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On July 22, 1977 the "Gang of Four" was expelled from this country's Communist party |
China
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The Marne is the longest tributary of this French river |
Seine
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This Italian astronomer who died in 1642 said that no man had seen more than he |
Galileo
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For medicinal purposes, the most important species of this flower is the opium |
poppy
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Protagoras said, "There are" this many "sides to every question" |
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This Swedish capital is built on 14 islands that are connected by about 50 bridges |
Stockholm
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On Nov. 15, 1935 Manuel Quezon y Malina was inaugurated as the 1st pres. of this U.S. commonwealth |
the Philippines
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The Arabian Sea & the Bay of Bengal are considered arms of this ocean |
Indian Ocean
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About 1910 this German scientist introduced the 1st successful device to detect & measure radioactivity |
Geiger
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The national flower of Egypt, or a yoga position |
lotus
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This famous Rene said, "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well" |
Descartes
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Many of the "Arabian Nights" tales are set in this city, now the capital of Iraq |
Baghdad
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In 1971 defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg released these classified documents to the press |
the Pentagon Papers
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Though second in size of the Great Lakes, it has the longest shoreline of any of them |
(Sue: What is Lake Erie?) (Joseph: What is Lake Superior?)
Lake Huron
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During WWII, he was in charge of Germany's rocket program |
Wernher von Braun
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Popularly used for corsages, Cattleya is a variety of this flower |
(Howard: What is a lily?)
orchid
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The Baron de Montesquieu said, "A man should be mourned at" this event, "not at his death" |
his birth
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The name of this capital on the Molonglo River comes from an Aboriginal term for "meeting place" |
Canberra
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North Korea seized this U.S. Navy ship on January 23, 1968, holding the 83 on board as spies |
Pueblo
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Bordering Spain & France, this bay is also called the Gulf of Gascony |
(Joseph: What is the Gulf of Lyon?)
Bay of Biscay
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Using a giant pendulum, this French physicist proved that the Earth rotates on its axis |
Jean Foucault
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Saffron is derived from this flower whose name is Latin for "saffron" |
(Sue: What is a bloom?)
crocus
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This future leader of existentialism graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1929 |
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It was home to composers Bedrich Smetana & Antonin Dvorak |
Prague
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In December 1989 Ion Iliescu became president of this European country |
Romania
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Istanbul lies on both sides of the Bosporus at its junction with this sea |
(Joseph: What is the Black Sea?) (Sue: What is the Caspian Sea?)
the Sea of Marmara
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William Herschel earned a pension from King George III after discovering this planet in 1781 |
Uranus
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The Arabian variety of this flower is used to scent & flavor Oriental tea |
jasmine
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17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher who said, "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue" |
Spinoza
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As a Roman colony, it was called Julia Augusta Felix Berytus, for Augustus' daughter |
(Joseph: What is Paris?)
Beirut
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