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This czarina gave her lover Grigori Potemkin the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg |
Catherine the Great
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This purple gemstone is associated with St. Matthias, the apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot |
the amethyst
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Allan "Rocky" Lane, who starred in many '40s Westerns, later provided the voice of this TV horse |
Mr. Ed
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The name of this flower precedes "of the Nile" & "of the Valley" |
lily
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In 1975 she became the first woman to head a major British political party |
Margaret Thatcher
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In 1945 this playwright won his first N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, for "The Glass Menagerie" |
Tennessee Williams
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1 of the 7 ancient wonders, the statue of this Greek god was destroyed by fire c. 475 A.D. in Constantinople |
Zeus
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A golden variety of topaz is named for its resemblance to this fortified Spanish wine |
sherry
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On the final episode of this sitcom, Felix moved out to remarry Gloria |
The Odd Couple
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Water is lost to the atmosphere through this part of the tree |
the leaves
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This "March King" not only led the Marine Corps Band but Army & Navy bands as well |
John Philip Sousa
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Keir Dullea played this Jazz Age author in a one-man show called "The Other Side of Paradise" |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This religious movement of the 1500s led to the birth of Protestantism |
the Reformation
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This blue-green stone has been mined for centuries at Neyshabur in northern Iran |
turquoise
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Ann Sothern was the voice behind the 1928 Porter on this cult sitcom |
My Mother the Car
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This geological science studies the forces within the Earth that cause plate activity |
tectonics
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In the 1950s he was Secretary of State & his brother Allen directed the CIA |
John Foster Dulles
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Of Henry IV, V, VI, VII or VIII, the only one who isn't a title character in a Shakespeare play |
Henry VII
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary dispute between New Brunswick & this state |
Maine
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The precious type of this gem named for a domestic feline feature is greenish in color |
a cat's eye
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After working for several years at the Tropicana, Ricky Ricardo opened up this nightclub |
The Ricky Ricardo Club (or The Babalu Club)
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A halophyte is a plant that can tolerate a large amount of this substance in the soil |
salt
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When named Israel's first prime minister in 1948, he was chairman of the World Zionist Organization |
David Ben-Gurion
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Chekov play in which Treplev kills a bird & lays it at Nina's feet |
The Seagull
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Approved August 27, 1789, this French document proclaimed that "men are born & remain free..." |
the Declaration of the Rights of Man
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This gem with a "sanguine" name is a birthstone for March |
the bloodstone
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As the men from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon Solo & Illya Kiryakin fought against this crime syndicate |
THRUSH
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The radiation belts around the Earth are named for this man who was born in the heart of the Corn Belt |
(James) Van Allen
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A high school dropout, he dropped back in after WWII & later became Cleveland's first black mayor |
(Carl) Stokes
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This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was inspired by a story in Ovid's "Metamorphosis" |
Pygmalion
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