Mixed Study 3

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Carl perkins also sang this elvis hit

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Blue suede shoes

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Rollin on the river is an album by this group with water in their name

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Creedence clearwater revival

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elston howard became the first black player on this American League Baseball team

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NY Yankees

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french-algerian author of "the stranger" & "the plague"

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Albert camus (1913-1960)

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This french algerian author was the first African born to win the nobel prize for literaturein 1957

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Albert camus

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The women in white & The moonstone by this Victorian era english author

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Wilkie collins

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"big O" of basketball fame

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oscar robertson

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in opera - she performs "the dance of the seven veils"

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salome (from the bible - said to lead to John the babtist's death)

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Temujin was the original name of this conqueror & ruler from the steppes who died in 1227

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Genghis Khan

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an excise officer in england, he hunted for smugglers & collected taxes before coming to america & writing "the crisis"

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Thomas Paine

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in 2011 TV movie
"too big to fail" william hurt played this GOP treasury chief who helped bail out wall street

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henry Paulsen

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fancy term for bruise

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contusion

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making this film in brazil in 1985
william hurt was kidnapped at gunpoint; that's one hard-earned oscar

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Kiss of the spider woman

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bridges of madison county
state

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iowa

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in physics energy unit denoted by eV

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electron volt

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milk is example of tiny drops of one liquid suspended in another

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emulsion

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hoofed mammals - with odd or even toes "uN"

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ungulates

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they wrote "tumbling dice" & "ruby tuesday"

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Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

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Marjorie Rawlings novel about a boy and his deer in Florida

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the yearling

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"stop in the name of love" was on this label

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motown

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he was shot in feb 1965 while giving a speech at the audobon ballroom in harlem

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Malcom X

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played by liam neeson, this leader of the irish struggle for independence was ambushed & killed in 1922

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Michael collins

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1828 -this great zulu warrior chief was killed by 2 of his half-brothers & a servant

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shaka

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minnesota liberal who was LBJ's VP

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Hubert Humphrey

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bruce babbit served in this post throughout the clinton presidency

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secretary of the interior

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NJ governor in 2010

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chris christie

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"nonsense" poet

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edward lear (1812-1888)

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Book of Nonsense &
Owl and the pussycat

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)

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Main character of this semi-autographical somerset Maugham book is orphan Philip Carey who has a club foot

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Of Human Bondage (1915)

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"the owl and the pussy cat " 19th c Brit poet/author

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)

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Country that was under joint rule of Britain & Egypt from 1899 -1956
largest city is omdurman

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Sudan

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what year did Soviet Union withdraw all aid fromChina
(sino-soviet split)

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1960

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heads of state of China & Soviet when their ideologies diverged in 1960

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Mao Zedung & Nikita Krushchev

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where is Babylon in current day

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In Iraq on the Euphrates - near Al-Helah 55 miles south of baghdad

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two rivers that define the mesopatamia

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Tigris & Euphrates (Euphrates is to the west)

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WHere the tigris and Euphrates empty into

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THe Persian GUlf

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this two rivers join in Iraq to make the Shatt al Arab that then empties into the Persian Gulf

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Tigris and Euphrates
tigris - east, euphrates - west

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Located on 7th ave between 56&57th st this concert hall that opened in 1891 was home to the new york philharmonic orchestra for many years until about 1959-1962

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Carnegie Hall

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20th c amer filmmaker famous for epic silent films like "the birth of a nation"

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D.W.Griffith

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this d.w.griffith film caused some riots in the north due to it's positive portrayal of ku klux klan & negative portrayal of Black Americans

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The BIrth of a Nation

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Intolerance his is response to the negative feedback from THe Birth of a Nation

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DW Griffith

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This first movie to be shown at the white house (while Wilson was president) was based on novel/play
The Clansman

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The Birth of a Nation - (it was used for Recruiting Ku Klux Klan

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The Clash's Big Hit - only top 10 single in the US
about a sharif'/king's ban on rock music

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Rock the Casbah

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Morocco capital

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Rabat

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Former Governor of Arkansas who lost 110 lbs

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Mike Huckabee

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President called for abolition of the gold standard

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Richard Nixon

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Alexandar Calder is an american painter and sculptor known for making these

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Mobile Sculptures

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Marcel duchamp coined this term while looking at Alexander Calder's kinetic works

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"mobile"

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author of East of Eden
(east of eden is Where cain when to the land of Nod after abel's murder)

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John Steinbeck

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Steinbeck may have considered this story of Caleb & Aron & Adam Trask (and the Hamiltons) in the Salinas Valley his magnus opus

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East of Eden

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Lamon & HOlland are Popular american breeds of this bird

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Chickens

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Pontiff is another Name for

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Pope

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The Clash's Big Hit - only top 10 single in the US
about a sharif'/king's ban on rock music

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Rock the Casbah

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Morocco capital

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Rabat

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Former Governor of Arkansas who lost 110 lbs

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Mike Huckabee

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President called for abolition of the gold standard

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Richard Nixon

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Alexandar Calder is an american painter and sculptor known for making these

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Mobile Sculptures

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this was John Steinbeck's puilitzer prize winning novel

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The Grapes of Wrath

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this author of "the pearl" & "cannery row" was a wwII correspondent for the New York Herald

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John Steinbeck

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the title of the pulitzer winner by Steinbeck is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Grapes of Wrath

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James Dean (directed by Elia Kazan) starred in this Steinbeck based movie of good and evil

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East of Eden

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In Dubious Battle (1936) came to be known as HIS Dustbowl trilogy, which included Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. This first novel tells the story of a fruit pickers' strike in California which is both aided and damaged by the help of "the Party," generally taken to be the Communist Party, although this is never spelled out in the book.

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JOhn Steinbeck

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this Steinbeck novel recounts his 1960 trip across america with his standard poodle

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Travels With Charley: In search of America

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Barbados capital

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Bridgetown

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pope is believed to be successor to this apostle

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Peter

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according to the Roman Catholic Church the condition of souls of the dead who die w/some punishment due from their sins

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Purgatory

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aka religious society of friends

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Quakers

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for what it's worth
band (which was springboard for Neil Young & Stephen Stills)

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Buffalo Springfield

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holy month of Islam
9th month of the calendar
fasting from sunrise to sunset

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Ramadan

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tuesday on or after Nov 2

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Election day

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Flag day is this day

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June 14th

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july 4th

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Us INdependence day

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Canada Day

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July 1

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swedish dramatist
wrote short stories
"married"
considered the "father of Modern Swedish literature
His "the red room" (1879) is described as the first Swedish modern novel

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August strindberg (1849-1912)

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region in se asia - including
"burma, cambodia, laos, malaysia, thailand, & vietnam"

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Indochina

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first american to be awarded the nobel prize
won peace prize in 1906

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt won peace prize in 1906 for negotiating peace in this war

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Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

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Considered "the first great war of the 20th century" it was fought over territory in Korea & Manchuria

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Russo-Japanese War

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Composer of Kalevala (Finnish epic poem)
which longfellow borrowed for the meter for the song of Hiawatha

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Jean Sibelius

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late romantic era composer of "Finlandia"

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Jean Sibelius

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Two Supercontinents approx 510-200 million years ago that formed the supercontinent Pangea -

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Laurasia & Gondwana
Laurasia was northernmost

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Howard's end was this author's first major success

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e m forester

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the title of this E M Forester book refers to a family cottage

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Howard's end

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1918 booth tarkington novel which won the 1919 pulitzer prize for novel

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The Magnificent Ambersons

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award winning 1942 Orson Welles film based on Booth Tarkington novel
-about a wealthy aristocratic family in Indianapolis whose money wanes, as industry grows

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The Magnificent Ambersons

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1944 Pulitzer winner & well-known WWII correspondent who was a roving correspondent for the scripps newspaper chain until is death in combat - 1945

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Ernie Pyle

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His writing about wwii soldiers led to congress passing a bill to give $10 a month extra to infantryman (fight pay much like pilots got flight Pay)

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Ernie Pyle
the bill was nicknamed "the ernie pyle bill"

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"the rite of spring" composer

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stravinsky

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cogito, ergo sum
translation & author of it

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I think therefore I am
Rene descartes
in "discourse on Method"

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His "discourse on Method" is the source for - I think therefore I am

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Rene descarte

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Luncheon on the grass
artist

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eduoard Manet
(showed 2 clothed men & a naked woman picnicking)

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Moonlight sonata
composer

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Beethoven

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Some common names of his sonata's
No. 8 - Pathetique

No. 12 - Funeral March

No. 14 - Moonlight

No. 15 - Pastorale

No. 17 - Tempest

No. 21 - Waldstein

No. 23 - Appassionata

No. 26 - Les Adieux

No. 29 - Hammerklavier

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Beethoven

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1810-1849 - polish composer and virtuoso pianist

