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Great Britain's Proclamation of 1763 forbade the colonists to settle west of these mountains |
Appalachians
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"Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" is a song from this musical |
Grease
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"The Emerald Isle" |
Ireland
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Sections of Longfellow's "The Courtship of" this man include "John Alden" & "Priscilla" |
Myles Standish
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Most of the prunes produced in California are from the Agen variety of this fruit |
plums
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He tried to get sole guardianship of his nephew Karl Beethoven after his brother Caspar's death |
Ludwig van Beethoven
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First published in 1732, its authorship was attributed to a Richard Saunders |
Poor Richard's Almanack
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In this musical, Seymour, who works at Mr. Mushnik's Flower Shop, has his heart set on Audrey |
Little Shop of Horros
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Shisaldin, a volcano on Unimak Island, is the highest point in this Alaskan island group |
Aleutians
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From 1910 to 1912 this "Chicago" poet served as secretary to the Mayor of Milwaukee |
Sandburg
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This cole slaw vegetable is believed to be the oldest leafy vegetable grown today |
cabbage
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This father of "The Waltz King" is nicknamed "The Father of the Waltz" |
(Scott: Uh, who is Liszt?)
Johann Strauss Sr.
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One of the foods eaten by the colonists was these strips of beef |
jerky
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In this play George Gibbs proposes to Emily Webb over ice cream sodas in the drugstore |
Our Town
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This Chilean island in the South Pacific is called Rapa Nui by the Polynesians who live there |
Easter Island
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This Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem is subtitled "Or, a Vision in a Dream, A Fragment" |
Kubla Khan
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Sometimes used for jams & jellies, Catawbas are a type of this fruit |
grapes
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He married his second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcken, in 1721 & they had 13 children together |
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
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In 1606 this king gave the London Company & the Plymouth Company rights to settle the Atlantic coast |
(Anne: Who is George III?)
James I
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A band instrument salesman visits a small Iowa town in this Meredith Willson production |
The Music Man
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This island is Japan's most populous |
Honshu
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The 44 sonnets in this Elizabeth Barrett Browning work tell of her love for her husband Robert |
(Anne: What is Sonnets of the Portuguese? From the Portuguese.)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
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March to May is the peak season for the globe variety of this thistlelike vegetable |
artichokes
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Paul Whiteman conducted the premiere of this man's "Grand Canyon Suite" in 1931 |
Ferde Grofé
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This elected legislature that met in Virginia July 30, 1619 was the first in any English colony |
House of Burgesses
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This Kaufman & Hart comedy is about the more than slightly off-center Sycamore Family |
You Can't Take It with You
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This small "royal" island is Canada's most densely populated province |
Prince Edward Island
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In "Ode to a Nightingale", he wrote, "Thou was not born for death, immortal bird!" |
Keats
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It's what we usually call the netted melon; Europeans use the name for a different variety |
cantaloupe
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He wrote his last symphony, the "Pathetique", in the town of Klin, not far from Moscow |
(Scott: Who is, uh, Stravinsky?)
Tchaikovsky
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