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BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY |
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A statue of this Roman sea god is a perfect choice for a fountain; there's one at Peterhof in Russia |
Neptune
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In a 1970 film, Alec Guinness played Jacob Marley's ghost & Albert Finney played this man |
Scrooge
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Woodbury, Middlebury & Waterbury are all cities in this state |
Connecticut
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Remnants of the falling Roman Empire somehow halted an invasion by this man & his Huns in 451 A.D. near Chalons |
Attila
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Olympic competition in 1900 included this type of swimming, judged on distance & time submerged |
underwater swimming
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A sarcophagus at Hearst Castle depicts this group of 9, including Erato, who inspires love poems |
the Muses
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Natalie Wood was just 8 years old when she played the little girl Susan in this Christmas classic |
Miracle on 34th Street
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One of this state's nicknames is "Lobsterland" |
Maine
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French, fog, of plenty |
horns
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The annihilation of 3 legions at Teutoburger Wald in 9 A.D. made this German river the limit of Roman expansion |
the Rhine
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The Salgir, the Chernaya, the Alma & the Dnieper are all rivers that flow through this country |
Ukraine
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This city's statue of Gefion, with her sons whom she turned into oxen, is a bit less famous than the Little Mermaid |
Copenhagen
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Bing Crosby introduced the song "White Christmas" not in the movie "White Christmas" but in this earlier film |
Holiday Inn
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Seen here, it's known as "the Crossroads of America" |
Indiana
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John Chisum, J.D. Cahill, Rooster Cogburn |
(Stewart: Who are... marshals?)
John Wayne characters
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The end of this handsome Stuart prince's rebellion was the April 16, 1746 Battle of Culloden |
(Alex: Very bloody battle.)
Bonnie Prince Charlie
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It's the quality of being useful, or the useful knife used to cut drywall |
utility
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Praxiteles sculpted this Greek equivalent of Mercury "carrying the infant Dionysus" |
Hermes
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In this movie "2", Tim Allen has to find a Mrs., ASAP; says so in his contract |
The Santa Clause 2
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Former governors of this state include Pierre S. du Pont IV |
Delaware
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A bass voice, rival street gangs in "West Side Story", far-off thunder |
rumbles
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Despite a decisive victory over a Viking invasion just 3 weeks before, he lost the Battle of Hastings in 1066 |
Harold
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An adjective meaning "of an elevated region", or the main type of cotton grown in the American South |
upland
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Get psyched at the Louvre by looking Antonio Canova's sculpture of this Roman god "and Psyche" |
Cupid
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In this movie, Tim Allen & Jamie Lee Curtis consider skipping the holidays altogether & taking a cruise |
Christmas with the Kranks
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This state elected Jeannette Rankin as the first woman to the U.S. Congress, & she represents it in Statuary Hall |
(Cora: What is Wyoming?)
Montana
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A newspaper comic strip, a public affairs discussion, a small truck |
things with panels
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At the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D. this French leader "hammered" the Muslims, halting their conquest of Europe |
Charles Martel
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The matches coming before the main boxing match |
the undercard
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