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for a nice chianti visit this wine-makig region of italy that's famous for it
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tuscany
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"operation rolling thunder" was the 1965 US bombing campaign designed in part to stop men & supplies coming south on this road
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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during this war major george armistead wanted "a flag so large the british will have no difficulty seeing it"
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war of 1812
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city of johann strauss sr.
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vienna
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"king of the waltz"
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Johann strauss jr
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johann strauss jr
"tritsch-tratsch" this dance form |
polka
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1983: meryl streep as this nuclear power technician
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silkwood
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1992:
jack nicholson as this labor leader |
jimmy hoffa
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2001:
will smith as this poet/pugilist |
ali
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2004: liam neeson as this behavioral researcher
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kinsey
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he founded a institute for sex reasearch at Indiana University in 1947
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Alfred Kinsey
(he went to bowdoin college & harvard university) |
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playwright of "arms and the man"
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george bernard shaw
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richard strauss used double basses for jokanaan's beheading in the opera about this princess
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Salome
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horn virtuoso franz strauss was consulted by wagner in devising this hero's horn call
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siegfried
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richard strauss opera with dance of the seven veils and john the baptist
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Salome
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peru's version of "super mario" he won the 2010 nobel prize for literature
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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a la recherche du temps perdu is aka
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remembrance of things past - by marcel proust
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"battlestar galactica" prequel
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caprica
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"some like it hot" co-star died in 2010
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tony curtis
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He filmed the kennedy assasination
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Abraham zapruder
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this was the investigation of kennedy's assasination
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Warren Commission
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vega is the main star of this connstellation with the latin name of an instrument
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Lyra
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large flightless bird on new guinea and other nearby islands - starts with C
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casawary
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speculative attacks on the baht triggered this continent's financial crisis of 1997-98
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the currency of thailand
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saturday evening post cover artist
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norman rockwell
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american contemporary artist who painted a big flag
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jasper johns
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robert burns, john burnside
& robert louis stevenson are probably best known writers/poets from this country |
Scotland
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current scottish poet - winner of TS Eliot prize & Forward Poetry Prize for "black cat bone"
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John Burnside
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english author (1882-1956) of winnie the pooh
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A A Milne
(alan alexander milne) |
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A red, red rose
AUld Lang Syne scottish poet 1759-96 |
Robert Burns
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this ENglish nonsense poet was also an artist and gave Queen Victoria some art lessons
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Edward Lear
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early 20th c irish poet and playwright was first Irishman to win Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923
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W. B. Yeats
(william butler) - 1865-1939 |
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this irish poet proposed to Maud Gonne 5 times 1891,1899,1900,1901, 1916
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W.B. Yeats - she declined them all
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the title to this nigerian author chinua achebe novel comes from a WB Yeats poem "the second coming"
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things fall apart
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the irish war of independence is also known by this two beer drink name
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black and tan war
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oscar wilde is from here
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Ireland
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insulin is created by this organ
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pancreas
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licorice stick is slang term for this woodwind instrument
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clarinet
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superficial skin infection caused by staphylococus & streptococcus bacteria
"I" |
impetigo
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1st book in the lord of the rings trilogy
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Fellowship of the ring
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sunnydale, ca is the fictional city for this show
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buffy the vampire slayer
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metropolis, kansas is ficitional city for this tv show
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smallville
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this newspaperman established his fame with 1916's "you know me, al" his "jr." son was also a writer of note ("ring")
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ring lardner
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poet finished "the ring and the book" a story of a roman murder case of the 1600s 28 years after "pippa passes"
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robert browning
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New new york, new york
tv city |
futurerama
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jascha heifetz instrument
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violin
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tree of the walnut family or slang for a baseball bat
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hickory
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in 1778 this man, the elder, suffered a fatal collapse minutes after speaking agains tcolonial independence
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William Pitt
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he was elected governor of massachusetts in 1982 & 86 and then it was on to the presidency well, not quite
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dukakis
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NY pop artist - started in graffiti - art used for aids related benefits - he died of aids-complication 1990
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Keith Haring
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Graffiti artist (worked under name SAMO) to Neo-expressionist artist died in 1988 of heroin overdose
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Jean Michel Basquiat
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in the 4 major us sports leagues he's won more regular season mvp awards than any other player
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wayne gretzky
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hockey's "the great one"
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wayne gretzky
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host of "the late show"
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david letterman
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host of "the daily show"
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jon stewart
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built at a cost of more than $200 million, it stretches from victoria, bc to st john's newfoundland
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transcanada highway
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anise flavored colorless liqueur
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uzo
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beatrix potter rabbit
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peter rabbit
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thornton burgess fictional rabbit - not to be confused with beatrix potter rabbit
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peter cottontail
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"live" abc talk show host
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jimmy kimmel
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some consider the 1857 decision in this slave v sanford to be the worst ever by the supreme court
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dred scott
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longest associate justice on supreme court - appointed by reagan in 1986
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antonin scalia
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appointed by woodrow wilson, he was the supreme court's first jewish justice
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louis brandeis
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this university is named for him - the first jewish associated justice of the supreme court
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Brandeis University - in waltham mass.
