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[winterbadger]

Well, let's hope this link (to a PDF) works better.

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/citizenship/flashcards/Flashcard_questions.pdf

This came up on a community I read. How many folks who are US cits already know all the answers to these? I annotated the copy I sent around the office (where most people are gettting at least a couple wrong), as I feel some of the questions are subjective and rather open-ended, and one or two answers are actually wrong or incomplete.

I assume this follows up on a test booklet that may train applicants in the "right" answers to some of the more subjective questions. (Whihc makes me think of the scene in The Untouchables where Sean Connery's character is asking the police cadets why they want to be policemen. "To uh, protecta, and, er, serve the people, of, er..." :-)

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Re: Because I am THAT bored, pt. 1

[winterbadger]

11. *Hessians*, not Prussians. ;-) Yes, they all wear blue coats, but Koenig Friederich was busy using his impeccably drilled Potsdammers partition Poland with Russia and Austria and didn't send any over here to fight Americans. :-) The German contingent was from Brunswick, Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Hanau, Ansbach, and Anhalt-Zerbst.

(I think it was the last who sent a contingent that sat for most of the war on transport ships anchored in the St. Lawrence; very sad, as they had magnificent uniforms, IIRC white with black boots (or shoes and gaiters for practical use), red cloaks, and tall black cylindrical fur or felt hats--meant to look like the ferocious "pandours" or bandit-soldiers of the Balkans, whow had been terrific light infantry in recent wars in Europe, being the Austrian Empire's equivalent of Scottish Highlanders.)