Friday, Oct 20

Good morning!

Today we will finish up America Story of Us; wrap up US Constitution

Answers to Constitution sheet - 1) Y 2.2, 2) No 3.3, 3) Yes 3.4, 4) No 6.1, 5) No 6.2, 6) Yes 5.2, 7) No 7.3, 8) No 9.3, 9) No 10.2, 10) Yes 5..1, 11) No 7.2, 12) Yes 10.3

Articles 2 & 3 - 1) Yes, 2) Yes, 3) No, 4) No, 5) No, 6) Yes, 7) Yes, 8) Yes, 9) Yes, 10) No  Article 3 - 11) No, 12) No, 13) Yes, 14) No, 15) Yes, 16) No

Current Events
Planned transmission lines re-routed? Stony Point and Haverstraw residents need to view this - LoHud

Video - Historic Stony Point cemetery and transmission lines - LoHud (goes with article above it)

A boom in credit cards; great news for banks, for us, not so much - NYT

Today in History

• 1803

  The Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

• 1944

  Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he said "I shall return."

• 1947

  The U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee opened meetings about alleged Communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry.

• 1964

  The 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, died in New York at age 90.

• 1968

  Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.

• 1973

  During the Watergate scandal, Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned and special prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed by President Nixon in what came to be known as the "Saturday Night Massacre."

• 2011

  Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is killed by rebel troops in Surt, Libya, his hometown.