louis brandeis |
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this plaintiff sued to get defendant james madison to deliver the commission that would make him a judge in DC
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Marbury
(marbury v madison) |
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this british sex symbol earned an oscar nomination as a bereaved prof in "a single man"
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collin firth
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arthur hill won a tony as this professor in "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" on broadway
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george
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he played the professor on gilligan's island
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russell johnson
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the beatles new it was used to make cheap furniture
---- wood (nationality) |
norwegian
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wine-producing region in sonoma
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russian
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-----horn
worn to protect you from the evil eye |
italian
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(island nicknames)
home of the dragon lizard |
komodo
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"the garden island" of hawaii
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kauai
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karachi country
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pakistan
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aralsk, shu & almaty
are cities in this "Stan" country |
kazakstan
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uchkuduk & ustyurt plateau in this "Stan" country
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uzbekistan
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with special sound equipment needed in the auditorium, this 1940 DIsney film was initially released in only 14 theaters
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fantasia
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book by sarah ban breathnach
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simple abundance
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ultra-violence/ burgess hits the ol' milkbar/ ah , dystopia
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a clockwork orange
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fiver & bigwig/ tell me about the rabbits/ non-purple hazel
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watership down
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presidential quotes:
in 1976 playboy interview, he said I"ve committed adultery in my heart many times" |
jimmy carter
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collection of essays by james madison
"if men were angels, no government would be necessary" |
the federalist papers
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he played latka on taxi
portrayed by jim carrey on the big screen |
andy kaufman
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jolted to life in como, italy feb 1745 - generated a lot of static, his electricity went out march 5, 1827
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Volta
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hosted the premiere episode of "saturday night live" in 1975
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George Carlin
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1883 indonesia volcanoe killed 40,000+ when erupted
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Krakatoa
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funny man who is avid art collector & wrote the play "picasso at the lapin agile"
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steve martin
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in 1998 - these 2 baseball rivals shared top honors as sport isllustrated sportsman of the year
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sammy sosa mark maguire
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ONe flew over the Cuckoo's nest
author |
Ken Kesey
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prince origingally named Guatama
lived in India hundreds of years before Jesus |
Buddha
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devil in the drama "faust"
and in "doctor faustus" by christopher Marlowe |
mephistopheles
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in cold blood author
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Truman Capote
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alan ayckbourn play
3 comedies about 3 couples weekending in an english country home 'the table manners' living together' "round and round the garden" |
the Norman Conquests
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duke of normandy became known as this after his victory at the Battle of Hastings
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William the Conqueror
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William wordsworth were part of this group of poets |
"lake poets" - they lived in the lake district of england at the turn of the 19th century
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he wrote Kubla Khan
christabel and the rime of the ancient mariner |
Samuel taylor Coleridge
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"water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink"
quote is from this Coleridge poem |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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metaphor of an albatross around one's neck,
his written by him |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
rime of the ancient mariner |
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this lake poet was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850
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William Wordsworth
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Tintern Abbey
& the Prelude are two of this lake poet's most famous works |
William Wordsworth
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this book about building a cabin in the woods was additionally titled "or life in the woods" when it was first released
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Civil Disobedience author
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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This friend and mentor owned the wood where Henry David Thoreau wrote walden
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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this leader of an unsuccessful raid on Harper's ferry was known as:
the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans"[1] and "America's first domestic terrorist."[2] |
John Brown
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an abolitionist
he reportedly said, "These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!" [3] |
John Brown
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Transcendalist author who wrote in support of John Brown
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Henry David thoreau
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hill known as "Author's Ridge." is part of this cemetery in concord massachusetts
where thoreau, louisa may alcott, emerson, hawthorne are buried |
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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who was "king of swing"
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bennie goodman
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about frank & april wheeler
revolutionary Road author |
richard yates
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location of quote that would become "elementary, my dear watson"
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"the crooked man"
quote is excellent: I(watson) cried. 'elmentary ' he said |
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roseau is the capital of
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dominica
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crime and punishment author
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dostoyevsky
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national anthem of great britain
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god save the king (or queen)
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opera by gioacchino rossini main char is figaro
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The barber of seville -
figaro is a schemer who helps his former master, a nobleman win the hand of a beautiful woman |
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first major medieval philosopher who attempted to synthesize plato's philosophy w/christianity
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st. augustine
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what country is waterloo in
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belgium
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french poet subject in verlaine's "the damned poets"
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arthur rimbaud
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third monday of january
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Martin Luther King day
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who killed minotaur
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theseus
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greek god of war (son of zeus & hera)
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ares
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queen of carthage -ultimately committed suicide
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dido (killed herself when realized aeneas could not stay)
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trojan warrior who fled to carthage w/his father
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aeneas
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Henry Purcell wrote an opera about this Carthagenian queen and her trojan lover
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Dido and Aeneas
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king who let the greeks agains troy in trojan war
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Agammemnon
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author of the human comedy
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balzac
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13th c italian saint known for his simplicity, devotion to poetry & love of nature
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St Francis of Assisi
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20c amer playwright & memoirist
"the children's hour" "toys in the attic" memoirs- "pentimento" "scoundrel times" |
Lillian Hellman
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the princess and the pea
author |
hans christian andersen
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philosopher who wrote "theodicy" whose argument is "this is the best of all possible worlds" and there is a reason for everything - jack of all trades
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gottfried wilhelm leibniz
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republic on sw corner of arabian peninsula at mouth of the red sea
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yemen
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anthem song played for pres of US
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hail to the chief
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australia capital
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canberra
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ukraine capital
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kiev
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moscow
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russia
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tunis capital
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tunisia
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stockholm
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sweden
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wrote four papers in 1905 while working as paten clerk in bern * was offered to be 2nd president of israel - turned it down due to people skills
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einstein
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finnish architect
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saaranin
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largely considered the world's oldest city (since pre-historic times)
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damascus
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composer & lyricist to win 7 tonys more than any other composer
also won academy award, grammy & pulitzer |
Steven Sondheim
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painting on wet plaster when dries, painting is bonded to the wall
the last supper sistine chapel are examples |
fresco
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minimal spin baseball
pitch |
knuckleball
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hiawatha's wife in longfellow poem
+ minnesota waterfall |
minnehaha
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music of paul dukas accompanies 1940 movie as wizard summons spirits
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fantasia
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20th c amer painter of
"early sunday morning" "automat" "nighthawks" |
edward hopper
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who invented the lightning rod- arguable one device that has saved more lives than any other
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benjamin franklin
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collection of british poems that had "the last tournament" added in 1870s (not included originally)
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idylls of the king
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st lawrence river valley in quebec to gulf o mex in AL
mountains |
appalachain mountains
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kentucky derby location & drink
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Churchill downs
mint julep |
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"I love rock n roll"
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joan jett
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chinese-american architect
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i m pei
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where austria archduke franz ferdinand was assassinated in 1914
immediate cause of WWI |
Sarajevo
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he was shot dead by by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić.
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Archduke Franz ferdinand
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the preakness stakes
location & nickname |
pimlico race course - baltimore, md
the run for the black-eyed susans (state flower of MD) |
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rembrandt's nationality
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dutch
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yugoslav female tennis player
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monica seles
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"the rail splitter"
"the great emancipater" |
lincoln
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author of the color purple
won pulitzer |
alice walker
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an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline
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henry wadsworth longfellow
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sec on wine means this
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sec
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greenland is part of this continent
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North America
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continent with 2nd largest population
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africa 1 billion
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continent with 3rd largest population
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Europe 740 million
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continent with 4th largest population
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North America 500 million
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continent with 5th largest population
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South America 400 million
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Emperor of Rome after Caligula was murdered
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Claudius
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French novelist who predicted space travel in his stories has been called the 'father of science fiction'
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jules verne
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A harvard prof, this brother of novelist henry is known as "Father of American Psycology"
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William James
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Author of: The American
The Turn of the Screw The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of the Dove Daisy Miller The Ambassadors |
Henry James 15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916 was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.
