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He accepted the Dukedom of Brontë in Sicily a few years before he died at Trafalgar |
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He wrote on a sketch for his 3rd "Razumovsky" quartet, "Let your deafness no longer be a secret." |
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Oklahoma's Rogers County was named for Clem Rogers, father of this man |
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In 1826, a decade before Daguerre, Joseph Niépce took the first one of these |
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This word is from the Greek for "one sent forth" |
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Title occupation of Dr. Charles Primrose, in an Oliver Goldsmith novel set in Wakefield, Eng. |
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The English kidnapped her in 1613 & baptized her "Lady Rebecca" |
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On July 8, 1770 Pope Clement XIV made this 14-year-old Austrian harpsichordist a "cavaliere" |
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This state's Los Alamos & Cibola Counties were the last in the U.S. to be established |
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When the first of these airtight cooking pots appeared in 1679, it was called "Papin's digester" |
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Buddhism teaches an 8-fold path to this, the goal of a Buddhist's way of life |
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Mr. Micawber worked as confidential secretary to this repulsive character |
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Empress Eugenie of France was born the daughter of a grandee in this country, where she also died |
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These 20 Liszt piano works are Gypsy rather than Magyar in origin |
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North Carolina has the only county named for this first English child born in America |
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The Society of Friends are the Quakers & the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, this group |
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In the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", Sinbad was a sailor & he was a poor woodcutter |
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Russian who at age 19, wrote the following, one of the most celebrated piano pieces ever: |
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Of this state's 14 counties, only Nantucket & Franklin are not named for British people or place names |
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What Jews call the 5 Books of Moses Christians call this, which means 5 books |
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In the Dostoevsky novel, one was a writer, one a student at a monastery & one didn't work at all |
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Personal tragedies made this French composer of "The Swan" an existentialist before Sartre |
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Born in Ávila, Spain in the 16th century, she reformed the Carmelite Order of nuns |
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