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Frederic CHopin

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19th-20th c
late romantic austrian composer & conductor wrote long, emotional works for large orchestras including 9 sympohonies & part of #10

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Gustav Mahler

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Late romantic austrian composer who was briefly director of NY Met Opera & NY Philharmonic
And briefly conductor of the Vienna philharmonic

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Gustav Mahler

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"a thousand days" by
arthur schlessinger is about his presidency

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JFK

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born 1850, he killed billy the kid
west lawman
was sheriff of lincoln county, nm

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Pat Garrett

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Pat Garrett is known for killing this outlaw

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Billy the Kid

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Henry McCarty with alias William Harrison Bonney is better known as this outlaw killed by Pat Garrett

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Billy the Kid

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Other name of the mormons

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The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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war in 1950-1953

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Korean War
(north-aided by china invaded south-aided by UN under MacArthur)

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city home to art museum
Museo del Prado

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Madrid

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what is a nosh

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bagel with (nova scotia)lox & cream cheese

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former name of Guangzhou (gwang-joh) major port in China

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Canton

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also known as "italian mozart" composer of
william tell
cinderella
the marraige contract
the barber of seville
the thieving magpie
Otello (one version)

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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

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Italian composer of:
Don Carlos
Otello (one version)
Falstaff
MacBeth
Aida
Rigoletto
La Traviata
Il travatore

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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

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bloodiest single day of the civil war
battlefield in Sharpsburg, MD

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Antietam about 23,000 casualties

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book about Captain Nemo & his Submarine Nautilis
and author

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20,000 leagues under the sea
jules verne

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A journey to the center of the earth
author

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Jules Verne

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Around the world in eighty days author

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Jules Verne

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Jules verne novel about circumnavigator Phileas Fogg

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Around the world in eighty days

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novel with chapter "mr badger"

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The wind in the willows

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novel with
"the lotus eaters"
& "Circe"

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Ulysses

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his "boyz in the hood" earned him the first-ever best director oscar nomination for an african american

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john singleton

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youngest suface volcano on the big island of hawaii has distinctive lava formations like pele's hair

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kiluaea

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mt erebus is on this continent

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Antartica

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this lake lies in a caldera formed when oregon's mount mazama volcano collapsed 7,000 years ago

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crater lake

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"f" five letters
islamic legal opinion or directive

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fatwa

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"f" seven letters
smooth move in a bridge game

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finesse

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16-letter syonym for sleight of hand comes from the latin for "nimble finger"

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prestodigitation

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democrat from massachusetts speaker of the house 1977-87

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Tip O'neill

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elizabethan poet of the incomplete epic "faerie queene"

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edmund spenser

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author of "rape of the lock"

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alexandar pope

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english poet author of
"the lamb", the fly,
the tyger

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William Blake

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of top ten cities with biggest population in city limits - this one is the only state capital

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phoenix

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this is the largest state capital by land area

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Juneau

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most populous state capital

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phoenix

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this is the smallest state capital with population about 100,000

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springfield, il

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2nd largest state capital and 2nd largest city in the midwest

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indianapolis

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this eastern capital is the smallest in land area

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Annapolis

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Longest continuously serving state capital

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Boston

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only state capital that is not also the county seat of it's county

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Lansing

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longest serving captial in the US (even before statehood)
and the one with the highest elevation

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Santa Fe

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shortest serving current state capital

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Oklahoma city

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largest state capital that is not also the largest city in the state

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Austin

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ecuador capital

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quito

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germany capital

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berlin

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elbe meets the north sea in this country

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Germany

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The Rhine meets the north sea in this country

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The Netherlands

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capital of afghanistan

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kabul

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Kandahar is in this country

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Afghanistan

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antediluvian fish discoverd by african trawler in 1938

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coelacanth

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war of 1415 the battle of agincourt

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the hundred years war

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the battle that is the centerpiece of the play Henry V by shakespeare

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Battle of Agincourt

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vp in 1927

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Charles G Dawes vp to Calvin Coolidge

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President ellen johnson-sirleaf (2006) was first elected female leader in africa what country?

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liberia

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"the crusader king"

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Richard I - Richard the lionhearted

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kenya capital

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nairobi

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bissau is capital of

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guinea-bissau

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Vietnam Capital

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Hanoi

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Vietnam city formerly known as Saigon

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Ho Chi Minh City

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in 1941 he was leader of the viet minh

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Ho Chi Minh

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after these agreements - there was a 300 day period where vietnamese could move freely from north to south or vice versa

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1954 Geneva accords

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marxist-leninist leader of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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tet offensive was during this war

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Vietnam - they had agreed to a cease-fire for the Tet holiday - but N. vietnam attacked - possibly due to adopting some new calendar?

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Chinese nationalist leader who fled to taiwan after losing to the communists in 1949

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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capital of nauru

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No official capital. and second least populous country behind Vatican City

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sudan capital

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Khartoum

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Dickens title orphan adopted by mr. brownlow

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Oliver twist

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peru capital

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lima

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syria capital

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damascus

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mongolia capital

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ulaan bataar

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serbia capital

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belgrade

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vatican city capital

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vatican city

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capital of singapore

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singapore

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LARGEST NEW ZEALAND CITY

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aukland

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author of The Caine Mutiny (1951)

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Herman Wouk won pulitzer prize in 1952 for it

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Captain Queeg book

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The Caine Mutiny

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book concerning three women affected by the Virginia woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway

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The Hours

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executioner's song author

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Norman Mailer

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he wrote the naked and the dead

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norman mailer

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He starred in 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur

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Dudley Moore

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in the "national treasure" movies he plays archaelogist extraordinaire
ben franklin gates

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nicolas cage

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in 2010 this oscar winner had a recurring role as washington lobbyist marilyn densham on "big love"

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sissy spacek

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The luzon strait separates taiwan from this country to the south

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Phillipines

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Language that ancient hindu writings were in

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Sanskrit

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Prime minister - this man "the younger" took over in 1783 and probably looked much older by 1801

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william pitt

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harold wilson of this party was the last pm to serve 2 nonconsective terms, 1964-70 & 1974-76

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LABOR

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this early 1830s pm lives on in the name of a popular tea

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earl grey

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the day he left office (from p.m.) after 10 years in 2007 he had a new job as a mideast envoy

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tony blair

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Aug 22, 1787 delegates were in philadelphia for this

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constitutional convention

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mark twain - 1883 memoir

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Life on the mississippi

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going solo from the heartbreakers with "you don't know how it feels"

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tom petty

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from fleetwood mac with"stand back"

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stevie nix

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from *nsync with "like I love you"

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justin timberlake
cry me a river is second single

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"lady sings the blues" is about her

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Billie holiday

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louis maurer was the horse drawing specialist in the stable of artists of this 19th century printmaking duo

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currier & ives

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female american impressionist 1880s

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mary cassat

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emmanuel radnitzky was the original name of this photographer who had a major role in dadaism & surrealism

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man ray

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in 2011 a 1-ton anchor was recovered from his ship & he turned up in the new "pirates of the caribbean" movie

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blackbeard

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the earliest known records of this native american people's syllabary where found carved in a cave wall

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cherokee

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what brit played mr. darcy in a 1995 miniseries of "pride and prejudice"

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colin firth

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in 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his hollywood home while reading his princeton alumni weekly

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f scott fitzgerald

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3 returning veterans from wwII readjust to civilian life in this oscar winning 1946 film

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the best years of our lives

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he sang time in a bottle

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jim croce

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SEminoles are in this state

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FLorida

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He made the hall of fame as a yankees manager, but he also batted .284 in 14 big league seasons
"casey"

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casey stengle

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differnce between simile and metaphor

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simile uses "like" or "as"

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Georgia born detroit tiger batted .420 in 1911

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ty cobb

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4-syllable adjective can refer to non-canonical parts of the vulgate bible or to any documents of doubtful origin

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apocryphal

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the earth is this type of spheroid meaning flattened at the polls

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oblate

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this "o" term means neither perpendicular nor parallel

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oblique

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something pinnate is shaped like this - it's what pinna means in latin

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feather

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wrestler steve williams nickname

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stone cold steve austin

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Lee major's superhuman tv character

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the six million dollar man

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this mindfreak-y performer changed his name from christopher sarantakos

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criss angel - he is an american musician - with show criss angel mindfreak

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"sh" 2-4 feet long the spiny dogfish is probably the most abundant species of this fish on the us atlantic coast

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shark

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"sh"
add asian flair to a room by partiitioning it off or accdenting it with one of thses rice paper screens

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shoji

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focus on the middle name of richard melville hall to figure out he's better known as this techno musician

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moby

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the actor who rode the bomb in dr.strangelove

