The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865

The 1924 Pulitzer Prize went to a play with the oxymoronic title Hell-bent Fer this place The 1953 Alan Ladd film Shane is among the many Westerns filmed in this valley east of the Tetons The 1980s program of reforms in the USSR included this, Russian for restructuring The 1999 movie The Haunting was based on her novel The Haunting of Hill House The 2 slaves Michelangelo sculpted for the unfinished tomb of Pope Julius II are in this Parisian museum The 3 main forts in Muscat date from the 1580s when this small Iberian nation conquered & occupied it The 7 lucky gods of this country's folklore include Ebisu, god of fisherman, & Hotei, god of happiness The administration had trouble getting a moratorium on deepwater this past Judge Feldman