardly even mentioned in the history books, the short civil unrest and rebellion thrust Lee into the presidency over Lincoln in the election of 1864, and today you can visit the Lee Memorial in Washington, DC. It’s right beside the Memorial to his hero, George Washington.

Ex-president Lee made the correct decision.

Fill in the blanks quiz

FILL IN THE BLANKS

BY

DOUG MAYNARD

“A LITTLE BLANK IS A DANGEROUS THING!  DRINK DEEP, OR NOT AT ALL FROM PARNASSAS’ SPRING.”- ALEXANDER POPE.

 “OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE. THEY BLANK BLANK BLANK!”- MC ARTHUR.

                       

“IT IS NOT THE END. IT IS NOT EVEN THE BEGINNING OF THE END. BUT IT MAY BE THE BLANK OF THE BLANK.”- CHURCHILL ‘

NEVER IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS HAVE SO MANY OWED SO MUCH BLANK BLANK BLANK” .- CHURCHILL ON Royal Air Force. 

“THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, AND BLANK BLANK BLANK FOR BLANK”  – ARMSTONG 

“GO BLANK, YOUNG BLANK, GO BLANK”- H. GREELEY 

“I REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE BLANK TO GIVE FOR MY BLANK” – HALE 

“I KNOW NOT WHAT COURSE OTHERS MAY TAKE, BUT AS FOR ME, GIVE BLANK BLANK OR BLANK BLANK BLANK”!- PATRICK HENRY 

“WASHINGTON WAS BLANK IN WAR, BLANK IN PEACE, AND BLANK IN THE BLANK’S OF HIS COUNTRYMEN”. – RICHARD HENRY LEE 

“NEVER LOOK BACK. THEY MAY BE BLANKING ON BLANK”.SATCH PAIGE 

“ASK NOT WHAT YOUR BLANK CAN DO FOR BLANK. ASK WHAT YOU CAN BLANK FOR YOUR BLANK”.- KENNEDY “

ALL WE HAVE TO BLANK IS BLANK ITSELF”- F. ROOSEVELT. 

“I HATE BLANK. ELANORE HATES BLANK. FALA HATES BLANK.! –FDR. 

“ I SHALL BLANK!” (TO THE PHILIPPINES) – MC ARTHUR 

“TOMORROW IS BLANK BLANK.” – SCARLETT O’HARA in GWTW 

“BLANKLY, MY BLANK, I DON’T BLANK A BLANK!” – RHETT BUTLER 

“BLANK IT AGAIN, BLANK.” – BOGIE IN “CASABLANCA” 

“BLANK TO BED, BLANK TO BLANK, MAKES A BLANK BLANKY, BLANKY, AND BLANK” – BEN FRANKLIN 

“ IF WE DON’T ALL HANG BLANK, WE SHALL CERTAINLY ALL HANG BLANKLY.” – BEN FRANKLIN TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. 

“BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR BLANK, HE KINDLY STOPPED FOR ME”.  – EMILY. DICKENSON

 “A FOOLISH CONSISTENCY IS THE BLANK OF LITTTLE BLANKS.” – RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 “NOW THE WINTER OF OUR BLANK IS MADE SPRING BY THAT GLORIOUS SON OF YORK.” – RICHARD III BY W. SHAKESPEARD (1^ST LINE?) 

“THE BLANK IS THE MASSAGE” – (BOOK TITLE) – MARSHALL MCLUAN “ A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLANK” – (BOOK TITLE)- STEVEN HAWKING 

“ I FEAR I HAVE AWAKENED A SLEEPING BLANK” – ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO AFTER PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

 “WE HAVE MET THE BLANK, AND HE IS BLANK.” – POGO/ FUNNY  PAPERS. 

“DAMN THE BLANKS!  BLANK BLANK BLANK”! – FARRAGUT IN C. WAR. 

“HOW ‘BOUT THEM BLANKS”! –UGGA (MASCOT) 

“WHO LET THE BLANKS BLANK”? – BAHA MEN SONG 

“BLANKS”. – MC CALLUF’S ONE WORD RESPONSE AT BASTONNE TO GERMAN SURRENDER REQUEST IN WWII’S BATTLE OF THE BULGE.

 

“I SHALL GO TO BLANK”. – IKE’S PRE-PRESIDENTAL PROMISE

 

“BLANKY BEATS TRUMAN”. –INCORRECT NEWS HEADLINE IN 1948.

 “ON THE WHOLE, I’D RATHER BE IN BLANK.” – W. C. FIELDS’ GRAVESTONE 

“DO YOU KNOW HOW TO BLANK A BLANK, PILGRIM?” – W. GERE IN JERIMIAH JOHNSON TO ROBERT REDFORD ON BEAR HUNTING INSIDE

 “GAMBLING PROMISES THE POOR WHAT PROPERTY PROVIDES THE BLANK”. – GEORGE B. SHAW 

“HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT’S BLANK IT IS TO HAVE A THANKLESS CHILD”. – KING LEAR BY SHAKESPEARE.

