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Care to dance with this 2010 thriller? |
Black Swan
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The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country |
Italy
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The ancient library in this North African city was founded by the Ptolemaic Dynasty around the 3rd century B.C. |
Alexandria
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Dams & other barriers to migration have reduced the Atlantic species of this food fish to a fraction of historic numbers |
salmon
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Working with the firm Webb & Knapp, I.M. Pei designed the Mile High Center in this city in the mid-1950s |
Denver
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Let's catch a ride with this German word that uses an umlaut & can mean "upon" or "beyond" |
(Mayim: Means something totally different now, yes.)
über
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"The Asner" is this 2009 animated film |
Up
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One of Asia's first European-Native treaties was made in 1565 in the Philippines; drops of this mixed in wine sealed the deal |
blood
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Begun in 1800 with an appropriation of $5,000, it's one of the largest libraries in the world, with over 160 million works |
the Library of Congress
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In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba |
blockade
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It's alphabetically first of the Low Countries |
Belgium
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This word for the feast of Christmas can have a dieresis over the E |
Noël
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Here's this 1994 British comedy distilled to its essence |
Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Sultan Yusuf I, responsible for the decoration of this palace in Granada, was assassinated in a mosque at age 36 |
(Jonathan: What is the Alcazar?)
the Alhambra
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Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school |
Harvard
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In 1611 this English navigator sought the Northwest Passage but ended up trapped in the bay that would bear his name |
(Henry) Hudson
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Mount Whitney is the highest point in what's known as the "High" this |
(Mayim: Yes, the highest point in California.)
the High Sierras
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A huge fan of the dieresis, the New Yorker uses one for this 5-letter word meaning gullible, simple or unjaded |
naïve
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Let's get down to business--it's the 2013 film broken down here |
The Wolf of Wall Street
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They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring |
perestroika & glasnost
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Some 1,800 scrolls at a library in this city between Pompeii & Naples were uniquely preserved because Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. |
Herculaneum
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When you swallow, this flap covers the larynx to keep food out of the respiratory tract |
epiglottis
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Lower Merion Township is one of the Main Line suburbs of this city |
Philadelphia
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This northern sky constellation whose name may derive from a Greek word for "ox driver" does not sound like tiny tot footwear |
Boötes
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This period piece from 2000 had some Ang-st |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade |
the Teutonic Knights
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Seen here, the Long Room at this Irish school's library dates back to the 1700s, while the library itself was founded in 1592 |
Trinity College
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This 90-mile stretch of California south of Monterey is known for its scenic highway that sometimes does become impassble |
Big Sur
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The Aswan High Dam created a reservoir or "Lake" that was named for this Egyptian president |
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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This German word literally means the "twilight of the gods" |
Götterdämmerung
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