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slim pickins

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donald lytle's choice of this stage name made extra sense when "take this job and shove it" became his biggest hit

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johnny paycheck

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silicosis - problem with this body part

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lungs

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glossitis - problem with this body part

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tongue

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meniere disease - problem with this body part

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ear
- it affects hearing and balance and can cause vertigo

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this city's first public library opened in 1873 in a circular water tank that had survived the great fire

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chicago

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1871 was this city's great fire

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chicago

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robert frost & daniel webster collections are housed at a special collections library at this ivy league school

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dartmouth

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ivy league school in hanover new hampshire

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dartmouth

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ivy league in providence RI

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brown

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ivy league in philadelphia

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University of Pennsylvania

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ivy league in ithaca

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cornell

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ivy league in NYC

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columbia

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ivy league in NJ

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Princeton

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ivy league in boston

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harvard

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ivy league in new haven, ct

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yale

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in 1936 Prokofiev wrote this musical piece & its narration for a children's theater in moscow

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Peter and the wolf

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this type of coat is named after an inventor who obtained a patent for a process that made silk, paper & "other substances impervious to water and air"

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A Macintosh /Mackintosh - after Scott inventor Charles Macintosh

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Gladwyn Jebb of UK served as the first Acting one of these, until the appointment of trygve Lie(from norway)

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Secretary-General of the UN

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after being recommended by the Soviet Union to be the 2nd secretary-general he was later vetoed by the S.U. at re-election and they remained hostile to him until he resigned in 1952

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Trygve Lie (norway)

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3rd Secretary General of UN From Sweden -jfk called him "the greatest statesman of our century"

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Dag Hammerskjold

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4th secretary general Kurt Waldheim who was a suspected war criminal (revealed in the 80s) was from this country

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Austria

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This 6th secretary general -92-96 was the only one from Egypt - vetoed by US in second term

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Bhoutros Bhoutros-Ghali

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UN Secretary General number 5 Jose Pereze de Cuellar 82-91 was from this south american country

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Peru

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7th UN Secretary General from 97-2006 retired after 2 terms was from Ghana

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Kofi Annan

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current 8th un secretary general from south korea - was unanimously re-elected for 2nd term

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Ban ki moon

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opposite of a preface - "gue"

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prologue

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spoken word grammy winner for '
"it's always something" 1989

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gilda radner

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the cast of this show is often referred to as "not ready for prime time players"

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Saturday night live

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liquor in a bloody mary

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vodka

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"gue"
one foot is dragged in every step of this carribean favorite

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merengue

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Peach schnapps and orange juice make this drink

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fuzzy navel

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best spoken word grammy for "the civil war" 1991

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ken burns

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"the words of gandhi" -1984 grammy for spoken word

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ben kingsley

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thompson is this kind of weapon

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machine gun

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sidewinder is this kind of weapon

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missile

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uss harry s truman is this type of ship

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aircraft carrier

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walther ppk is this type of weapon

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pistol

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in 1754 this president ordered his virginia militamen to fire on a group of unsuspecting frenchmen, killing 10

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washington

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as sheriff of erie county, ny grover cleveland personally hanged 2 criminals, earning him the nickname "hangman of" here

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Buffalo

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meaning 2-shelled the name of this new jersey town goes back to its oyster industry days

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bivalve

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zachary taylor's nickname "old"

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rough n ready

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historian who took 20 years to write "the civil war"

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shelby foote

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this word whose 2 syllables rhyme is a synonym for "to ambush"

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waylAY

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literary -
19th c pickpocket gang leader, described as "a reciever of stolen goods" died by execution

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fagin

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Fagin is from this dickens novel

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oliver twist

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literary obituaries-
this louisiana governer & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue. Assassinated by adam stanton

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Willie stark

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Pulitzer prize winning novel by Robert Penn Warren - portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark

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All the King's men

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jackie robinson's number

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42

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bobbie orr & lou gehrig's number

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4

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jeff gordon & willie mays number

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24

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found in the family vault still wearing his boots, mummified german baron von holz died during this early 17th c war

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30 years war

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timely war fought mostly in what is present day germany from 1618-1648

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thirty years' war

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this 17th c war was ended with the treaties of Osnabrück and Münster, part of the wider Peace of Westphalia.[12]

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thirty years' war

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john adams was a defense attorney for patriots like john hancock, & for british troops accused in this 1770 skirmish

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what is the boston massacre

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prosecutor in scopes monkey trial died shortly after it ended

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william jennings bryant

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this orator who argued mcculloch v maryland in the supreme court was one of the usa's most highly paid lawyers

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Daniel webster

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cat mummies were popular in this egyptian time period named for a greek

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ptolemiec period

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in 1886 he published his first book, "the trumpet and drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions

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who john phillips sousa (the march king)

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Lawyer, politician & skilled orator from kentucky - 1777-1852 - served in house and senate from KY
was speaker of the house 3 times & secretary of state - 1825-1829

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Henry Clay

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Kentuckian who was secretary of state under Adams - After tie between Andrew Jackson & Adams had to be broken in electoral college (he helped push for adams) his appt to sec of state was called "corrupt bargain" and tarnished his rep

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Henry Clay

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this woman's pair of gold-plated six shooters are in the gene autry western heritage museum

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annie oakley

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cold spanish soup

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gazpacho

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dancer defected from ussr during 1974 stop in toronto

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barishnokov

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prince siegfried finds romance is for the birds in this 19th century ballet

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swan lake

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he left the USSR in 1924 & joined diaghilev's co in paris, becoming it leading choreographer, by george (ballet)

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ballanchine

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1910 stravinsky ballet with an elusive title character

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firebird

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katy perry wed this british comic in india in 2010

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russell brand

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"weekend" slang name for a cheap & easily obtained handgun

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saturday night special

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the handgun violence prevention act was named for this former press secretary

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james brady

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beyonce's husband

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jay-z

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at about 5 lbs. 1847's "walker" model was the heaviest handgun ever made by this company

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colt

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olympic event with pistol & sword but not at the same time

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Modern Pentathlon

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this greek thinker "the little shaq", called happiness "an activity of soul in accordance with perfect virtue

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aristotle

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who wrote anna karennina

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tolstoy

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Poet "shropshire lad" guy

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Alfred Housman ( because he wrote A shropshire lad - a set of poems)

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capital of newfoundland & labrador is the eastern starting point of the trans-canada highway

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st john's

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site of 2 winter olympics - this swiss town has also hosted several world ski championships

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st moritz

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after brother gianni died, she became head designer of his label

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donatella versace

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kate middleton's dress was designed by sarah burton from this late designers' fashion house

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alexander mcqueen

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dynasty of
russia's ivan VI & Nicholas I

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Romanov

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dynasty of France's louis XII-XVI

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Bourbon

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dynasty of Henry VII & Edward VI

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tudor

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dynasty of SPain's charles I & II

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hapsburg

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yalies once cheered, "brek-ek-ek-ex, ko-ax-ko-ax" the chorus of these creatures in an aristophanes play

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Frogs

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visual purple is a photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the part of the eye

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retina

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types of these such as methionine & leucine, link up to form proteins

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amino acids

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the name of this portion of the brainstem means "the long marrow"

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Medula oblangatA

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this children's book begins,
"the pretty little swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range"

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What is Heidi

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last battle of this war was:
the siege of yorktown

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American Revolution

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last battle of this war was:
battle of new orleans

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War of 1812

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last battle of this war was:
battle of the meuse-argonne

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WWI

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last battle of this war was:
the battle of chapultepec

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mexican-american war

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last battle of this war was:
battle of bosworth

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war of the roses

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who sang "killing me softly" top 10

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the fugees

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"a boy named sue"

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johnny cash

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name of venice boat

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gondola

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around 447 bc this group led by the scourge of god devastated the balkans & drove south into greece

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huns

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of 7 ancient wonders of the world 2 statues in europe - one was colosuss of rhodes and the other was this statue

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statue of zeus at olympia

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this king who died in 1750 bc left a code dealing with family laws, loans, debts & even witchcraft

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Hammurabi

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"touch of grey"

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the grateful dead

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"dust in the wind"

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kansas

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"white & nerdy"

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weird al yankovic

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liver from a duck food

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foie gras

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he had san simeon estate

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william randolph hearst

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acapulco is famous for this daring activity at la quebrada

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Cliff diving

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he spent his last days in acapulco but died in flight on his private plane back to houson in 1976

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howard hughes

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Janet Napolitano is the head of this cabinet department

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HOmeland Security

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The porter & duncan shakespeare play

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macbeth

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benvolio & friar laurence shakespeare play

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romeo & juliet

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the fool & the dukes of cornwall & albany
shakespeare play

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king lear

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brabantio & cassio
shakespeare play

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othello

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octavius & philo shakespeare play

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antony & cleopatra

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amanda seyfried donned the title cloak in this 2011 film

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red riding hood

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in this animated film fred captains the title transport to pepperland

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Yellow submarine

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the son of illustrator N.C, this painter had his first exhibition in 1936 at the art alliance of philadelphia

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Andrew Wyeth

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this gay, often conservative british-born pundit serves up the blog "the daily dish"

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andrew sullivan

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town for the gunfight at the ok corral

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tombstone, az

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wyatt earp was a deputy in wichita, ks before heading here and ending up in a famous gunfight

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Tombstone, az

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This 'doc' fought on the side of the Earps in the gunfight at the OK Corral in tombstone

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john henry "doc" holliday

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duo in raging bull, goodfellas & casino

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robert de niro & joe pesci

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Butterfly Mcqueen plays this house servant in Gone with the wind

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Prissy

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first female film director to direct a film that made $100 million

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penny marshall

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templeton is this animal in charlotte's web

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rat

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North Carolina Peak that is the highest east of the Mississippi

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Mt. Mitchell

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who's afraid of virginia woolf?