 “ALAS, POOR BLANK. I KNEW HIM, HORATIO. A MAN OF INFINITE BLANK”. – HAMLET BY SHAKESPEARE. 

“ THE REST IS BLANK”. – HAMLET’S LAST WORDS AND MASS ENDING.

 “LAY ON BLANK, AND DAMNED BE HIM WHO FIRST CRIES, “BLANK, BLANK!” – MACBETH BY SHAKESPEARE. 

“MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL WHICH BLANKS– OR NEEDS TO.” –M. TWAIN 

“FREEDOM’S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR BLANK BLANK TO BLANK.”. –SONG LINE BY KRIS KRISTOFFERSON 

“WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR BLANKS COME TRUE, AND THEY’RE NOT QUITE LIKE YOU BLANKED?”- EAGLES LINE ABOUT SLEEP.

“MOMMA’S IN THE FACTORY, SHE AIN’T GOT NO BLANKS. DADDY’S IN THE ALLEY LOOKIN FOR FOOD. I’M IN THE BLANK WITH THE TOMBSTONE BLUES.” – BOB DYLAN

 

“YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A BLANK TO TELL WHICH WAY THE BLANK BLANKS.” – B. DYLAN

 “THE BLANK I HAD FOR BREAKFAST WASN’T BAD, SO I HAD ONE MORE FOR DESSERT.” – “SUNDAY MORNING COMIN’ DOWN” – KRISTOFFERSON 

“THE ONE AND ONLY BILLY SHEARS, AND BLANK BLANPPER’S BLANKLY BLANK’S BLANK BAND.” –  ALBUM TITLE, JOHN LENNON 

“DOWN AT THE END OF BLANK BLANK AT BLANKBREAK BLANK.” –ELVIS 

“I DO NOT BLANK BLANK BLANKS AND BLANK”. –  DR.SEUSS “

 BLANK BLANK, I PRESUME?” – STANLY IN AFRICA. 

“WHO’S ON BLANK?” – L. COSTELLO. “I DON’T KNOW’S ON BLANK.”- B.A. 

“A MARTINI, PLEASE, BLANKEN, NOT BLANKERRED.” – BOND, JAMES BOND

 “I CAN’T BLANK NO BLANK” – SIR MICK JAGGER “I CAN’T BLANK OF ANY MORE BLANKING BLANKS”-

ANSWERS BELOW. 

ANSWERS TO FILL IN THE BLANKS

  LEARNING,

JUST FADE AWAY,

THE END OF THE BEGINNING,

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,

GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, GO WEST,

LIFE FOR MY COUNTRY,

GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH,

FIRST ,FIRST, AND FIRST HEARTS,

GAINING ON YOU,

COUNTRY, YOU DO, COUNTRY,

FEAR IS FEAR , WAR, WAR, WAR,

 RETURN,

ANOTHER DAY,

 DEAR, GIVE A DAMN!, P

LAY IT AGAIN, SAM,

EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE, MAKES A MAN HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE,

TOGETHER, SEPARATELY,

DEATH,

HOBGOBBLIN OF LITTLE MINDS,

DISCONTENT, MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE,

BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME,

GIANT, ENEMY AND US,

TORPEDOS, FULL SPEED AHEAD,

DAWGS!,

DOGS OUT,

NUTS,

KOREA,

DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN (WRONG),

PHILADELPHIA,

SKIN A GRIZ?,

RICH,

TOOTH,

YORICK, JEST,

SILENCE,

MC DUFF- HOLD-ENOUGH,

BLUSHES,

NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE,

DREAMS-PLANNED,

SHOES-KITCHEN,

WEATHERMAN-WIND BLOWS,

BEER FOR BREAKFAST,

SGT. PEPPER’S LONEY HEARTS CLUB BAND,

LONEY STREET AT HEARTBREAK HOTEL,

I DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM,

DR. LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME?,

FIRST-THIRD,

SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED,

GET NO SATISFACTION

OUT OF THESE BLANKETY- BLANK BLANKS!-

 HAPPY BLANKING TEST RESULTS!   

Civil War Notes

CIVIL WAR WANDERINGS-EASTERN THEATRE-SOUTHERN VERSION 

BY

DOUG MAYNARD- (3/31/03)

 WHY DID AMERICAN FATHERS KILL SONS AND BROTHERS/ BROTHERS? WHEN DID IT REALLY START? WHERE? WHY? WHO? WHAT HAPPENED? 

NATION PAYING FOR SINS OF SLAVERY AND THEIR FATHERS IN 1776?

 COMPROMISE/ TAKE SLAVERY & PASS CONSTITUTION/ BACKFIRED! 

STRATEGY= BIG MAP. TACTICS=UP CLOSE & PERSONAL. BIG DIFF.

 GENERALS DO THE FIRST. OTHERS DO THE SECOND. BIG DIFF! PRIVATES & SGTS DO MOST REAL FIGHTING AND WORK OF WAR. WAR KILLED MORE AMERICANS THAN ALL OTHER WARS COMBINED! 

ABOUT SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND “EMPTY CHAIRS” AT SAD TABLES!

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