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If run in reverse an electric motor becomes one of these devices that produces electric current |
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Johann was his actual first name; Wolfgang was 1 of his middle names |
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In the first Punic War, the troops of his father, Hamilcar Barca, were defeated by the Romans in Sicily |
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In a song from "42nd Street" people "shuffled off to" this New York city |
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A British crew sailed a replica of this ship from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Mass. in 1957 |
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He used incidents from his captivity as a pirates' slave for "Don Quixote" |
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It's the branch of biology dealing with heredity; everybody into the pool! |
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As a teenager, this Israeli violinist made his American debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958 |
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Abdicating the imperial throne on August 6, 1806, Francis II was its last ruler |
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You can visit Thomas Paine's home there, but not Rob Petrie's |
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Because many rulers of these Nordic people were buried in their ships, some vessels have survived |
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This author describes "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" at a Stalinist labor camp |
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It's found in layered beds or as nodules in chalk; early man chipped it to form tools |
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This Spanish cellist gave White House recitals for Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 & JFK in 1961 |
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Union with this Baltic country in 1386 made Poland Europe's largest country |
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It's home to Kodak & Xerox |
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Of the bow, the forecastle & the poop, the one situated at the stern of a ship |
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To escape debtor's prison, John Cleland wrote this bawdy book about "A Woman of Pleasure" in 1748 |
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Tube that forms the basis of an oscilloscope |
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He produced over 30 operas in London from "Rinaldo" in 1711 to "Deidamia" in 1741 |
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In ancient Greece, Athens had its Delian League of city-states while Sparta had this league |
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Odysseus might call this city home as it shares its name with the island he was from |
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These sailing ships were the largest in the Spanish Armada |
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In "Midnight Express", Billy Hayes gave his account of time spent in prison in this country |
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This propulsion proposed for interstellar trips uses a flow of electrons & has been tested in Earth orbit |
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After this Russian died, his "Prince Igor" opera was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov |
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Called greatest Catholic missionary of modern times, he introduced Christianity into Japan in 1549 |
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At a congress in this city in 1754 Ben Franklin put forth a plan for unity of the colonies |
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It has surpassed Liberia as the country with the most merchant ships under its flag |
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Though his "Cell 2455, Death Row" became a best seller, it didn't save him from execution |
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