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It was once believed that this Hun, who died on his wedding night, was murdered by his bride |
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Besides "The Prince", he is also known for his "Discourses on" Livy |
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This country's name means "Land of the Southern Slavs" |
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He wrote, "The birthday of a new world is at hand" in his pamplet "Common Sense" |
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In "Siegfried" Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him |
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This is the abbreviation for a postscript after a P.S. |
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He was the 6th ruler of the Amorite dynasty of Babylon; you probably remember him for his code |
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The Academic American Ency. calls this Dante work the greatest poem of the Middle Ages |
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Just north of Khartoum, Sudan, these 2 "colorful" rivers combine to form the Nile |
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This craftsman designed the 1st official seal of the Colonies & the 1st issue of Continental currency |
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1st name shared by Rigoletto's daughter, a "Saturday Night Live" star & a R. Hayworth character |
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Medically, G.I. stands for this system |
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Amenhotep IV of Egypt changed his name to this because he was so devoted to the god Aton |
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Completes the title of Giorgio Bassani's novel set in Fascist Italy, "The Garden of the..." |
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The Gulf of Bothnia & the Gulf of Finland are both extensions of this sea |
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The first of these 5 acts closed the port of Boston until payment was made for the destroyed tea |
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Marie, the heroine of this Donizetti opera, was adopted as an infant by French soldiers |
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The abbreviation cc: near the bottom of a letter means this |
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Sennacherib, king of this country, made Nineveh his capital & built a magnificent new palace there |
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"Pinocchio" author Carlo Lorenzini used this last name, taken from his family village |
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This sea in the North Atlantic is delineated only by the plants that float on its surface |
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Frontiersman who won victories at Kaskaskia, Cahokia & Vincennes in the NW Territory |
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English composer whose 1947 opera "Albert Herring" is about a young man, not a young fish |
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Most int'l airlines arrive at their fares through IATA, which stands for this |
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This "Great" king of Persia was the son of Darius the Great & the Grandson of Cyrus the Great |
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This Existentialist Italian playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 |
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In 1943 this Mexican volcano grew from a small depression to 1,000 ft. in height |
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Prime minister during the war, some later called him "the minister who lost America" |
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Drops of blood from the ceiling reveal where an outlaw is hiding in this Puccini opera |
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WPA was the abbreviation for this Depression-era program |
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