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It's said the Amazon basin provides the Earth with about 1/5 of this element that makes up 1/5 of the air |
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In Bellini's "I Capuleti e I Montecchi", this famous pair is sung by a soprano & a mezzo-soprano |
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It's what's counted by the ream |
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"Official" language of the Roman Empire |
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Published when he was 72, his last book was on earthworms, not natural selection |
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A popular saying with soldiers in WWI was "50 million" of these "can't be wrong" |
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Also called the cream nut, or butternut, it's the seed of an evergreen found mainly in the Amazon basin |
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Leoncavallo wasn't clowning around when he wrote this, his 1st produced opera & only hit |
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It's measured with a fathometer |
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The Roman emperor Constantine I left Rome & made this city the capital |
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Reportedly the oldest working playwright ever, this author of "Saint Joan" wrote his last play at age 93 |
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In geography, number of minutes in 1 degree |
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This part of the Amazon is so large that Marajo, an island almost the size of Denmark, lies within it |
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Long before the play "Amadeus", this hyphenated Russian wrote the opera "Mozart & Salieri" |
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U.S. standard unit equal to .083 foot |
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Term for the order maintained by the Roman Empire in its part of the world from 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. |
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Physician & writer of the 3rd Gospel, he lived to be 84 |
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If a waitress complains her customers just did a 95, it means they did this |
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Large scale use of the Amazon's vast rubber crop was made possible by this process, invented in 1839 |
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Mimi was a seamstress in this Puccini opera |
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Of a gross ton, a net ton, or a short ton, the one not equal to either of the others |
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5th man to reign as emperor & last to bear family name "Caesar" |
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Execs who feared offending this 78-year-old publisher offered RKO $800,000 to scrap "Citizen Kane" |
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Famous phrase describing the number of years between 1776 & 1863 |
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5 of the 9 were Waltraute, Helmwige, Schwertleite, Grimgerde & Brunnhilde |
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As defined, a periodical is published at regular intervals greater than this period of time |
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Julius Caesar was killed not in the Senate chamber but in a theater built by this rival of his |
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Advisor to Lincoln, this ex-slave became U.S. minister to Haiti at age 72 |
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The U.N. picked Matej Gaspar, born July 11, 1987, to symbolize this numerical achievement of our species |
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