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"Pebble in the Sky" was his first novel, the "Foundation" of a long & prolific career writing science fiction |
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The outlines of the Fab Four rock out in Beatles-Platz in this German city where the band played many an early gig |
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For things like discovering polonium & radium, she & her husband Pierre won the Nobel Prize for Physics |
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To perform important duties at a ceremony, especially a religious one |
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"The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade" is chapter 3 of "Bridge to" this enchanted land |
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If you wanted someone's phone number or address back in the day, you could dial these 3 numbers for free & get help |
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Of course the statue of this pigtailed country legend in Austin, Texas includes his guitar, Trigger |
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Dian Fossey's work with these animals in Rwanda led to their further protection from poaching |
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Adjective for an immediate, unscripted response, or what a righty basketball player uses when shooting lefty |
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He taught us "The Power of Myth" |
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Once common in schools but now frowned upon, it was not dispensed by an army NCO, despite the name |
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Montreaux champions this late singer in his adopted country of Switzerland |
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The first woman admitted to M.I.T., Ellen Richards advocated this domestic science & founded a "Journal of" it |
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The name of this semiprecious variety of agate used in jewelry, derives from the Greek for "fingernail" |
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Tecumseh (same as William Tecumseh Sherman) |
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The title of this debut novel by Gillian Flynn is an allusion to cutting, part of Camille Preaker's traumatic past in the book |
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At the 1900 Olympics more than 300 of these birds were killed in a single sporting event |
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Statues of Bon Scott of this band are found in Scotland & Australia |
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Wendy Freedman et al. nailed down the value of this man's constant, which, with distance, helps find the velocity of galaxies |
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Next time you fly, consider buying carbon these to compensate for adding pollution to the atmosphere |
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Wampanoag chief Metacom AKA King Philip |
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The first book in a series, it opens in Inverness in 1945 & begins. "It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances" |
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This antiseptic that stained you red was used for all sorts of cuts, but the Hg in it wasn't good for you |
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Hundreds of organ pipes float in the air to celebrate this composer in a Helsinki monument |
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1740s physicist Emilie du Chatelet made what's still the standard French translation from Latin of this Newton work |
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In philosophy it's the study of the nature of existence itself |
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