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| Anesthetic you're grateful for on a visit to the dentist |
[Ryan selected the first clue.]
novocaine
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| After his band of outlaws was decimated trying to rob a bank in 1876, he & his brother Frank formed a new one |
Jesse James
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| In 1954 440,000 schoolchildren became guinea pigs in a test of his polio vaccine |
Salk
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| The 18th century monarch once quipped, "God is always with the strongest battalions" |
Frederick the Great
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| From the '20s, this title character of Araby is the "I" in "At night when you're asleep into your tent I'll creep" |
(Alex: [*] of Araby, yes.)
the Sheik
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| This god was also called Dionysus & Liber--makes sense, as he liberated people from calm & sobriety |
Bacchus
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| The process of turning a film into a book |
novelization
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| Born in Berlin in 1901, this composer was known for his collaborations with Alan Jay Lerner |
Fred Loewe
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| John Lennon song with the lyrics "We all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun" |
"Instant Karma!"
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| He's the Titan & friend of mankind seen here in a 17th-century painting |
Prometheus
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| Cape Breton Island is part of this Canadian province |
Nova Scotia
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| On Dec. 17, 1819 this liberator was made president of the new Republic of Gran Colombia |
(Simón) Bolivar
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| This physician & author has been called "the man who reared 50 million kids" |
(Dr.) Spock
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| In deteriorating health, he gave his last public piano recital in London at an 1848 benefit for Polish refugees |
(Frédéric) Chopin
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| "Fly Me To The Moon" says, "Let me sing among those stars, let me see what spring is like on" these 2 planets |
Jupiter & Mars
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| This god was upset to find that the mortal girl Apemosyne could outrun him |
(Alex: You keep finding them. You're in third place, but not too far off the lead. $4,200 is the amount you trail Alexia by.)
Mercury (or Hermes)
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| From the Latin for "nine", it's a series of devotional prayers over a 9-day period |
a novena
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| On March 17, 1861 the Kingdom of this country was declared with Victor Emmanuel as its king |
Italy
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| He decided against a general medical practice & chose a military career, entering the Army Medical Corps in 1875 |
(Ryan: [Sighs] I don't know.) (Alex: Oh, they named a hospital after him. [*]. [*].)
Walter Reed
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| Northern readers got the lowdown on slavery in 1845's "Narrative of the Life of" this former slave & orator |
Frederick Douglass
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| It's the mister you don't mess with in "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" |
Mr. In-Between
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| An Egyptian fertility goddess, or what the Thames is called as it runs through Oxford |
the Isis
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| This city of about 250,000 was a capital of early Russia |
Novgorod
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| Francis II, who abdicated this title in 1806, was the last Hapsburg to hold it |
Holy Roman Emperor
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| We don't just presume, we know that he studied theology & medicine in Glasgow in the 1830s |
(Dr.) Livingstone
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| In 1989 he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president |
(Frederik) de Klerk
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| In the song heard here, it's the title place that won't be revisited |
Loch Lomond
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| This handsome, ill-fated son of Odin was the most beloved among the Norse gods |
Balder
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