WHAT'S IN AN ARTIST'S NAME? |
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Utrillo usually signed his works "Maurice Utrillo, V."; the "V" stood for Suzanne Valadon, this relative of his |
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When she failed to provide him with an heir, Napoleon divorced her |
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In a practice routine for typists, this critter "jumps over the lazy dog" |
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In computer science, GUI is this kind of user interface |
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As opposed to digital, it's the kind of watch with a face and hands |
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Peter Bruegel the Younger's scenes of the netherworld gave him this nickname, a synonym for Hades |
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A 4-string bass is usually tuned to E, A, D & G--one octave below the 4 lowest strings of this |
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His first wife was Fadia; Octavia & Cleo came later |
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J.J. Dickison & M. Jeff Thompson were each called this Francis Marion nickname "of the Confederacy" |
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There's also a phase of sleep abbreviated NREM, which stands for this |
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The computer age necessitated this rhyming term for letters delivered through the post |
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He signed his paintings with his real name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, written in Greek letters |
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This president's first wife, Ellen, replaced Edith Roosevelt's "Colonial" garden with a rose garden |
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George Fox founded this religious group around 1650 |
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As opposed to an M.D., a D.O. is a doctor of this holistic practice |
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Frank Mankiewicz, the coiner of the word "retronym", says one of his favorites is "two parent" this |
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This very short artist was known by a shortened version of his long last name, which actually ended with -monfa |
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(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) I played this bassist who teamed with David and Nigel in the mighty band Spinal Tap |
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His first wife was a physicist named Mileva Maric; after WWI he married his cousin Elsa |
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It immediately precedes "golf" in the NATO phonetic radio alphabet |
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The "T" in TSH stands for this gland (the "SH" is for stimulating hormone) |
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Merriam-Webster's example of a retronym is "console" (as opposed to LCD or plasma flat-panel) this |
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Jerome Van Aken of "Garden of Earthly Delights" fame took this name in honor of his hometown, 'S-Hertogengosch |
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In 1814 he abandoned his pregnant wife Harriet to elope with 16-year-old Mary Godwin |
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The foxglove plant is the main source of this medicine used as a stimulant in damaged heart tissue |
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The lowercase "r" in rRNA stands for this adjective |
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Retronyms were created by putting this word before "coffee" & "gasoline" |
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