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Fewer babies were crying after 1849, when Walter Hunt invented this pin for diapers |
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When he died in 1937 at the age of 97, this oil man had given away more than $500 million; he still left his kids a few bucks |
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I had this many wives -- big deal, Liz Taylor's had more husbands |
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In the comics he was obsessed with the little red-haired girl |
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In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster |
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You fill one out to start the process of getting a job |
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Joseph Niepce created the first permanent one of these images in 1826 |
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This hotel founder lived to the age of 91; he made quite a pile, but he never saw Paris... or Nicky |
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You might think I was an ally of this reformer, but in fact I was named "Defender of the Faith" for writing a 1521 attack on him |
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High-energy play on the diamond earned Pete Rose this enthusiastic moniker |
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This Japanese beer brand uses a unicorn for its logo & that's what its name means |
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A tensing of a mother's muscles during birth; push! |
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Thimonnier, like Singer, built a type of this machine, but his was destroyed by rioting tailors |
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This San Francisco Examiner man lived to be 88; his last word probably wasn't "Rosebud", though |
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I always wanted a male heir, but little Ed didn't last long; this "bloody" daughter of mine succeeded him |
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PBS talk show host Charlie Rose won an Emmy in 1987 for an interview he conducted in prison with this other Charlie |
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The endangered Indian species of this large ungulate has the scientific name R. unicornis |
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A sudden violent discharge from Vesuvius |
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Elevators date back to Roman times; in 1853 he showed off his safety device so passengers could ride on them |
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Daniel Ludwig, who lived to be 95, pioneered this 11-letter type of ship of over 100,000 tons of displacement |
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I enjoyed all kinds of sports & in 1520 had a spirited wrestling match with the king of this country |
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Warner Oland and Sydney Toland (2 non-Chinese) played this Chinese detective on film |
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The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945 |
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A series of engraved letters on stone, from the Latin for "to write" |
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This publisher whose name is on communications schools at Penn & USC died in 2002 aged 94 |
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This humanist was my Chancellor from 1529 to 1532; I had him arrested for treason & dropped the axe on him |
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One of his last film roles was as the swindling wife murderer in 1947's "Monsieur Verdoux" |
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This unicorn-like whale's "horn" is really a long tusk |
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A living manifestation of a god |
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