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edward albee

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it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
a funny thing happened on the way to the forum
& his own tv show 55-59
"phil"

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phil silvers

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who played truman capote
and was in "doubt"

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philip seymour hoffman

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director of "the right stuff" & "invasion of the body snatcher"

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Philip kaufman

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hibernia is the ancient name for this island

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ireland

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The name of the old man in "the Old man and the sea"

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Santiago

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He turned down an oscar

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George C Scott - for patton

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Notorious bank robber killed at the biograph theater in chicago 1934

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John Dillinger

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number represented by an 8 on it's side

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infinity

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this protein part of blood plasma may be given as treatment for some viral diseases
( a little aliteration)

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gamma globulin

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johnny bench & roy campanella where this position

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catchers

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this serene physical & mental discipline is sanskrit for "union"

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yoga

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this 2-word term was first used for a french & italian pidgin developed by crusaders & traders

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lingua franca

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current president of cuba

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raoul castro

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jean-jacques dessalines was killed in a revolt 2 years after declaring himself emperor of this country

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haiti

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in 1995 shimon peres became prime minister of israel following the assassination of this predecessor

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itzak rabin

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he became king of england in 1399 after forcing his cousin richard ii from the throne

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henry IV

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french named-castles in bordeaux

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chateau

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ballroom dance spanish for double step

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passa doble

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the 2011 film titled this "of forgotten dreams" lensed some of the oldest works of art known to exist

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cave

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richard o'brien not only created this musical, he also played the role of Riff Raff

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the rocky horror picture show

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an international piano competition held every 4 years is named for this american who won a competition in moscow in 1958

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van klibern

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2 actor directors who have been nominated 2 for both acting and directing for the same movie

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Clint Eastwood (unforgiven & million dollar baby)
warren beatty (reds and heaven can wait)

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he played private prewitt in "from here to eternity"
"lift"

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montgomery clift

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smallest state of australia

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tasmania

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largest burrowing animal (australia)

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wombat

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in a standard international deck, he's the only one-eyed king

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king of diamonds

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viking comic

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hagar the horrible

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box elder peak
deseret peak
in this state

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utah

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mount disappointmen & mount muir
state

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california

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this "thursday" before easter commerates the last supper

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maundy thursday

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In texas april 21 is a day to remember this battle, sam houston's 1836 victory over a passel of mexicans

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san jacinto

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this european operation that began in 1948 was the independent USAF's first major international challenge

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The berlin airlift

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the continental us-based interceptor force is proveded by this homefront body formed the same day as the usaf

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Air National Guard

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air force a-10 thunderbolt animal nickname

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warthog

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aviator known as "the lone eagle"

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lindbergh

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shakespeare was "the bard of avon" this scotsman was "the bard of ayrshire"

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robert burns

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ionesco's play named for this pachyderm is about totalitarianism

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rhinoceros

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this terrence mcnally musical is based on a novel by e.l. doctorow

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ragtime

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it's the 3-letter name of karel capek's play from which we get the word "robot"

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RUR

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film based on a book by Frenchman Peter Boulle
The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa. The film was shot in Sri Lanka (credited as Ceylon, as it was known at the time)

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

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japanese ritual disembowelment - samurai were to do this instead of being captured by enemies

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Seppuku

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a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010

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Arab spring or Arab Awakening

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a system of government in which supreme political power to direct all the activities of the state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control

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autocracy

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mass protests erupted in Daraa on 15 March.[54] The situation quickly developed into a full-scale nationwide uprising, with protesters demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad and the overthrow of the government.

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Syria

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insurgents in this country have unified under the banner FSA

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Syria - Free Syria Army

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This group was originally formed in March 22 1945 in Cairo with 6 members. It has since grown to 22

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Arab League

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This group of wits & pratical jokers who met at a NY Hotel were also known as "the vicious circle"

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The Algonquin Round Table
-Met in the rose room of the Algonquin hotel

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AFI #1 movie of all time- about a reporter trying to identify an newspaper magnate's dying word.

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Citizen Kane -rosebud is the word

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played by orson welles his palatial estate is named xanadu

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Charles Foster Kane - Citizen Kane

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son of don corleone who was supposed to have a different life but ends up becoming the new don in the Godfather

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Michael (played by Al pacino)

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son of Don corleone played by james caan (he dies in the movie)

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Sonny

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name of the bar in casablanca (afi's #3) movie

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rick's cafe americain

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name of czech resistance officer who is Ilsa' husband in casablanca

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Victor Lazlo

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the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
is the last line of this movie

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casablanca

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Nicolas Cage relative who directed the Godfather (AFI #2)

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Francis Ford Coppola

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Director of Citizen Kane (AFI #1)

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Orson Welles

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director of Raging Bull (AFI #4) 1980

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Martin Scorcese

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he defeated marcel Carden in 1949 in Detroit to when the world middleweight chamionship

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Jake Lamotta

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the Bronx bull played by robert dinero on film

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Jake Lamotta

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he played Jake Lamotta's (robert dinero) brother Joey in Raging Bull

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Joe Pesci

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he directed himself in AFI #5 Singing in the Rain (1952)

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Gene Kelly

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Gene Kelly stars as Don Lockwood - a silent to talkie film star in this AFI #5

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Singin in the Rain

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he plays rhett butler to vivien liegh's scarlett

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clark gable

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Olivia de haviland plays this wife of Ashley in Gone with the Wind

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Melanie (wilkes)

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group of volcanic islands 1/2 way between hawaii & sydney austrailia

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samoa - kingdom of western somoa & american somoa

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2 owner/breeders that won triple crown twice
(1930&1935)
(1941&1948)

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belair stud
Calumet Farm

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in the still of the nite
singer

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the five satins

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opera about evil nero and his conniving wife who are triumphant at the end

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The coronation of poppea by monteverdi

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tom jones & joseph andrews
author

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Henry Fielding (1707-1754) england

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greek historian 400 bc

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Herodotus

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the rite of spring compser

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igor stravinsky

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the championship season
playwright

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jason miller

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date of attack on pearl harbor

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dec 7, 1941

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republic & archipelago in se asia of over 13,000 islands
previously called dutch east indies
principal oil producer in far east & pacific

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indonesia

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the Uruguay river forms all or some of border between argentina & these 2 countries

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uruguay & brazil

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who is on $10 bill

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alexandar hamilton

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german author of 18-19th c wrote faust

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johann woflgang von Goethe

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17th c british political philosophr argued that govn't must be strong

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thomas hobbes

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19th c french author of madam bovary

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Gustave flaubert

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successor to mary I
1558-1603
returned to protestantism

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Queen Elizabeth I

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broadway play
a young polish woman hid a dozen jewish people in a jewish officer's home while she was a housekeeper in WWII
playwrigth Dan Gordon

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Irena's Vow

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2nd largest Island
west 1/2 administered by Indonesia

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new Guinea

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the line "face that launched a thousand ships" about helen of troy in this by him

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dr. faustus by christopher marlowe

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1st wife of henry Viii

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catherine of aragon
(divorced after 25 years)
bore mary who would be queen

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new providence & turks & caicos are part of what islands

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bahamas

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british king 1485-1509 married to elizabeth of york

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henry vii (he was a distant lancaster)

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motto of the 3 musketeers

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all for one and one for all

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a monk or priest in buddhism of tibet

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lama

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five nobel prize categories

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physics, chemistry, literature, medicine, peace
(economics is associated prize given in memory of alfred nobel by sweden's central bank)

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coutnry partitioned 3 times by austria, prussia, & russia in 18th century

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poland

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female star of "klute"

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jane fonda

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london calling
singer

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the clash

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suharto was the longtime president of this country

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indonesia

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general anastasio somoza was military dictator here in 1933, till assassinated in 1956 sons continued regime until 1979

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nicaragua

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2 famous operas set in seville

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the barber of seville & Carmen

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anarchy in the UK

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the sex pistols

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irish poet l.19th-e20th c
maybe greatest modern poet in eng.
"sailing to byzantium"
"the second coming"
"among school children"

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william butler yeats

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africa's most populous country w/over 110 million gained independence from britain in 1960

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nigeria

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european city w/prominent avenue
"The ku'damm"

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berlin

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was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).