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Known for his gloomy novels, this brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898
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Thomas Hardy
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This author created the noble indian uncas & the slimy indian magua
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james fenimore cooper
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this double talk art style arose in part from the despair following WWI
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Dada
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This art style that includes an artist's name was a "brotherhood" in mid-19th century london
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Pre-raphealites
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many works commissioned by Louis XIV for versailles are typical of this "imperfect pearl" style
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baroque
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"Old Ironsides Poet", son on supreme court
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
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MLB Team that switched leagues recently, American to National, owned by Bud Sellig (commisioner)
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Milwaukee Brewers
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He's the subject of 2003's "Unfinished Life"
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JFK
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Books about president include "One man alone" and "arrogance of power"
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Nixon
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"American Lion" book about this president
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Andrew Jackson
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1969: he develops the first supercomputer the cdc 7600
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Seymour Cray
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Old name of tokyo
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edo
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borough of greater london
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greenwich
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at over 15,000 ft high the highest railway station in south america in city of condor in this country
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bolivia
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TGV railway in this country
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France
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an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline
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henry wadsworth longfellow
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This mainer (and bowdoin college student along with nathaniel hawthorne) wrote
Hyperion, a romance Evangeline |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
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he pioneered the world's first mass-produced helicopter in 1942.
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Sikorsky
Sikorsky R-4 was the helicopter |
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the villian in othello
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Iago
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jewish day of atonement
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yom kippur
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romania capital
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bucharest
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albania capital
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tirane
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fiji capital
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suva
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rangoon & nay pye taw
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burma/myanmar
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growth hormone gland
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pituitary
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gland front of neck makes calcitonin to deal w/high levels of calcium in blood
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thyroid
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democratic president marc 4, 1857-march 4 1861
vp john c breckenridge |
james buchanan
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festival celebrating black culture heritage celebrated from dec 26-jan1
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kwanzaa
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the "turkish saddle" protects this pea sized gland
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pituitary
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Melatonin is secreted by this pine cone shaped gland
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pineal
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day christmas commemorae crucifixion of Jesus
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Good Friday
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arabic name for God
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Allah
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epic poem recounts the story of the trojan war by homer
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the Illiad
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who quoted "old soldires never die; they only fade away"
after being relieved of his command |
General Douglas MacArthur after being relieved of his command in the Korean War
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what team did Knute Rockne Coach
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Notre Dame
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Parkinson's law
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the work will expand to fit the amount of time available for its completion
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author of the ugly duckling
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hans christian andersen
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name of god in islam
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allah
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author of anna karenina
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leo tolstoy
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elephant hero of children's series by Jean de brunhoff & son Laurent de brunhoff
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babar
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norse myth repulsive dwarfs who lived in hidden places. would steal children & property but hated noise
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trolls
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hero of switzerland famous for skill as an archer
shot apple of his son's head |
william tell
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he wrote william tell opera
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Giachino Rossini
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a dwelling in asgard (the norse heaven) reserved for the souls of those who died heroic deaths
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valhalla
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dracula author
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bram stoker
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a band of the sky along which the sun, moon & most planets move. Divided into 12 parts w/each part named for a nearby constellation
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zodiac
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chief of greek gods hurled thunderbolts in anger
lived atop mt olympus |
Zeus
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author of sophie's choice
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wililam styron
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leonard bernstein adapted this work by voltaire into a comic operetta in 1956
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Candide
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russian nobelist
"gulag" died in 2008 |
solzenitzhan
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The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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diary of a madman russian author
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Nikolai gogol
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author of tartuffe
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Moliere
(orgon is swindled by tartuffe then tartuffe condemed to prison) |
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civil war photographer
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Mathew Brady
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He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.[1]
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Mathew Brady
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His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century
and he won four pulitzer prizes in poetry |
Robert Frost
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The New Church is AKA
this after a new religious movement developed from the writings of the Swedish scientist and theologian who claims he had heavenly visions continuously over 25 years |
Swedenborgianism (after Emmanuel Swedenborg)
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danish/american architect for Mt Rushmore
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gutzon Borglum
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architect for stone mountain, ga
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gutzon Borglum
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, the largest bas-relief in the world.[3] The carving depicts three figures of the Confederate States of America: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis.
is here |
Stone Mountain, GA
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Confederate General who's arm was amputated after being shot, but died 8 days later of complications of pneumonia
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thomas jonathan "Stonewall "Jackson
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General (and future president) who commanded the americans agains the british at the battle of New Orleans
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Andrew Jackson
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moonlight sonata composer
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beethoven
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sorceress who fell in love w/jason and helped him get the golden fleece
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Medea
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august birthstone
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peridot
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He had to perform several tasks in order to get the Golden Fleece
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Jason
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Greek Titan god of the sun
vs. olympian god of the sun |
Helios (Sol in roman)
vs Apollo |
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the strait of messina separates this island from this country
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Sicily from Italy (calabria part)
this strait is rumored to have been the scylla and charybdis strait |
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The strait that was said to have the Scylla on one side and charybdis (whirlpool) on the other
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Strait of Messina
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Originally placed in a public square in Florence
The statue was moved to the Accademia Gallery in Florence in 1873, |
David ( by michelangelo)
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Da vinci's the annunciation
and botticelli's the birth of venus are in this Florence Gallery |
Uffizi (offices)
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The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were on the plane with this rock n' roller when he died in an Iowa plane crash
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Buddy Holly
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waylon Jennings got his start with this TX rock n roll star
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Buddy Holly
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he sings american pie
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don maclean
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country star who narrated dukes of hazzard
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waylon jennings
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His ninth & final successful run for the US Senate from West Virginia was in 2006; dead in 2010
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Robert Byrd
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The Han river flows through this Asian capital into the Yellow Sea
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Seoul
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He escaped gladiator school in the 1st century BC & formed an army that threatened Rome
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Spartacus
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he first ran for the senate in the 1970's & has become utah's longest-serving senator
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Orrin Hatch
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He was elected to the us congress in 1968, 9 years bfore his first successful run for mayor of NYC
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Ed Koch
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Largest moon of Neptune
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Triton
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The Chao Phraya this country's main river flows to the gulf named for the country
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Thailand
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The international airport in anchorage was renamed for him in 2000
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Ted Stevens
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Who wrote the Iron Giant, late british poet laureate
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Ted Hughes
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This military group formed under lenin officially lost its colorful name in 1946
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Red Army
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Most of "As You Like It" takes place in this forest
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Arden
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Treaty of Paris 1763 ended which war
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The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763
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This russian ballet star (male) defected June 17, 1961
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Rudolf Nureyev
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starts A ends W another name for the constellation sagitta
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Arrow
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commonwealth surfing country
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australia
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st paul's preconversion name
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saul
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betty grable, lauren bacall, marilyn monroe snare rich husbands instructional film
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How to marry a millionaire
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aka "the noble experiment"
us 1919-1933 |
Prohibition mandated by 18th amendment
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"father of the gunpowder plot"
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Guy Foxx
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plot to assassinate King James I - now commemorated every nov 5
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the Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes)
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female anti-alcohol campaigner
(home is hatchet hall) |
Carrie Nation
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Female Radical Temperence movement member who would go into bars and attack the bar with a hatchett
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Carrie Nation
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most famous medieval spanish warrior
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El Cid
