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His disputed electoral victory earned him the nickname "Rutherfraud" |
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Device you use to click & drag |
a mouse
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They're made of "frogs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails" |
little boys
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Read all about it! It's an unscheduled edition of a newspaper printed when big news breaks |
an extra
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Canada produces millions of gallons of this sweet syrup every year, more than any other country |
maple syrup
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An outline of this sculpted monument appears on South Dakota license plates |
Mount Rushmore
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He succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president of the U.S. & as rector of the University of Virginia |
James Madison
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A monitor's resolution is measured in the number of these on the screen; a common one is 640 X 480 |
pixels
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"Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot", this many "days old" |
(Paul: What is five?)
nine
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In 1993 this city's Herald won a Pulitzer gold medal for reporting on Hurricane Andrew |
Miami
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The musical ride is a spectacular display of horsemanship performed by these police |
the Mounties
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In the Roman calendar, this day fell on the 15th of March, May, July & Oct., & on the 13th of other months |
the Ides
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For his efforts in founding the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize |
Woodrow Wilson
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To turn a computer into a multimedia machine; one of these players is added |
CD-ROM
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At the end of the Grimms' version of the story, pigeons peck out the eyes of her stepsisters |
Cinderella
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In 1974 this Radnor, Penn.-based magazine became the first weekly to sell a billion copies in a year |
TV Guide
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This city in British Columbia is Canada's busiest port |
Vancouver
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On Dec. 7, 1991 about 2,000 veterans of this event gathered for a 50th anniversary reunion |
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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A few weeks after his birth, his mother wrote, "He is very large of his age and grows fat every day" |
William Howard Taft
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It's considered fragmented when the spaces it allocates to a file are not contiguous, but scattered |
a hard disk
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Born in a flower, her cradle was a polished walnut shell |
(Matt: Who is Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary?)
Thumbelina
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Now edited by Helen Gurley Brown, this magazine began in Rochester, N.Y. in 1886 |
Cosmopolitan
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The annual Calgary Stampede in this province is world-famous for its chuck wagon races |
Alberta
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On Oct. 31, 1961 his name was removed from Moscow's Red Square; his body was removed a day later |
(Matt: Who is Lenin?)
(Joseph) Stalin
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After his fiancee Anne Coleman died, he apparently vowed never to marry, & he never did |
(Alex: The bachelor president.)
James Buchanan
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The main or baseboard of most computers, it has expansion slots to extend the computer's capabilities |
the motherboard
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This character created by Antoine de Saint-Exupery came to Earth from an asteroid |
the Little Prince
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Harrison Salisbury, once this newspaper's Moscow correspondent, died in July 1993 |
the New York Times
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Over 15 of the islands in the Northwest Territories are larger than this island, Canada's smallest province |
Prince Edward Island
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This great king of the Franks was probably born in Aachen in what is now Germany in 742 |
Charlemagne
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