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On May 27, 1941 torpedoes from the cruiser Dorsetshire finished off this German battleship |
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The "van" in his name was from the Dutch, not the German |
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A 1954 survey by the Indian government set its official height at 29,028 feet |
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Despite filing for bankruptcy, this retailer's 1992 Thanksgiving Day Parade went off without a hitch |
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Earl Hamner Jr., later creator of "The Waltons", wrote 8 scripts for this Rod Serling series |
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His was the first voice Robinson Crusoe heard in 25 years on the island |
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In late May 1943 U.S. forces recaptured Attu in this island chain from the Japanese |
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His 1st opera, "La Finta Semplice", was composed for Vienna, but was 1st performed in Salzburg |
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Its eruption in 1980 was the first in the 48 contiguous states since Lassen Peak in 1921 |
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In 1900 this company lit up New York City with an electric sign--a 40' pickle |
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This con man was staff sergeant of the motor pool at Fort Baxter, Kansas |
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Horace Walpole's 1764 "The Castle of Otranto" was the 1st of these novels with violence & gloomy settings |
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This French general entered Paris Aug. 25, 1944 & marched in a parade despite snipers |
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Most of Haydn's works were written while he was a court composer in Eisenstadt, now in this country |
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One of the most thickly populated areas in Sicily surrounds this volcano |
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Nicknamed "Manny Hanny", it merged with Chemical Bank in 1992 to create the 3rd-largest bank in the U.S. |
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Henry Fielding's first wife, Charlotte, was the model for Sophia in this 1749 novel |
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Operation Barbarossa, Germany's attack on this country, began June 22, 1941 |
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This lieder composer gave his first public concert March 26, 1828, it was a success |
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It's the highest mountain in the world named for a U.S. president |
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In Japan Bridgestone not only ranks no. 1 in tires, but in these vehicles as well |
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In this Jane Austen novel, Mrs. Bennet tries to find a husband for each of her 5 daughters |
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was named Commander in Chief of the U.S Pacific Fleet |
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Russian composer of "Rhapsody on a Theme by Pagnini" who became a U.S. cit. just before his death in 1943 |
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State in which you'd find 3,290-foot Mount Oglethorpe |
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General Telephone added "Electronics" to its name after acquiring this light bulb company in 1959 |
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