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In 1993 Takako Doi became the 1st woman Speaker of this country's lower House of Parliament |
Japan
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Modern dialects of this language include Picard & Lorrain |
French
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On the reverse of "Lot and his Daughters", Albrecht Durer painted his picture of this person "and Child" |
the Madonna
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George Kennedy may have had a "whale" of a time recording this 1851 whale tale |
Moby-Dick
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In February the Philippine National Assembly proclaimed him reelected--it didn't work |
Marcos
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A simple, traditional way to grind spices is with a mortar & this implement |
pestle
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In 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen, the daughter of this political leader, became America's 1st woman diplomat |
William Jennings Bryan
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A standard form of this language is based on the speech of Seoul |
Korean
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Daniel Chester French's works include the huge statue of this president in a D.C. memorial |
(Jeff: Who is Washington?)
Lincoln
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Ken Burns reads excerpts from the companion volume to his PBS miniseries about this war |
the Civil War
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This event tried to form a human chain from one end of the U.S. to the other--it didn't work |
Hands Across America
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Chief Two Bears, who died in 1958 was the last Choctaw Indian scout for this showman |
(Jeff: Who is Barnum?)
Buffalo Bill
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13 Americans were among the 1st group of women awarded this scholarship to Oxford in 1976 |
the Rhodes Scholarships
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In the 16th C. Friar Bernardino de Sahagun wrote a history of this Mexican tribe in Nahuatl, their native language |
the Aztecs
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In the 1730s Canaletto painted the quay of the Piazzetta in this city, his home |
Venice
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This author taped "The Looking Glass War", one of his books about George Smiley |
John le Carré
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After being sworn in as Chief Justice on September 26, he swore in Antonin Scalia |
William Rehnquist
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For fraud prevention, many credit cards now feature these 3-dimensional photographs |
holograms
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Lusia Harris-Stewart & Nera White were the 1st women inducted into this sports hall of fame in Springfield, Mass. |
the Basketball Hall of Fame
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The chukchi language is spoken by only a few thousand in the NE part of this Russian region |
Siberia
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After a quarrel with French officials in Tahiti, he moved to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas in 1901 |
Gauguin
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Ken Howard went to bat to read this author's "The Natural" |
Bernard Malamud
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After a 6-year exile in Gorky, this Nobel Prize winner was allowed to return to Moscow in December |
(Ken: Who is Solzhenitsyn?)
Andrei Sakharov
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While governor of New York 1943-1955, he ran for president twice & lost |
Dewey
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This cosmonaut was only 26 when she became the 1st woman in space |
(Valentina) Tereshkova
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This Iranian language is accepted as a second language in Afghanistan |
Farsi
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In 1965 this artist's portrait of his son Titus was sold to collector Norton Simon for over $2 million |
Rembrandt
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This British actress who starred in "Far from the Madding Crowd" also recorded the novel on tape |
Julie Christie
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On Oct. 20, 1986 Israeli PM Shimon Peres & this foreign minister exchanged posts |
(Ken: Who is Rabin?)
Yitzhak Shamir
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Columns from this ancient wonder at Ephesus are now displayed at the British Museum |
Temple of Artemis
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