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Nicknamed the "Jumbo Jet", it made its 1st flight February 9, 1969 |
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In the 1960s Pia Zadora, Bette Midler & A. Barbeau all played Tevye's daughters in this musical |
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On the 4th of July 1845 he went to live at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts |
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Membership in this society includes a subscription to the magazine that's No. 4 in world circulation |
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Meaning "crustlet", these cubes of stale bread are fried & used in soups & salads |
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The British Museum has a piece of timber that had been penetrated 22" by the snout of one of these fish |
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On July 2, 1900 this type of German dirigible made its maiden flight |
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Angela Lansbury played a "madwoman" in "Dear World", the musical version of this French play |
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In 1891, this great showman asked that his obituary be published a few days before his death |
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This Pleasantville, N.Y. magazine has the lowest zip code in the U.S., 00401 |
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In Ancient Rome, these large eels kept in captivity were decorated with jewelry & fed unwanted slaves |
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Paul MacCready won the Kremer Prize in 1977 for creating the 1st successful aircraft powered by this |
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(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE) This This Cole Porter show about a shipwreck was rewritten after the Morro Castle disaster: [Patti LuPone sings] The world has gone mad today, / And good's bad today, / And black's white today, / And day's night today, / And most guys today / That women prize today / Are just silly gigolos. / And though I'm not a great romancer, / I know that I'm bound to answer / When you propose... |
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Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney is best known for having handed down this decision |
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This country's largest newspapers all have the word "Shimbun" in their names |
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A human can die within minutes of being stung by the sea wasp, a type of this invertebrate |
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On the 1st polar flight in 1926, Floyd Bennett was the pilot while this man was navigator |
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Neil Simon, Burt Bacharach & Hal David collaborated on this musical based on "The Apartment" |
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1st called "The Western Star", he later became "The Great Compromiser" |
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The oldest continuously published almanac in the U.S. |
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Though ungainly in appearance, these aquatic mammals may have given rise to the legend of mermaids |
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Name of the plane that made the 1st round-the-world flight without refueling |
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This 1984 musical was inspired by a painting, "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte" |
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He was president when the U.S. declared war on Mexico & some called it his war |
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Employees protested when William Shaw was retired as editor of this magazine after 35 years |
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Though in French it means "white food", it actually refers to a pudding thickened with constarch |
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