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STOP IT, YOU'RE KILLING ME! |
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME |
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In 1455 the Medici family had these in London, Avignon & Geneva as well as branches in Rome, Pisa & Venice |
banks
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He was exposed to a wide range of music at the Florida State School for the Blind, 1937-1945 |
Ray Charles
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Exceedingly charming & cold-blooded; psychopathic; recommend isolation; oh yeah, he's a cannibal |
Hannibal Lecter
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Enacted in 1913, the 16th Amendment gives Congress the power to lay and collect these taxes |
income taxes
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March 15, 44 B.C.: Cassius & about 20 other guys take a stab |
Julius Caesar
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Mondale's tables of worship |
Walter's altars
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In 1479 Venice sent Gentile Bellini to this city after a request by Sultan Muhammad II for a good portraitist |
Istanbul (or Constantinople)
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2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of this man from Aberdeen, Washington whose music touched the world |
Kurt Cobain
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Delusional after her part in the king's murder, suffers from sleepwalking & obsessive "hand-washing" |
Lady Macbeth
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Titan, this planet's largest moon, orbits it every 16 days |
Saturn
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June 28, 1914: Gavrilo Princip jump-starts a world war |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Al's portals |
Gore's doors
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In December 1513 he wrote Francesco Vettori that he'd "composed a little work 'on princedoms'" |
Machiavelli
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This song from "Abbey Road" originated as a campaign song for Timothy Leary |
"Come Together"
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Rebellious in the ward; inducing other patients to gamble; grappling with Nurse Ratched; perhaps electro-shock? |
McMurphy
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This royal family's restoration lasted 16 years under Louis XVIII & Charles X |
Bourbon
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Around midnight on Dec. 29/30, 1916: Prince Felix Yusupov & pals, using poison, a gun, a club & drowning |
(Alex: Yes! ...Took everything but a pickup truck to get rid of him!)
Rasputin
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Aaron's mongrel dogs |
Burr's curs
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A prosperous business was this trade which required the growing of mulberry trees |
the silk trade
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Oh baby, it's the 1990 hit heard here
"It burned like a ball of fire / When the rebel took a little child bride / To tease yeah / So go easy yeah" |
"Cradle Of Love"
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Homicidal; believes he's God; lunacy perhaps caused by the African heat; must find out what he means by "The Horror" |
(Col.) Kurtz (Mr. Kurtz accepted)
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A book begins with this "tall, slim girl, 'half-past sixteen'" sitting on a Prince Edward Island farm's doorstep |
Anne Shirley (or Anne of Green Gables)
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July 13, 1793: Charlotte Corday, in a Paris bathtub |
Marat
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Dan's humpbacks |
Quayle's whales
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Her father, later Pope Alexander VI, arranged 3 marriages for her; the first was when she was 13 |
Lucrezia Borgia
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This eclectic American guitarist produced the album "Buena Vista Social Club" |
Ry Cooder
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"Ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings"; other "complaints" |
Alexander Portnoy
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This type of bassoon would be 16 feet long if you unfolded it all the way |
(Ken: What's a double bass?)
double bassoon (or contrabassoon)
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July 20, 1923: Gunmen led by Mexican Congressman Jesus Salas Barraza |
Pancho Villa
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Colfax' accounting clerks |
Schuyler's filers
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