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HERE, PIGGY, PIGGY, PIGGY |
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SCRAMBLED GODS & GODDESSES |
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1890: This territory, no small potatoes, joins the Union as the 43rd state |
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"Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave, no one was saved" |
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Though he wrote a number of operas, Michael Haydn is far less famous than this older brother |
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The Last Drop Tavern was named for its proximity to the spot where public hangings took place in this Scottish capital |
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1988: The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge is completed in this city, its second bridge between Europe & Asia |
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"You've got me on my knees... I'm begging, darlin', please" |
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His 18th child, Johann Christian, wrote operas for the King's Theatre in London |
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The good folk at gdaypubs.com are making a major pub crawl in this country, which has more than 4,000 of them |
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Many a mom has compared her kid's messy room to this kind of hog enclosure |
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1962: After 132 years of French rule, this North African nation becomes independent |
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"Oo, you make my motor run, my motor run, gun it comin' off the line (this girl)... my my my i yi woo!" |
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Both the junior & senior Johanns in this Viennese family conducted dance music as well as composed it |
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In the 1600s London's leading literary lights got lit at this tavern named for a fish-tailed female |
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This "airborne" 3-word phrase is a cute way of saying "never" |
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1608: Samuel de Champlain establishes this city, Canada's oldest |
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"Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine" |
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Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was a composer as well as the brother-in-law of this British queen |
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In an 1865 book, the Duchess' baby surprises this title girl when it grunts, turns into a pig & trots away |
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324 A.D.: this Roman emperor defeats Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople |
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"You don't have to put on the red light, those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night" |
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We hope that Liszt was on the guest list when his daughter Cosima married this "Die Walkure" composer in 1870 |
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Have some Bass Ale or Strongbow Cider at the Rose & Crown in the U.K. section of this Disney World park |
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In "Henry IV, Part II", Doll Tearsheet calls this rotund gent a "little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig" |
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He's swift of foot: MY CURER |
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