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GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE |
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On July 26, 1956 Egypt's Nasser seized this waterway from its British & French owners |
the Suez Canal
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Tobey Maguire is jockey Red Pollard in this 2003 flick about a down-&-out racehorse |
Seabiscuit
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He signed some letters to his daughter "Hackenbush", his character in "A Day at the Races" |
Groucho Marx
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"The Birthday Party" playwright |
Harold Pinter
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Primo Levi's experiences inspired his book "Survival in" this Nazi camp in Poland |
Auschwitz
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It's the inflammation of the gums |
gingivitis
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The Java Trench, at a depth of 25,344 feet, is this ocean's deepest point |
(Art: What is the Pacific Ocean?)
the Indian Ocean
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The title equine of this 2002 animated film is a Kiger mustang, the leader of the Cimarron herd |
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
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In 1832 he wrote his sister from S. Amer., "The number of undescribed animals I have taken is very great" |
Charles Darwin
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Big screen funnyman seen here |
Harold Lloyd
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Some of the 337 survivors of this vessel were later buried at Pearl Harbor with their 1,177 slain shipmates |
the Arizona
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On Dec. 10, 1817 it entered the Union as the 20th state |
Mississippi
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Guanabara Bay, on which this South American city lies, was originally called the River of January |
(Art: What is Montevideo?)
Rio de Janeiro
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Robert Redford played the title character, a Montana rancher who is a mystical horse healer, in this 1998 film |
The Horse Whisperer
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West from Home" is a collection of her letters while visiting her daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Chicago's first African-American mayor |
Harold Washington
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(Hey, I'm Jeff Probst.) This woman, the subject of a musical, not only survived the Titanic but commanded a lifeboat |
Molly Brown
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In this early '90s video game by Sid Meier, you built "an empire to stand the test of time" |
Civilization
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Although not one of Australia's longest rivers, it became famous in an 1890s poem about a "man from" it |
Snowy River
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Passionate about horses, Elizabeth Taylor wins one in a town lottery in this 1944 classic |
National Velvet
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"The Republic of Letters" collects the letters of these 2 consecutive Virginia-born Presidents |
(Patrick: Who are Madison and Monroe?)
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
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In 1957 he followed Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister of Great Britain |
Harold Macmillan
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The statements of Louise Weasel Bear & other survivors of the 1890 massacre at this site were published in 1940 |
Wounded Knee
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It's the process of converting data into a form that can be used by computers |
digitization
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South Africa's longest river, it was named in honor of a Dutch prince in the late 1700s |
the Orange River
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The 1994 film of this Anna Sewell tale was narrated by the title horse |
Black Beauty
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His "Selected Letters" include missives from Damascus, Cairo, Aqaba, Jidda & Oxford |
(Patrick: Who is... [*]?) (Alex: Of...?) (Patrick: Arabia?) (Alex: Yes, [*] is enough. [*] of Arabia is right.)
Lawrence (of Arabia)
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This Secretary of the Interior served all the way through FDR's Presidency |
Harold Ickes
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Auguste Ciparis survived this volcano's 1902 eruption on Martinique & later toured with the circus |
Mt. Pelée
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Voters who "take" this can propose their own Constitutional amendment |
initiative
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