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In February 1861 he was chosen provisional president of the Confederacy |
Jefferson Davis
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This religious leader's jewelry includes a Fisherman's ring |
the pope
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The bag of this highland instrument is often made of sheepskin |
the bagpipes
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At Cornell this future Attorney General was president of the women's student government association |
Janet Reno
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He published "The History of the Wars of Charles XII", a fictitious memoir, before "Robinson Crusoe" |
(Daniel) Defoe
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Everything, or a device for making holes |
an awl/all
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From 1864-69 he was general-in-chief of the U.S. Army; in 1867-68, an interim Secretary of War |
Ulysses S. Grant
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From the 100s B.C. until the 1900s, this was China's state religion |
Confucianism
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This British duo's comic operettas are known as the Savoy operas |
Gilbert & Sullivan
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After a costly campaign. Michael Huffington lost the California Senate race to this incumbent in 1994 |
Feinstein
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"Only the Thought Police mattered" is a line from this Orwell novel |
1984
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Follow the rules, or took out ore |
mind/mined
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In the first action of the war, Gen. Pierre Beauregard directed the Confederate bombing of this fort |
Fort Sumter
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The prescribed order of conducting a religious ceremony, or a book of ceremonial forms |
(Brad: What is a light?)
ritual (liturgy)
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Dried gourds are filled with seeds to make these rattles shaken by Latin American dance bands |
(Susan: What are marimbas?) (Brad: What are castanets?)
maracas
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From 1985 to 1991 Swiss-born Madeleine Kunin was governor of this New England state |
Vermont
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This "Tom Jones" author's title heroine "Amelia" was based on his late wife, Charlotte |
(Henry) Fielding
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To emit a strong odor, or a way to create havoc |
to reek/wreak
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When the North took this city on the Mississippi July 4, 1863, casualties totaled over 19,000 |
Vicksburg, MIssissippi
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This religion developed from a blend of the cultures around the Indus River |
Hinduism
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In 1954 a festival for this type of music was founded in Newport, Rhode Island |
jazz
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Before becoming mayor of Washington in 1991, she was a VP of the Potomac Electric Power Company |
(Alex: Brad?) [Time's up]
Sharon Pratt Kelly (Sharon Pratt Dixon)
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The first section of this Thomas Hardy novel is called' "The Maiden"; the second part is "Maiden No More" |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Little spots of paint, or to make a muscle move |
flecks/flex
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Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia & Missouri were known collectively by this term |
the border states
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This future saint began his "Summa Theologica" in 1265 while in Italy attached to the curia |
(Thomas) Aquinas
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Written in the Gypsy style, "Tzigane" is a rhapsody for violin & piano by this "Bolero" composer |
Ravel
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A statue of this congresswoman in the U.S. Capitol represents the state of Montana |
Jeannette Rankin
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This 16th century "Tamburlaine the Great" playwright also wrote poetry & translated Ovid's "Amores" |
(Christopher) Marlowe
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To urge gently, or popular colas |
coax/Cokes
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