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southern japanese city port & shipbuilding center
only port open to west 1641-1858 devestated by 2nd atomic bomb |
Nagasaki
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1852-1853 - he delivered a letter from president Millard Fillmore to the Japanese - for the "opening of Japan" to the west (other than nagasaki)
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Commodore Matthew C Perry
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tropic of Cancer/capricorn
which is north? |
Cancer is north - sun is directly overhead during June solstice
capricorn is south - sun is directly overhead during Dec solstice |
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host of 1988 winter olympics
(canada) |
Calgary
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source of "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise"
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Poor richard's almanac
benjamin franklin |
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president who said
if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen |
Truman
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"no man is an island" source
and "for whom the bell tolls" source |
sermon by 17th c eng author
John Donne |
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love quasimodo in Notre Dame
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Esmerelda
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novel begins:
"happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" |
anna karenina
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who is considered founder of Judaism
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Abraham
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colombian born 20th c writer
of "one hundred years of solitude" who won nobel prize for lit 1982 |
gabrial garcia marquez
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16th c magician and practitioner of alchemy sold his sould to the Devil in exchange for youth, knowledge & power
written about by Christopher Marlowe & Goethe |
Faust
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eldest daughter of Agammemnon
sister of electra & orestes sacrificed for favorable winds at start of trojan war |
Iphigenia
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jonathan swift writing ironicly
suggesting Irish parents sell children as food to earn money |
"a modest proposal"
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20th c amer composer
An American in Paris Rhapsody in Blue music for Porgy and Bess |
George Gershwin
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brothers who wrote music & lyrics to more than a dozen broadway shows
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George (music) & Ira (lyrics) Gershwin
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Kate Smith sang his "God Bless America" in the broadway musical "this is the army" with Ronald Reagan
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Irving Berlin
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born in russia - this american composer was known broadway musicals, revues & showtunes
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Irving Berlin
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His first hit was "Alexander's ragtime band" (not scott joplin)
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Irving Berlin
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Irving berlin signed over the royalties of this song to the Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts - who have earned millions from it
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God Bless America
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he also wrote music & lyrics to "annie get your gun"
& the song "white christmas" |
Irving Berlin
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas
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he sang
Suspicious Minds |
Elvis Presley
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broadway play
man and daughter go to pittsburgh boarding house august wilson -playwright |
Joe Turner's Come and GOne
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He was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
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August Wilson
Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. |
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best known plays are Fences (1985) (which won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award), The Piano Lesson (1990) (a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
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August Wilson
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January Birthstone
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Garnet
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president assassinated in buffalo by leon frank czolgosz
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Mckinley
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young star of 6th sense
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Haley joel osment
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don giovanni is about
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don juan
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president who approved the development of NASA's space shuttle program
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nixon
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author of Hedda Gabler
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Henrik Ibsen
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where ghandi was shot in 1948
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Prayer grounds in New Delhi
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prairie state
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illinois
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NYC "steakhouse" by 2 swiss brothers
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DelMonico
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General whose victory in 1759 cemented Britain's control over Canada
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General Wolfe
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North American war 1754-1763
Named for the forces who opposed the British |
French-Indian War
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Peace of Paris or Treaty of 1763 ended this north american war
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French-Indian War
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Treaty of Paris 1783 - ended this war
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American Revolution
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peace treaty that ended the war of 1812 between US and UK
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Treaty of Ghent
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son & successor of Henry VIII
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Edward VI
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astraphobia & tonitrophobia
or brontophobia |
fear of thunderstorms
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venustraphobia
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fear of beautiful women
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Cynophobia - fear of these animals
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dogs
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"Cyno" in greek
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dog
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Ophidiophobia sometimes referred to by the more generic herpetophobia
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Fear of snakes
"ophis" greek for snakes |
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wiccaphobia
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fear of witches
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xenophobia
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fear of strangers
"xeno" is foreign or strange |
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Tacho phobia
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fear of speed
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selene is the greek name for this Roman goddes of the moon
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Luna
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pyrophobia
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fear of fire
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somniphobia
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fear of sleep
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chromophobia
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fear of colors
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Coulrophobia is fear of these circus performers
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clowns
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anguilla
antigua & barbuda montserrat st kitts & nevis st lucia st vincent & the grenadines currency |
east caribbean dollar
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mexican currency
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Mexican new peso
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this small principality (run as a constitutional monarchy) is the only country to lie entirely within the alps
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Liechtenstein
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national currency of Liechtenstein is borrowed from one of it's neighbors
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swiss franc
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Only franc still printed in Europe
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Swiss france
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he wrote only one well-known comedy (Ah, Wilderness!).[
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Eugene O'Neill
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what is EGOT
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emmy, grammy, oscar, tony
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one of two people (the other is Richard Rogers) to win a Pulitzer + EGOT
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Marvin Hamlisch
he's also won 2 golden globes |
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his 8th symphony it is frequently called the "Symphony of a Thousand
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Gustav Mahler
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explorer who's last name
Cabeza de Vaca means this in spanish |
Head of Cow
he explored a large part of texas on his way to mexico city |
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bach son who influenced young mozart
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johann christian bach
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they myster of edwin drood author
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charles dickens
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1957 war movie w/col saito & capitives
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Bridge on the river kwai
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legendary home of the greek and roman gods
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mount olympus (actual mtn in Greece -it's highest)
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Jake Barnes is the narrator in this hemingway novel
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the Son also rises
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defines the jurisdiction of the supreme court in cases concerning a suit brough against a state by a citizen or another state
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11th
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ancient prophet & teacher who lived in ancient iran
"gathas" & Poems |
zoroaster
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spiderman villain in spiderman 2
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dr. octopus
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don & phil sing "bye bye love" brothers
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everly brothers
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wagnerian lover
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tristan
of tristan & isolde |
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Wagnerian Lovers
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Tristan & Isolde
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president republican 1869-1877
vp shuyler colfax, henry wilson & vacant |
US Grant
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the moon has this fraction of earth's gravitational pull
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1/6
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english pottery firm famous for it's "jasperware"
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Wedgwood
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originally a Irish company, it merged with Wedgwood in 2009 and still has factories in Germany & Czech republic
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Waterford Crystal
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these twin brothers were perpetrators of organised crime in London in the 1950s & 1960s
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Kray Brothers (one of the last to be held in tower of london)
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the remains of this Nazi - known for a famous flight to Scotland - were removed from Wunsiedel when it became a pilgrimage site for Neo Nazis
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Rudolf Hess
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darwin's wife's maiden name
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Wedgwood (they were 1st cousins and both had Josiah Wedgwood as a grandfather)
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louis XIV associated himself w/ this greek god
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apollo
(hence "the sun king") |
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20th c eng author for christopher robin & winnie the pooh
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AA milne
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode on Melancholy"
Ode to a nightingale are all by this english poet |
John Keats
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this english ode poet died at 25 - most likely from tuberculosis
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John Keats
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one of four women nominated for the best director academy award is this new zealand director of the piano
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Jane Campion
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kathryn bigelow is first woman to win this academy award
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best director
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this director & daughter of a director is the first american woman to be nominated for best directory academy award
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Sofia Coppola
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Sofia coppola was nominated for best director, but won best screenplay for this 2003 movie
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Lost in translation
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New Zealand director who was nominated for Best director, but won best original screenplay for The Piano
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Jane Campion
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ideological & somewhat autobiographical book written by Hitler
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Mein Kampf
(my struggle or my battle) |
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avian nickname given to a Nazi operation that purged at least 85 political opponents
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Hummingbird
(also called Night of the Long Knives) |
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"colorful" nickname for the stormtroopers in nazi germany
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"brown Shirts"
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king that ruled france 1643-1715 - for 72 years
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Louis XIV
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sorceress who helped Jason get the Golden Fleece (later married him)
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Medea
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her 1st solo hit is "london bridge"
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Fergie
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longest continuously serving capital in US
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Boston
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lord, what fools these mortals be!
