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    | 1904: Picasso's "Woman Ironing" exemplifies this colorful "period" of his career
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    | W particles transmit this force that, despite its name, is stronger than gravity | weak nuclear force 
 
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    | Sudoku-ed? Jigsaw-ed? Either way, catch 2 Zs in this word meaning confused | puzzled 
 
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    | On a Sept. 22, 1949 episode of this series, a character wonders, "Who's the masked man?" | The Lone Ranger 
 
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    | For the U.K.'s current prime minister | 600 (DC, David Cameron) 
 
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    | In 1916 he made Russian bigwigs nervous, so they poisoned him. & shot him. twice. then drowned him
 | Rasputin 
 
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    | 1601: Caravaggio anticipates the Baroque era in "the conversion of" this man
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 Saul (or St. Paul)
 
 
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    | In a song title, it follows "Bewitched, Bothered and..." | Bewildered 
 
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    | In 1948 this freckle-faced, plaid-shirted puppet had "plastic" surgery to improve his looks | Howdy Doody 
 
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    | For the "Bowling for Columbine" documentary filmmaker | 2,000 (MM, Michael Moore) 
 
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    | This mobster developed Vegas gambling (yay!); skimmed funds in building the Flamingo (oops); killed in '47 (eesh) | Bugsy Siegel 
 
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    | 1658: He plays with light in "The Milkmaid"
 | (Johannes) Vermeer 
 
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    | In a 1905 paper Einstein was the first to theorize about these, also called light quanta | photons 
 
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    | "Confuse" is synonymous with this "con-" word, that also means to associate by mistake | conflate (or confound) 
 
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    | Boxing was big on the small screen, like on the "Cavalcade of Sports" Friday night fights from this NYC venue | Madison Square Garden 
 
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    | For the professional name of the supermodel married to David Bowie | 1 (I, Iman) 
 
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    | In 1535 Henry VIII said, please sir, I want some of this man who refused to help annul my marriage--"some" being his head | Thomas More 
 
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    | 1577: Shortly after his arrival in Spain, this foreign-born man paints his "Assumption of the Virgin"
 | El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) 
 
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    | Named for a physicist, it's the "god particle" that endows subatomic particles with mass | Higgs boson 
 
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    | To jumble; when you achieve success despite a lack of skill, you do this "through" | muddle 
 
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    | TV's first telethon was 1949's "Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund" hosted by this man, "Mr. Television" | (Milton) Berle 
 
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    | For the judge best known for the 1994 O.J. Simpson case | 51 (LI, Lance Ito) 
 
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    | The first words of an article called "John Brown's Day of Reckoning" are this place in the Blue Ridge Mountains | Harper's Ferry 
 
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    | 1771: Benjamin West shakes things up by depicting contemporary history in "The Death of General" him
 | Wolfe 
 
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    | From the Greek for "swift", these theoretical particles are said to exist only at speeds faster than light | tachyons 
 
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    | This 10-letter word meaning confused is from the Latin for "not more" | nonplussed 
 
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    | On Aug. 10, 1948 he brought his radio hit "Candid Microphone" to television | (Allen) Funt 
 
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    | For the American who in 1964 founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. | 1,010 (MX, Malcolm X) 
 
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    | This emperor got the boot at the 41 A.D. Palatine games; Cassius Chaerea killed him, but many wanted to | Caligula 
 
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