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A medieval chronicle says a 1017 fire in this Ukrainian capital destroyed 750 churches--odd in a city of maybe 25,000 |
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A sudden loud chord in an otherwise slow movement gives this nickname to Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major |
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This "Dune" author's first published sci-fi tale appeared in Startling Stories magazine in 1952 |
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Here's a "Project": name this sitcom star, with over 8 million Twitter followers, who wrote "Why Not Me?" in 2015 |
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Hitchcock: "Dial M on a Train" |
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Rajendra I, the Tamil king of southern India, conquered & annexed this 25,000-square-mile island |
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The 1913 premiere of this Stravinsky piece caused such a riot that the dancers could not hear the orchestra |
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In John Wyndham's 1951 novel "The Day of" these, "these" are carnivorous plants that can walk & kill a man |
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Fancy schmancy private cruising vessel |
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A Forbes headline: "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How" his academy "Is Reinventing Education" |
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Basil II, ruler of this grade-"B" empire, was completing his conquest of Bulgaria |
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Here's a piece from a Vivaldi violin concerto known as "La tempesta di mare", this title in English |
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Like "World War Z", "Robopocalypse" is labeled this kind of history; it's told by those who survived a robot war |
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To surpass others, perhaps at making a spreadsheet |
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This Sunday morning CNN host was only 28 when he was appointed as the managing editor of foreign affairs |
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Kurosawa: "Throne of Samurai" |
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Today with about 1 million adherents, this secretive religious group of Lebanon & Syria publicly revealed itself |
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"Royal March Of The Lions", "The Elephant", "Aquarium" & "The Swan" are all part of this French work |
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In "A Princess of Mars", this fictional Civil War vet is transported to Mars & meets the beautiful Dejah Thoris |
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An agitator, with or without "agent" in front of it |
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The daughter of Indian & Jamaican immigrants, she was elected to replace Barbara Boxer in the Senate in 2016 |
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Sofia Coppola: "The Virgin Translation" |
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Having subdued most of England, this Dane married a former king's widow & converted to Christianity |
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This German-born composer was called the Mozart of the 19th century |
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The cover of this Isaac Asimov novel claimed, "Four men and one woman journey into the living body of a man" |
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In addition to live news coverage of the first operation of the Iraq War, he performed five brain surgeries in the desert |
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Kubrick: "Paths of Orange" |
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