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Unlike some of his other scary stories, "The Pit and the Pendulum" has a happy ending |
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In 2008 this team won its 17th NBA championship by defeating the Lakers |
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In the early 1960s her hairdo became fashionable with the ladies of the United States |
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A family one of these can help--not because you descend from Noah, but because births & deaths were written in it |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art sells earrings inspired by the shields of these mythological warrior women |
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Edna Ferber set most of her novel "Giant" in this giant state |
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In 2008 this horse failed to win the Triple Crown when he finished last in the Belmont Stakes |
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On Oct. 15, 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y. wrote him urging him to grow a beard; he did |
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If your last name is Adams or Hamilton, you can try to track your ancestors through the DAR, this group |
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From the Latin for "to speak", this type of performer tries to keep a stiff upper (& lower) lip |
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The Pythian Games were so-named for this serpent slain by Apollo |
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Her 1922 novel "One of Ours" tells the tale of a Nebraska farm boy who dies in WWI (Nebraska is your big clue) |
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In 2008 this Spaniard defeated Roger Federer in the longest-ever final at Wimbledon |
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When King George VI visited this woman & her husband in 1939, she made news by serving hot dogs |
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A govt. database of immigration records dating from 1820 is arranged by these, like Charleston or Tacoma |
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Usually the highest academically ranked student in a graduating class |
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He disguised himself as a female named Pyrrha, which means "red-haired girl", not "tendon boy" |
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Much of "The Beautiful and Damned", his 1922 novel about a self-destructive couple, now seems autobiographical |
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In July 2008 he withdrew from the U.S. men's gymnastics Olympic team; his broken hand hadn't healed enough |
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Before reaching the Oval Office, this bachelor president served as minister to Russia in the 1830s |
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Formerly dementia praecox, this term does not mean a patient has more than one personality |
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Maria Shriver created an award for women named for this Roman goddess of wisdom, seen on California's state seal |
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"The soul selects her own society- then- shuts the door", she wrote in her poem No. 303 |
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The Royal Report is the official e-newsletter of this hockey team |
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His wife Frances left the White House, returned 4 years later, & may have said, "Look what they've done to the place!" |
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Grave robbing is frowned upon; this, transferring inscriptions & artwork with a wax crayon, is fine |
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Homer called this woman Epicaste; Oedipus could call her his mrs., or just plain "Mom" |
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