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In 333 B.C. this Macedonian king's men captured the Persian army's treasure at Damascus |
Alexander the Great
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Of the 3 top-selling newsmagazines, it was founded first, in 1923 |
Time
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The 1893 opera based on this fairy tale features a gingerbread house |
Hansel and Gretel
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It reaches !ts greatest width between Panama & the Malay Peninsula, a distance 12,300 miles |
the Pacific Ocean
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Between 1973 & 1976, she argued 6 women's rights cases before the court & won 5 |
(Ruth) Ginsburg
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7 days after her marriage to Robert Browning, she left Wimpole Street never to return |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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After 27 years of imprisonment, this ANC leader was released by the South African government on February 11, 1990 |
Nelson Mandela
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"VCR Report" is a column in this weekly magazine |
TV Guide
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This composer was just 13 when his comic opera "La Finta Semplice" premiered in Salzburg in 1769 |
Mozart
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Egypt is bordered by these 2 seas |
the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
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This case concerning the right of blacks to become U.S. citizens was argued in 1856 & decided in 1857 |
Dred Scott
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His 1916 collection "Mountain Interval" contained the poem "The Road Not Taken" |
(Robert) Frost
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In the 9th c. this river became the boundary between the kingdoms of Mercia & Wessex |
the Thames
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This state's first newspaper was the Green Bay Intelligencer, founded in 1833 |
Wisconsin
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Douglas Moore wrote an acclaimed opera about "The Devil and" this New England orator |
Daniel Webster
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Basel, Switzerland's main port, lies on this river, Western Europe's, longest |
the Rhine
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The court held its first session in February 1790 in this city |
(Sujit: What is New York City?)
New York City
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The Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland dubbed him "Caledonia's Bard" |
(Rabbie) Burns
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From 1926 to 1935, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski ruled this country as a dictator |
Poland
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In circulation, it's Illinois' largest newspaper |
the Chicago Tribune
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His plan to write a single opera about Siegfried evolved into "The Ring of the Nibelung", which is much longer |
Wagner
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This strait connects the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf |
the Strait of Hormuz
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In 1968 the court invalidated the death penalty provision of the kidnapping law popularly called this |
the Lindbergh Law
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In 1847 & 1848 she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts |
(Emily) Dickinson
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The 1598 edict of this French city gave the Huguenots political equality & rights of inheritance |
Nantes
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Name shared by newspapers in Houston, Denver & Jerusalem |
the Post
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Act V of this "Peter and the Wolf" composer's opera "The Fiery Angel" includes an exorcism |
Prokofiev
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To make boats, local Indians use reeds from this South American lake 12,500 feet above sea level |
(Lake) Titicaca
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This predecessor of James K. Polk was the president least successful in court nominee confirmations |
(John) Tyler
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In addition to writing "The New Colossus" she translated works by Victor Hugo & Goethe |
Emma Lazarus
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