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Mt. Logan was thought the highest on this continent till someone measured Mt. McKinley |
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Members of all nationalities except French can join this fighting force |
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Comedienne who penned "The Life & Hard Times" of her best friend "Heidi Abromowitz" |
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Common gas represented by the formula CO2 |
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Maximinus Thrax, Marcus Aurelius, & Hadrian all held this ancient top post |
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In Rossini's opera, she's recognized by a bracelet, not a glass slipper |
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Different surveys have reported its height as 29,002, 29,141 and 29,028 feet |
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Name of the air arm of the German military |
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Originally in Dutch, "Het Achterhus", this "Diary of a Young Girl" is best known by its play title |
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In magnetism, like poles do this |
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Some walk a mile, but Rodrigo de Jerez sailed the Atlantic in 1492 & became first European to do this |
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Mozart's opera about a wonderful woodwind |
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A mountain chain in the Sahara bears the name of this mythical man who "bears the world" |
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Judith Guest's first novel that was made into 1980's extraordinary Oscar-winner |
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Measuring system established in France in 1790, called originally "Systeme Internationale" |
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In 1902, what you would have seen if someone showed you a dreadnought |
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Gounod had him tempt Faust in the form of Mephistopheles |
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The Las Campanas observatory in CHile was built to supplement findings of this California observatory |
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After pulling several "rabbits" from his hat, he made "The Witches of Eastwick" materialize |
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Over three-fourths of the elements fall into this category |
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Declaring "the world owes me what I need," he bathed in incense, dressed only in silk & wrote the "Ring Cycle" |
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The most famous peak of the Apennines in Italy |
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Scott Joplin wrote "ragtime" music, but this guy wrote the book |
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Italian composer of "Aida" whose name in English is Joe Green |
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