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LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES |
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When this war broke out in 1853, Victoria took an active part in organizing relief efforts for the wounded |
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A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A. |
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"The Boys In The Boat" is the true story of the U.S. Crew Team & its quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics in this city |
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In a Maurice Sendak book, the Wild Things roar their terrible roars & do this with their terrible teeth |
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Not always stuffy, Vicki saw this duo's "The Gondoliers" & beat time to the song "Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen" |
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Nagoya, which in 1959 became L.A.'s first sister city, has some of the oldest shrines for this Japanese religion |
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Malcolm Gladwell used this Biblical duo in a title to show how disadvantages can actually work for us |
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The Ulster Museum in Belfast displays treasures from the Girona & 2 other ships that were part of this famed fleet |
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Travelocity.com has a traveling one as its mascot |
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Victoria was a carrier of this blood disease that affected many of her descendants throughout Europe |
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By Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal" one of these |
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In the early 1700s immigrants from Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland founded this capital not on the mainland |
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This Sheryl Sandberg bestseller is subtitled "Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" |
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To fuss at trifles while ignoring serious matters is to "strain at" one of these "& swallow a camel" |
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Queen Victoria was buried with a picture of this devoted personal servant & a lock of his hair |
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"A Gentleman's Guide to" these two things |
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L.A. has 2 sister cities in Africa: Lusaka, Zambia & this pyramid city on the Nile |
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Sebastian Junger told "a true story of men against the sea" in this bestseller |
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A design museum in NYC was founded by industrialist Peter Cooper's 3 granddaughters, who had this last name |
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This type of metamorphic rock has distinct banding |
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"Desire Under" these trees |
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On Feb. 23, 2007 Mayor Villaraigosa signed a sister city agreement with Yerevan, capital of this country |
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John le Carre wrote the afterword to "A Spy Among Friends", about this British spy/Soviet agent |
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The largest T. rex ever found, she's the old gal seen here at the Field Museum in Chicago |
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It's the name for the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow |
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