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This commonwealth's anthem is "La Borinquena" |
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In 1951, Roosevelt Field, from which he made his famous 1927 flight, closed after 40 years in use |
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Act I of this Tchaikovsky ballet is called "The Spell" |
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St. Mary's Academy, a sister school to this South Bend, IN college, was founded in 1844 |
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Theodore Kirkoff's lyric poems about this city made him "The Poet of the Golden Gate" |
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The playwright Aeschylus fought in this battle, about 25 miles from Athens |
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This island chain's eastern section has been ours since 1900; the western part won independence from New Zealand |
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In the 1950's this Akron-based company developed the Inflato plane, a rubber-coated inflatable airplane |
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"Slaughter On" this avenue by Balanchine went from Broadway to the NYC Ballet repertory |
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This university in Tempe has a center for meteorite studies |
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Becky Sharp's husband, Rodden Crawley, becomes the governor of Coventry Island in this Thackery novel |
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Carneides, a skeptic who said knowledge is impossible, was a head of this school founded by Plato |
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2 of the 3 "saintly" islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands |
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By one account, it was Canadian captain A. Roy Brown who downed this German flying ace |
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Jerome Robbins played Benvolio when Anthony Tudor's version of this Shakespearean love story premiered in 1943 |
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During World War II, this Cambridge, MA school was the center of the USA's radar research |
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"Reader's Encyclopedia" says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O' Pioneers" |
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In 431 B.C., Thuycidides began writing the history of this war while he was fighting in it |
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When Spain ceded this Pacific island to the U.S., it sold the other Marianas to Germany |
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In 1988, the Air Force unveiled this hi-tech bomber, described as a "flying wing" |
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In a recent work, one ballerina plays this Russian grand duchess & a woman who thinks she is the grand duchess |
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State university campuses in this state include Bemidji, Moorhead, and St. Cloud |
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He originally published his "Spoon River" poems under the pen name "Webster Ford" |
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This man, whose law code replaced Draco's, was called one of "The Seven Wise Men of Greece" |
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Part of this U.S. area is located on the Anacostia River |
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Named "the aviatrix of the decade" in 1950, in 1953 she became the first woman to break the sound barrier |
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In a famous Stravinsky ballet, this title character is in love with a ballerina puppet |
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In 1930, the William Jennings Bryan University opened in this Tennessee city |
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This Betty Smith novel opens in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the summer of 1912 |
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He said, "Bad men live to eat & drink whereas good men eat & drink in order to live" |
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