What are some good trivia facts for these people and holidays?

Question

My brother has a school assignment and he needs some good trivia facts for the following:

Independence Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
President's Day
Columbus Day
Veterans Day
Memorial Day
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Susan B. Anthony
Jackie Robinson

I suppose I should have mentioned this: we've already tried google, as well as various homework help sites and we found about three-quarters of them already. Those listed are a very small fraction of the actual assignment given, and we have a very bad computer that keeps shutting down at the most inconvenient times, and no car + we live far out in the country. So basically, we've tried a lot of things, and this IS a last resort.

Forgot to mention something again: We had been planning to put up all the ones we hadn't gotten yet on this site, while we continued to look on other places as well, so it was a backup plan, as well as a last resort.

I understand that he needs to learn things himself, but there are various personal reasons that I would prefer not to disclose here which, I believe, make this acceptable, even if our above-stated intentions did not.

Answer 1

1)Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
2)In 1999, New Hampshire changed the name of Civil Rights Day to Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
3)Many people feel that Lincoln, the president credited with preserving the nation during the Civil War, has been short-changed. To them, having Presidents' Day is a sensible way to recognize both Washington and Lincoln. Others feel just as strongly that having an inclusive Presidents' Day diminishes Washington's importance in American history
4)1937 President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims Oct. 12 as Columbus Day.
5)Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day
World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.
6)"Memorial Day, holiday in the United States observed in late May. Previously designated Decoration Day, it was inaugurated in 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans and has since become a day on which all war dead are commemorated."
7)Thurgood Marshall argued more than 30 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully challenging racial segregation
8) King organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
9) Susan Anthony was a nearly 70-year veteran in the fight for women's rights
10)in 1941 played professional football with the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast League. He entered the army in World War II and was discharged as a lieutenant in 1945. In Oct., 1945, Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Robinson to play for the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn farm club in the International League. Despite several incidents in spring training in the South and many inconveniences during the season, Robinson—the first African-American ballplayer in that league—excelled as a second baseman and won the league batting crown.

Answer 2

Tell your brother to do this the way everyone is expected to do it: research each person/holiday, read through the information on each, and try to come up with something that would fit into the category of trivia on each.
Homework is assigned so that students can go through a learning process and arrive at conclusions based on hard work, not so that they can try as many ways as possible to get a good grade by asking other people to do their work for them. Life, my friend, does not shake out that way.
Besides, this is supposed to be a "Homework Help" category, not a "Please Do My Homework For Me" (although many of the requests don't even contain the "please" part).
Nobody said you couldn't help your brother, just don't do it (or ask anyone else to do it) for him. You're not doing him any favors by doing this.
Have your brother check out each name and holiday in www.Wikipedia.com. This site is really good and has lots of information in a very easy-to-read, concise format. Then www.Google.com any on which he had no success. If, after all that research, he still has a few on which he just can't find any info that could be considered trivia, try this site again. That would be a completely different story.
Good luck.

P.S.And Gagirl above has just destroyed everything I just said. Well, your brother learned a great deal today, didn't he?

Answer 3

The lights of the National Christmas Tree has been used to deliver a few symbolic that means now not regarding Christmas. It used to be now not lighted till Dec. 22 in 1963 seeing that of a countrywide mourning interval of 30 days for the assassination of President Kennedy. And at the same time Teddy Roosevelt used to be President he gave an order that banned the Christmas tree from the White House. Among average units utilized in Christmas decorations are the holly and the mistletoe. Both are used in particular in wreaths and garlands. The Druids began the culture of utilising the mistletoe as ornamental units as much as 200 years earlier than Christ. Sending greeting playing cards for the duration of Christmas and the vacations is as standard at present because the customized of giving presents. The culture of sending Christmas playing cards began in 1840 in Britain with the begin of public postal supply carrier of the 'Penny Post.' Then from approximately 1860, significant numbers of Christmas greeting playing cards began to be produced.

Answer 4

Name of Baptist Church which Martin Luther King served as co-Paster in Atlanta, Georgia?
--Ebenezer Church


What famous event occurred in the room known as the Lincoln Bedroom on January 1, 1863?
--Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 5

Try Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia. They often have a trivia section. For example, Memorial Day is located in wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_day