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Hattie McDaniel

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This gone with the wind actress 2006 became the first black Oscar winner honored with a US postage stamp.[3]

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Hattie McDaniel

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who was the first african american to win best actor award

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sidney poitier for lilies of the field 1963

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James Baskett was the first African-American man to receive an academy award. He was given an Honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in
this 1946 movie

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song of the south

Front 440

who was the first African-American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)

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Dorothy Dandridge

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Louis Gossett, Jr. was the first African-American to win the Best Supporting Actor award. He won for his role in

this debra winger/richard gere movie

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An Officer and a gentleman
1982

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she was the first African-American to win the Best Actress award. She won for her role in Monster's Ball (2001).

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Halle Berry

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John Singleton was the first African American nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for his work on this 1991 film

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Boyz n the hood

Front 444

Peter O'toole plays the title character in this AFI #7 1962 film

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Lawrence of Arabia
it won best picture

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this 1962 film stars Peter O'toole, and includes alec guiness, jose Ferrer and omar sharif

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Lawrence of Arabia
it won best picture

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This egyptian actor got egypt stirred up when he starred as Barbra Streisand's husband in these two films

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OMar Sharif in Funny Girl &Funny Lady (about Fanny Brice - Streisand supported Israel)

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Egyptian actor played the main character in Dr. Zhivago and supporting roles in Lawrence of Arabia & Funny Girl

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Omar Sharif

Front 448

"Up where we belong" won best music, original song for this 1982 movie

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An officer and a gentleman

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He was the second to last king of Egypt when he was overthrown in 1952 and forced to abdicate his throne to his son King Fuad II

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King Farouk - the monarch was abolished a year or so later, so his son never really ruled

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succeeded by Anwar Sadat he was the 2nd president of Egypt from 1956 until his death 1970 (by heart attack)

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Front 451

is a coin which currently holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for a single U.S. coin. It was purchased for US$7.59 million

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1933 double eagle

Front 452

the october war aka the yom kippur war was launched on this country by Egypt & Syria

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Israel

Front 453

winners of the peace prize for creating the egypt-israel peace treaty

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Sadat & Begin

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in the wake of the egypt-israel peace treaty, this organization moved its HQ from cairo to TUnis

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Arab League (it went back in 89)

Front 455

3rd president of Egypt was succeeded by his VP - this president who was ousted in FEb 2011 Egyptian revolution

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Hosni Mubarak

Front 456

novel by Daphne du Maurier with Mrs. Danvers & the second Mrs de Winter

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Rebecca
the first mrs De winter was Rebecca

Front 457

LIam neeson , ben kingsley and Ralph Fiennes start in AFI #8 1993 set during the holocaust

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Schindler's List

Front 458

he directed vertigo

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hitchcock

Front 459

AFI 10- Hitchcock movie starring James Stewart as Scottie Ferguson _ who follows a woman (madeleine-kim novak) who believe she his her dead great grandmother - he sees her commit suicide - but really her husband killed her

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Vertigo

Front 460

book that begins
this is the saddest story i have ever heard

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the good soldier by Ford Madox Ford

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he directed two of AFI's top 10 movies - The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the WInd

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Victor Fleming

Front 462

this co-star of white christmas and aunt of a famous George married Jose Ferrer twice

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Rosemary Clooney

Front 463

AFI 11- charlie chaplin is a tramp who tries to help a blind flower girl

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City Lights

Front 464

He holds the record for most academy awards for best director with 4

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John Ford
Best Director for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952)
(these weren't westerns, but he is famous for westerns and novel adaptations)

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actor who really shot Liberty Valance

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John Wayne - Jimmy stewart's character gets credit for it

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city that had massive riots in july 1967

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Michigan

Front 467

jeffery euginedes novel that begins:
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

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Middlesex

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named AFI's Greatest American western of all time - this John Wayne (as Ethan Edwards) movie also starred Natalie Wood at 15

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The Searchers

Front 469

this AFI 18 movie stars and is directed by Buster Keaton

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The General - which is the nickname of his train

Front 470

call me ishmael
book

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moby dick by herman melville

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Pride and Prejudice
jane austen

Front 472

jane austen novel with Mr Darcy and the Bennett sisters

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Pride and Prejudice

Front 473

Mr . Rochester is in this novel

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Jane Eyre

Front 474

Roman Polanski directed Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway & John Huston in this California based film (1974)

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Chinatown

Front 475

In Roman Catholic Church the condition of innocent people who die w/o baptism; means 'a bordering place'

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Limbo

Front 476

"Ottsy I Deti"
"Fathers and Sons"
"A Sportsman's Sketches"
"A Month in the Country"
russian author

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Iran Turgenev 1818-1883 Russian

Front 477

Mexican Meatball Soup

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albondigas

Front 478

Greek God of the Winds

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Aeolus

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field in philosophy that studies ultimate questions, such as whether every event has a cause & what things are genuinely real

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metaphysics

Front 480

Bum in Heraklion, crete Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 novel Greek writer & philosopher

Back 480

Zorba the Greek

Front 481

Banjul is capital of

Back 481

The Gambia smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean

Front 482

Sanaa is the capital of

Back 482

Yemen

Front 483

Kigali is the capital of

Back 483

Rwanda

Front 484

The Cherry Orchard author

Back 484

Anton Chekhov

Front 485

Religious order founded by Francis of Assisi, known for devotion to poverty

Back 485

Franciscans

Front 486

16th C French Protestant theologian and religious reformer "The Institutes of the Christian Religion"

Back 486

John Calvin 1509-1564

Front 487

Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis

Back 487

The Last Temptation of Christ

Front 488

this mission is also known as
"mission of the swallow"

Back 488

Mission San juan capistrano
in southern california

Front 489

Thomas More wrote about this fictional island 1516

Back 489

Utopia

Front 490

norm coleman was replaced by this "comic" potician

Back 490

Al Franken

Front 491

"hard times" author

Back 491

charles dickens

Front 492

sister of moses

Back 492

miriam

Front 493

jack - body builder, fitness, juicer salesman - opened first fitness gym in oakland california

Back 493

lalanne

Front 494

congratulations in yiddish

Back 494

mazal tov

Front 495

poet who depicted the rural landscape of new england was born in san francisco in 1874

Back 495

robert frost

Front 496

obama book subtitled:
a story of race and inheritance

Back 496

dreams from my father

Front 497

pittsburg steeler who was on dancing with the stars

Back 497

heinz ward

Front 498

of the body's two 2 chief kinds of glands this type secretes hormones directly into the blood

Back 498

endocrine

Front 499

a pampered boy can get this 3-word nickname an 1886 burnett novel title

Back 499

little lord fauntleroy

Front 500

jutland peninsula country

Back 500

denmark

Front 501

where is the clyde river

Back 501

scotland

Front 502

from latin for "thread" this style of jewelry is made by twisting fine wires of precious metals into patterns

Back 502

filigree

Front 503

bachelor president's inaugural guests were served 400 gallons of oysters & 60 mutton saddles

Back 503

buchanan

Front 504

bogart character in court proclaims "ah, but the strawberries! that's where I had them"

Back 504

Captain queeg

Front 505

anton van leeuwenhoek's obsession with lenses paid off in 1674 - he discovered these from the latin for "first animal"

Back 505

protozoa

Front 506

african american composer was so obsessed with his opera "treemonisha" that he suffered a breakdown in 1911

Back 506

scott joplin

Front 507

cato the elder's obsession with the threat offered by this city led in part to the third punic war

Back 507

carthage

Front 508

fenimore cooper:
"the troops and rangers call me" this title "inasmuch as I have never been known to miss one end of the trail"

Back 508

pathfinder

Front 509

sarah - one time married to andrew lloyd webber

Back 509

sarah brightman

Front 510

american jazz singer "sarah"

Back 510

sarah vaughan

Front 511

thimphu capital of this

Back 511

bhutan

Front 512

alan freed is the disc jockey credited with coining this phrase

Back 512

rock n roll

Front 513

deerslayer author

Back 513

james fenimore cooper

Front 514

He split 2 1980 title fights with roberto duran

Back 514

sugar ray leonard

Front 515

The accident of april 25-26, 1986 at this facility was caused by a poorly designed experiment at its reactor unit 4

