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Pytheas, an ancient Greek geographer, was perhaps the first to associate tidal motion with this body |
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Most of his profits from "The Birth of a Nation" were lost when he made "Intolerance" |
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This arched brick or stone ceiling can be of the barrel, groin or ribbed style |
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"Sister Carrie" was Theodore Dreiser's first novel & "Carrie" was this author's |
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When Columbus reached this future U.S. commonwealth in 1493, he named it San Juan Bautista |
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Most of England's Hanoverian monarchs had this first name |
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This proposer of the absolute temperature scale was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1866 |
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He directed his last film, "A Countess from Hong Kong", in 1967, over 50 years after his first film |
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From the Latin for "porch", it's a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns |
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She sometimes joked that she was writing a sequel to her famous novel, to be titled "Back With the Breeze" |
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Argentina's claim to this British South Atlantic colony dates back to 1820 |
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This prominent Monegasque family is descended from wealthy Genoese merchants & politicians |
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Hugo de Vries, who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity, also proposed this theory of altered genes |
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Although best known for his sound films, William Wellman directed this first "Best Picture" winner |
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Bernini's bronze canopy over the main altar at St. Peter's is a masterpiece of this style of architecture |
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He wrote about Jews in "Exodus", Muslims in "The Haj" & Protestants & Catholics in "Trinity" |
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Quebec's Anticosti Island at the mouth of this river is the site of a provincial park |
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The third Swedish king to bear this name was shot at a masquerade & died a few days later |
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This German astronomer born in 1571 was the first to explain how the planets move around the Sun |
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As an actor, this Vienna-born director was billed as "the man you love to hate" |
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Mesopotamians built these temples to look like miniature mountains |
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Sebastian Melmoth was the name used by this Irish playwright while in exile |
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This island off the coast of Southern California was named in honor of St. Catherine of Alexandria |
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This 4-time British prime minister tried to abolish income taxes but failed |
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It was American physicist Arthur Compton who came up with this name for a quantum of light |
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He remade his first Hollywood film, "The Squaw Man", twice |
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This architect, born in 1573, founded the English school of classical architecture |
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Scientific American was one of the magazines that reviewed his novel "Gravity's Rainbow" |
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This Caribbean island in the Leeward group has both French & Dutch sections |
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The name of this political faction in Medieval Italy was derived from the Welfs, a German family |
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