from this comedy by shakespeare |
A Midsummer night's dream - lovers spend a night in the forest - victims of fairies pranks and enchantments
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author of
The autobiography of Alice B Toklas |
Gertrude Stein
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She coined "Lost Generation"
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Gertrude Stein
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companion of gertrude stein who published a cookbook that included brownies with marijuana in them
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Alice B Toklas
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gilbert & sullivan operetta with Yum-Yum, Ko-Ko and Nanki-poo
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The mikado
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known for Operettas like "the mikado"
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Gilbert & Sullivan
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raincoat to the brits
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mcintosh
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island south of sicily
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malta
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in this world nothing is certain but ___ ___ ___
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death and taxes
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hitch your wagon to a ____
ralph waldo emerson |
star
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american essayist/poet who led transcendental movement
author of Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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the house of this "self-reliance" author is now open to the public in Concord, Mass
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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composer of don giovanni
(1787) |
Mozart
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irish airline
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aer lingus
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aka Royal Dutch Airline
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KLM
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This dutch Airline merged with Air France in 2004
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KLM
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French Airline
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Air France
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Australian Airline
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QANTAS
an acronym for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services |
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Spanish airline that merged with british airways to form International Airlines Group, in jan 2011
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Iberia
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russian airline
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aeroflot
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finnish airline
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finnair
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tajikistan national airline
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tajik air
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chilean airline
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LAN
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israel airline
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El Al
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german airline
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Lufthansa
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japanese airline
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Japan airlines - JAL
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hong kong airline
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Cathay Pacific
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President to run on his own one time "bull-moose" ticket in 1912 against taft & woodrow wilson
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Theodore Roosevelt
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second monday in october
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columbus day
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philippines capital
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manila
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dueling banjos movie
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deliverance
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deliverance author
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james dickey
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a day in the life
singer |
beatles
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third monday in february
since 1971 |
presidents day
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rodgers & hammerstein
-which is lyricist |
oscar hammerstein II
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squire w/don quixote
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sancho panza
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lord jim author
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joseph conrad
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region of italy comprises the "toe"
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calabria
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country long ruled by dictator mobuto seso seko
overthown in 97 |
democratic republic of congo
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this capital of democratic republic of the congo was formerly called leopoldville
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Kinshasa
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democratic republic of the congo was called this when ruled by mobutu sese seko
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Zaire
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nuku alofa is the capital of this archipelago
country this country also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He |
tonga
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Lome is the capital of this africa country between ghana and benin
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togo
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Niamey is the capital of this landlocked african nation south of Algeria & Libya
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Niger
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brazzaville is the capital of this african country that gained independence from france in 1960
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Republic of Congo
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magic realism author from colombia
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gabriel garcia marquez
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magic realism author from argentina
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Jorge Luis Borges
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100 years of solitude author
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Love in the time of Cholera
author |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. - argentinian
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Jorge Luis Borges - died in Switzerland
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Argentinian who wrote Los Conjurados
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Jorge Luis Borges
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was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America.[1]
and was overthrown by pinochet in 1973 |
Salvador Allende
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hero of athens who killed procrustes and the minotaur & made war on the amazons athen married their queen
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theseus
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jewish festival celbrated each sprin before passover
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purim
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a person who is both idealistic and impractical is said to be this..
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quixotic
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roman leader 27 bc -14 ad
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augustus caesar
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no woman no cry singer
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bob marley & the wailers
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The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after this jamaican singer's death, is reggae's best-selling album
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Bob Marley
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son of bob marley who has backup group . The Melody Makers
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Ziggy Marley
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GBS's play about Don Juan
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man and super man
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musical direction meaning to be performed very loudy
opposite of pianissimo |
fortissimo
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who did LBJ defeat in 1964 election
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barry goldwater
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grimm fairy tale
title character - adwarf will not take a woman's first-born child if she can guess his name. She finds out & guesses it. he destroys himself |
rumpelstiltskin
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created the "New Deal" w/works project administration (WPA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA) Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) |
FDR
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1971 play about a nice and dull university professor whose life & world is isolated. He's barely fazed by dramas that surround him starring matthew broderick - written by christopher hampton
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the philanthropist
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wife of odysseus - pursued by many suitors
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penelope
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this swiss classic by Johanna Spyri.
is subtitled: for children and those who love children |
Heidi
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Play by Wendy Wasserstein:
The plot follows main character from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. |
Heidi Chronicles
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Mount Viso is the beginning of this italian river
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Po
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city that oedipus saves from the Sphinx (and becomes king)
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thebes (in greece)
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Alphabet English & Western European languages
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Latin Alphabet
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the heart is a lonely hunter author
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Carson McCullers (from Georgia)
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Around the world in Eighty Days author
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Jules Verne
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"mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
-movie |
snow white and the seven dwarfs
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rights not listed are not necessarily denied
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9th amendment
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whole lotta shakin' goin' on
singer |
Jerry Lee Lewis
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The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.
