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ROCKERS BANNED IN THE USSR |
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PHILOSOPHIC BEFORE & AFTER |
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Formed in 1921, it now has about 70 million members |
the Communist Party
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This former partner of Ike was banned for being too sexy |
Tina Turner
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Artemisia Gentileschi was paid 3 times the going rate to paint this ceiling painter's family home |
Michelangelo
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Nickname of I. Lewis Libby, who grew up to be VP Cheney's powerful chief of staff |
Scooter
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Rotund Cosby-voiced cartoon character who penned works like "The Plague" & "The Stranger" |
Fat Albert Camus
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This beer is the top-selling branded consumer exported from China |
(Cathy: What is Tsinghao?)
Tsingtao
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This "Another Brick In The Wall" band was blacklisted for "distortion of Soviet foreign policy" |
Pink Floyd
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This president became fascinated with artist Maria Cosway in Paris while serving as minister to France |
Thomas Jefferson
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This "grouchy" librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific" |
Oscar (Hammerstein)
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"Daniel" warbler whose "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" helped spur the Enlightenment |
Elton John Locke
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Ointment of zinc & ferric oxide used for inflammations of the skin |
calamine lotion
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You can buy artifacts from this Chinese dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 for a--well, itself |
Song
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Perhaps for wanting to be "In The Navy", this disco group was banned for being too violent |
The Village People
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Given government approval to cross-dress, Rosa Bonheur was the first woman given this French award |
the Legion of Honor
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The first player in the National League to be MVP 2 years in a row, he's known as "Mr. Cub" |
Ernie Banks
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Current African-American Supreme Court Justice who enlightened his fellow Brits with a "Leviathan" of a book in 1651 |
Clarence Thomas Hobbes
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From the Latin for "destruction", it's a state of deep distress or misfortune |
a calamity
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Chinese company Lenovo now markets the Thinkpad, having bought this co.'s personal computing division |
IBM
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I wonder if banning this "dark" group for "religious obscurantism" made them "paranoid" |
Black Sabbath
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She learned the art of wax modeling from her uncle & served as art tutor at Versailles before moving to London |
Madame Tussaud
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22nd & 24th POTUS |
(Alex: [*] is right, President of the United States--POTUS, yes.)
(Grover) Cleveland
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Pirate flag that symbolizes a 13th c. English scholar who was jailed when his talk of science was deemed heretical |
the Jolly Roger Bacon
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Fabric named for a city in India |
(Cathy: What is Calcutta?) (Alex: ...Calcutta or [*], yes.) [ERRATUM: "Calcutta" is not an alternate name for calico cloth, and calico derives from the Indian city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, not from Calcutta, which is now called Kolkata.]
calico
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In the 1920s, geologist A. William Grabau gave this name to a fossil found near Zhoukoudian, China |
Peking Man
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Songs like "Psycho Killer" might be what got this band axed for spreading myths about the Soviet military |
Talking Heads
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Paintings by Guillemine Benoist & other female artists were misidentified as by this French male neoclassicist |
(Jacques-Louis) David
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This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms |
(Alex: [*]'s Fire, correct.)
St. Elmo
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Not a "Bewitched" daughter, the MTV news reporter who wowed 'em in Denmark with the existential "Fear and Trembling" |
Tabitha Soren Kierkegaard
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Ancient Roman name for the region of Scotland |
Caledonia
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