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This "Star-Spangled Banner" scribe also wrote "The Power of Literature and its Connection with Religion" |
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It's estimated this Utah lake contains more than 4 billion metric tons of dissolved minerals |
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Concerning this 1803 land acquisition, Thomas Jefferson said he had gone "beyond the Constitution" |
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Butter & this ingredient combine to leaven a croissant |
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One book calls it "The Classic Novel about a Scientific Experiment to Create a Man-Made Human" |
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This future First Lady worked for the House Judiciary Committee during the summer of 1974 |
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Once called Lac du Saint Sacrement, this New York lake was renamed for England's king in 1755 |
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In June 1959 its voters approved statehood by almost 17 to 1; it became the 50th state on August 21 |
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This Boston hotel that added the glaze to Boston Cream Pie is also known for its rolls |
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Familial tome that was Dostoyevsky's last novel |
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Dubbed "King of Torts" for his civil law success, Melvin Belli also defended this killer of Oswald |
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New Orleans lies on the southern shore of this shallow, brackish lake |
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In 1959 a Dutch ship became the first oceangoing vessel to reach Chicago via this waterway |
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T.H. Huxley was an early proponent of the theory that these modern creatures are descended from dinosaurs |
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Strudel dough is Hungarian; phyllo dough comes from this country |
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Margaret Craven followed this 1973 novel in 1984 with "Again Calls the Owl" |
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This first prime minister of independent India was trained as a lawyer in England |
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Lake of the Woods in Canada & this U.S. state is a remnant of Agassiz, an extinct glacial lake |
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On July 14, 1965, this U.N. ambassador & former presidential candidate died in London at age 65 |
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This Italian developed an early battery, or pile, while professor of physics at Pavia University |
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Cream- or custard-filled, they'll go off the plate like "lightning"; that's what their French name means |
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This "Salome" author's mother wrote poetry under the pen name Speranza |
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This French writer known for "Democracy in America" first came to the U.S. to study the penal system |
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Iliamna, Becharof & Ugashik are among this state's larger lakes |
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A May 3, 1886 clash at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago led to this riot the next day |
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For a spaceship to leave the Earth's gravitational field, it's 11.2 kilometers per second |
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Last name of the sisters who created a carmelized "torte" |
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In 1820 this sonnet writer's father privately published a book of her poems, "The Battle of Marathon" |
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