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In 1870 the first ocean boardwalk in the United States was completed in this city |
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George Washington said, "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving" this |
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The first one of these electric devices was marketed by Schick in 1931 |
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Giulio Rospigliosi, who held this office as Clement IX, wrote the libretto for the first comic opera |
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Marajo, one of these in the delta, is about as large as the country of Denmark |
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This maker of photocopiers was founded in 1906 as The Haloid Company |
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On May 1, 1898 Commodore George Dewey sailed into this bay |
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Alexander Pope described this personal anniversary as "the funeral of the former year" |
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In addition to the revolver, he invented an electrically controlled naval mine |
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Both Stravinsky's "The Nightingale" & Puccini's "Turandot" are set in this country |
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The Amazon type of this cetacean has a much longer snout than marine types like the bottlenose |
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It's the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet |
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Julius Sterling Morton, who helped found Arbor Day, later held this cabinet post |
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This Indian leader said "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith and the last article of my creed" |
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This American engineer patented 214 inventions in the rocketry field |
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This nation opened its first opera house on the banks of the Amstel River in 1986 |
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The headstreams form in this country's Andes, less than 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean |
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The name of this gas is from the Greek for "foreign" or "strange" |
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On April 10, 1841 he began publishing the New York Tribune |
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Jean de la Bruyere said "Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens" this emotion |
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In the 1880s John McTammany, Jr. received several patents for this type of piano |
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This Verdi jester is considered one of the most challenging baritone roles ever written |
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This Inca capital lies between the Urubamba & Apurimac, two Amazon tributaries |
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In 486 B.C. he succeeded his father, Darius the Great, as king of Persia |
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He designed & constructed the Demologus, the first steam-powered warship; it was launched in 1814 |
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On accepting a seat in the British parliament she said, "I am a Virginian, so naturally I am a politician" |
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In 1876 he introduced a carbon transmitter for Bell's telephone |
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"Boris Godunov" is the only opera completed by this composer |
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Manaus, Brazil became fabulously wealthy during the 19th century boom in this material |
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The name of this wife of Socrates has become proverbial for any nagging wife |
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