Back 515

Chernobyl

Front 516

The accident began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979

Back 516

Three Mile Island

Front 517

Latin name for ancient Troy, also a broad flat hipbone

Back 517

Illium

Front 518

It's the muscle tissue that forms the middle layer of the heart's walls

Back 518

pericardium

Front 519

Late country singer called his autobiography "thirty years of sausage, fifty years of ham"

Back 519

Jimmy Dean

Front 520

Kenneth Grahame's children book

Back 520

The wind in the willows

Front 521

play Cyrano de Bergerac written by

Back 521

Edmond Rostand 1868-1918

Front 522

in 1763 this gifted orator & lawyer presented "parson's cause", an early test case of royal authority

Back 522

Patrick Henry

Front 523

virginia valley

Back 523

Shenandoah

Front 524

Icarus Dad

Back 524

Daedalus

Front 525

The "the president's daughter" in 1927 written by nan britton is about an affair/alleged child of this president

Back 525

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Front 526

Largest body of salt water in north america

Back 526

the great salt lake

Front 527

tet is a rough equivalent of what holiday

Back 527

new year's day

Front 528

nom de plume of Jean baptiste poquelin 17th c playwright french know for "the misanthrope" & "tartuffe"

Back 528

moliere

Front 529

20th c miss american author won 1949 nobel prize for lit
"the sound & the fury"
"as i lay dying"
"absalom, absalom"

Back 529

william faulkner

Front 530

capital city & largest city of quebec

Back 530

quebec city -capital
montreal - largest

Front 531

additive to steel to make it hard. but not too much to be brittle

Back 531

carbon

Front 532

nokomis poet

Back 532

henry wadsworth longfellow

Front 533

"ode poet"

Back 533

Keats

Front 534

islands of portugal west of of portugal mainland in atlantic ocean

Back 534

azores

Front 535

catch-22 author

Back 535

Joseph Heller

Front 536

holiest city in islam where mohammed the prophet was born in 6th cent

Back 536

mecca

Front 537

1st roman catholic & delawarean to be VP

Back 537

Joe Biden

Front 538

the hawkeye state

Back 538

iowa

Front 539

ossification is the process of forming of these

Back 539

bones

Front 540

the grand canyon state

Back 540

arizona

Front 541

perry & henson explored here

Back 541

north pole

Front 542

earth's annual amount of precipitation

Back 542

30 inches

Front 543

william of ockham principle

Back 543

"ockham's razor" the simplest theory should always be preferred

Front 544

kim il sung is associated this

Back 544

north korea

Front 545

april birthstone

Back 545

diamond

Front 546

capital & largest city of Scotland

Back 546

edinburgh - capital
glasgow - largest

Front 547

aloha state

Back 547

hawaii

Front 548

pelican state

Back 548

louisiana

Front 549

finnish composer

Back 549

sibelius

Front 550

the pine tree state

Back 550

maine

Front 551

This st louis monument was designed by eero saarinen

Back 551

the Gateway Arch

Front 552

Haydn is teacher of what composer (1793)

Back 552

Beethoven

Front 553

danzig new name

Back 553

gdansk

Front 554

president appointed -
earl warren, 1953 (chief justice)
john marshal harlan II, 1954
william j brennan, 1956
chalres eveans whittaker 1957
potter stewart 1958

Back 554

eisenhower

Front 555

baltic states

Back 555

estonia, latvia, lithuania

Front 556

name of british regime that controlled what is now india & pakistan until 1947

Back 556

British Raj

Front 557

timbuktu country

Back 557

mali

Front 558

former name of ho chi minh city

Back 558

saigon, vietnam

Front 559

island of japan w/hiroshima at the s west coast

Back 559

honshu

Front 560

1793-94 reign of terror - who

Back 560

robespierre

Front 561

folk tale character steals a golden egg laying hen, bags of gold & golden harp
kills giant

Back 561

jack (and the beanstalk)

Front 562

year lenin came to power after czar overthrow

Back 562

1917

Front 563

star of bombay - 182 carat type of this gem
(owned by mary pickford)

Back 563

sapphire

Front 564

utah state gem usually golden, can be pink or blue

Back 564

topaz

Front 565

2 german rivers that rhyme (spelled differently) meet 20 miles from frankfurt

Back 565

Main & rhine

Front 566

narrator of to kill a mockingbird

Back 566

scout

Front 567

territory in northern canada making up 1/3+ of canada's total area
north of 60 degrees latitude between hudson bay & Yukon

Back 567

the northwest territories

Front 568

countries on hispanola
east & west

Back 568

domincan republic - eastern 2/3
haiti - 1/3 west

Front 569

archduke of austria became emperor of mexico
died by firing squad

Back 569

maximilian (I)

Front 570

ancient area of civilation between euphrates & tigris what is now mostly iraq

Back 570

mesopotamia

Front 571

largest city in South Africa
commercial center of S. Africa's diamond & gold industries

Back 571

Johannesburg

Front 572

helsinki is on this body of water

Back 572

gulf of finland

Front 573

famous easter sunrise service in calif

Back 573

hollywood bowl

Front 574

shakespeare comedy about viola & duke orsino

Back 574

twelfth night

Front 575

last great composer of the renaissance morphed to first great composer of Baroque Era
(italian 1567-1643)
he wrote first viable dramatic opera - orfeo
wrote coronation of poppea (about nero & his wife)
the vespers of the blessed virgin

Back 575

claudio Monteverdi

Front 576

israel's 2nd king after King Saul

Back 576

David

Front 577

biography titled "somebody"
a nod to his most famous line

Back 577

Marlon brando
"i coulda been somebody, i coulda been a contender"

Front 578

dormant volcano in Hawaii w/ keck telescope (the world's largest optical telescope)

Back 578

mauna kea

Front 579

according to Hawaiian legend - home to Pele - goddess of volcanoes

Back 579

Kilauea

Front 580

Mauna loa - mauna kea
which is largest in volume on earth
which is taller

Back 580

Loa - largest volcano in terms of volume on earth
kea is taller

Front 581

means long mountain in hawaiian

Back 581

mauna loa

Front 582

director of "streetcar named desire" born in constantinople

Back 582

elia kazan

Front 583

here i go again
band

Back 583

whitesnake

Front 584

"first genius of opera"
creating "orfeo"
"the coronation of poppea"

Back 584

Monteverdi

Front 585

Law & order producer

Back 585

dick wolf

Front 586

river through baghdad

Back 586

tigris

Front 587

who sang crazy

Back 587

patsy cline

Front 588

largest city in switzerland
world banking center

Back 588

zurich

Front 589

sea between europe & asia bordered on n by moldova & ukraine
on ne by russia
on e by georgia
on s by turkey
w by bulgaria & romania

Back 589

black sea

Front 590

this is located in the sacred kaaba, in the courtyard of the great mosque in mecca

Back 590

the black stone

Front 591

country where krakatoa is

Back 591

indonesia

Front 592

liberia is on what body of water

Back 592

atlantic ocean

Front 593

london built first of these in 1863
-used steam locomotive

Back 593

subway

Front 594

president who created superfund for toxic waste cleanup

Back 594

jimmy carter

Front 595

aka
"carraige dog"
(spotted)

Back 595

dalmation

Front 596

she sang "walking after midnight"

Back 596

patsy cline

Front 597

"snow laced" mountain

Back 597

kilamonjaro

Front 598

bill clinton pardoned what financier

Back 598

marc rich

Front 599

david chase created & wrote several of this hbo series

Back 599

the sopranos

Front 600

manatee springs state park
in this state

Back 600

florida

Front 601

crater of diamonds state park
in this state

Back 601

arkansas

Front 602

n,o. saints mascot gumbo is this
"life-saving" dog

Back 602

saint bernard

Front 603

what kind of dog is Cujo

Back 603

saint bernard

Front 604

king that moved israel capital to Jerusalem

Back 604

David

Front 605

Texas Tea
slang for this

Back 605

oil

Front 606

melrose place
sex and the city
central park west
producer

Back 606

darren star

Front 607

a lifestyle characterized by material poverty b/c they perfer art or learning unconventional habits, dress & sometimes morals

Back 607

bohemian

Front 608

capital of northern ireland
site of violence between protestants & roman caths

Back 608

belfast

Front 609

christ the redeemer statue city

Back 609

rio de janeiro

Front 610

arm of the atl ocean in western europe
bordered by west coast of france & north cost of spain

Back 610

bay of biscay

Front 611

Broadway musical
based on p.l. travers stories
& disney film
about unusual nanny

Back 611

Mary Poppins

Front 612

The four Seasons Composer

Back 612

vivaldi
(baroque)

Front 613

20th c amer cartoonist & sculptor
famous for his humorous diagrams of intricate machines designed to carry out simple tasks

