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"Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author |
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On June 12, 1817 Baron von Drais went several miles demonstrating his 2-wheeled "running machine", an early version of this |
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Edward VII called this official London residence of the royal family "a sepulchre" |
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Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison |
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One side in the Cold War was often called the "Eastern" this group |
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His yearbook mentions he did varsity wrestling and varsity soccer, and his original last name was Mapother |
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Larry McMurtry won high praise for this 1985 novel about an 1800s cattle drive from Texas to Montana |
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In 1714 physicist Daniel Fahrenheit invented the first thermometer to use this liquid |
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A major royal residence until a 1512 fire, the Palace of Westminster is now home to these "Houses" |
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In 2009 for securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, false filings with the SEC & other crimes: 150 years in prison for him |
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Pressure measured in millibars |
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This future Oscar winner was valedictorian of her graduating class at the Lycée Français in Los Angeles |
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In 1998 Iran declared it no longer sought Salman Rushdie's death over this novel |
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In 1986 Dr. Patricia Bath invented a device that safely uses one of these beams to remove cataracts in the eye |
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Caernarfon Castle was used by Edward I in the 13th century when subduing this country, now part of the United Kingdom |
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Nathuram Godse, who murdered this man in 1948 as he headed to a prayer meeting: death by hanging |
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This variety of pear is crisp & in season from September to April |
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She was on the fast track her senior year, winning the AAU Junior Olympics Pentathlon; in 1988 she would win the Olympics Heptathlon |
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E.M. Forster saw his first major success in 1910 with this novel named for a country estate |
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Laszlo & Gyorgy Biro of Hungary used a novel tip when making this easy-to-use implement in the 1930s |
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Originally a Saxon castle, this edifice overlooks the Thames River and is where several English monarchs are entombed |
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30-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames, in 1994, for tax evasion & this more serious crime: life without parole |
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Religious territorial jurisdiction aka a diocese |
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At her Connecticut high school most of this lawyer and conservative media pundit's jabs were as a member of the fencing team |
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This Donna Tartt bestseller begins, "While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years" |
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Inspired as a boy by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 |
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This castle on the River Dee where the royal family spends summers is lovingly called "The Highland Barn" |
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This Attorney General for his role in the Watergate scandal: ultimately 19 months in prison |
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A legal opinion by all the judges of an appeals court, not just a smaller panel, is given "en" this, French for "bench" |
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