20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES |
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Born in Russian Poland in 1886, he became the first prime minister of Israel |
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Non-flyer John Madden travels on this, the "Maddencruiser," complete with bed and shower |
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She joined the Ballets Russes at 14 and was still a teenager when she married her ballet teacher, Nico Charisse |
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Canada's best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare |
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Some call it the island continent |
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The name of this lakeside Swiss city is believed to be from the Celtic word for "water" |
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Use of the term "psyche" for the whole personality was begun by this great Swiss psychiatrist |
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Doing this comes from the Roman custom of offering a drink to the gods when launching a ship |
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This tiny star of "Good News" learned to dance by watching a Fred Astaire movie 17 times |
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The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field |
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A roofed Hawaiian porch, or the Hawaiian island called "The Pineapple Island" |
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Jackie Kennedy authorized him to write "The Death of a President", but later sued to stop publication |
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In addition to a rudder and oars, most keelboats were equipped with these to aid travel |
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This ballerina was born on an Indian reservation in Fairfax, Oklahoma, in 1925 |
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Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other |
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This island, called "The Rock," had the first lighthouse on the West Coast |
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Though Dobie Gillis didn't particularly care for it, she kept calling him "Poopsie" |
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Sun Yat-sen was trained as and practiced this profession before entering politics |
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Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft |
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She was a modern dancer in New York long before playing Cinnamon on "Mission: Impossible" |
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Rejected lover whose last words are "If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet" |
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There are islands with this name in Massachusetts, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Maine, but the biggest is in New York |
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This Michigan city was settled in 1825 and named for a nineteenth-century Greek patriot |
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Like Churchill, this British prime minister, chosen in 1957, had an American mother |
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Bells were rung across the U.S. as telegraphers relayed news of this event on May 10, 1869 |
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This ballerina wrote a biography of George Balanchine after taking off her "red shoes" |
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The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set |
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Island group owned partly by Britain and partly by the U.S. |
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After his forces were defeated by the Greeks, this Persian king was murdered by his own nobles |
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