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BIERCE'S DEVIL'S DICTIONARY |
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The title of this Ibsen play describes the home of Torvald & Nora Helmer |
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Ambrose Bierce was known for his short stories & defined this longer form as " A short story padded" |
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Howard Staunton organized this board game's 1st international tournament in 1851 & Adolf Anderssen won |
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Beethoven tried all the latest scientific methods including sulphur vapors to cure this |
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Talk "turkey", or wolf down a lot of turkey |
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Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey |
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"Important" Oscar Wilde play that begins in a London flat & ends in a country manor house |
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Wife Mollie may have agreed with Bierce that this emotion is "a temporary insanity curable by marriage" |
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In 1989 Arantxa Sanchez won the French Open & began using this, her mother's name |
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Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following: |
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Don't wolf down your turkey, but take these small quick bites |
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Bees are found on every continent but this one |
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Part of this Thornton Wilder play is set at the Gibbs' house, but it takes imagination to see it |
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Bierce defined this event as "The first and direst of all disasters"; his occured on June 24, 1842 |
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In 1996 the Cornhuskers of this school, better known as a football power, won basketball's NIT |
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Bach's 1721 "Concerts a Plusieurs Instruments" are popularly known as these "Concertos" |
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A crusty old bootmaker, or a crusty old fruit dessert |
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Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey & this plant product |
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Y'all can find Jeeter Lester's shack on this street in the play based on an Erskine Caldwell novel |
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Bierce saw this, "An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment" in Mexico while following Villa's army |
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In 1996, Sri Lanka, a 66-1 underdog, batted down Australia in the World Cup of this sport |
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The 2 who called Vienna home |
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A "rouser" may rouse this low class of people |
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On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound & 3 simple |
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The Youngers move out of their cramped apartment as this Lorraine Hansberry play ends |
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Some Greek philosophers, or men like Bierce "Whose faulty vision sees things as they are" |
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A Polish team's victory over 4 Americans in a 1987 tournament in this game was "trump"eted as historic |
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Beethoven's only opera, based on J.N. Bouilly's "Leonore", it premiered in 1805 |
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How ya gonna keep 'em down on this farm after they've seen Tel Aviv |
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Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for deciphering the circling & wagging types of this form of bee communication |
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