FIRST YEAR OF THE CENTURY |
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GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES |
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In 1901 this inventor received the first radio signal across the Atlantic |
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Utrillo's "White Period" lasted circa 1908-1914, longer than this artist's "Rose Period" from 1904-1906 |
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A shade of grayish blue is named for this Danish capital |
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In 1996 People Magazine named this "Courage Under Fire" star "The Sexiest Man Alive" |
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The value of this Greek coin was originally equivalent to that of a handful of arrows |
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Keith Richards & this singer once used the pseudonyms Wanker, Phelge when composing songs |
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In 1301 Edward I applied this title to the heir to the British throne |
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In 1892 he painted "Vahine No Te Vi. Woman With Mango" |
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This nationality precedes onyx, hairless, and jumping bean |
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This Supreme Court justice was chairman of the Federal Equal Opportunity Commission from 1982 to 1990 |
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This 1969 event was featured on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin |
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While a "Tracey Ullman Show" choreographer, she had 4 No. 1 hits, including "Forever Your Girl" |
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In 1401 Tamerlane sacked this city that's now the capital of Iraq |
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It's the common English term for the type of painting the French call une nature morte |
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This nationality precedes uncle, treat, & elm disease |
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The Tony-winning musical "Raisin" was based on this play by Lorraine Hansberry |
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In 1959 the Vatican's 20-lire coin featured this pontiff |
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From age 17 to 20, this lead singer of Eurythmics studied at London's Royal Academy of Music |
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Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas discovered this isthmus in 1501 |
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Dancer Louise Weber, one of his most famous subjects, was known as "La Goulue" -- The Glutton |
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This tuber with a city in its name is also called a sunchoke |
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He leaped to the occasion at the '96 Summer Olympics, winning his fourth consecutive gold in the long jump |
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The West Indies island of Guadeloupe uses this as its basic unit of currency |
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This "Vision of Love" singer's mother, Patricia, once sang with the New York City Opera |
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In an 1801 sea battle, he put a telescope in his blind eye to avoid seeing the signal to withdraw |
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Hats off to this Belgian whose 1926 painting "The Menaced Assassin" features men in bowler hats |
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This high quality black tea is named for a district in West Bengal |
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In 1971 U Thant eulogized this U.N. undersecretary as "An international institution in his own right" |
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In 1961, this bronze coin, the lowest value in British currency at 1/4 of a penny, was withdrawn from circulation |
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After Led Zeppelin disbanded, Jimmy Page & this lead singer founded the Honeydrippers |
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