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The Million Dollar Quartet
-arguably the first supergroup |
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this great balls of fire singer is nicknamed "the killer"
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jerry lee lewis
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founded by Founded by Sam Phillips, this record label gave Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins their first recording contract
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Sun Records
-founded in Memphis - now in Nashville |
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another name of Mormons
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Redemption Song
Singer |
Bob marley and the wailers
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February Birthstone
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Amethyst
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American Short Story master
He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs |
john cheever
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best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Five-Forty-Eight," "The Country Husband," and "The Swimmer"),
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John Cheever
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author of the The Princess and the Pea
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Hans Christian Andersen
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established church of england when pope wouldn't annul his marriage
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Henry VIII
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laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone
from her work Solitude |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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point of orgination of earthquake &
point on earth's surface vertically above it |
Hypocenter & epicenter
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grants washington dc 3 electoral votes
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23 amendment
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lord of the flies
author |
William Golding
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novel with Ralph, Piggy, Jack and Simon
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Lord of the Flies
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Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty
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Venus
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what'd I say
singer |
Ray charles
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coldplay has a new single with the name of what comic strip character
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charlie brown
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son of agammemnon & clymenestra who avenges his father's death by killing his mother & her lover w/his sister electra
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orestes
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wife of henry VIII he hated her - was just to ally england w/germany
wife #4 |
Anne of Cleves
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grand jury indictment requried fro serious crimes
amendment |
5th
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1782 king rama I established the chakri dynasty in the country then known by
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Siam - now thailand
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sang "on the road again"
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willie nelson
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roger baldwin co-founded this in NYC 1920 to support the bill of rights
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ACLU
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like a rolling stone singer
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bob dylan
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domincan republic capital
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santo domingo
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3 goddesses judged by paris int he judgment of paris
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Hera, Aphrodite & athena
Aphrodite won |
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65 secretary of state in 2004
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Colin Powell
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mount ansel adams is on SE Boundarty of this national park
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Yosemite
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Fahrenheit 451 author
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Ray Bradbury
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basseterre is the capital of
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St.Kitts & Nevis
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Port Moresby is capital of this muliple island nation in oceania
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Papua New Guinea
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Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are the three fictional superstates in this book
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1984 by George Orwell
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
beginning of what novel |
1984
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Big Brother is the enigmatic dictator of Oceania in what novel
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1984 - george orwell
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this huxley novel starts in London and "the world state"
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Brave new World
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athens statesman try to unite greece. Promoted democracy, built parthenon
rule was "golden age of greece" |
pericles
(495-424 bc) |
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sons and lovers
author |
dh lawrence
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author of poem "kubla khan"
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samuel taylor coleridge
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great cathedral in france built mostly in 13th c one of the finest examples of gothic architecture
blue glass predominates in stained glass windows |
Chartres Cathedral - has a labyrinth on the floor that people walk while praying
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capital of alberta
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edmonton
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first man in space & mission
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Yuri Gagarin
vostok 1 1961 |
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world's largest active volcano
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kilauea
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1996 russian chess champ beat ibm computer in 97 deep blue won
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Garry kasparov
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canadian province with niagara falls & canada's capital ottawa
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ontario
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queen of the amazons
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hippolyta
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2 countries in south america that do NOT border brazil
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chile & ecuador
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3 named english economist born 1883
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John Maynard Keynes
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he is widely considered to be one of the founders of he modern macroeconomics, and to be the most influential economist of the 20th century.[4
Time said: "His radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism |
John Maynard Keynes
"keynesian economics" |
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roman name of god of the underworld
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Pluto
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absalom, absalom
author |
william faulkner
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italian painter 13-14th c first painter to abandon byzantine ways and depict more lifelike expressions & figures
considered first in the line of great artists of the italian renaissance |
giotto
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Giotto’s Campanile is a free-standing campanile
in this italian city |
Florence
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the bronze doors of the florence baptistry were given this nickname by michelangelo
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the Gates of Paradise".
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papa's got a brand new bag
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james brown
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chile that is a dried smoked jalapeno
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chipotle
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successor to henry viii
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edward vi
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german composer 18th-19th c known for eroica -3rd symphony
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beethoven
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gimme shelter
singer |
the rolling stones
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heroes
singer |
david bowie
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waterloo sunset
singer |
the kinks
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author of anathem & snow crash
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neil simpson
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1st american in space
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alan shepard jr
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where is bali
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island of southern indonesia (east of java)
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center of the photgraphic equipment industry
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rochester, ny
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18th-19th c spanish painter
include paintings & etchings depicting horrors of war |
francisco goya
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alfred e smith & william gibbs mcadoo
were 2 candidates for this party pres. nom. in 1924 |
democrat
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left footed irish author & artist
with cerbral palsy |
christy brown (he wrote autobiography my left foot - that was made into a movie with daniel day lewis)
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eng poet who wrote
elegy written in a country courtyard |
thomas gray
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invisible man
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ralph ellison
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president opened relations w/people's republic of china
& initiated detent with soviet union |
RIchard nixon
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james beard award
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restaurant awrd
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president during WWI
nicknamed "the professor" |
woodrow wilson
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"state fair" is by this musical duo
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rogers and hammerstein
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code named the argonaut conference -wartime meeting feb 4-11, 1945 of FDR, churchill, stalin for discussing postwar europe reorginzation
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Yalta (city in crimea - southern ukraine)
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the song of hiawatha
and Paul Rever's Ride 19th c amer poet |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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month & year of the wall street cash
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crash thursday oc 24, 1929 - catastrophic downturn monday 28th/tues 29th
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president who issued
fourteen points helped create league of Nations and shape Treaty of Versailles awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 |
Woodrow Wilson
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"steamboat" man
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Robert Fulton
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sony owned motion picture company
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columbia
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originally a radio scandal when record companies illegally paid for play time of records this
has come to mean the payment of a bribe in commerce and in law to say or do a certain thing against the rules of law, but more specifically a commercial bribe |
Payola
-from Pay & Victrola |
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american dj aka "moondog"
coined term Rock and Roll - and was caught in the Payola scandal in the early 60s |
Alan Freed
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crime dog
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macgruff
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who can impeach president
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house of representatives
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Ravi Shankar is known for playing this instrument
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sitar
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sculpture called
"le penseur" |
the thinker
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1937 first afr american heavyweight champioun since jack johnson w/KO of James J Braddock
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Joe Louis
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1981 welterweight
sweet |
sugar ray leonard
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held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year
