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This 1848 event made the California trail the most traveled pioneer road by 1850 |
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It's the traditional gem for an engagement ring |
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After being delivered from the belly of the great fish, he warned Nineveh of its great evil |
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Sylvester Stallone received "Best Actor" & "Best Original Screenplay" Oscar nominations for this 1976 film |
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Tha main part of Cairo lies on 2 islands & the East Bank of this river |
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His last volume of poetry, "The Raven and other Poems", was published in 1845 |
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Before becoming chief justice in 1789, he was Sec'y of Foreign Affairs in the Continental Congress |
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The oldest Chinese carvings made from this gem are simple tools & amulets |
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According to Mark, he bent to the will of the mob in sending Jesus to the cross |
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His "No Respect" LP won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording of 1980 |
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The Thar Desert occupies a part of Pakistan & much of this country's Haryana & Rajasthan states |
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This poet's birthplace in Galesburg, Ill. displays a first edition of his Lincoln biography |
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In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising "a chicken in every pot" |
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Popularly worn in brooches, cairngorm is a smoky quartz from this country |
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Her 2 husbands were Uriah the Hittite & David the king |
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This chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 |
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This body of water borders the northern coast of Wales |
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In a Lewis Carroll poem, these two title characters "were walking close at hand" |
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Judge John T. Raulston presided over this Dayton, Tennessee trial in July 1925 |
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The most highly prized color of this September gem is cornflower blue |
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This judge's general, Barak, refused to battle the Canaanites unless she accompanied him |
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In the title role of 1964's "What Makes Sammy Run?", this husband of Eydie Gorme got a Tony nomination |
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The capitals of British Columbia, Hong Kong & the Seychelles share this name |
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A poem about him begins, "Come, all you rounders, if you want to hear a story 'bout a brave engineer" |
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The first gusher in the U.S. occurred in this oil field near Beaumont, Texas in 1901 |
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An English art critic said this gem "shows the most glorious colors to be seen in the world..." |
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The original name of this man, thrown in the fiery furnace, was Azariah |
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In 1962 this "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" was given the Fermi Award for achievement in Atomic Energy |
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Denmark's highest point, Yding Skovhoj, rises only 568 feet on this peninsula |
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Before he died this poet requested that "Crossing the Bar" appear last in his collections |
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