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From 1847 to 1861, he & his wife Elizabeth lived at Casa Guidi in Florence |
Browning
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This star of "Smokey and the Bandit" & "Evening Shade" was originally cast as Han Solo but dropped out |
[NOTE: This was the 360,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2018-10-27.]
Burt Reynolds
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Distinctive variety of tower seen here |
pagoda
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This American "superbrat" of tennis was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany in 1959 |
(Steve: Who is Boris Becker?)
John McEnroe
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In the 1920s African American artists & writers had a "Renaissance" in this New York City neighborhood |
Harlem
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His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was first published on July 31, 1786 in Kilmarnock, selling 1600 copies |
(Alex: [Using Scottish burr] [*], yes.)
Rabbie Burns
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George Lucas' dog Indiana was the inspiration for the look of this hairy character |
Chewbacca
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Seen here, she co-founded the United Artists film company |
Mary Pickford
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On film she's played Foxy Brown & Jackie Brown |
Pam Grier
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Its nicknames include "The Golf Capital of the Pennsylvania", & "The Chocolate Crossroads of the World" |
Hershey
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In Vaudeville, to "get" this was to be pulled offstage with the device of that name |
the hook
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In 1798 he received an annuity from Josiah & Thomas Wedgwood & his "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was published |
Coleridge
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Scripted as a "used car salesman" type C-3PO was modeled after a robot in this 1926 Fritz Lang film |
(Sharon: I have no idea.)
Metropolis
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Vesuvius buried it in 79 A.D. |
Pompeii
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This architect's original proposal for the Kennedy Library included an 85-foot-high truncated glass pyramid |
(I.M.) Pei
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Nobel Prize-winning novelist & short story writer Nadine Gordimer was born in this country |
South Africa
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Latin for "to read" gave us the name of this reading or speaking desk with a slanted top |
lectern
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In 1953 he read his "Under Milk Wood" publicly for the first time at Cambridge, Mass. although it was still unfinished |
Dylan Thomas
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This spaceship was originally modeled after a hamburger with an olive next to it |
Millennium Falcon
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Colorful path liner flowering here |
primrose
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Called "The Busby Berkeley of the 1980s", she choreographed the ballets "The Bix Pieces" & "Deuce Coupe" |
Twyla Tharp
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Slightly smaller than Connecticut, this nation is bordered by Saudi Arabia & the United Arab Emirates |
(Alex: Back to you, Steve, with a minute to go.)
Qatar
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"Proud" name for a cabinet under a sink, or a compact kept in it |
vanity
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In "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions", he wrote, "No man is an island entire of itself" |
John Donne
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The final medal-awarding scene parallels shot for shot a scene in this "triumphant" Nazi propaganda film |
Triumph of the Will
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Notorious Cambodian leader seen here |
Pol Pot
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In 1991 he headed the independent commission that investigated the L.A.P.D.; in 1993 he became Secretary of State |
Warren Christopher
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Yerevan is the capital of this country |
Armenia
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In 1895 the Argonaut Jr., one of these, traveled the sea floor on wheels |
submarine
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