Back 613

rube goldberg

Front 614

juan & eva peron ruled 1946-1955
in this country
president again 1973-74

Back 614

Argentina

Front 615

the sun king

Back 615

louis XIV

Front 616

"land of the midnight sun"

Back 616

any of the world's regions north of the artic circle

Front 617

formerly west pakistan

Back 617

pakistan

Front 618

"ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"

Back 618

JFK - jan 20, 1961 - inaugural speech

Front 619

the sun also rises
author - subject

Back 619

Hemingway
group of expatriates go to Pamplona

Front 620

20th C swedish film maker

Back 620

ingmar bergman

Front 621

Composer whose 2nd wife is
Anna Magdalena

Back 621

J.S. Bach

Front 622

the ocean state

Back 622

rhode island

Front 623

lowest range of male singing voice

Back 623

bass

Front 624

spanish "to kill"
a bull fighter

Back 624

matador

Front 625

katy perry debut song

Back 625

i kissed a girl

Front 626

i fear "---" even when they bring gifts from aeneid by virgil

Back 626

Greeks

Front 627

antiseptic surgery pioneer Joseph

Back 627

Lister

Front 628

duke Kahanamoku pioneered paddle type of this sport

Back 628

surfing

Front 629

yellow pokemon character

Back 629

pikachu

Front 630

Steven Chu is a nobel prize winner and this current cabinet secretary

Back 630

Secretary of energy
won 1997-nobel prize for physics

Front 631

"brain", "coma", "contagion" are his medical thrillers

Back 631

robin cook

Front 632

president who initiated:'
FDIC - federal deposit insurance corporation
tennessee valley authority (TVA)
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Back 632

FDR

Front 633

marx brother that smoked cigars

Back 633

Groucho

Front 634

African Country marked by strife between majority hutus and dominant Tutsis

Back 634

rwanda

Front 635

last name of madonna

Back 635

ciccone

Front 636

shakespeare play with
antonio
portia
shylock the jew - demands "a pound of flesh"

Back 636

The Merchant of Venice

Front 637

the symphony came into the picture in this musical era

Back 637

Classical

Front 638

Vaccines were invented during this epidemic

Back 638

Smallpox (1796) by Jenner made from cowpox virus

Front 639

Batman's town

Back 639

Gotham City

Front 640

Do I feel lucky? well do ya punk?
quote

Back 640

Dirty Harry - Clint Eastwood

Front 641

Roman name of God of wine and revelry

Back 641

Bacchus

Front 642

the constitution state

Back 642

Connecticut

Front 643

author of Ulysses

Back 643

James Joyce

Front 644

the peach state

Back 644

georgia

Front 645

play starring orsino & olivia

Back 645

twelfth night

Front 646

musical w/ "i hope I get it"

Back 646

A Chorus line

Front 647

the centennial state

Back 647

Colorado

Front 648

period that starts with death of Bach (essentially)

Back 648

classical period

Front 649

broadway musical - biographical musical of frankie vallie & the four seasons
"walk like a man"
"can't take my eyes off you"

Back 649

Jersey Boys

Front 650

The Pickwick Papers
author

Back 650

Charles Dickens

Front 651

River that Vienna is on

Back 651

Danube

Front 652

Location of Minoan civilization (1600 bc) & where the Minotaur lived in the labyrinth (in mythology)

Back 652

Knossos, crete

Front 653

extreme southern ukraine bordered by the black sea to the e, s, & w
stronghold of opposition to soviet gov't after russian revolution

Back 653

crimea peninsula

Front 654

third largest island in the world in indonesia north of Java

Back 654

Borneo

Front 655

five burroughs of NYC

Back 655

Manhattan,the bronx, brooklyn, queens, staten island (used to be burrough of richmond)

Front 656

ceylon is the former name of this country

Back 656

sri lanka

Front 657

la prensa & la nacion are daily newspapers in this south american city

Back 657

buenos aires

Front 658

alp mountain that is the highest peak in france on border between italy & france SE of Geneva

Back 658

mont blanc

Front 659

highest mountain in Africa

Back 659

kilamanjaro

Front 660

home to la scala opera house

Back 660

milan, it

Front 661

part of united kingdom occupying the western peninsula of the island of great britain

Back 661

wales

Front 662

name of st. petersburg russia from 1924-1991

Back 662

leningrad

Front 663

commonwealth state

Back 663

virginia

Front 664

from ny to al between Appalachian mtns & atlantic coastal plain

Back 664

piedmont (plateau region)

Front 665

what country is carthage in

Back 665

tunisia

Front 666

theater in london where many shakespeare plays first performed

Back 666

globe theater

Front 667

George Mason's state - he wrote it's declaration of rights

Back 667

virginia

Front 668

Charlotte bronte novel about governess fro edward rochester
famous line
"reader, I married him"

Back 668

Jane Eyre

Front 669

another name for the western wall

Back 669

the Wailing Wall
-think the stones have formed part of the temple of solomon

Front 670

the hunt for red october
author

Back 670

Tom Clancy

Front 671

Musical Period between baroque & romantic

Back 671

classical period

Front 672

1870s orator & former slave

Back 672

frederick douglass

Front 673

peninsula in NE Egypt bordered by GUlf of Aqaba & Gulf of SUez
(2 arms of the red sea)

Back 673

Sinai

Front 674

established by pope gregory IX in 1231
fought blasphemy, alchemy, sorcery & heresy

Back 674

The Inquisition (he assigned it to the Dominican Order)

Front 675

established in 1480 by ferdinand & Isabella - This regulation of the faith of the newly converted was intensified after the royal decrees issued in 1492 and 1501 ordering Jews and Muslims to convert or leave.

Back 675

Spanish Inquisition

Front 676

shakespeare play with love triangle of:
Orsino, Olivia & Viola (disguised as cesario)

Back 676

Twelfth night

Front 677

other shakespeare play with a shipwreck of Illyria that separates twins Viola and Sebastian - who later get back together and marry Orsino & Olivia respectively

Back 677

Twelfth Night

Front 678

Malvolio is a minor character in this shakespeare play where he is tricked into wearing yellow stockings & criss-cross garters by a fake love letter

Back 678

Twelfth Night

Front 679

This shakespeare play whose name might be a reference to Epiphany also has an alternate title of "what you will":

Back 679

Twelfth Night

Front 680

Shakespeare play takes place during trojan war. One title character is younger brother to Hector & Paris. The other is daughter of defected Trojan priest Calchas

Back 680

Troillus & Cressida

Front 681

Shakespeare play with Agammenon, Ajax & Achilles

Back 681

Troillus & Cressida

Front 682

Troillus & cressida essentially ends with who gloating over the death of whom?

Back 682

Achilles over Hector (after killing him in an ambush & unarmed) - drags him around the city

Front 683

he is on 50 cent piece

Back 683

JFK

Front 684

french composer of opera of 19th C
Carmen

Back 684

georges bizet

Front 685

16th c italian arch wrote
"four books of architecture"

Back 685

andrea palladio

Front 686

author of "the open boat"
based on surviving shipwreck in 1897

Back 686

stephen crane

Front 687

who wrote about "xanadu"

Back 687

coleridge
in poem "Kubla kahn"

Front 688

sisters of the titanic

Back 688

olympic - didn't sink
britannic - did sink (mined or torpedoed during the war - was a hospital ship)

Front 689

composer of brandenburg concertos
& ST. Matthew Passion

Back 689

j s bach

Front 690

jimmy wales founded this site

Back 690

wikipedia

Front 691

hitler's mustache type

Back 691

toothbrush

Front 692

capital of bullfighting in spain on the guadalquivir river.
legend has it don juan lived here

Back 692

seville

Front 693

1st book was "goodbye columbus"

Back 693

phillip roth

Front 694

composer of
Dido and Aeneas
and funeral music for Queen Mary II (of william and mary)

Back 694

Henry Purcell

Front 695

Mary of William & Mary was this number

Back 695

II
William was William III of england and Wiliam II of scotland

Front 696

brain part that regulates balance

Back 696

cerebellum

Front 697

all the king's men
author

Back 697

robert penn warren
story about "the boss" willie stark in LA
some say based on Huey Long

Front 698

vonnegut:
welcome to the ____ house

Back 698

monkey

Front 699

"the love song of J alfred Prufrock"
"the waste land"
"murder in the cathedral"
amer. born 20th c eng author of poems, plays, essays

Back 699

TS Eliot

Front 700

20th c composer noted for american settings of his pieces
ballets "appalachian spring", "billy the kid" & "rodeo" & "fanfare for the common man"
also symphonies, chamber music and music for films

Back 700

aaron copland

Front 701

"pappa was a rolling stone"
singer

Back 701

the temptations

Front 702

U thant born in this country

Back 702

Burma/myanmar

Front 703

singers of :
, "My Girl", "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
they were the first motown group to win a grammy award

