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In 1883 this telephone inventor founded the magazine Science |
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George Orwell set this 1949 novel only 35 years in the future |
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The Banqueting House is almost all that remains of this city's Whitehall Palace |
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When you fillet something, you remove these |
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In 1862 he told the Confederates, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted" |
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The first professional song Richard Rodgers wrote with this man was used in "Oklahoma!" |
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From 1592 to 1610, he served as professor of mathematics at the University of Padua |
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The narrator of this Mark Twain novel mistakes Camelot for Bridgeport, Connecticut |
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A Venezuelan ciudad on the Orinoco was named after this South American revolutionary leader |
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Meuniere, which most often applies to fish, means fried in this |
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British duke who wrote, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won" |
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The show tried out in 1943 under this title; Jackie Gleason later used it as an exit line following "And" |
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He discovered that harmful bacteria in wine could be destroyed by heating it to high temperatures |
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Katherine Anne Porter title part II of this novel "High Sea" |
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A major tourist attraction in this city is the 100-foot-high statue of Christ the Redeemer on Mount Corcovado |
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Lyonnaise, as in Lyonnaise potatoes, means cooked or garnished with these |
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About the 1871 NYC elections, he said, "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?" |
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In the Danish production, this opening number translated to "Aah, Sikken' Morgen Saa Dejlig" |
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To map the world, this Flemish geographer devised the projection that's named for him |
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This "Sister Carrie" author wrote 3 novels about Anne Frank Cowperwood, an unscrupulous financier |
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The Gulistan Palace in this capital houses the jeweled Peacock Throne of Fath Ali Shah |
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It means to cover fruit or vegetables with boiling water to whiten them or to remove the skin |
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In January 1981 this Secretary of State designate said, "There are worse things than war" |
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In a 1955 production in Paris, Jack Cassidy played Curly to this future wife's Laurey |
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In 1847 she became the first person to discover a comet by telescope |
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St. Peter appears as a character in this 1896 novel that's set in ancient Rome & has a Latin title |
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Once a private estate, it became capital of the Philippines in 1948 but was replaced by Manila in 1976 |
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It's to pinch or press the edges of a pie crust together to seal the dough |
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Samuel Johnson is quoted as saying, "Patriotism is the last refuge of" one of these |
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This choreographer's dances were used in the film version as well as on the stage |
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