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Ostpolitik, initiated by Willy Brandt, was this country's detente policy |
(Anneke: What is the Soviet Union?)
West Germany
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The revolutionary 1543 work "Fabrica" gave its author, Vesalius, the title "Father of Modern" this field |
anatomy
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The film "Ragtime" has Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien & at the other end of their careers, Samuel L. Jackson & her, "The Nanny" |
Fran Drescher
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Edgar Lee Masters' "Achilles Deatheridge" is a Union soldier who mistakenly arrests this cigar-toting general |
Grant
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Following "Fredericks" & "Salz", this other word for a town is also part of many place names |
burg
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This software name was trademarked in April 1991 |
Photoshop
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The Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937 represented this "-ism" in U.S. foreign policy in the run-up to World War II |
isolationism
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Plato referred to this Greek physician as "The Asclepiad of Cos" |
(Anneke: Who is Galen?)
Hippocrates
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Sadly, a month after recording a Christmas duet in 1977 with this "China Girl" singer, Bing Crosby died of a heart attack |
David Bowie
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Bret Harte tells of "John Burns", a senior citizen in this Pennsylvania town who took up arms in July 1863 |
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)
Gettysburg
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Population under 100, a place in Hayes County, Nebraska has this Shakespearean name & also is one |
a hamlet
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Let's use 2 straws to share the milkshake relative for which this establishment is named |
a malt shop
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This 1994 Harrison Ford film title was part of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s argument about limitations to free speech |
(Anneke: What is Fugitive?)
Clear and Present Danger
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When this doctor published his anti-choking maneuver in 1974, he admitted it had only been tested on dogs |
Heimlich
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Seen here, this MSNBC host recited some Lil Jon lyrics with Lil Jon sitting right next to her |
Rachel Maddow
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Whitman mourned Lincoln in "When" these flowers "Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd" |
(Anneke: What are roses?)
lilacs
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This New York City region is bounded by 14th Street & Houston Street, west of Broadway |
(Jill: What is Soho?) (John: What is Manhattan?)
Greenwich Village
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The king's ones start each game on the F1 & F8 squares |
(Anneke: What are chess pieces?)
bishops
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Those in the anti-this political group were not too fond of the Constitution of 1787 & its big government |
Federalist
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Air is forced in & out of the body in tank respirators, also known as these, part of polio treatment in the 1940s & '50s |
an iron lung
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Pity the fool who doesn't know Mr. T met Boy George in a 1986 episode of this show |
The A-Team
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This poet famous for "The Wreck of the Hesperus" also depicted the 1862 sinking of the Cumberland |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This type of community was created in Israel; Nir Am is one near the Gaza border |
a kibbutz
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Eclectic place in a Dickens title |
the old curiosity shop
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In a competition, he might lift a car; in politics, it's a leader exercising absolute power |
a strongman
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German physician Paul Langerhans made important discoveries studying this organ in rabbits |
the pancreas
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Not content to make us weep with her ASPCA ads, she sang "Cat's In The Cradle" in a mash-up with rapper DMC |
Sarah McLachlan
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The subtitle to Herman Melville's poem about this man is "Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville" |
Stonewall Jackson
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In France thousands of small towns are classified as these, which in the U.S. calls up images of group living |
communes
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Faded or soiled from long display in a store window |
shopworn
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