Back 703

the temptations

Front 704

mckinley was governor of this state

Back 704

ohio

Front 705

republican president who was the founder of short-lived "bull-moose" party

Back 705

theodore roosevelt

Front 706

the magic flute composer

Back 706

mozart

Front 707

king conquered wales - son of henry III nicknamed "longshanks"

Back 707

edward I
(he was actually the 4th edward but numbers started with normandy)

Front 708

greek giant who captured travelers and made them fit an iron bed

Back 708

procrustes
he actually had two beds - so no one ever fit it perfectly

Front 709

protean means

Back 709

someone or something that easily takes on several different forms

Front 710

no grandchildren for Henry VIII so this great grandson of Henry VII became king after QEI died in 1603
the "golden" age of elizabethan drama and literature continued under him

Back 710

James I

Front 711

Roman name of satyrs

Back 711

fauns

Front 712

womanly proverb attributed to "the mourning bride" play by william congreve

Back 712

hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Front 713

who first said:
a little learning is a dangerous thing

Back 713

alexander pope

Front 714

man does not live by bread alone -
2 people said it in the bible

Back 714

Jesus - in disputing with Satan
Moses to the israelites in exodus

Front 715

"love conquers all"
roman poet

Back 715

virgil

Front 716

Real source of "let them eat cake"

Back 716

attributed to Marie antoinette - but really written by Rousseau in "Confessions"

Front 717

a king who offended zeus & was punished in hades by having to push a boulder to the top of a hill to have it roll back down

Back 717

sisyphus

Front 718

great musician who went to the underwold to ask for his wife back

Back 718

orpheus - for his wife eurydice

Front 719

man proposes, god ------

Back 719

disposes

Front 720

mountain in greece was one where the muses lived & delphic oracle lived on one of its slopes

Back 720

Parnassus

Front 721

male is capital of

Back 721

maldives

Front 722

a prosperous and politically stable nation in africa - was under french control wwII to 1960.
capital is abidjan

Back 722

ivory coast

Front 723

musical w/
"another op'nin, another show"

Back 723

kiss me kate

Front 724

musical w/
"There's No Business Like Show Business", "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "They Say It's Wonderful", and "Anything You Can Do."

Back 724

Annie get your gun

Front 725

cole porter's longest running (in the first run)and best musical tony award winning musical based on a shakespeare play

Back 725

Kiss me Kate

Front 726

author of
adventures of augie march

Back 726

saul bellow
it is a bildungsroman about a boy growing up in Chicago (and other places) during the great depression

Front 727

shangri-la
novel & author

Back 727

lost horizon
by james hilton
shangri-la is a utopia in the mountains of tibet - residence age very slowly until they leave
book is about Hugh Conway

Front 728

17th c eng. poet
leader of Romanticism
"to a skylark"
ode to the west wind
ozymandias

Back 728

Percy Shelley

Front 729

back pieces
"jesu, joy of man's desiring"
"sheep may safely graze"
"sleepers wake" are from these lutheran church pieces for soloists, chorus and orchestra

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cantatas

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omaha paper

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omaha world-herald

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city with the first zoo in the us

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philadelphia

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stone walls do not a prison make
source is
"to althea: from prison" by him

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17th c english poet
richard lovelace

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18th c british historian
"the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire"

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edward gibbon
it was published in 6 volumes from 1776-1788

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Muriel Spark's book of 1930's ediburgh and a school teacher who takes 6 girls under her wing

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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this work by cervantes is the source of
honesty is the best policy

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don quixote

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curiosity killed the cat
appeared first in print in one of his stories

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O Henry

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in "Leviathan" (1651)he
argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. He wrote that chaos or civil war – situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") – could only be averted by strong central government.

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thomas Hobbes

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author of
"ghosts" (and his response to the public outcry from ghosts) ->
& "an enemy of the people":

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henrik ibsen

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was celebrated 4th monday in october 1971-977

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veteran's day

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who commissioned the taj mahal

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shah jahan

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"principa mathematica"
20th cent brit thinker cambridge lecturer

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bertrand russell

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son of ham

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canaan

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in a parable by jesus the only person who comes to the aid of a robbed and beaten jew

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the good samaritan

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Play: A Man for All seasons by RObert Bolt was about the 16th-century Chancellor of England, who refused to endorse King Henry VIII's wish to divorce his ageing wife Catherine of Aragon

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Sir Thomas More

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Henry Clay became secretary of state under this president (1825-1829) after throwing his support behind this president in the House's determination of who became president.
Some call it the "Corrupt bargain"

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John Q. Adams

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6th president of the US who did not win the most popular or electoral votes - won from the house, when no candidate won a majority

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John Q Adams

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the first 2 presidents that served only one term

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John Adams & John Q Adams

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the invisible man
sci-fi novel author

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h.g. wells

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author of war and remembrance

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Herman wouk

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President who was secretary of state under Monroe -
authored the monroe doctrine, he negotiated with the United Kingdom over America's northern border with Canada, negotiated with Spain the annexation of Florida,

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John q Adams - he also helped negotiate treaty of ghent in 1812 as a diplomat

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mount surabachi is the dormant volcano made famous on this island during wwii

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Iwo Jima (it is where they raised the flag)

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washington dc baseball team

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Washington senators -
in 1960 became the twins
then 1961-71 another team who are now the texas rangers

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this frank is the only player to win MVP honors in both NL and AL

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Frank Robinson - with cincinnati reds and baltimore orioles

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this frank was the first african american manager in major league history

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Frank Robinson

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what it's called in MLB when a player leads a league in three specific statistical categories

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triple crown

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rebellious son of david

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absalom

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Leading Roman lyric poet during time of augustus - 66-5 bc - wrote "Odes"

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Horace

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Pliny the Younger is known for his hundreds of surviving these..

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Letters

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Castle at Elsinore shakespeare play

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Hamlet

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"othello" opens with roderigo addressing this villiain: "tush, never tell me: I take it much unkindly"

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iago

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completes the opening sentence "now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of...:"

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york

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this play opens most dramatically with thunder & llightning a ship is seen then a cry of "bos'n"

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the tempest

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this chilean city whose name means "valley of paradise" lies on a wide inlet of the pacific

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valparaiso

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in 1997 tyco international moved to this uk territory in the atlantic for tax purposes

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bermuda

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this 60's"ights in white satin" band has another color in it's name

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the moody blues

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the uss lexington is this type of ship

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aircraft carrier

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the alphanumeric designation of the us army's garand rifle

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m-1

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hefty name of the 2nd atomic bomb of wwii

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Fat Man
Little boy was the first

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it's the church festival on march 25 commemorating what gabriel told mary

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the annunciation

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tom hanks film - where he and some packages survive a bumpy Fedex flight

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castaway

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(airborne)
Vera farmiga & anna kendrick were both nominated for oscars for this 2009 film

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up in the air

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searching for this character, mr. utterson says, "i shall be mr. seek" & one night does find him

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edward hyde

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(vicksburg)
this general found himself "in the enemy's country, with a vast river... between me and my base of supplies"; he won anyway

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Grant

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the css arkansas, one of these ships named for its armor, had a glorious 23-day career in the campaign
(vicksburg)

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ironclad

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author of "where the wild things are"

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Maurice Sendak

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the idea that in a closed system matter is neither created nor destroyed is referred to by this 3-word phrase

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conservation of matter

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Mae Jemison became the first this when she travelled on the Space Shuttle Endeavor

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The first black woman in space

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this title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named kreutznaer but his name gets anglicized

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robinson crusoe

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singers of "my hearts on fire, elvira"

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oak ridge boys

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the title of nancy horan's historical novel "loving frank" refers to this creater of taliesin

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Frank lloyd wright

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"fatty" comedian

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Fatty arbuckle

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the novel "the paris wife" is narrated by hadley richardson - this writer's first wife

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hemingway

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hilary mantel won the man booker prize for "wolf hall", told from the perspective of this advisor to henry viii

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thomas cromwell

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when you're down & out, you're said to be "in" this belt of calm, light winds near the equator

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the doldrems

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the papal guard

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"swiss" guard

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three syllable acronym for the low countries

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benelux

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the 1st united states cavalary raised in 1898 for the spanish american war were nicknamed this

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rough riders

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1946's linggarjati agreement gave grudging dutch recognition to the autonomy of this island country

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indonesia

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religion in ancient iran where fire and water are agents of ritual purity

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zoroastrianism

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national irish stick n ball sport of ancient gaelic origin

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hurling

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speedy basque sport

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jai alai

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composer with same name as a president

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john adams

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aptly this o'neill play debuted in 1946 as the cold war was heating (or chilling) up

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the ice man cometh

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1955 tennessee williams play about an impatient woman

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cat on a hot tin roof

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"the misanthrope" was from this year london was burning

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