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| In December 1882 Edward Johnson, a VP under Thomas Edison, became the first person to put electric lights on this |
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| Supreme bandleader Edward Kennedy Ellington |
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| This book begins on June 17, 1972 as "Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake" |
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| One letter and two numbers give you this medical care-grade item; the number refers to the percentage of particles it stops |
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| Around 1800 William Nicholson & Anthony Carlisle used a voltaic pile to decompose water into these 2 elements |
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| 2-word term for insurance or social programs designed to assist those that have "fallen" on hard times |
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| One report said that in December 1888, an injured van Gogh went to a brothel & said, "Guard this object carefully" |
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| Bebop pioneer John Birks Gillespie |
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| "Memoirs of" this Philippine president were finished by her nephew using private filmed interviews originally meant for an autobiography |
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| A guy named W.G. Peacock created this juice made from an octet of veggies |
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| A big name in thermometers, this 1700s guy discovered the boiling point of liquids varies with atmospheric pressure |
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| This Adobe product helps you read a pdf pdq |
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| Francis II was its final ruler in the early 19th c. when all roads stopped leading to this empire that ended after 1,000 years |
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| Juilliard dropout & bandleader Armando Anthony Corea |
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| Chapters of "A Journey: My Political Life" by this prime minister included "Princess Diana" & "New Labour" |
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| This type of wild cat with many names has a superstar in P-22, prowling the canyons of the L.A. area for years |
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| Nothing comes between us & family, but in Carl Linnaeus' system of classification, this comes between class & family |
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| A secondary event, especially one that distracts attention from something of import |
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| Anita, the wife of this Italian Redshirts leader, often fought side-by-side with him |
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| Leon Beiderbecke, who tragically died young |
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| "The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" is the subtitle of this Doris Kearns Goodwin book about Abe's unusual cabinet |
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| This designation of the Starship Enterprise was created partly because U.S. aircraft had "NC" registrations |
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| The incorporation of quantum theory in the 1913 atomic model of this Dane was groundbreaking |
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| Tolkien wrote that these were "for the Elven-kings under the sky" |
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| Born almost with the century in 1800, he was executed in 1859 on charges including treason against Virginia, though he wasn't a Virginian |
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| Master improviser Walter Theodore Rollins |
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| A 2018 book goes "Inside the Mind of" this right-wing political daughter, the runner-up for French president in 2017 & 2022 |
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| Modern chess notation doesn't use king's bishop 4 & such; all the squares are numbered from a1 to this |
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| This American found variable stars in the Andromeda Nebula, helping him figure its distance from Earth & getting it renamed a galaxy |
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| Foremost of the Muses, she was said to be mother to Orpheus |
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