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| Around 2650 B.C. in Saqqara, an early one of these, rising in a series of 6 big steps, was made for King Zoser |
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| You are a deprived generation--one of these hasn't put on a really good show in the Northern Hemisphere since Hale-Bopp in 1997 |
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| In 2016 Pernille Blume of Denmark won the women's freestyle gold medal in this, the shortest Olympic swimming distance |
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| In 1187 Pope Gregory VIII called for the third of these military expeditions to the Holy Land |
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| 17th century pirates who raided Spanish colonies, or a 21st century team that may take on the Raiders |
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| Do this by riding a surfboard with all your toes curled over the board's front edge |
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| Martha's Vineyard is home to several of these cottages named for a sweet holiday treat |
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| With its gravity 38% of Earth's, astronauts on NASA's projected 2030s mission to this planet will weigh 2/3 less than here |
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| Still the world record holder in both, he won gold medals in the 100m & 200m running events in 3 straight Olympics |
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| Greek words meaning "people" & "rule" gave this form of government its name back in the 5th century B.C. |
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| A person's usual job, or the seizure & control of territory by a foreign army |
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| This solid figure has 10 faces & a 10-letter name |
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| A style popular in the late 1800s adds "-esque" to this word for a palatial French home |
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| Believed to be made of metallic hydrogen, not water, the largest ocean in the solar system is on this planet |
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| The U.S. last hosted the Summer Games in 1996 in this state capital |
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| Built in the 3rd century B.C. on an island in the harbor, the Pharos of Alexandria was one of these structures |
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| Having gained the title, a new king does this to the throne |
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| The Council of Ten helped run this Italian island republic from 1310 until it was overthrown by the French in 1797 |
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| It's the type of column from antiquity seen here; we'll help a little by saying it doesn't start with a vowel |
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| Vesta, in the belt of these objects, is the brightest one in our solar system |
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| The 3 throwing events in the decathlon are the shot put, the javelin & this one |
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| Mark my words, the triumvirate that succeeded Julius Caesar's was Lepidus, Octavian & this friend of Caesar |
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| The color of the packets on the right tells you they contain this compound |
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| The ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is fittingly titled, as that street is part of this "infernal" NYC neighborhood |
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| We'll be frank--this architect designed Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation art Museum; as it turns out, he'll be Frank |
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| Equal to about 230 million of our years, a galactic year is the time it takes for the solar system to make this trip |
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| In 2014 Bode Miller became the oldest Alpine skiing medalist & this 18-year-old U.S. woman became the youngest slalom champ |
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| Cyrus the Great of this empire wanted to conquer Egypt; the next ruler Cambyses II did it |
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| After the second, each term is the sum of its 2 predecessors in this sequence that begins 0,1,1, 2, 3, 5... |
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| Fasting on the tenth of Tevet, the tenth month of the Jewish calendar, is done in memory of the siege of this city by Nebuchadnezzar |
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