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TAKE A MICHIGANDER AT THIS |
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On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first European to reach South America |
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Machiavelli addressed "The Prince" to this man who he hoped would give him a position to support his family |
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Last name of the "flaky" guy born on April 7, 1860 in Battle Creek |
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The large claws of a lobster or crab |
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During WWII this colonel amassed power in Argentina; in 1946 he was elected president |
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In the 15th century Guillaume Dufay wrote many of these musical pieces, French for "songs" |
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He was born Feb. 4, 1902 in Detroit; 25 years later, he'd become a world-famous hero for 2 days of work |
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Betty Grable was known as the "Queen of" these because WWII soldiers so prized her photograph |
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In 1998 this commander-in-chief of Chile's army & former president was appointed to the Chilean senate |
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He was in the "Thick" of things as Mike Seaver on "Growing Pains" |
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This Spanish painter's son appears in his 1586 masterpiece the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" |
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We don't know if this novelist was "So Big" at her Aug. 15, 1887 birth, but we do know it was in a zoo: Kalamazoo |
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This term for a type of connector is the I in the abbreviation GUI |
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These beans were dried & used as a kind of Old West energy bar |
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Just before this country gained its independence in 1975, thousands of its people emigrated to Holland |
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The liner notes for Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" were written by this film director |
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One of the great works in the early career of this master of the High Renaissance is 1504's "Marriage of the Virgin" |
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Born in Grand Rapids in 1935, he perished with fellow astronauts Grissom & White in 1967 |
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UST stands for these, which mainly hold petroleum products; a LUST is a leaking one |
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Lower global temperatures in the early '90s may be traced back to ash from this volcano |
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In 1995 Javier Perez de Cuellar ran for president of Peru but was defeated by this man |
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In 1981 it was raining "Cats" (but not dogs) for Andrew Lloyd Webber & this British theatrical producer |
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Acclaimed the 1st great architect of the Italian Renaissance, he is credited with designing the Pitti Palace |
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Before "Stella Got Her Groove Back", this Port Huron-born author overcame battles wtih drugs & alcohol |
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As well as The Learning Channel & tender loving care, TLC stands for this, the volume of gas a human can hold |
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The chief lyric poet of Ancient Greece, he's famous for his triumphal odes |
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