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Medicare was passed into law in 1965 as an amendment to this 1935 act |
Social Security
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French for "veil", this pancake is almost as thin as a veil |
crepe
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There are no fish in this "great" lake which geologists say evolved from Lake Bonneville |
(Bill: I came from there!)
the Great Salt Lake
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He died in 1963, the same year his half brother Andrew Huxley won the Nobel Prize for Physiology |
Aldous Huxley
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Chippendale, Sheraton & Hepplewhite were 18th century furniture designers in this country |
England
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Andrew Jackson acquired his nickname, "Old Hickory", during this war |
(Mary Jo: What is the French & Indian War?)
War of 1812
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A French "salad in the style of the city of Nice" |
nicoise
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Province in which you'd find Lake Winnipeg, the 3rd largest lake lying entirely within Canada |
(Bill: What is Ottawa?) (Alex: Slight advantage for you there, being from Canada.) (Chris: I was born there!)
Manitoba
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She had several suitors but never married, perhaps because she was filled with "Pride & Prejudice" |
Jane Austen
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This curlicued style, which comes from the word "Arabian", can be seen on mosques & manuscripts |
Arabesque
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"What shall be done to the man that killeth this Phillistine & taketh away the reproach from Israel?" |
(Mary Jo: Who was....?)
David
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Whittaker Chambers said this man passed him official documents |
Alger Hiss
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"Coarse stew" in French, its basic ingredient is eggplant |
ratatouille
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Saudia Arabia's east coast is on the Persian Gulf & its west coast on this body of water |
Red Sea
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Some say Guy de Maupassant was the illegitimate son of this "Madame Bovary" author |
Gustave Flaubert
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Andre le Notre designed the gardens that surround this principal residence of Louis XIV |
Versailles
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"We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but..." |
(Bill: Who was Adam?)
Eve
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In 1777 this pamphleteer wrote, "We fight not to enslave but to set a country free" |
Thomas Paine
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Though it literally means "greedy", this term for a food connoisseur isn't negative in France |
gourmand
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Scottish equivalent of a fjord, a famous one is "of Forth" |
firth
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Satirical British author whose 1934 novel "A Handful of Dust" became a 1988 film |
Evelyn Waugh
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In the Netherlands, faience, tin glazed earthenware, is called this |
Delft
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"Go & search diligently for the young child & when ye have found him, bring me word again" |
King Herod
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James Monroe's 2 terms, 1817-25, were called, though some say wrongly, the "Era of" this |
Good Feelings
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This type of cream soup was formerly made from pigeons, but now may contain shrimp or lobster |
bisque
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Type of lake formed when a winding river cuts across one of its loops & forms a landlocked area |
(Alex: Ox-bow lake; Yes, I recently visited Omaha & they have one there; I think it's called Carter Lake.)
ox-bow
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"Dragon Seed" author who wrote several novels with an American setting using the pen name John Sedges |
Pearl Buck
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In the U.S. it's the predominant architectural style of 1980s skyscrapers |
Post-Modernist
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"Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed" |
(Bill: Who was Potiphar?) (Mary Jo: Who was Nebuchadnezzar?)
Joseph
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