On the 19th of which month in 1865 did Union troops in Galveston announce freedom to enslaved people in Texas?

The 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to Hatcher Hughes's play with the oxymoronic title "Hell-Bent fer" where? The 1953 Alan Ladd Western "Shane" was filmed in which Wyoming valley, with the Tetons as its backdrop? The 1980s program of reforms in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev included which policy, Russian for "restructuring"? The 1999 movie "The Haunting" was based on which author's novel "The Haunting of Hill House"? Two "Slaves" that Michelangelo sculpted for Pope Julius II's unfinished tomb are displayed in which Paris museum? The main forts of Muscat, Oman, date from the 1580s, when which European nation occupied the city? The Seven Lucky Gods of which country's folklore include Ebisu, god of fishermen, and Hotei, god of happiness? In 2010, federal judge Martin Feldman blocked the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater what in the Gulf of Me…