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"Crime and Punishment" author imprisoned for participation in the subversive Petrashevsky Circle |
Dostoyevsky
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This "African" flower", Saintpaulia ionatha, is native to Tanzania & Kenya |
African violet
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This director of "The Godfather" purchased the Napa Valley estate of Gustav Niebaum in 1975 |
Francis Ford Coppola
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On December 6, 1776, the British occupied the naval base at Newport in this colony |
Rhode Island
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This "Basic Instinct" star was recently awarded France's Chevalier Dans L'Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres |
Sharon Stone
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His imperial name meant "Might of the Trinity" |
Haile Selassie
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Brendan Behan based the setting of "The Quare Fellow" on a prison in this capital where he'd done time |
Dublin
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In South America all of these animals known for their foul-smelling spray are hognosed ones |
skunks
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When seen on a bottle of champagne, NV stands for this |
non-vintage
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This British general who surrendered at Yorktown captured Philadelphia in 1777 |
Cornwallis
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The Clintons were among the guests at the 1995 wedding of Ted Danson & this actress |
Mary Steenburgen
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One theory says this short-haired cat was brought to England by 19th C. soldiers returning from Ethiopia |
Abyssinian
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This author of "The Ransom of Red Chief" spent more than 3 years in an Ohio federal penitentiary |
O. Henry
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This tree, Acer saccharum, is also known as a rock maple |
sugar maple
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In the 1890s Baron Rothschild supported Rishon-Le-Zion, a winemaking village in what's now this country |
(Lee: What is Germany?)
Israel
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In 1778 this U.S. captain's crew looted the Earl of Selkirk's mansion on St. Mary's Isle |
John Paul Jones
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Natasha Richardson, who co-starred in "Nell", is the daughter of Tony Richardson & this British actress |
Vanessa Redgrave
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The Falashas are Ethiopians who practice this religion |
(Barb: What is Rastafarianism?) (Lee: What is Islam?)
Judaism
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A letter critical of Stalin written by this "Cancer Ward" author cost him 8 years in labor camps |
Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
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These winds meet at the Equator in a region called the Doldrums |
trade winds
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This Tuscan wine is now more often seen in a Bordeaux-type bottle than in the straw-covered fiasco |
Chianti
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Just 4 Americans were wounded in the battle for this New Jersey site December 26, 1776 |
Trenton
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This Swedish star retired from the screen after the release of her 1941 film "Two-Faced Woman" |
(Lee: Who was Liv Ullmann?)
Greta Garbo
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In 1868 this Anglo-American explorer reported on the British capture of Magdala, then the capital |
Henry Morton Stanley
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He wrote "De Profundis" during 2 years at hard labor at Reading Gaol |
Oscar Wilde
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This German physicist known for his constant taught at the University of Berlin from 1889 to 1928 |
Max Planck
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This country is known for its Lancers & Mateus roses as well as for Madeira |
Portugal
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The Battle of Monmouth, a sweaty 1778 stalemate, is perhaps best remembered for this heroine |
Molly Pitcher
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Dubbed "The Sweater Girl", this glamorous star of the '40s & '50s passed away in 1995 |
Lana Turner
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In 1993, after a 30-year-war, this country won its independence from Ethiopia |
Eritrea
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