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He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne |
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Few of this country's people are Buddhists, though Buddha spent most of his life there |
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"The Big Apple does not grow in the Garden of Eden", this mayor explained |
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Founder of Russian science, Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov, has a crater named for him there |
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In "Fail Safe", it was the city "offed" as a tradeoff for Moscow |
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His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22" |
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Currently the only Muslim spiritual leader to head a country |
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Mysterious & puzzling, like the Mona Lisa's smile |
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"Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God," said this President from Virginia |
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He was the first modern astronomer to chart the Southern Hemisphere, but didn't see |
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Child's game which convinced computer in "War Games" of the futility of nuclear war |
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"Little Women" is set during this war |
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Both Martin Luther King Sr. & Jr. were pastors of this Atlanta church |
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Tradition says that King Solomon wrote this book of the Old Testament containing essays on life |
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Upon joining the Monastery, this botanist took on the name Gregor & later took up growing peas |
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An amanita, or the cloudy shape of things to come |
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Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker |
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To bubble, hiss or foam as gas escapes, or what game show contestants are encouraged to do |
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Famous quote to which Carl Schurz added, "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right" |
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In 1895, Marie Sklodowska married this French chemist |
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Actor in "Dr. Strangelove" who dropped in on the Soviet Union astride a bomb |
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Author of "A Heap o' Livin'", listed in Avenel's companion to American Literature as "Famous Bad Poet" |
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President Polk's middle name indicates he was a descendant of this Scottish religious reformer |
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Adjective that means an inferior & artificial substitute |
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Asked what the Constitutional Convention had given us, he said, "A republic, if you can keep it" |
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From cowpox germs, he developed the smallpox vaccine |
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Official nickname for the MX, it sounds like an example of Orwellian Newspeak |
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