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Sugar Ray Robinson
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russias longest border w/this stan
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kazikstan
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1921 nobel prize for physics winner
(he was in shanghai) |
Einstein
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star of a streetcar named desire
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Marlon Brando
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"working class hero"
w/granny glasses was a tribute to him |
John Lennon
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SNL person who did George Bush & Alex trebek impressions
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Will Ferrell
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Shakespeare tragedy about
a moor general in venice with villain IAGO - convince him that wife desdemona is adulterous "one that loved not wisely, but too well" |
Othello
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this trail provided troops and supplies from North vietnam to south vietnam communists during vietnam war & went through Laos Mountains
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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region known as the cradle of western civilization
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middle east
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first baltic republic to reject soviet rule in march 1990
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lithuania
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vexillology is study of
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flags
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end of wwii and founding of united nations during this president
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Harry S Truman
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former name of Thailand
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siam
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World's largest City
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Tokyo (on honshu island)
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"west bank" is on what river
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Jordan River
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who participated in the first televised presidential debates
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JFK & nixon
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italian island's provinces syracuse, messina & palermo
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sicily
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native son
author |
Richard wright
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who killed lee harvey oswald
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Jack Ruby
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Black University in Washington DC
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howard University
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the virgin queen
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Queen Elizabeth I
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shakespeare comedy about twin brother & sister thought each was lost at sea
she marries duke he marries woman who duke had pursued |
Twelfth Night
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largest island of French Polynesia
gauguin & RL Stevenson lived here |
Tahiti
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the buckeye state
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ohio
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19th c amer author of
essay "self-reliance" quotes - "to be great is to be misunderstood" "...hobgoblin of little minds" |
Ralph waldo emerson
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Participants in "The Thrilla in Manilla"
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Frasier vs Ali
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Northern region of Belgium
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Flanders
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Nova Scotia's Cobequid Bay is an arm of this much larger bay
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Bay of Fundy
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This Danish Island Group between Iceland & the UK is self-governing & has its own parliment, The Lagting
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Faeroe Islands
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Though under house arrest in this country off & on since 1989, Aung San Suu Kyi was not brought to trial until 2009
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Myanmar
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Gland near stomach that means "all flesh"
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pancreas
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Iron curtain dealt with soviets, this curtain dealt with china (during cold war)
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bamboo curtain
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From the greek for "hard" it's the dense white part of the eye
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Sclera
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During WWII this future US president flew a Grumman Avenger & was shot down over the pacific
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George HW Bush
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On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel MD. this Alabama Governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer
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George Wallace
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Notorius civil war prison camp
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andersonville
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William Styron won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize for his "Confessions of" this slave revolt leader
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Nat Turner
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This 1880 classic by Lew Wallace was one of the first novels to feature jesus as a character
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Ben Hur
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Plutarch said that Julius Caesar quoted the ancient proverb "The die is cast" as he crossed this river
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Rubicon
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This Greek lawmaker wrote about relieving citizens' debt, saying one "Who was enslaved is now free"
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Solon
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"Finger Pressure" in japanese this type of massage deals with 12 major meridians
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Shiatsu
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1941-45 name of the program under which us supplied UK, SOviet Union, China, France & Allies w/war materials
in exchange for ,from britain- military bases in newfoundland, bermuda & british west indies |
lend-lease aid
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capital of catalonia region of spain
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barcelona
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curtis jackson is real name of what rapper
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fitty cent
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parents of JFK
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Joseph P Kennedy, Sr
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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Joseph P Kennedy, Sr was the innaugural chairman of this
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the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
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SEC stands for this
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Securities and exchange commission
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Hapsburg Dynasty controlled (1278-1918) this country
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Austria
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billionaire
"mouth of the south" largest individual landholder in US (2 million acres in 12 states) |
Ted Turner
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let it be
singer |
the Beatles
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born to run
|
bruce springsteen
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egypt port city where nile meets med sea one-time captial of ancient Egypt
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Alexandria
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largest mediterannean island
island in souther italy separated from italy by strait of messina |
Sicily
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Latin American Literature
movement that has elements of the fantastic and the mudance |
magical realism
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ionesco's "the bald soprano"
example of this type of theater |
Theater of the absurd
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relieved as supreme general of the union army in 1862
|
George B McClellan - he was one time governer of new jersey after the war 1878-1881
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1796 edward jenner discovered vaccine for this
|
small pox
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1972 album "fm and AM"
late satirist |
george carlin
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1796 edward jenner discovered vaccine for this
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small pox
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all creatures great and small
author |
james herriot's bestseller about his years as a veternarian
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1972 album "fm and AM"
late satirist |
george carlin
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russia ruler 1762 -1796
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Catherine the great
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all creatures great and small
author |
james herriot's bestseller about his years as a veternarian
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Lorraine Handsbury play title taken from a line by Langston Hughes
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A Raisin in the Sun
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russia ruler 1762 -1796
|
Catherine the great
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Lorraine Handsbury play title taken from a line by Langston Hughes
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A Raisin in the Sun
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the bay state
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Massachusetts
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2008 she married Jay-Z
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beyonce
|
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"v" short pointed beard
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van dyke
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fight in zaire 1974 - rumble in the jungle participants
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Muhammad Ali & George Foreman (who was knocked out by Muhammad ali)
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san cristobal & guadalcanal
what islands |
solomon islands
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achilles & ajax are in what shakespeare play
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troilus & cressida
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bird in rime of the ancient mariner
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Albatross
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u.s. general that loved horses and protected the lippizaners in wwII
|
george patton
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breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria
|
Lipizzaner or Lipizzan
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location of the great art museum rijksmuseum
|
amsterdam
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Rembrandt's The Night Watch is hanging in this amsterdam museum
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Rijksmuseum
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EPA - environmental Protection agency
OSHA - occupational safety and health administration were created during this administration And the post office dept became US Postal Service |
Nixon
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broadway musical set in greek isles
soon to be married sophie, her mother donna & 3 men from Donna's past |
Mamma Mia
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capital of saskatchewan
|
regina
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oct 1797 US Met w/french agents known by these 3 letters
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X, Y & Z
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hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
author |
douglas adams
|
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poet - the charge of the light brigade
|
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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lord poet was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign
|
Alfred Tennyson
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remains of what building on the acropolis in athens
|
parthenon
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era when concerto & concerto grosso', the dance suite, the sonata, the contata & the oratorio were all new
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Baroque Era
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what city is tianamen square site of a democratic portest in 1989
|
Beijing
|
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india's largest city
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calcutta
|
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the "passions"
the "christmas oratorio" the "mass in b minor" are by him |
J.S. Bach
|
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what city is tianamen square site of a democratic portest in 1989
