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Colons & commas & hyphens, oh my! |
punctuation
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Around 46 B.C, Julius Caesar offended his countrymen by dedicating a statue to her |
Cleopatra
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We liked her, we really liked her when this actress won for "Places in the Heart" in 1985 |
Sally Field
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Georges Rouault liked to include some tragic ones of these in his works; Red Skelton specialized in them |
clowns
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The musical "Les Mis" didn't debut on Broadway but in this city, its setting |
Paris
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Furry Phil's Pennsylvania place for fanciful February forecasting |
Punxsutawney
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As an example to her Russian subjects, she & her son Paul had themselves inoculated against smallpox in 1768 |
Catherine (the Great)
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In 1992, proving he could keep up with the younger crowd, he did one-armed pushups accepting his "City Slickers" Oscar |
Jack Palance
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A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as "The Mother of" this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden |
(Bruce: Who is Vermeer?)
Rembrandt
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He directed a landmark Chinese production of his play "Death of a Salesman" at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing |
Arthur Miller
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Pugilistic pair pictured here |
Punch & Judy
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In 1616 she & her husband John Rolfe traveled to England to help raise funds for the Virginia colonists |
Pocahontas
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He's the "SNL" guy (& you're not) who opened the 1988 show with, "Good evening Hollywood phonies"; he never hosted again |
Chevy Chase
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19th c. painter Thomas Cole lived in Catskill, N.Y. on this river, whose "School" he helped found |
the Hudson River
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A Dutch TV reality show picked the muscular "swinger" for the European run of this Disney musical |
(Bruce: What is Beauty and the Beast?)
Tarzan
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William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers |
cyberpunk
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In November 1988 she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head a modern Islamic nation |
(Benazir) Bhutto
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Disney sued the Academy for "unflattering" use of this character after a 1989 duet with her & Rob Lowe |
Snow White
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A note formerly on the back of "Figure de fantasie" by this Rococo painter says it was done in one hour |
Fragonard
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There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko |
(Constantin) Stanislavski
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From the Latin for "mark for deletion", it's to erase something from official records |
(Bruce: What is redacted?)
expunge
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To further the ambitions of her brother, her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her |
(Patricia: Who is Borgia?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
Lucrezia Borgia
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This "American Beauty" nominee nearly had a pregnant pause at the 2000 show; she was due with her 4th at any moment |
Annette Bening
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This Venetian, said his pupil Palma Giovane, "used his fingers more than his brush" to finish his lush works |
Titian
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If you get to put "RSC" on your resume, you were part of this British troupe |
the Royal Shakespeare Company
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