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American baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career homerun record.
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Aaron, Hank.
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Finished career with 755 homeruns.
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American baseball player who finished his career with 755 home runs and 2,297 RBIs.
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Aaron, Hank.
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Broke Babe Ruth's career homerun record by 41.
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French philosopher regarded as the founder of the University of Paris.
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Abelard, Peter.
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Lincoln + Tina = U.P. Founder.
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French philosopher who wrote _Si_et_Non_.
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Abelard, Peter.
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Lincoln + Tina = S.e.N. Playwright.
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French philosopher known for his love affair with Heloise.
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Abelard, Peter.
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Lincoln + Tina = Heloise Lover
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American civil rights leader who succeeded Martin Luther King, Jr. as leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after King's assasination.
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Abernathy, Ralph David.
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After + Assasi' = . . .
After assasination . . . |
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Secretary of State under Truman who wrote _Present_at_Creation_ for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Acheson, Dean.
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I ache for my son, man. . .
He is a true man. . . |
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Dean Acheson served as secretary of state under him.
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Truman, Harry S.
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He is a true man. . .
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Wife of the second president of the U.S. and mother of the sixth.
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Adams, Abigail Smith.
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Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams.
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American photographer and founder of f/64 group.
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Adams, Ansel.
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Shares the last name of the second and sixth president.
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The group founded by Ansel Adams.
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f/64.
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It's a fraction. The numerator is a letter and the denominator is a perfect square.
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Born in Braintree, a city now sharing the middle name of his son, this president was the vice president of the first president.
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Adams, John.
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He is the second president.
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The XYZ affair occured while he was in office.
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Adams, John.
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He is the second president.
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He served as secreatary of state for James Monroe before becoming president.
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Adams, John Quincy.
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He is the sixth president.
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He beat Jackson for his first term, even though Jackson recieved more popular votes.
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Adams, John Quincy.
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He is the sixth president.
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American social reformer known for co-founding the Hull House. . .
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Addams, Jane.
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. . . a social settlement that served as a community center for the poor in Chicago.
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First chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Adenauer, Konrad.
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Western AID came once AN HOUR.
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Greek slave known in literature for his. . .
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Aesop.
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. . . fables.
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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist famous for first proposing. . .
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Agassiz, Jean Louis.
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. . . ice ages.
A gas is involved in global warming (opp. ice ages). |
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American author whose works include _Let_Us_Now_Praise_Famous_Men_ and the Pulitzer Prize winning _A_Death_in_the_Family_.
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Agee, James.
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Aww, gee, who is this depression-era tenent farmer anyhow?
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Corrupted governor of Maryland and vice-president.
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Agnew, Spiro Theodore.
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Vice-president under Nixon.
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Plilippine leader who rebelled from Spain with the aid of the U.S., and later rebelled against the U.S.
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Aguinaldo, Emilio.
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A GUINEAU is ALL 'DO could get from him.
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Current Japanese emperor. Married a commoner -- Shoda Michiko.
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Akihito.
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Son of Hirohito.
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Wrote _The_Three-Cornered_Hat on which Manuel de Falla based a ballet.
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Alarcon, Pedro.
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A LARK is ON my Three Cornered Hat!
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American playwright famous for his clever and often satiric plays such as _Who's_Afraid_of_Virginia_Wolfe?_, _A_Delicate_Balance_, _Seascape_, and _3_Tall_Women_.
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Albee, Edward.
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Well I'LL BE, it's a satiric play!
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American playwright author of _Seascape_.
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Albee, Edward.
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Well I'LL BE, he wrote _Seascape_!
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Spanish composer and pianist best remembered for his piano work _Iberia_.
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Albeniz, Isaac.
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AL, BEN HAS written *Ibe*ria.
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Dominican philosopher called the "Universal Doctor". Teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Albertus Magnus, Saint.
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ALBERT IS MAGNIficent in Dominica.
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Author known for portraying Vicotrian American family life. Wrote. . .
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Alcott, Louisa May
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. . . Little Women.
. . . Little Men. . . . Jo's Boys. |
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Republican senator from RI best known for authoring the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. It occurred during William Taft's presidential term.
