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In 1995 People Magazine devoted an entire commemorative issue to this late Tejano singer |
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This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" |
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In 1996 Sgt. Heather Johnsen became the first woman to stand guard at this cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns |
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In 1980, at age 19, he became the youngest player in NHL history named MVP |
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Thomas Carlyle described this British capital as a "monstrous tuberosity of civilized life" |
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This beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman shared some of her thoughts in her 1997 memoir "Some of Me" |
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This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb |
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The mysterious stone statues on this Chilean island vary in height from about 10 to 40 feet |
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In 1968 in Mexico City, Enriqueta Basilo carried a torch to light this fire |
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In 1992 this NBA team chose LSU's Shaquille O'Neal as its first round draft pick |
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To Pope Innocent II, it was "the capital of the world"; to us, it's a world capital |
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We assume Baryshnikov took his first graceful steps in this capital of Latvia, his birthplace |
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The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights |
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Haiti occupies the western third of this island |
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She was the first American woman to be pictured on a U.S. stamp & on U.S. paper currency: |
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Receiver Max McGee of this Vince Lombardi-coached team scored the first Super Bowl touchdown |
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Metternich said, "The emperor is everything," this city "is nothing"--nice waltzes, though |
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Jan Troell's 1971 film "The Emigrants" earned this Norwegian her first Oscar nomination |
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In this 1985 novel, E.L. Doctorow recalled life & the Expo in NYC during the 1930s |
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This Greek island is perhaps best known as the birthplace of poet Sappho |
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This Kansan was the first woman elected to the Senate who didn't succeed her husband |
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Joris K. Huysmans held a dark view of this "City of Light": he called it "a sinister Chicago" |
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Her film "Never on Sunday" was set in Piraeus & she later represented Piraeus in the Greek parliament |
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After he becomes wealthy, this Horatio Alger title character uses the name Richard Hunter, Esq. |
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The most southerly of Japan's 4 main islands, it's where Nagasaki is located |
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Serving from 1992 to 1994, she made news as the White House's first female press secretary: |
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"I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin", he wrote in "Dubliners" |
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