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OUR 1st ANNUAL HISTORY AWARDS |
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His "Melancholy Woman" & "Crouching Woman" were both painted during his Blue Period |
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Among the 7 Ancient Wonders was this of Alexandria, which guided ships into the harbor |
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Worst Place to Catch "Our American Cousin": This venue, for its April 14, 1865 performance |
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Of the American league, 1921, '22, '23, '26, '27, '28... oh, forget it... & 2009 |
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It's the common name for squirrels of the subfamily Pteromyinae (hint: "ptero-" is Latin for "winged") |
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A cross between tennis & ping-pong, this sport was named for a dog, not a gherkin |
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Best 1483 Ruthless Power Grab: This man, for his coup d'etat vs. Edward V & his execution of Lord Hastings |
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This type of "blow" bounces off at an angle |
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Of the NFL, 1935, '52, '53, '57 (been a long drought in Motown) |
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Sir John Lavery became the leading portrait painter of his time after he was commissioned to paint her portrait in 1888 |
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According to superstition, if this body part burns, people are talking about you |
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The Not-So-Fast, My Friend Prize of 1948: This man, who fell a surprising 2.2 million votes short to Harry Truman |
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Of women's Olympic ice hockey, 3 of the 4 times it's been played (not bad, eh?) |
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The painting seen here depicts the wife of this Scottish folk hero in "The Conflict at the Pass of Loch Ard" |
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At the end of a letter, P.S. stands for postscript; as an officer of the law, it stands for this |
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The Can't Keep Him Down Award: Him, for re-serving in France's army in WWI after his Dec. 1894 court-martial was cleared |
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5-letter word for an open space in a forest |
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Of the NBA, 2006 (the southernmost champs yet) |
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A rodent native to Indonesia is known as this starchy banana relative squirrel |
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This painting by Andrew Wyeth depicts his neighbor crawling through the grass toward her farmhouse |
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This 2005 bestseller by Elizabeth Kostova concerns a couple of modern-day hunts for Dracula |
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The Taking My Life in My Hands Award of 1543: This woman, for marrying Henry VIII near the end of his rule, on July 12 |
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Really slow, or really icy & big |
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Of the men's Chess Olympiad, 18 out of 20 times from 1952 to 1990--why did we break up a good thing? |
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Squirrels don't just eat nuts--the diet of some species includes lagomorphs, these animals |
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