|
Beijing
|
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ancient civilization's ruins on the yucatan
|
mayan
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india's largest city
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calcutta
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2 principal islands of new zealand & largest city
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North & South Island
aukland (not the capital though) |
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the "passions"
the "christmas oratorio" the "mass in b minor" are by him |
J.S. Bach
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ancient civilization's ruins on the yucatan
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mayan
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2 principal islands of new zealand & largest city
|
North & South Island
aukland (not the capital though) |
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a dramatic presentation describing the trial, suffering and death of Jesus
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Passion Play
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japan tried to expand here in 1930s resulting in Axis Powers in WWII
|
China
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Gone with the wind
author |
Margaret Mitchell
|
|
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the stand
author |
Stephen king
|
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beloved
author |
toni morrison
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author of
the bluest eye and Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison
|
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20th C Amer Actress who starred in "the philadelphia story" & "the african queen" won acad. awards
1933, 1967, 1968, 1981` |
Katherine Hepburn
|
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the sound and the fury
|
William Faulkner
|
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Lolita
|
Vladimir Nabokov
|
|
|
"the buck stops here"
& "if you can't stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen" |
Harry S Truman
|
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sun tzu book
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The art of war
|
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tolstoy book
|
war & peace
anna karenina |
|
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coined term
birth control |
margaret sanger
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she founded Planned Parenthood
|
Margaret Sanger
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margaret antrhopologist
|
Margaret Mead
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adult males are called silverbacks
|
Gorillas
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Type of Resort comes from belgian town known for mineral springs
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Spa
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word for the last & completely destructive battle comes from the place it is supposed to happen
|
armageddon
|
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who betrays Jesus to the Romans
|
Judas Iscariot - for 30 pieces of silver
(he identified him with a kiss - to the arresting soldiers) hence "the kiss of judas" |
|
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composer who had 19 children
2 became composers |
JS Bach
|
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areas of intense magnetic fields on the sun's surface
2000 degrees cooler than the rest of sun |
sunspots
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name of straight connects san francisco bay and the pacific ocean
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golden gate
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where are lemurs
|
madagascar
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transitional composer from classical to romantic who studied w/haydn, had affinities with mozart & worshipeed handl
|
Ludwig von beethoven
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decade the moody blues debuted
|
1960s
|
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purple haze
singer |
jimi hendrix
|
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country where marxist sandinistas launched civil war - assumed power in 1979
1980s US Backed contras 1990 sandinistas were defeated in elections |
nicaragua
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34th president
1953-1961 VP Richard Nixon wife mamie 5-star general |
Eisenhower
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his first lady was Mamie Geneva Doud
|
Eisenhower
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Dolley Payne Todd was married to this president who's home was montpelier (in virginia)
|
James Madison
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Vermont's nickname
|
The Green mountain state
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Battle of Midway -1942
war |
WWII
|
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this atoll was the site of a decisive Naval Victory for the US in Jun 1942 against Japan
|
Midway Atoll
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another name for the abominable snowman
|
the Yeti
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Albert B. Fall, involved in this scandal, was the first former cabinet member to go to prison
|
Teapot Dome Scandal
|
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|
the Yeti of Himalayan legend (nepal and tibet) parallels this mythical creature in North America
|
Big Foot - Sasquatch
|
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Another name for Sasquatch
|
Big Foot
|
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Jewish day of atonement
|
Yom Kippur
|
|
|
poems "the bells"
"the cask of the armontillado" "the murders in the rue morgue" |
edgar allan poe
|
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|
poems
"the raven" "the fall of the house of Usher" "the tell tale Heart" "the Pit and the Pendulum" |
Edgar allan poe
|
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Poe died in this american city where he published The Raven (?)
|
Baltimore
|
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|
35th President
1961- Nov 22, 1963 V.P. Lyndon Baines Johnson narrowly defeated Nixon Only Catholic President Youngest to be ELECTED (t.r was youngest) |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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|
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged author |
Ayn Rand
(russian born 20th C american writer) |
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ayn rand book set in a dystopic state - where the great minds of the world are disappearing to prove that with out individualism, the state will fail
|
Atlas Shrugged
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this author came up with her own philosophy called "objectivism"
|
Ayn Rand
|
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strip of land on mediterranean in SE france & NW italy - including monaco
|
Riviera
|
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taking of hostages in lebanon when reagan secretly sold arms to Iran for their assistance
|
Iran-Contra Affair (money was funnelled to contras in Nicaragua)
|
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real name of dr. seuss
|
theodore seuss giesel
|
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light waves were once thought to move through this medium
|
ether
|
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the bluegrass state
|
Kentucky
|
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mountain chain from British Columbia, canada through WA, OR & Norther CA - many volcanoes
|
Cascades
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Broadway musical -
roxie hart kills her lover also Velma, Mama, Billy Flynn Fosse-style Choreography tunes by Kander & Ebb |
Chicago
|
|
|
founder of Bolivia & won independence from who?
|
Simone Bolivar
Spain in 1825 |
|
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river that carved the Grand Canyon & empties into Gulf of California
|
Colorado River
|
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|
1959 Film starring Charlton Heston with a famous 9 minute chariot race
|
Ben Hur
|
|
|
state of the painted desert
|
arizona
|
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where declaration of ind & constitution were signed
|
Independence Hall, Philadelphia PA
|
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|
Presidential campaign promised "return to normalcy" in aftermath of WWI
|
Warren Gamaliel Harding
|
|
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island country in SW pacific controlled by spain until 1898 when power transferred to US after Spanish American War
full independence in 1946 |
Philippines
|
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|
holiest cities in Islam
Mecca & ---- (where Muhammad is buried) |
Medina
|
|
|
author & novel about
Jim hawkins on a ship looking for treasure has Long John Silver |
Robert Louis Stevenson
treasure island |
|
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all along the watchtower
|
Jimi Hendrix
|
|
|
muskie is short for these fish
|
muskalung
|
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elizabeth dole
robert reich george shultz cabinet dept |
Labor
|
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a room with a view author
|
E M Forster
|
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radiation belts named for american physicist
|
van allen radiation belt
|
|
|
20th c english philosopher & mathematician known for work in logic & epistemology & for outspoken pacifism and other political & social views
|
Bertrand Russell
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the "other" person credited w/developing differential calculus
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Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz
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september birthstone
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Sapphire
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1980s it's gov't fought a rebel group abbreviated FMLN (was an umbrella group of leftwing guerillas - now a legal political party)
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el salvador
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st matthew Passion (about christ's suffering)
& Suites (4) for orchestra - aka overtures containg "air on G string" |
J S Bach
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The heart is a lonely hunter
& the member of the wedding 20th c amer writer |
Carson Mccullers
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The Natural State
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Arkansas
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where robin hood lived
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sherwood forest
(it is an actual forest) |
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mythical animal resembling horse w/horn growing out of its forehead
often described w/legs of dear and tail of lion |
unicorn
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egyptian winged monster
w/head of a man and body of a lion |
sphinx
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a god made visible in human form in hinduism
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avatar
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summoned by pope julius II to work on papal rooms included work
"school of athens" w/plato, aristotle and all great thinkers of Ancent Greece |
Raphael
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boethis country of birth
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italy
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john dewey & john rawls are philosophers from this country
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the us
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desiderius erasmus,
baruch spinoza are philosophers from this country |
the netherlands
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show is set in nevada at the washoe county sheriff's department -shorts optional
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reno 911
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robert boyle & george berkeley are philosophers from this country
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ireland
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the ancient wonder of the world:
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus is in this modern day country |
turkey
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the ancient wonder of the world
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is in this modern day country |
turkey
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meryl streep ivy league university
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yale
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in 1924 olympics she won bronzee in 100& 400 m free
2 years later she swam the english channel at age 19 |
gertrude edderly
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david mamet was nominated for a best screenplay oscar for penning this 1982 paul newman legal drama
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the verdict
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educator allan bloom wrote a 1987 bestseller called "the closing of the american" this
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mind
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david mamet created a naturalistic study of 3 petty criminals in 1977's "american" this
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buffalo
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mamet deedicated "glengarry glen ross" to this british minimalist playwright
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harold pinter
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no 3 in MLB homeruns hit
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Babe Ruth
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only orson welles & this man have been nominated for best actor & original screenplay in the same year while in their 20s
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matt damon
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