1. Cartoonist Al Capp, creator of
"Li'l Abner," also had a comic parody detective, "Fearless Fosdick,"
usually pictured with several bullet holes in his hat and himself.
"Fearless Fosdick," also appeared in comic advertisements for what hair
product originally manufactured in Buffalo, NY?
2.
What oil company, founded in 1916 originally as a New York Corporation,
but reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976, has a dinosaur on its logo?
Sinclair Oil Company
3.
The first significant settlement by Europeans in West Jersey was made
in 1678 by European settlers who arrived on the ship KENT in 1677 in
Salem [NJ] and who canoed up the Delaware River to the Rancocas Creek
then settling in Burlington and Rancocas. Why were they being persecuted
in England?
Because they were Quakers [Fall, 1677— The ship Kent arrives in Delaware with Quaker settlers
fleeing oppression in England, disembarking in Salem and canoeing and
walking up the Delaware River to the Rancocas Creek, and then to
Burlington, New Jersey. ... the first important settlement in West Jersey was made in 1678, when
two hundred and thirty people sailed up the Delaware and founded
Burlington, and within two years several hundred more had made their
homes in the vicinity.
4. Why don't maps depict the Islands of Langerhans?
5. Who or [what job did the person do] who is usually regarded as the creator of shorthand?
