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In the late 19th century, scientists postulated that this travels in waves through what they called luminiferous ether |
light
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This title character of a Jim Croce No. 1 carried "a 32 gun in his pocket for fun" |
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
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Luca della Robbia made decorative reliefs from this, baked clay, glazed in blue & white |
terracotta
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Hallelujah, sabbath |
Hebrew
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The narrator of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" has settled his brain "for a long" this season's "nap" |
winter
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On her death, Tony Blair said, "She was the 'People's Princess', and that is how she will stay" |
Princess Diana
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The torr is equal to 1 mmHg, or the pressure exerted by 1 millimeter of this metal |
mercury
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In "The Night The Lights Went Out In" this state, an innocent man fires a shot to summon the law--big mistake |
"Georgia"
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Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" is one of these multipaneled works |
a triptych
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In 1864 at Spotsylvania, this Union General vowed "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer" |
Ulysses Grant
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Born in 1874, he was nicknamed "The Handcuff King" & "The King of Escapologists" |
Houdini
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Fluid dynamics can be divided into hydrodynamics, the study of fluids in motion, & this study of gases in motion |
(Steve: I do not know.)
aerodynamics
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"Out of the doorway the bullets rip/ To the sound of the beat" in this Queen No. 1 |
"Another One Bites The Dust"
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Salvador Dali is among those who've portrayed this "of St. Anthony" |
The Temptation
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Almanac, hashish |
(Maureen: What is Persian?)
Arabic
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This royal "made some tarts all on a summer's day" |
the Queen of Hearts
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This writer was known affectionately as "The Concord Rebel" & "The Poet Naturalist" |
(Steve: Who is Longfellow?)
Thoreau
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The term horsepower was first used by James Watt affer comparing the power of horses to the power of these |
steam engines
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"The sound of the battle rang/ Through the streets of the old East Side" in "The Night" this town "Died" |
"Chicago"
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Still life painter William Harnett was a practitioner of this type of illusionism, French for "deceive the eye" |
trompe l'oeil
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T.S. Eliot wrote that it was the "cruellest month...stirring dull roots with spring rain" |
April
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Though he didn't really blaze his own trails, this explorer & politician was nicknamed "The Pathfinder" |
(Steve: Who is Davy Crockett?)
John C. Fremont
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In the 1965 No. 1 "Eve Of" this, "The eastern world, it is explodin'/ Violence flarin', bullets loadin'" |
"Destruction"
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John Constable deprecatingly called the work of this other Brit "airy visions, painted with tinted steam" |
Turner
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Jai alai |
(Dan: What is Spanish?) (Maureen: What is Portuguese?)
Basque
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In 1950 Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "but I miss you most of all, my darling, when" these "start to fall" |
"The Autumn Leaves"
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Before he came to the U.S., this physicist's Italian students called him "The Pope"; they considered him infallible |
(Steve: Who is Marconi?) ... (Alex: Five clues left on the board, and we have a minute.)
Enrico Fermi
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