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This sharpshooter's original first name was Phoebe |
Annie Oakley
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In population, it's the world's largest nation with a Spanish-speaking majority |
Mexico
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In 1831 he wrote a book of poetry called "Leaves of Autumn" & a novel about a hunchback |
Victor Hugo
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It's the baton twirler who leads a marching band |
majorette
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Around 1624 William Tucker became the 1st black child born & baptized in this Virginia settlement |
Jamestown
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If you want to get married, you may go to a j.p., which is one of these |
justice of the peace
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This Argentinian First Lady was largely responsible for that country's passage of women's suffrage |
Eva Peron
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Cuzco, about 350 miles south of Lima, Peru, was once the capital of this empire |
Inca
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John Dryden was appointed to this poetic post in 1668 & became Royal Historiographer 2 years later |
Poet Laureate
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The Salvation Army bands are examples of these bands that use no woodwinds |
brass band
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In 1909 the Niagara Movement helped form this large civil rights organization |
NAACP
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Directionally speaking, cckw, is this direction |
counterclockwise
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Elizabeth I's forces defeated the Spanish Armada of this king, her ex-brother-in-law |
Philip II
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It's the only walled city north of the Rio Grande |
(Nick: What is Santa Fe?)
Quebec (Quebec City)
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The ancient poet Pindar wrote his lyric poems in this language |
Greek
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Elkhart in this state is considered the band instrument center of the country |
Indiana
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As a result of this 1954 landmark case, segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional |
Brown vs. Board of Education
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EST is this time |
Eastern Standard Time
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Victor Emmanuel III ascended this country's throne after his father was assassinated in 1900 |
Italy
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The first settlers in Rio de Janeiro were not Portuguese but these French Protestants |
Huguenots
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Edna St. Vincent Millary graduated from this college in Poughkeepsie in 1917 |
Vassar
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It's a long piece of music for a solo performer & symphony orchestra |
concerto
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In 1847 American-born Joseph Roberts was elected the first president of this African country |
Liberia
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This cabinet department is DoD for short |
Department of Defense
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This great admiral was made Baron of the Nile after he won the Battle of the Nile in 1798 |
Nelson
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Gatun Lake, created in 1912, is this Central American country's largest lake |
Panama
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The Elizabethan courtier & explorer who wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Since 1801 this band has played at the inauguration of every American President |
Marine Corps
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In 1908 the first black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, was founded at this university in Washington, D.C. |
Howard University
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A measure of illumination, it's abbreviated fc |
foot-candle
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