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Ivar the Boneless showed some spine when he led these Scandinavians on raids of York in the 9th century |
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Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep sang "SOS" on the soundtrack of this 2008 film |
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Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon" |
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It's the "beastly" name for iron obtained directly from a blast furnace & poured into molds |
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These falls along the Zambezi River are about twice as wide & twice as deep as Niagara Falls |
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2 parallel ropes attach to a horizontal bar to make up this acrobatic apparatus |
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After this king won at Hastings, York was "seething with discontent"; he would soon march in & build 2 castles there |
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Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines & sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy |
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In an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night" |
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Fittingly, the iron type of these objects, like the 60-ton Hoba one in Africa seen here, is made up mostly of iron |
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A national trail in England stretches 84 miles from Newcastle to the Solway Firth along the line of this great fortification |
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To breathe with difficulty & with a whistling sound |
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York came to be when members of Rome's Ninth this set up camp & called it Eboracum |
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Steve Martin, Chevy Chase & Martin Short, collectively; now turn your head & cough |
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Poems by him include "Harlem", "Crossing Jordan" & "The Weary Blues" |
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At about 1,000 feet, it was the tallest iron structure in the world when it was completed in 1889 |
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The 2,700-foot Burj Khalifa in this city is quite impressive--check it out |
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To identify someone vile or unethical, "ball" or "bag" can follow this word |
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After battling the Picts in 305, this "Great" man was proclaimed emperor of Rome in York |
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Tom Hanks wrote & directed this 1996 film about a band of one-hit wonders |
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One of Joseph Brodsky's best-known poems is "Elegy for" this "Death Be Not Proud" poet |
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This symbol for the chemical element comes from the word for "iron" in Latin |
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For a great view of Rio & Guanabara Bay, take a cable car to the summit of this Brazilian peak |
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Idiomatically, these may "fall on deaf ears" |
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York's Franciscan Order of Greyfriars was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538 as part of this period of religious upheaval |
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What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film |
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A poem by Stevie Smith says, "I was much further out than you thought and not waving but" doing this |
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Thomas Paine got the 1st patent for an iron bridge, to span this river that meets the Delaware at Philadelphia--it was never built |
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Finn McCool, sort of the Irish Paul Bunyan, was said to have built this as a bridge to a Scottish island |
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It's an ornate decoration just below a building's roof |
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