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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE |
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This long tendon helps the foot pivot at the ankle |
Achilles
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On Oct. 12, 1492 he wrote, "This afternoon the people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships" |
Columbus
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This "Robinson Crusoe" author's novel "Roxana" is about the daughter of Huguenot refugees |
(Daniel) Defoe
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After this man's death in 632, Abu Bakr became the first caliph of Islam |
Muhammad
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This swamp region in southern Florida extends from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico |
Everglades
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The vote for independence happened on this date in 1776, 2 days earlier than most people think |
July the 2nd
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In 1921 researchers isolated this hormone used to treat diabetic patients |
insulin
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When he arrived at the Pacific Ocean Sept. 29, 1513, he named the site the Gulf of San Miguel |
Balboa
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"Wide Sargasso Sea", a 1966 prequel to this Bronte novel, tells the story of the first Mrs. Rochester |
Jane Eyre
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In 1882 the Japanese government divided this religion into state & sectarian forms |
Shinto
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The Dubuque Hills are in both Illinois & this state to the west |
(Mark: What is...Wisconsin?)
Iowa
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This signer is quoted, "There! John Bull can read my name without spectacles" |
John Hancock
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This small triangular bone, also called the kneecap, protects the knee joint |
patella
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The first voyage of his ship the Calypso was a 1952 trip to the Red Sea |
Jacques Cousteau
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Nick Carraway is Daisy Buchanan's distant cousin in this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel |
The Great Gatsby
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On Oct. 19, 1512 he was awarded a doctorate of theology by the University of Wittenberg |
(Martin) Luther
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Philadelphia is a leading U.S. port because of its location on this river |
(Bronwyn: What is the Allegheny?)
Delaware
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The number of the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration |
Second
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The name of these 4 large veins comes from the Latin for "collarbone" |
(Mark: What are the vena cava?)
jugular
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Father Aguilar, who knew Spanish & Maya, & Dona Marina, who knew Maya & Nahuatl, served as his interpreters |
Cortés
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Wackford Squeers is the horrible headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in his novel "Nicholas Nickleby" |
Dickens
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The Mahayana form of this religion is dominant in Vietnam |
Buddhism
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At 6,643 feet, Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains is this state's highest point |
(Bryan: What is North Carolina?) (Mark: What is Alabama?)
Tennessee
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Signers' first names included 6 Williams, 6 Georges, 1 Button & 1 of these, a Mr. Gerry |
(Bryan: What is Elderbridge?) (Bronwyn: What is Eldridge?)
Elbridge
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Emphysema destroys the walls of these tiny air sacs in the lungs |
alveoli
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In 1497 Bartolomeu Dias accompanied him on part of his journey around Africa to India |
da Gama
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Flem Snopes' stepdaughter Linda is the heroine of "The Mansion", the 3rd novel in his Snopes trilogy |
William Faulkner
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Since 1179 popes in the Catholic church have been elected by this group |
College of Cardinals
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1 of 3 states bordering Nebraska's western panhandle |
(Bronwyn: What is Montana?)
(1 of) South Dakota (Colorado or Wyoming)
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He said Jefferson wanted him to write the first draft, but Jefferson didn't remember it that way |
John Adams
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