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Around 1910 Thomas Morgan found that these hereditary units are located on chromosomes within cells |
genes
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"Fiddler on the Roof" may be the most famous American musical set in this country |
(Alex: Yes, along with West Side Story.) [Laughter]
Russia
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In 1835 this Dane published his first book of fairy tales |
Hans Christian Andersen
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Of the 2 U.S. presidents who were the sons of U.S. presidents, the one known as "Old Man Eloquent" |
John Quincy Adams
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"Dead men T. N. T." |
tell no tales
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Some minerals can readily be identified by taste; halite has this type of taste |
salty
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In "Curtains", it's curtains for a leading lady who ends up dead in this New England city during a pre-Broadway run |
Boston
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Though the U.S. won the war, it still paid this country more than $18 million for the land it took in the 1840s |
Mexico
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Before he was pope, his resistance to female priests partly led to this German's nickname of "Cardinal No" |
Benedict XVI
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"Many hands M. L. W." |
make light work
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Cilia later! These long hairlike extensions help bacteria move by means of a whipping motion |
flagella
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4 blue-collar guys work their way up from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom in this 2005 smash |
Jersey Boys
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In 1841 photography pioneer Henry Talbot patented the calotype, slashing this time to minutes |
exposure
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When spotted in his military dress as a youngster, Gaius Caesar got this nickname meaning "little boots" |
(Alex: You know him better as [*].)
Caligula
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"Strike W. T. I. I. H." |
while the iron is hot
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Sugars, alcohols & starches are all formed by different combos of these 3 elements |
hydrogen, carbon & oxygen
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When we first meet Horace Vandergelder in "Hello, Dolly!", he's in this N.Y. city & feeling a little "lost in" it |
Yonkers
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In 1831 James Clark Ross pinpointed this spot; later Arctic studies found it had moved more than 150 miles |
the north magnetic pole
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Occupational nickname of the Duke of Cumberland for harsh repression of Scots rebels in the 1740s |
(Alex: Nickname was [*]--not good.)
"Butcher"
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"Beggars C. B. C." |
can't be choosers
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The fundamental forces are electromagnetism, gravity & these 2 "opposite" nuclear forces |
the strong & the weak
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(I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber.) The underground lair in which the Phantom lurks is based on fact; there really is a lake beneath this famous building |
the Paris Opera House
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This 1830s work is included in the Library of America though it was written by a Frenchman, de Tocqueville |
Democracy in America
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This ex-queen of England who died in 1557 was called "the Flanders Mare" |
(Cindy: Who is Mary Tudor?) ... (Alex: No one would dare say that to Mary Tudor. [*], wife--one of the wives--of Henry VIII, not Bloody Mary.)
Anne of Cleves
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"The eyes are the W. O. T. S." |
windows of the soul
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