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In 1955 Donald Campbell became the first person to surpass 200 mph on this surface & survive |
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We have the White House; this country's P.M. has the Chigi Palace or Palazzo Chigi |
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Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola (1972) |
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In July 1804 Alexander Hamilton ended up on the losing end of a duel with this politician |
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Around 1817 Giovanni Caviglia rescued the Great Sphinx from obliteration by this |
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The first man called this, referring to his net value, was 18th century speculator John Law |
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If you belong to the major religion in Norway, you're an evangelical one of these Protestants |
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Before Cheney, he was the last U.S. vice president born west of the Mississippi River; he left office in 1981 |
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The Koran says "Those who believe" will wear "bracelets of gold" & their garments will be of this fabric |
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At 15 years old in 1989, Jack Staddon won the first of these contests sponsored by National Geographic |
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Country in which you'd find the city the natives call Den Haag |
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Fanfare, please... it's the American counterpart to Europe's whooper swan |
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Miami Beach, Philadelphia & this are the cities that have hosted the Democratic & GOP conventions in the same year |
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Coach "Mouse" Davis invented the football offense known as "run &" this |
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Oveta Culp Hobby was the first secretary of HEW; Patricia Harris, the first secretary of this dept. that evolved from HEW |
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The capital of Hungary for over 200 years, it's now the capital of Slovakia |
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William Peter Blatty (1973) |
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Heard here, this bird is named for its sad call |
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In April 1960 Dick Clark testified before a Congressional committee probing this illegal practice |
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The Gordon breed of this dog, seen here, is named for a 19th century duke |
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Kwame Nkrumah of this West African country was the first man to lead an African colony to independence after WWII |
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Called Bohemians by the French & Gypsies by the English, they refer to themselves as this |
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Richard Chamberlain might know that the chestnut-backed & freckle-breasted are varieties of this bird |
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In 1852 this Southern senator & orator became the first American to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol |
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This 3-word doctrine stems from the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson & was extended in Gong Lum v. Rice |
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