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Aldrich, Nelson.
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ALL are gonna be RICH after my tarriff!
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American astronaut that was the second person on the moon.
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Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz".
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All drains on the moon lead to nowhere.
I hear a bee. |
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Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was on what mission?
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Apollo 11.
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"Buzz" was the second:
One Armstrong. . . One Buzz. . . |
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King of Wessex from 871-899.
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Alfred.
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______ the Great.
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Famous for his rags to riches stories for boys.
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Alger, Horatio.
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AL GER'ed from rags to riches.
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Author of _Ragged Dick_.
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Alger, Horatio.
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AL GOED from rags to riches.
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American boxer born Cassius Clay.
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Ali, Muhammed.
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Became a Black Muslum in 1964.
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American boxer who became a Black Muslum in 1964.
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Ali, Muhammed.
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Born Cassius Clay.
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American Revolutionary figure led the Green Mountain Boys. . .
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Allen, Ethan.
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. . . at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
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American film director born Allen Stewart Konigsberg.
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Allen, Woody.
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His films include _Annie_Hall_, _Hannah_and_Her_Sisters_, and _Alice_.
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American film director whose films include _Annie_Hall_, _Hannah_and_Her_Sisters_, and _Alice_.
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Allen, Woody.
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American film director born Allen Stewart Konigsberg.
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Ugandan president who seized control from Milton Obote, and was exiled in 1979.
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Amin, Idi.
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A MEN got Uganda.
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English novelist who penned the satire _Lucky_Jim_.
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Amis, Kingsley.
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"Lucky Jim is UH ME!"
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Furthered the work of Hans Oersted on the relationship between electricity and magnetism. . .
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Ampere, Andre.
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. . . The basic unit of electric current is named after him.
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Norwegian explorer and first person to reach the South Pole. Also the first to fly over the North Pole and commanded the first ship to sail through the Northwest Passage.
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Amundensen, Roald.
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What's at the north pole? A MOUND, SON.
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Danish fairy tale writer.
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Andersen, Hans Christian.
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American physicist who discovered the positron. He shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in physics with V. F. Hess.
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Anderson, Carl.
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Jean ANDERSON is a really positive person, don't you think?
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African American contralto who was the first permanant A.A. member of the Metropolitan Opera, and the first A.A. to perform at the White House. Alt. UN del. 1958.
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Anderson, Marian.
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Jean ANDERSON is also probably a great singer.
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American dramatist who authored many plays including _What_Price_Glory?_, _Winterset_, and _Elizabeth_the_Queen_.
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Anderson, Maxwell.
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Jean ANDERSON is has a priced glory, no? A queen, yes? Set in winter? Really bad. . .
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American author whose works include _Winesburg,_Ohio_, _Poor_White_, and _Dark_Laughter_.
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Anderson, Sherwood.
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Jean ANDERSON is a great author, with some great Poor White tales set in Winesburg, Ohio.
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Soviet leader who served as head of the KGB, general secretary of the USSR, and succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in 1983 as Soviet Chief of State.
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Andropov, Yuri.
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ANDROPODs were not accepted in the USSR.
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African American poet, playwright, and short-story author best known for _I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings_. She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of Bill Clinton.
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Angelou, Maya.
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ANGELs named LOU write great poems.
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Sweedish physicist after which the length unit equal to 10^-10 meters in named.
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Angstrom, Anders.
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dANG, that Sweedish physisist is STRONG!
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Queen of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Great Britain. Daughter of James II, and successor to William II. The last Stuart ruler, and a devout Protestant. None of Anne's children survived her, so George I succeeded her upon her death.
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Anne, Queen of England.
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ANNE is the last Stuart.
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British Princess and Daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1973, she married Mark Phillips, divorced him, and married Timothy Laurence.
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Anne, Princess.
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You're on your own. . .
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Fourth queen of Henry VIII of England. Married Henry VIII, and divorced him later that year.
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Anne of Cleaves.
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Come on, just guess ANNE. . .
OF CLEAVES. . . |
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Queen consort of James I of England.
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Anne of Denmark.
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Once again, guess ANNE; this time OF DENMARK.
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