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This country's Shang dynasty arose in the 1700s B.C. along the Yellow River |
China
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Year, decade, century... |
Millennium
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This phonograph inventor's son Charles served as governor of New Jersey from 1941 to 1944 |
Thomas Edison
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In "Star Wars" David Prowse did all the physical acting for this villain |
Darth Vader
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When one says "Twin Cities", it's usually this Minnesota pair |
Minneapolis & St. Paul
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A recent convert to Christianity or one with a renewed faith is described as this |
Born again
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In the 200s B.C. 72 Jewish scholars began translating the Pentateuch into Greek in this Egyptian city |
Alexandria
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Monroe, Adams, Jackson... |
Van Buren
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He said his 1744 stove prevented one from being "scorch'd before, while he's froze behind" |
Benjamin Franklin
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When "God Created" this French film sex symbol of the '50s & '60s, she was Camille Javal |
Brigitte Bardot
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This city is home to the National Railroad Museum & the first Super Bowl champ |
Green Bay
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You'll find the Medoc, Sauternes & some Grand Chateaux in this region of France |
Bordeaux
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In 439 A.D. this north African city-state was conquered by the Vandals under Genseric |
Carthage
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In 1857 this telegraph inventor served as the electrician on Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable attempt |
Samuel Morse
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Edward G. Robinson was forever defined by the title role he played in this Chicago-set 1931 gangster classic |
Little Caesar
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This controversial labor leader was born in 1913 in Brazil -- Brazil, Indiana |
Jimmy Hoffa
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This term for a house of ill repute goes back to the 16th century |
Bordello
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In 303 A.D. Diocletian forbade Christian worship; this man, his "Great" successor, revoked the edict 10 years later |
Constantine
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Tenderfoot, second class, first class... |
Star scout
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In the 1850s he patented the foot treadle for his sewing machine |
Isaac Singer
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Helen Hayes won a 1970 Oscar for playing an impish stowaway in this film that was followed by 3 sequels |
Airport
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The towns of Romeo & Juliet in Illinois became Romeoville & this |
Joliet
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Island in the South China Sea on which you'd see the following |
Borneo
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When he died in about 347 B.C., his nephew Speusippus took over leadership of the Academy |
(Tammy: Who was Aristotle?)
Plato
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Pennsylvanian period, Permian period, Triassic period... |
Jurassic period
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In 1854 Horace Smith & this partner patented the repeating rifle & revolver |
Daniel B. Wesson
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Scott Wilson & Robert Blake portrayed the doomed killers in this shocking black & white classic |
In Cold Blood
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Josiah Grinnell heeded this advice that Horace Greeley gave him & moved from Washington, D.C. to Iowa |
"Go West, young man (and grow up with the country)"
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He circled the Earth in 1965 & circled the moon in 1968 |
Frank Borman
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