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In 1929 President Hoover presented her with a $50,000 check to purchase a gram of radium for a lab in Warsaw |
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In 2003 Burbank, Calif. posthumously thanked him for the memories by renaming its airport for him |
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Archaeological digs in 1996 indicate that Buddha was born in this country, about 145 miles SW of Katmandu |
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His marriage to Marilyn Monroe lasted only 9 months in 1954 |
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Popular with comedians, they're short, witty remarks |
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In 1885 this French chemist first used his rabies vaccine, on a boy named Joseph Meister |
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"I Can See for Miles" (1967) |
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This state's Nihau Island has been privately owned since the 1860s |
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In the Roman Catholic Church, several parishes in an area form this territorial district headed by a bishop |
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He retired from boxing in 1949, but returned only to be KOed by Rocky Marciano in 1951 |
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In reference to animals, what biped means |
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Edmond Halley paid all the expenses to publish this man's 1687 masterpiece "Principia Mathematica" |
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"Got My Mind Set on You" (1987) |
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Popularly known as "The Oldest House", the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this Florida city dates from around 1723 |
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This -ism named for Protestant reformer John is associated with the values of thrift & labor |
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She played opposite her husband in the movies "The Drowning Pool" & "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" |
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Crank up Mark Chesnutt's "Bubba Shot the Jukebox" & grab your partner; it's time for this dance |
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7 years after publishing a paper on the Periodic Table, this Russian investigated the Pennsylvania oil fields |
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"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (1988) |
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Its state song, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", was written by Paul Dresser, Theodore Dreiser's brother |
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To avoid persecution by a tribe called the Quraysh, Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city |
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In 1533 she gave birth to future Queen Elizabeth I |
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It premiered at a Berlin theater in 1928 under the title "Die Dreigroschenoper" |
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In 1794 this British chemist made a study of red-green color blindness, a visual deficiency now named for him |
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"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" (1974) |
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In 1934 a record wind speed of 231 MPH was recorded on the summit of Mt. Washington in this state |
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This Jewish festival is also called the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths |
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Her "Breathing Lessons" really paid off; in 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
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This 1961 Jimmy Cagney comedy used a fake Brandenburg Gate when the real gate closed mid-shoot |
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