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Like Pillsbury's Poppin' Fresh, an American soldier during WWI was called this |
Doughboy
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Vampire with a soul David Boreanaz |
Angel
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Ukraine-born composer Prokofiev lost some headlines by dying March 4, 1953, the day before this leader |
Joseph Stalin
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This business mogul & his future partner Paul Allen met while students at Seattle's Lakeside School |
Bill Gates
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The calcaneal tendon is better known by this well-heeled name |
Achilles tendon
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This term for a male horse at stud also refers to a virile man |
(N: What is a buck?)
Stallion
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As a result of this war, America gained the islands of Puerto Rico, Guam & the Philippines |
Spanish-American War
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Cranky cop Abe Vigoda |
Fish
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Ukrainian patriot Ivan Mazepa often rode with these fierce steppe-dwelling people |
Cossacks
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2-word name for a strait, a bridge or a San Francisco university |
Golden Gate
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When warts are on the sole, this is the sole adjective applied |
Plantar
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Freed slaves were told they'd get "40 acres and" one of these, so the phrase now signifies an empty promise |
A mule
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The 50th anniv. of this Asian conflict often called "The Forgotten War" was observed nationally July 27, 2000 |
The Korean War
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SFPD special investigator Don Johnson |
Nash Bridges
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First name shared by the first 2 presidents of post-USSR Ukraine, Kravchuk & Kuchma |
(N: What is Anton?)
Leonid
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Gateway of India, a landmark in this busiest port, was named because it was the 1st thing seen by visitors to the city |
Bombay (Mumbai)
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3 to 5 vertebrae fuse to form the tailbone, also called this for its resemblance to a cuckoo's beak |
Coccyx
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Shakespeare's character named Pistol says the world is his this, "Which I with sword will open" |
Oyster
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In 1779 John Paul Jones defeated the Serapis but lost this ship, named in honor of Ben Franklin |
Bonhomme Richard
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Orphaned 7-year-old Emmanuel Lewis |
Webster
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Seen here, he was born in Kiev in 1890 & died in London in 1950 |
Vaslav Nijinsky
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This unfinished Rodin work depicts scenes from Dante's "Inferno" on 2 bronze doors |
(B: What is "The Gates of Turin?")
"The Gates of Hell"
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You can call this pair of leg bones the pin & pipe; that's what their names mean |
(P: What are the fibia & tibia?)
Tibia & fibula
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Philosophically speaking, "All" of these "are gray in the dark" |
Cats
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This future president became a hero after defeating Santa Anna during the Mexican War |
Zachary Taylor
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Futuristic talking head Matt Frewer |
Max Headroom
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19th century author of "Dead Souls", "The Nose" & the Danny Kaye inspiration "The Inspector General" |
Nikolai Gogol
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This Roman god of gates & doors is depicted with 2 faces: one looking to the past & one to the future |
Janus
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The major pressure point for leg injuries is where this artery crosses the joint between the pelvis & leg |
Femoral artery
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A type of fish, or a short-on-top, long-in-back hairstyle that was big in the '80s |
Mullet
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