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On October 24, 1952 Eisenhower vowed to go to this country & 5 weeks later, he did |
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Transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott was the father of this famous authoress |
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This 1215 document included standards for measuring wine & grain |
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In most cases, these payments made to a former spouse stop when the spouse remarries |
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He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her |
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It precedes "mammoth" when referring to an animal, & follows "wild and" when talking about a cowboy |
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In 1732, Vincennes, in this future state, was founded by the French on the Wabash River |
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He got his doctorate in philosophy in 1841 and published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848 |
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-273.16 degrees Centigrade |
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Fixed or liquid, it's anything of value you own |
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Olga Knipper played Masha in his play "The Three Sisters" in 1901 and married him the same year |
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This adjective that means "extremely tiny" comes from the name of the teensy people Gulliver met |
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This 1941 act enabled the U.S. to become the "Arsenal of Democracy" |
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His most famous work, "The Prince", wasn't published until 5 years after his death |
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4 of these units, abbreviated gi. are equivalent to 1 pint |
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Like interest paid on bank savings, they're the earnings paid on stocks & mutual funds |
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The 1st actress to play the role of Elmire in "Tartuffe" was his wife, Armande Bejart |
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This adjective could mean "world-weary" or "covered with green gemstones" |
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On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country |
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In "The Ethics", Spinoza wrote that nature abhors one of these |
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In typography, it's 1/72 of an inch |
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It's inadvisable to buy a jumbo CD for over this amount, the maximum covered by deposit insurance |
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In 1937 he wrote the play "Golden Boy" & married that year's Oscar winner, Luise Rainer |
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It describes a person with strict moral principles, or a piano whose strings run vertically |
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On Dec. 26, 1799 this general eulogized George Washington in Congress |
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Immanuel Kant is a big name in this field of philosophy, concerned with the ultimate nature of things |
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The name of this measure, equal to .9144 meters, comes from the Old English for "twig" |
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Similar to Fannie Mae, it's the nickname of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation |
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Mary Eure, this playwright's 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play "Look Back In Anger" |
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It means "capable of being placed opposite something else" and often refers to a monkey's thumbs |
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