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As of Dec. 14, 1861 & until her death in 1901, this was Victoria's relationship status |
widow
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On New Year's Eve we should give thanks to this Scottish poet for his "Auld Lang Syne" |
Robert Burns
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Teddy Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of Roosevelt Arch, at the north entrance of this national park |
Yellowstone
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Make room for 10 lords a-leaping when you receive them as your tenth gift in this holiday song |
"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
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pp (a verb form) |
(Kaitlin: What is a present participle?)
past participle
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Under "heroes" is Louise Lehzen, her governess, who, like her royal house, came from this modern country |
Germany
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He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep" |
Robert Frost
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Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in this country |
Spain
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Exodus 12:29 reveals their death as the tenth plague brought upon the Egyptians |
the first-born sons
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Look for this Denver band if you want to know "How To Save A Life" |
The Fray
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nom. (as in a Latin case) |
nominative
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The background is one of over a dozen portraits of herself done in honor of this June 28, 1838 ceremony |
her coronation
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His "Ode on a Grecian Urn" includes the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" |
Keats
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You might say the statuesque residents of this South Pacific island have big heads & are always on holiday |
Easter Island
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Serving from 1841 to 1845, the tenth president of the U.S. was this big Whig |
Tyler
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LaF (what a Cajun might speak) |
(Will: What is lingua franca?)
Louisiana French
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qVICki has 33 friends, including DIZee, this prime minister from 1874 to 1880 |
(Benjamin) Disraeli
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It's the title of the Longfellow poem that begins, "Under the spreading chestnut tree" |
(Sarah: What is solitude?)
"The Village Blacksmith"
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A gilt statue of this fire-stealer is at the heart of Rockefeller Center |
Prometheus
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Before Julius Caesar's reforms, this was the tenth month in the Roman calendar |
(Will: What is October?)
December
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This band found "All The Right Reasons" "Far Away" in Canada |
Nickelback
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IE (a hyphenated family of languages) |
Indo-European
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The music is this song, on which Felix Mendelssohn once improvised for Her Majesty |
"Rule, Britannia!"
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Among his poetry collections is 1942's "Shakespeare in Harlem" |
Langston Hughes
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Austrian architect Alfred Preis designed the memorial over this WWII battleship |
the Arizona
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Plato called this female poet the "tenth muse" |
Sappho
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conj. (2 words: a part of speech & the inflection of a verb) |
(Will: What is conjugation?) (Alex: 2 words.) (Will: Ohhhh...) (Alex: Sorry, time ran out...) [Laughter] (Alex: "Oh", indeed.)
conjunction & conjugation
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